NeoNachtwaechter
@NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's the point of the "Airport Security" (aka: TSA) in the USA? Does the "Airport Security" ever actually scare away potential terrorists? 19 hours ago:
The terrorist is not scared away.
The one who can be scared away is no terrorist.
The whole thing works against small offenders, who forgot to store away their pocket knife etc. and hopefully it works also against clumsy criminals who make big mistakes.
- Comment on how do I become the dullest, most boring coworker so this needy man leaves me alone? 2 days ago:
That’s plainly rude and won’t help
If it is rude in your culture, you should find the appropriate way of expression
“I really need to focus on my work and be silent for a few hours a day. I’d be happy to chat on a coffee break, but I need to have some quiet time please”
But that won’t help either, because it makes too many words. By far.
It is essential to stay absolutely focused in such cases. You want something, so you say what you want, and nothing else. And then silence.
Silence is your goal.
Nothing about what you yourself are doing, only what you want the other one to do. Nothing about coffee and nothing about last year’s vacation on that beautiful island in the sun with the bowling club and how drunk they all were… The barest minimum is the right amount of politeness.
- Comment on how do I become the dullest, most boring coworker so this needy man leaves me alone? 2 days ago:
It’s the simple things in life… always the simple things. Have you ever said the simple things to him?
“Be quiet now.”
“Leave me alone.”
(and after his response, whatever it is, you be quiet yourself)
- Comment on Is there a theoretical limit to profit? 3 days ago:
Yes, there is a limit.
First, you need to look at the difference between 1. money and 2. value.
That theoretical one rich person (or company) might own all money printing facilities in the world, and therefore can make endless numbers. That is money, not value.
There is theoretically no limit for the money. But this is meaningless, because this kind of money would be valueless.
The one rich person might own everybody else, and all their belongings, and all that they can produce.
That’s all the value then. That’s your limit.
- Comment on If a contestant on Jeopardy! gave the correct response "Alexandre Dumas" but pronounced the surname as "dumb ass", would the response be accepted? 4 days ago:
It is a French name. Any “American” pronounciation is wrong.
- Comment on TW: suicide 4 days ago:
Because they do not want to think.
They have seen that in movies. They imagine that you cannot miss.
What’s the other option? To put it sideways against the head. I have heard that you can miss very easy then, like just scratch the skull or smash your teeth. It is an uncomfortable position, and the hand probably shakes a lot.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Feels like there is more than just 1 answer…
There’s always some sort of excuse with them. Have to go pick him up from the bus stop, have to go pick him up from school
First part of my answer: when they have to, then they have to. Raising kids isn’t just always fun, it is hard work too. No need to make it even harder. If nobody has kids, humans dy out.
Why do you need to go pick up a prescription at lunch time, like why can’t you work through lunch?
The other part of the answer is just an asshole boss (can’t say it with nice words, sorry, not sorry). As soon as you find a better one, give this one a greeting from me with your shoe print on his backside.
- Comment on I am about to board a flight. What sequence of events would occur if (by chance) for no apparent reason a window got completely smashed out? 6 days ago:
No. Wrong.
It is clear and simple in that order of events that we are describing here: the ones who panic and the ones who don’t. And so I describe them with clear and simple words. That other guy who always looks for some grey areas in between and then makes lots of buts and long winding arguments, he is just not there. No time for him, no place for him.
He maybe comes afterwards, when all is over and I don’t care anymore, and that’s what I do with you now.
- Comment on I am about to board a flight. What sequence of events would occur if (by chance) for no apparent reason a window got completely smashed out? 6 days ago:
Would you agree that it is wise not to panic?
- Comment on I am about to board a flight. What sequence of events would occur if (by chance) for no apparent reason a window got completely smashed out? 6 days ago:
At what point in time? If the aircraft is still on the ground
As I said, assuming a height of 30.000
I admit that I don’t know if there’s any airports where the ground is at that height… ;-)
- Comment on I am about to board a flight. What sequence of events would occur if (by chance) for no apparent reason a window got completely smashed out? 6 days ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on I am about to board a flight. What sequence of events would occur if (by chance) for no apparent reason a window got completely smashed out? 6 days ago:
By the way:
Does anybody know if it is actually oxygen that comes out of these masks?
I think it could also be normal clean air at a suitable pressure.
- Comment on I am about to board a flight. What sequence of events would occur if (by chance) for no apparent reason a window got completely smashed out? 6 days ago:
That’s what someone who plans on smashing the window on a plane would say.
I disagree, respectfully.
