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Vanth

@ Vanth @reddthat.com

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  • What is something you encounter everyday that is completely divorced from reality?

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  • I work in a manufacturing facility where the assemblers, mechanics, machinists, and technicians, are unionized. My white collar, not unionized colleagues simultaneously express jealousy about the benefits the union members get while also saying they shouldn't exist while also complaining their own salaries are too low and not keeping up with inflation.

    My dudes, this is what unions are for. If I worked one of the covered jobs, I would join the union in a heartbeat.

    Join them, don't try to tear them down.

  • What's the weirdest premise for a celebrity interview show that was produced?

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  • Carol Burnett had an interview show back in the day. She was good at it, pulling out great stories from her interviewees with empathy.

    Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee was an interesting premise but I never cared for the actual result as much as some people did. I think I just didn't like Jerry Seinfeld, even before he started whining about how out of touch he is with anyone under 30.

    Seth Meyer's day drinking with celebrities bits. His one with Rihanna stands out against the others.

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    What is a sign that your childhood has ended?

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  • When I became financially and legally responsible for my own choices.

  • What is the first good thing that comes to mind when reading this question?

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  • Lactose-free milk is easy enough to find, but cream is harder to find and is much more expensive here when it is available. Partner also has a preference for plant-based for other reasons, so it's simplest to keep that on hand so any cooking and baking results in something we can both eat.

  • Workers of lemmy, what was the reason that customer got banned ?

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  • He was creepin' on other customers. When he was asked to tone it down, especially when it came to talking to minors, he got mad and started yelling and shoving chairs.

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  • A victim could also stay in their house, never go outside, never talk to anyone to further limit a stalker's access. But they shouldn't have to let a stalker turn their life into an isolated prison.

    Blocking people from viewing their account was one tool that was available, and now it's not. People are saying they still want access to that tool and are unhappy it was taken away.

    Not sure you're intending to but you're putting a lot of onus on the victim to address the behavior of bad actors.

    Women don't want to deal with men who would sexually assault them? Stop wearing "provocative" clothes and going to bars.

    Kid doesn't want to get bullied at school? Stop being "weird".

    Don't want to be stalked? Stay away from public forums.

    These are not solutions, these are ways to put responsibility for bad crimes onto the victims instead of the perpetrators.

  • What is the first good thing that comes to mind when reading this question?

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  • This morning coffee is so good. Lactose-intolerant partner is gone for a week so I bought real cream to go into it. I don't mind the plant-based stuff at all, the occasional real cream is all the better.

  • What would be a fair wage for the work you do? An actual dollar amount.

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  • No, my salary is currently around average and I set my effort level compared to my coworkers' levels. Any move/promotion paths I'm interested in would not be made easier by giving that full effort.

    I look for smart effort, not max effort. The CEO of my company is for damn sure not the hardest working. Hard work is not the full answer to success in this capitalist society.

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  • Huh? How? This is the problem I saw too. Knowing details about a victims life feeds stalkers and also gives them opportunities to connect to the victims physical location and movements.

    Would blocking a stalker's view of their victim's social media solve the stalking problem entirely? Probably not. Would blocking kill off one lane of information that makes the stalking easier / more psychology rewarding to the stalker? Yes.

  • Non preppers / Doomers. What's one small thing you're prepped for?

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  • Sub-zero degree sleeping bag in the trunk of my car, plus a jug of water and some MRE-type food packs with water-activated food warmers. I grew up in a very rural area and got stuck on the side of the road in a blizzard for too long; I came out ok but it was terrifying. Now I live in a densely populated area that doesn't get blizzards but I still prep.

    I used to let my toilet paper run nearly down to zero before I bought another pack. The pandemic lockdown months changed that. I used paper towels and liberated a couple rolls from work back in the day. Now I keep more on hand before triggering next buy. Never again.

