Thanks! It’s just wild to me that people don’t have the curiosity to at least search up something they don’t understand first. Also lol at me not seeing my whole mess of cellphone typos before posting, haha

(Kent Brockman voice) JUST TAKE A SCREENSHOT, PEOPLE!!

Aside from reading comprehension, it seems as though people absolutely lack the ability to problem solve. Head scratching is as far as many will go. I can’t count how many times I’ve found inefficient, tedious, or straight up broken systems or out of date info in my office and when I ask people if they’ve ever contacted IT about it or tried to figure it out they just say “Eh, nah, I just leave it and it works itself out.” No. My guy, you’re just doing it wrong/taking an extra 15 minutes to do everything you’re doing because of the workarounds.

Lol instinctively I read your first sentence then skipped the rest, but my brain said “NO, that’s what they want you to do!” So I made myself come back and read it. Good content

Mm, I think what you’re likely arguing about is super contentious, AND complex. I agree that picking the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil (because it is, it says so right in the phrase!). That isn’t to say you’re necessarily endorsing the second evil, or that youre evil for making the choice. The world is fucked up and complex and no one is perfectly good.

But yeah I think conversations around voting, especially in the US, are really difficult to have because people are extremely opinionated and none of us REALLY know what would happen if we stopped voting altogether, which makes a lot of people anxiously compelled to do it(such as myself)

I’m pretty decent with tech. I definitely know to turn things off and on again, check wifi connection, etc. I’m good with troubleshooting and such, but the IT person at my work who I interact with most treats me like I’m SO DUMB. But I try to remind myself that there are probably so many people who don’t know where the power button is on any of their devices lol.

An example: I get logged out of an account on my computer, so I go to reset my password. The password reset requires an account number that I don’t have

Message to IT: hey, I need to reset my password for this program, can you send me the account number for it?

IT: on the main login page, beneath the password bar, there should be a link that says “forgot password?” Click that and you should be able to reset it

Me: 😑 explains that if you click on that link it requires you to enter account number to reset it

IT: oh

I wonder of more and more people using cellphones for social media has affected this? I use my cellphone primarily and…I definitely don’t write my finest work, shall we say. The typos are aplenty too since I type furiously. I’m investing in a laptop for this very reason. I miss having more robust writing skills.

Most recently the complete lack of understanding of a wet bulb temperature comes to mind. In articles discussing this, people completely left out the “wet bulb” part, which they didn’t understand, and went on to post comments about “65 DEGREES IS NOTHING, IT REGULARLY GETS OVER 90 WHERE I LIVE!!!”. The audacity of some folks. It took me 5 seconds to Google wet bulb temperature to not look like a dumbass saying something like that with my whole chest lol

Same here! I’ve been organizing g a union at my job, and my coworkers all value transparency and collectivism very highly, when when it comes to the actual work and effort of being collective…it falls short.

I’d spent mo ths researching, writing down meeting minutes, making Q&A sheets…All to be asked the same questions OVER AND OVER AND OVER. It’s even worse when people are skeptical of the subject at hand, too. Sheesh

I had experience with mastodon several years ago and so when I moved over here from Reddit I was excited to try and find an instance that resonated with me but alas, the only niche ones are like, furry instances, porn instances, and tech instances. Bummed that there haven’t been more that have themes.

I was gonna say kombucha as well, the experience of drinking it is kinda similar?

Hey sorry it took ancouple of days to respond, your reply got lost in my inbox. That’s wild how expensive it is to drive! Kinda sucks that it seems like it may be reserved for more well off people but at least there is usable, robust public transport.

Sotry if this sounds really stupid, but can I ask what a normal vacation might entail/what kinds of transit do you use? For example I like to camp and there would be no way for me to get to camp sites and such without my own vehicle. And if a drivers license is so expensive it sounds like it would be really prohibitive to rent a car for something like that

Bring it back! Fuck the normies!

There is, an old friend of mine posted a ridiculous video about it on instagram…sure, there MAY be side effects to using sunscreen (not sunblock) that have turned up inconclusive in studies, but it has been proven that sunscreen and sunblock are VERY effective against skin cancer.

It’s just like the “covid vaccines can have an extremely small possility of side effects so I’d rather get long covid and DIE!!”

If you use the Connect app for lemmy, it allows instance blocking

My Android phone fucking blows. The one I had prior was great but I lost it. I hate the constant alerts from the apps I can’t delete, I can’t take up close photos anymore without it looking like shit and not focusing, the screen will flip horizontal at random times when it’s got the lock screen option turned on. I don’t want a Google phone, though.

Anyone have opinions on the OnePlus phones?

Seriously 😭😭 my grocery bill for two people went up from 80 dollars a week to 130 practically overnight. Houses doubled in price in like 3 years in the town I live in. They also raised the cap on rent to 14 percent here. I only bring home 27k a year with 6 years of experience in a field that nobody cares about (social services).

The Poland statue is kinda sick though

You are definitely right about vacation days; I guess I never really consider that people would be in their trailer for months at a time, so that’s a good point. But it’s not like people in other countries don’t ever go on vacation, so I wonder what their planning looks like? Pointing to cars is just one thing but I think the frustrating thing is just the extreme excessive consumption habits we have in the US.

As an aside I’d be really curious to see breakdowns of like, all of the big truck owners and how often they use their trucks for towing, work, etc.

I think the difference in opinion here though is that you have a small truck but recognize that you do have reasons to upgrade, instead of starting out with one of the monster trucks and not ever really using it to the potential that it has all while creating way more emissions and it being way more dangerous

I mean if our culture wasn’t so car centric and centered around instant gratification that wouldn’t be an issue, it’s not too hard to rent a car at all, especially if you’ve been planning a year long trip. Not trying to soapbox here, though, I’m very reliant on my car too and see doing all that as an inconvenience, but I realize how absurd it is to feel that way.