What are your favorite news sources?
Just wondering your preferences
if you like doing your job and going home, how do you bear with coworkers who are lazier but more popular than you and get away with doing less?
cross-posted from: linux.community/post/1144192...
Why do the vast majority of romantic comedies depict people who are wealthy?
My wife has been on a rom-com binge over the last year or so and something I’ve noticed when I’m vaguely paying attention or walking past is that almost every single rom-com features people who are, at the very least, middle to upper-middle class. These characters all live in gigantic houses/apartments, have beautifully...
That erratic pulsating sensation on your legs after a brisk walk- what is it? And more questions
As the title says. I go for a 20 minute walk and when I stop moving, I’m not feeling tired or even agitated at all, yet my legs feel like they’re pulsating in different areas, always near the skin. It’s not synchronised with my heartbeat. It stops after a few minutes....
Are your kitchen knives angry knives?
Hear me out…...
What do you all check instead of the news?
I’ve realized that I check the news several times a day but not because I’m curious about what’s happening on the grand scheme of things, but because my brain wants to check something that keeps changing with new, evolving information. It fills a slightly different niche than social media, and I don’t watch sports so I...
What movie character you happen to have a crush on, even though the character clearly shows dozens of red flags?
Do you think/feel that you are living well? Happily? Embodying your values and dreams? If so, how did this happen?
What are good wireless routers in April 2024? What criteria would you use to choose one? What about mesh routers?
When you're writing a song, how do you know it isn't just a song you've heard before but don't recognise?
I’m currently in the process of writing a song. I’ve got a tune and I’m putting the lyrics together but I’m always concerned that any tune I think of might just be another song I’ve heard somewhere randomly that I don’t remember hearing....
Automobiles replacing horses: ethical consequences
Did automobiles replacing horses, diminishing horse population, diminishing horse suffering – as a consequence of work forced upon the animals. Is that moral win for horses; less suffering? Although their population is vastly smaller than 130 years ago.
is telling your employer you may leave if passive aggressive coworkers don't stop gossiping about you behind your back and gaslighting you a good idea?
I always thought of it like this: if a workplace makes you feel devalued or is toxic (gaslighting and ranting about you behind your back), you quietly find new pastures....
Do you consider Chipotle as Mexican food?
rt, some people said Chipotle is more like American food. Just want to know everybody’s opinion on this subject.
In the store, I sometimes encounter containers (e.g., beer, water, shampoo) with a volume of 618ml. Why exactly this number?
If your entire family died and you'd get the inheritance, what would you do?
This isn’t about grieving, just assuming the complete absence of your family and all the inheritance....
Weirdest thing you use / you've seen used for decoration?
I use a menu of a restaurant like a poster. I haven’t ordered from them. It’s a simple large burger menu.
What are some "cool" "tricks" to "teach your cat?
For example, I like to train mine to accept me providing scritches (petting) with my feet and for them to be equally comfortable with using foot as hand
In your opinion, what's the best cheap laptop (with USB C charging)
Would be cool if you linked it but you don’t hve to!...
Star actually have colors
While camping, I noticed that if you look long enough at almost any star, you start seeing some tiny, subtle colors in that star. Even crazier, they sometimes flicker between more colors. In my case orange, blue and something like cyan....
Why do you quit Reddit ?
Why not Glitter?
With such a push against single use plastic and mirco plastics etc. Why is glitter left untouched? surely it has to be one of the worse plastic pollutants. Currently getting our Christmas shop ready, and its on everything and gets everywhere!
Is there a tv series that shows what things are like in China or Soviet Russia (one party system, with english subs)
What does kbin mean? Why is kbin.social called that?
Is it just random letters arrived to by keyboard mashing like a lot of federated websites seem, or is there any thought behind it?
Anybody else notice the change in sentiment as Lemmy grows?
The platform seems to be converging on a Reddit-like culture complete with arguments, rage bait and trolling as the normies pour in.