    I'm a good example of "we prep for our fears". I also do backcountry backpacking and everyone in that hobby does to some degree. I go out with a nurse sometimes and her first aid kit is nearly three pounds while mine is a couple bandaids and rubbing alcohol swaps.

  • What would be a fair wage for the work you do? An actual dollar amount.

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  • They wouldn't want me to give 100% effort. There are too many people around me who are new or poorly trained or incompetent. My 100% would involve addressing the poor leadership, poor processes, poor accountability mechanisms that have us in our current situation. So since they would likley fire me for it, they would need to pay me at least three years of industry-standard salary for my position to make up for time unemployed and the black mark on my job history.

  • If you owned a magic library people donated to in order to preserve media for eternity but which was going through overpopulation, what criteria would you use to decide which media survived/discarded?

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  • General Criteria:

     
            Present and potential relevance to community needs
    Suitability of physical form for library use
    Suitability of subject and style for intended audience
    Cost
    Importance as a document of the times
    Relation to the existing collection and to other materials on the subject
    Attention by critics and reviewers
    Potential user appeal
    Requests by library patrons

    Content Criteria:

     
            Authority
    Comprehensiveness and depth of treatment
    Skill, competence, and purpose of the author
    Reputation and significance of the author
    Objectivity
    Consideration of the work as a whole
    Clarity
    Currency
    Technical quality
    Representation of diverse points of view
    Representation of important movements, genres, or trends
    Vitality and originality
    Artistic presentation and/or experimentation
    Sustained interest
    Relevance and use of the information
    Effective characterization
    Authenticity of history or social setting

    Stolen entirely form here . Seems like a very good starting point to me, as I would expect from a Libraries Association.

  • Can you have a conversation with a stranger? do you have them often?

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  • Sooooo, do this but in a language that "counts"?

  • When was the last time you started writing a comment but decided against it mid sentence?

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  • Was Trumps "booming economy" proof that "trickle down" policy actually works??

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  • No. Next.

  • Can you have a conversation with a stranger? do you have them often?

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  • Yeah. I haven't always been very comfortable with it, I made active effort to learn ways to make it easier.

    I also lived in the Midwest for a while where asking someone "How are you doing" is an actual invitation to conversation and not just a response of "fine". I learned some people are very open to chitchat with strangers, some people aren't, and it gets pretty easy with practice to tell which is which noting body language and those first few words they respond to you with.

    Also, you're doing it now, OP. Way to go. Forum conversations like this totally count. Maybe next level up for you is some IM chatting with someone from a hobby group you're interested in.

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    Whats your favorite non-dairy milk substitute beverage?

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  • Oat for most things. Extra creamy.

    Almond for a fewthings. Like I prefer almond in a bowl of cereal. Silk has an unsweetened one with extra protein that is my go to.

  • This is a thought experiment "Ball on a Table" for detecting whether someone has Aphantasia. What do you see when you perform this experiment?

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  • Visualise (picture, imagine, whatever you want to call it)

    I ignored this portion of the instruction because it was unnecessary to answer the question of what might happen to the ball if it were pushed by someone. I didn't visualize anything until moving on to the spoiler questions. Even then, my brain mostly went "nah, we'd just be making up something to fill in details irrelevant to the question, don't waste the energy".

  • A book costs $1 plus half it's price. How much does it cost?

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  • The same question was posted yesterday. Are you a bot fishing for engagement?

  • The AI sexbot industry is just getting started. It brings strange new questions – and risks.

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  • More people declining to get married and/or procreate is the problem the government should watch out for. And instead of banning sexbots, they should make having a child easier. Make it so low and middle income people in their early twenties can buy a house. Make it so women can take maternity leave without setting their career back years. Make it so father/non-carrier parents get parental leave at all. Make it so a sick kid doesn't destroy a family's finances forever. Make it so women have adequate protection pre and post sexual interaction so that the risks of getting it on are not as high.

    AI sex bots are far from the most impactful thing driving people away from having kids.