How do you deal with the poor and desperate around you? (Homeless or some stranger who is in an utterly helpless position)
I am low on money these days and my life is hell for it. I have to do with substandard everything in my life I recently had an incident where an elderly woman asked me for money while roaming the street with her family begging for money. I had no money to spare, but had I had any, I wouldn’t have given a penny to her (Life is...
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...
What is your favorite movie? Or, what is your favorite genre of film?
I’m trying to get a gauge of what people here are interested in.
How do you spend your upvotes? What about tips?
I have heard a few different strategies for this. For example “Upvote everything, even if you disagree with it, if it contributes to discussion”. But my concern with this strategy is that it means the first posted comments just get upvoted the highest regardless of their quality relative to other comments (as all comments...
What if furries became real, how would you react to this information.
Would you be horrified, that some furred abomination is walking around on the streets and commit to the 40K way of cleansing them?...
Passive Aggressive signals
What are some passive aggressive signals or signs you see? Could be from co workers, strangers, that supposed friendly baker last week....
What bizarre misconceptions do people have about your field?
What would you do if a scraggly homeless person knocked on your door, and all he asked was for a sandwich, a bottle of water, a bath, and perhaps a beard trim?
I’ve actually skipped work just to help a homeless guy get his beard trimmed. Bought him pizza too. Kinda hard to get anywhere in life when you look like shit....
Opions on buying a used Flip 3 5g?
What’s your opinions for buying a used flip3 from places like amazon or CEX, judging from reviews the biggest worry is that the screen will breaking less than a year of second hand use.
What do you think of Richard Stallman?
Has there ever been a compilation of suicide notes, if so, where can one get it? And is it a good idea to get it?
I am not in a great place right now in terms of productivity and flourishing in my personal and professional life, and every time I waste a day, every time I do something that I enjoy at the moment but which is not productive, I feel ashamed....
What's something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?
Why western people seldom use "please"?
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Crocs (The shoe, not the animal) 🐊
To those wearing crocs, what are they like? Are they soft and comfy as the media portrays them to be?...
in your opinion which cartoon series timed their cinema movie debut perfectly?
Rugrats, Pokémon, The Simpsons, The Clone Wars?
How did you get into coding/programming?
I’ve always had trouble getting into coding/programming because I’ve never truly dedicated myself to it. Mostly, this is because I kinda always lose momentum to learn it. I’m a heavy FOSS user; I love coreboot/Libreboot and am interested in getting into firmware development. I’ve already helped test hardware for...
How do I make enough money to live?
Yes, I do have a full-time job, and I even enjoy it, but it doesn’t pay enough to survive in this hellscape of a world we live in. I lack the college degree required to get almost any decent-paying job (plus my last job hunt took MONTHS to get a lead), I don’t have the skills or originality to become an online content...
What occupation requires the most education/training only to be very low paid?
How Much Is Your Time Worth?
I spend a lot of time fixing things, for myself and others. (Computers, electrical, plumbing, etc). While I learn a lot, I wonder sometimes if it would be better to pay a professional and do something else for which I am more ‘valuable’. Do you do the same, and do you find it worthwhile?
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What would you do if you were on an underground train, when suddenly the train shook, you passed through a portal, and the next thing you knew your carriage was lying in an unknown new world?
Edit: apparently this is a very common form of Japanese storytelling called an isekai. There are 8 billion people in this world, no idea can be original. And sometimes you miss out on things many other people know. I’m clearly one of today’s lucky 10000.
Do you think there are any beliefs which makes a person believing them a horrible person, or is it *always* 'hate the belief, not the person'?
What are some things that absolutely should NOT be recycled?
I’ll start… toilet paper, tampons, and QTips…
Your first anime show/film
What was your first anime show or film?...