What's with telling YEARLY salaries?
I think this is mostly a US thing. Why use yearly salary? You’re not paid once a year, are you? Most likely once a month. Referencing monthly salary makes much more sense....
What job do people take way too seriously?
How do you deal with being broke?
I’m in my 30s so I should be used to this by now, but this shit is getting so stressful guys. I have no savings, my checking account is drained every month with rent, and if there’s ever a serious emergency I have no safety net, I’m legitimately fucked. I’m one unplanned expense away from absolute ruin. Those in the same...
To what extent is it okay to be wrong about things?
We live in an age of misinformation, but it’s not always on purpose. Sometimes we hear things or come to conclusions that end up becoming fact in our heads. Other times it can be malicious with intent to deceive or subvert. Sometimes it’s in the middle....
Why are you on lemmy right now?
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Can you recommend contemporary music artists without lyrics?
Keyword artist , or band/group name. I’m not looking for a genre, I want to search artists. Tell me about someone you like listening to....
How to childproof a sliding glass door that can be unlocked and locked inside and out
My house has a sliding glass door as the main entrance and I need a solution to have it secure from tiny hands. My problem is it needs to be able to unlock and lock on both sides of the door so a pin drop or cross bar won’t work.
where is an OK place to experiment with bots?
I used code from a github repo to make a lemmy repost bot from a reddit sub....
what airline did you fly first ever?
What do you like to do on vacation?
What are some self-education tools/techniques you've developed to help yourself learn?
Whether it’s a form of note-taking or regular repetition or the like, what are some self-education techniques and tools you’ve developed to help yourself learn on your own?...
Anyone still using Usenet newsgroups?
Read this Register article today and was wondering if anyone here still use Usenet newsgroups? And if so, what are your top recommended newgroups to subscribe to?
If a fly wouldn't annoy you, would you still scare away the fly after it landed?
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What are your plans for the weekend?
What is the best thing that could happen to you this week?
It should be within reasonable range, like e.g. you won’t wake up as a Yedi or Superman tomorrow and world hunger won’t be solved just in a few days, etc
If you have the power will you ban high fructose corn syrup?
rt, will you ban it?
Is ZeroNet still a thing?
If this is the wrong place to pose this question, point me in the right direction...
Could child labor ever be acceptable if it's done consentually?
While child labor is viewed negatively, apparently child labor and child slavery aren’t the same thing, and child labor though it could still be exploitative/cruel in other ways, can be done voluntarily by the child, and with fair treatment/compensation/etc....
Will you be/have you done Burning Man? What worked, or didn't for you?
I think a little of it would go a long way for me, personally, but I’m curious about others experiences.
What are some of the best advice you received from Lemmy?
Be it a general life or lifestyle advice, a product recommendation or an unexpectedly good answer to a question post, regardless of whether it was directed to you or someone else
If you were to run for higher office in your country, what controversial thing would the vetting process uncover about you?
What is the cost of housing in your area?
Who are you voting for in the next US election?
How do you ask for help?
I feel like I give help easily but I don’t feel ok asking. How do you become ok with asking for help? I have no idea what conversations that include this even sound like. In my mind I come across as begging and losing connection with the person or people I ask. How can I think about this differently?...