What's the best advice you've ever received?
Do I need a good argument for you to respect my opinion?
Help me formulate the dullest response to colleagues when they goad me into telling them why I quit
This happens in Germany....
I've recently turned 20. What highly specific advice you, lemmy users, would offer me?
A lot of people answering this struggle to understand what highly-specific means. I’m looking to, for the sake of experiment, highly-specific advice that gives a reader clear understanding of what they should do. Unlike the vague advice, on the contrary, that may be too abstract to get implementing it right away....
Home automation - why?
I am failing to see the interest in having tons of IOT devices to manage, connect, segment, etc… Why would someone want to do it? To be clear, I have friends deep in it but… I still don’t understand. Can anyone try to explain the magic I am failing to see?...
How do you justify continually using take out delivery services?
For those that continually use services like Uber Eats, Grubhub, DoorDash, etc., how does justify using the cost?...
At what age and how do you tell children about the truth of Christmas?
I’m writing this as someone who has mostly lived in the US and Canada. Personally, I find the whole “lying to children about Christmas” thing just a bit weird (no judgment on those who enjoy this aspect of the holiday). But because it’s completely normalized in our culture, this is something many people have to deal...
If you could give 10 years of development time to up to 10 software projects, which would you choose?
You can choose up to 10 software projects....
Is there any medicine that can give me happy hormones and does not need a doctor's prescription?
Things are becoming more depressing every day and I can’t afford for professionals and don’t want to jump to the last resort or drugs. Is there a medicine that can make me happy if I take it in proper doses and does not require a doctor’s prescription?
Who are the worst types of people?
what would be a funny thing to teach my 5 y/o niece?
I’m visiting extended family for the first time in a long time, and one of my nieces has reached the impressionable age where she keeps mimicking things that she sees me do. what’s a really funny but fairly harmless thing I should teach her to do?
What's the most evil hellish thing you've experienced firsthand in life?
Title.
Do you believe in meritocracy? Why or why not?
This is the definition I am using:...
What's the best Android/iPhone app for Lemmy?
Sticky so that we have one place to discuss.
what Lemmy communities don't exist but you wish they did?
I’ll go first. I wish Lemmy communities existed for: destroyed tanks. Ukraine War video report. sopranos duckposting. benzodiazepines....
Best Lemmy App in 2024
Now that the Reddit exodus is about a year old and the client apps have matured, what’s the latest state of the above question?...
Professional Scientists of Lemmy: What is your field of study's, most complex unanswered question?
A person comes up to you and says, "I can reverse time for just $1 per day." Do you take their offer? How far back do you go?
i.e. pay $5 to go back 5 days....
Have you ever created your own job perks?
When I was working minimum wage at a gas station many eons ago, we would have ‘2 for $x’ specials where x is less than 2 times the individual price of whatever item....
What's your pet peeve in your favorite video game?
Mine is the lag in Stellaris, and lack of options to let me impact it. Like let me disable the ability for the AI to make habitats FFS!
What's a new scientific concept or technological innovation that really makes you feel like we're living in the future?
What occupation requires the most education/training only to be very low paid?
What stupid thing have you done bc of a movie?
I’m expecting some child recreating superhero stunts and gerting hurt