And NOT having a smartphone will be even more suspicious… “What are you trying to hide? you must have a smartphone hidden somewhere… where is it?”

This is the kind of dad joke we need more of.

Well, I agree that we should collectively move away from plastic crap, so let’s hope that happens.

(different person here)

The contradiction is that if you buy a new object every time you do end up with lots of objects sitting in your cellar or attic looking like a dumpster. And nobody’s keeping a checkerboard for a century – your heirs will just throw it in a landfill.

If you make something yourself, at least you spent some time constructing it during which you learn something and keep your mind active. Ideally you use things you have laying around the house and when you’re done the thing can be re-used for a future project or recycled. And every once in a while you make something that’s a little different and you have something new.

But if it makes you feel any better, your side is winning. People are indeed buying Super Soakers instead of just using a hose. And to convince them, there are ads everywhere.

You know, I can look up the definitions of HSA and FSA and things like that, and I can have the definitions right there in a document on my screen, but they still don’t make any sense to me in terms of how they relate to me specifically. A lot of times they seem like they depend on me predicting things in the future that are unknowable, like my future health or how and where I will be billed for something. And that’s assuming I also look up related terms like APY and deductible and figure out what those mean. If I ask any HR people they’re like “just contact the provider for an explanation” and I’m like yeah, I totally want to deal with the phone menus and hold times of some faceless corporation, just to have them pull some BS like OP’s talking about.

Sorry about the rant. I guess that’s what I find mildly infuriating.

I admit that while I know that many people like being in big cities, I don’t really understand why. The tourist attractions presumably get boring quickly even if they were interesting at first, and after that what’s left?

Every week something interesting’s happening. Concerts, sports events, art shows, book readings, parades, festivals, etc … usually multiple things per weekend and a couple during the weekdays. Then there are restaurants and cafes of all types to discover, crafts stores and bookstores and markets, clubs and meetups and demonstrations and celebrations. I’m an asocial shut-in who spends all his time on Lemmy but I still was really into wandering around town (yes, using mass transit) and just… coming across unique stores or organizations that were in a historical building and were randomly having an open-house and it turns out that it’s Armenian Heritage Week or something.

I’m not trying to change your mind. I’m just saying what I find good about it. Where I live now there are only 1 or 2 interesting things happening per month.

Fam, I felt kind of bad that your honest feedback about the new congestion toll has been downvoted so much. And if you truly found nothing in Boston (and presumably Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline, Allston, etc.) that interested you then… OK, I can respect people’s differences. And if you say walking to work through Manhattan would somehow be bad, and that the only reason you live there is to be close to work… sure, there are people like that, I get it.

But I think your situation is kind of like living in Hawaii and then saying it’s unfair that you can’t just drive to the mainland.

There’s an argument to be made there but this article did not make that argument. This was just a poorly-reasoned romp through a garden of logical fallacies. I’m surprised that this was printed by The Atlantic, I thought they were better than that.

IIRC the March peak was another case in which Reddit did something stupid… So yeah, I agree that we can’t just rely on that, at some point they’re going to make it impossible to advertise the fediverse there.

OMG that sounds like a Bell Curve meme. Here you go:

Create more active communities NOT centered around politics or Linux. I swear there’s more things to talk about

Hey! We also have memes!

But yeah, I what I do is subscribe to every non-politics and non-tech community I can find and read through those first, then when I run out I just read “all”.

This time last year there was around 38k active users.

I think this kind of slow growth is fine. We just need enough influx to replace people who naturally leave, and maybe a bit more. We don’t have any CEOs or stockholders demanding exponential growth.

Those are all good ideas. One comment:

I also think the UI has to be shiny to attract normal people.

What I like about Lemmy is that it has a lower percentage of those “normal people”…

Other people have talked about how this is a middle-management job and what that would entail. I’m here to make a couple points:

• reading up on the company is important. See if hey have made LinkedIn posts about the importance of “Digital Development”. Look through their web pages and previous job posts to see if there are people with the job title “Digital Developer” and if so what they did.
• the best situation is: you have a friend at that company who tells you “yeah, they’re looking for someone to …” Next best is someone in that field who tells you “yeah I’ve heard that company is trying to …” or “that company really needs to …” If you go to job fairs, get cards from everyone you can; if you had a card from someone at that company (even HR) you could try emailing or calling and saying “hi it was great meeting you at (place), by the way I’ve heard your looking for a Digital Developer, do you think my experience as A would fit the bill, or perhaps my experience as B?” If you don’t have a card you could try looking at their web page for contact info and emailing them that question.
• a lot of times job postings are vague bc they don’t know wtf they want, they just know they need something that sounds like that. Send a cover letter that emphasizes your managerial experience, and be ready with as many anecdotes as you can about how you successfully crafted visions or identified problems or led teams to implement solutions while getting along with your peers. If you have experience in that field, great, but sometimes companies will be happy with an outsider’s perspective. Good luck, fam!

True story: a temp worker once moved into the desk next to mine, but they couldn’t get their computer monintor just the right height. I told them to go to the library and ask for a book about this size, about so thick. And to pick a color they liked. (they didn’t do it.)

“The books are all broken, none of them connect to social media.”

First color, then size, THEN alphabetical.

That explains the Japanese population crisis…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Eyes_Cody

On one hand, I realize that the office may be required by law to restrict certain information, so I see why they may need to know with certainty who they’re giving it to.

On the other hand, all of that user account info is going straight to Elon Musk on January 20th, so I agree that it sucks.