Dagwood222
@Dagwood222@lemm.ee
- Comment on You just want a break sometimes 1 hour ago:
“Discover What You Are Best At” by Linda Gail.
Self tests you can do in one day, and a list of jobs that use those skills.
Nurses and hair stylists both need good people skills and good dexterity; totally different jobs with a similar skill set. The book pointed me at a job I’d never considered.
- Comment on Driving a manual: is it difficult? 1 hour ago:
Check local driving schools. They might have one.
- Comment on useless people 1 day ago:
- Comment on Good shit 1 day ago:
I’m surprised no one has done gold plated ones yet.
- Comment on Superman | Official Trailer 2 days ago:
Honestly, it’s hard to top the 1940’s cartoons. Hand painted rotoscopes and great music.
- Comment on Superman | Official Trailer 3 days ago:
If you haven’t seen it, watch the Chris Reeve version.
- Comment on Max Is Changing Its Name to (Get This!) HBO Max 3 days ago:
Before they pulled the payphones out of the local terminal, it was like an archeological site. The phones’ coin boxes would be inscribed with the name of the company that owned them. I remember Bell Telephone, Bell Atlantic, Nynex, and Verizon phones. Tehre were probably a few iterations I’ve forgotten.
Another tale I like is that they took giant steel sign off the top of the then Pan Am building and replaced it with Met Life. That’s another change that cost someone a few bucks.
- Comment on Max Is Changing Its Name to (Get This!) HBO Max 3 days ago:
I’d love to have all the money these companies spend doing these silly name changes.
This one probably isn’t a big expense, but when Verison took over from the previous company they had to repaint hundreds of trucks and redo signs on dozens of buildings.
- Comment on Krysten Ritter Officially Returning as Jessica Jones for ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 3 days ago:
That’s the real world answer, and it makes a lot of sense.
In the movie version it’ll be that Trish escaped prison and Val couldn’t find her. She will be one of the first new recruits they pull in.
- Comment on Krysten Ritter Officially Returning as Jessica Jones for ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 3 days ago:
I just realized the Trish should have been in The Thunderbolts*.
Val was recruiting evildoers like Taskmaster, so why not Hellcat?
- Comment on Krysten Ritter Officially Returning as Jessica Jones for ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 3 days ago:
$48.73. My final offer.
- Comment on Krysten Ritter Officially Returning as Jessica Jones for ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 3 days ago:
Maybe you should consider buying a “search engine” for your device.
I can sell you my “Ask Jeeves” for $50.00. Make it $ 49,95 because I like you.
- Comment on Good shit 3 days ago:
Many years ago, SNL did a satire ad about a three bladed razor. It’s 2025 and satire is as dead as alchemy
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Bias_against_left-handed_peopl…
I couldn’t find an explicit law against being left handed, but social pressure is a real thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
In an ideal world, they wouldn’t be. This is 2025.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
???
Trans rights aren’t political?
Women’s rights isn’t political?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
First, That’s what happens when you’re living under a dictator.
Second, even in normal times, everything is political. How much you get paid, and how your boss treats you, and how banks work, and how the roads look, and everything else you see is the result of a political choice.
- Comment on How Billionaires Made You Addicted to Your Phone - hazelisonline 1 week ago:
- Comment on This was the theme song used in a documentary about a failed corporation. Can you name the company? 1 week ago:
My first thought, because Enron was the only company I could think of that would be a popular subject for a documetary.
- Comment on This was the theme song used in a documentary about a failed corporation. Can you name the company? 1 week ago:
Enron?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You kids and yio
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Go get this book.
“Discover What You Are Best At” by Linda Gail. It’s a series of self tests you can do in half a day, followed by a long list of jobs that use your particular skills.
I got the book when I was on worker’s comp after an industrial accident. It pointed me at a job I’d never even considered. Turns out I really liked that job. It let me use my brains and paid a decent salary.
Think of it this way. A nurse and a hair stylist both need good people skills and dexterity. Two totally different types of work, but the same skill set.
If you have a job that lets you wake up on a rainy Monday and not hate going to work, you’ve solved most of your problems.
- Comment on I (M32) gained 140lbs in a year from bad choices, almost all in my belly (now 69-inches) due to rare genetics. With my unique proportions, I’ve outgrown most off-the-rack clothing options. Advice? 1 week ago:
Here’s a really good and easy exercise plan. 15 minutes a day, work at your own pace, and the only equipment you need is a stopwatch.
bookshop.org/p/books/…/16885677?ean=9781773237756…
Also available online for free.
- Comment on Trump Says He Wants Alcatraz Restored as a Prison; The project would be extraordinarily expensive at a time when the administration already plans to cut billions of dollars from the Justice Department 1 week ago:
On one hand, it’s a distraction form the much stupider stuff.
One the other, it’s troubling that no one around him is even pretending to rein him in
- Comment on Anon blames millennials 1 week ago:
Subtlety was never my strong point.
- Comment on Anon blames millennials 1 week ago:
- Comment on Anon blames millennials 1 week ago:
Frank Zappa ideas; paraphrased by me.
In the 1960’s the music execs like Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington and had no idea what the kids wanted. They just threw money at the problem and gave contracts to anyone. The result was a vast variety, everything from Sha-Na-Na to the Mamas and the Papas to Iron Butterfly. When the next generation of bosses got hired, they looked at the one consistent moneymaker; Motown Records. Everyone at Motown had a similar look and singing style…
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 1 week ago:
Decision fatigue is a real thing. Ask anyone who sat through three tests in one day; even if you have studied the material, it’s hard to focus after a while. It’s easy to fill our day with minutia that distracts us from the impostant issues.
- Comment on If you're a broke vampire, just say that 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like “Anno Dracula” by Kim Newman.
Dracula managed to kill Van Helsing and then married Queen Victoria. AS Prince Consort he’s brought the undead to the Empire. There are vampire trollops who live no better than their ‘warm’ sisters, and great Lords.
Fun book, and first of a series.
- Comment on First image of Zoe Saldaña as Neytiri in "Avatar: Fire and Ash" 2 weeks ago:
Zoe Saldana has played several significant roles in science fiction films, including:
Neytiri in Avatar (2009), where she portrayed a warrior and leader in a post-apocalyptic world. Gamora in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, showcasing her as a fierce and complex character2 Nyota Uhura in the Star Trek reboot series, where she plays a powerful and respected character in a male-dominated field2 She has also appeared in Avatar: The Way of Water and Avengers: Endgame, further solidifying her status in the science fiction genre
Just wondering how an actor gets type cast as a ‘science fiction’ person.