If I were planning on smashing the window on a plane, then I would say:
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(drums rolling)
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Nothing at all.
- Comment on I am about to board a flight. What sequence of events would occur if (by chance) for no apparent reason a window got completely smashed out? 6 days ago:
you’re generally safer in the air than in a car, statistically speaking
Yes, m very much so. The airplane is the second safest means of transportation.
- Comment on I am about to board a flight. What sequence of events would occur if (by chance) for no apparent reason a window got completely smashed out? 6 days ago:
It depends very much on the height.
If we assume a jet flight at around 30.000 feet:
The cabin pressure goes down immediately, that means, a very strong wind goes out of this open window. Several eardrums burst. Afterwards people cannot breathe normally because of the low pressure… They need these air masks.
Then the pilot descends immediately to something like 5.000 feet - I don’t know exactly - where everybody can breathe normally again.
And then you land at the next airport.
- Comment on I washed my black underwear and now one of my black socks looks brownish on one side. How do I return the sock to its original black? 1 week ago:
…or else it didn’t happen.
- Comment on Since removed comments can still be read in the modlogs, isn't removing comments useless? 1 week ago:
So what’s the point? Modlogs, while providing transparency, seems counterproductive.
Yes, transparency is the point. A mod’s actions should always be verifiable.
When they don’t write things into the modlog, their usual excuse is ‘too much to do’, but there might be another explanation, too.
- Comment on What do people (as in, IRL) actually think of the [alleged] perpetrator involved in the NYC shooting? 1 week ago:
could put a target on my back
I know, I’m paranoid
It does not mean that you are paranoid. It just means that you are vastly overestimating your own importance.
- Comment on I don't have a purpose in life and feel like a robot. This cannot be good for my mental health, but I don't know how or what to change. How do I change? 1 week ago:
The problem, as I see it, is: You are rotating around yourself. All the time. Round and round.
Humans are made for relationships. Not just man-woman, but relationships in the most general sense.
You are not living any strong relationships, and therefore your life feels meaningless.
So, the solution is: start to invest your time into people. Nursing wasn’t a bad start at all. But you do it for a job = for making money, so there’s not much coming back to you.
My advice is:
Do something for people in such a way that nothing comes back to you. It does not need to be much. But do it very regularly. That way you will be able to escape that rotating around yourself.
You are going to meet new people, and there will be some wonderful people among them. Some others, too, but you are strong enough not to get scared off easily.
- Comment on How much can we hope is being put in place behind the scenes at the US federal level to mitigate the damage Trump will do? Can any of it be effective? 1 week ago:
None.
You voted yourself that banana ape, so now you got that banana ape, and nothing can be done anymore.
- Comment on Should South Korea launch a preemptive attack on North Korea? 1 week ago:
You would also shit 50 big piled along your own garden fence just to keep the neighbor’s cat out?
- Comment on Should South Korea launch a preemptive attack on North Korea? 1 week ago:
They are one and the same country, divided by two governments. You should rather hope that they can reunite, instead of pursuing evil phantasies of war.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 weeks ago:
To maybe help your pessimistic side:
Even when the murderer gets convicted, that CEO will still remain dead.
- Comment on What was going on in England in the 1970s to give Monty Python so much comedy fodder that is still relevant today? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, we seem to have forgotten most of the achievements of the 70’s
- Comment on When putting bullets in a gun does it not leave a fingerprint on the casing? If so why do criminals where gloves before loading their gun? 2 weeks ago:
The very smart criminals don’t leave cartridges.
(Not saying that very smart criminals actually exist)
- Comment on If the US dissolves for whatever reason and goes into a state of anarchy what would happen to the rest of the world? 2 weeks ago:
We would give a brief “Oooohh”
and then go on with our lives. - Comment on Did Google just have a little hiccup? 2 weeks ago:
I have heard that Google has never been down for >20 years…
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 2 weeks ago:
I’d like to become a tree.
LOL bad news for you…
Volcano don’t become kitten.
Human don’t become tree.
Sponge don’t become transformer. - Comment on How am I supposed to obtain income? 2 weeks ago:
because
For what purpose are you writing this…
I do not need to know your reasons.
You do not owe me. - Comment on How am I supposed to obtain income? 2 weeks ago:
End goal of work is engineering or design but I’ll settle for factory or shop floor work or something
And there’s the problem. You are selling yourself for cheap. They recognize that, inevitably. That’s why you are getting such terrible, impossible offers.
Start to think reasonably about yourself, then present yourself reasonably.
But you need a friend or two to help with this. It’s not easy to do such a change on your own.