Hardest battles

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• Mac@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do not compare your vs others ability when you’re operating with a different set of tools.

  Starting a fire with a hand drill is a much bigger job than with a blow torch.

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  • DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Challange accepted

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• paultimate14@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For a long time I was confused by two seemingly separate pieces of information.

  1. The majority of people I seem to interact with seem to act like communications are effortless. “Just pick up the phone”. “It’s just an email”.

  2. Most communications I get are terrible. Like, the number of times I need to restrain myself from typing “as I mentioned in the email below” is insane, or how often I send an email with a bulleted list of issues that need to be addressed and the response only addresses a fraction of them while the rest are ignores.

  Then I realized that most people are stupid, casual, and oblivious. They put very little effort into communications, so while they seem so easy and effortless they are harming the quality of that communication.

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  • ilost7489@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    One of the most common problems with communication is that many people believe it is easy. There is a reason professional communication courses exist

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  • TheDoozer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To your second point:

    how often I send an email with a bulleted list of issues that need to be addressed and the response only addresses a fraction of them while the rest are ignores.

    I typically will reply with just the bulleted points they didn’t address and then keep sending it with less and less bullets until either they answer all points or stop replying… after the third or fourth reminder email. I make sure the previous emails are in the string and never change the title.

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    • icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Which is why I just call in a meeting. Yes im one of those people. It’s just easier to get things done by putting people in the spot.

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  • laranis@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This applies to so many facets of life. It is only hard if you care. Like parenting.

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  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    this is a good point. people don’t think about it, so it doesn’t bother them

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  • kopasz7@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Average ND-NT interaction:

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    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I always say: if it’s worth doing a half assed job, it’s worth stressing out about for days

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• Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe the "battle" and "soldier" memes are an outgrowth of the military industrial complex, and just maybe we'd be better off abandoning them.

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  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh fuck it’s the lemmy shitpost police

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    • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      dude, that’s outgrowth of law enforcement, maybe we’re better off abandoning the analogy

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think those predate the MIC, and even written language. See e.g. The Epic of Gilgamesh.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      it goes deeper than we thought!

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    • MycelialMass@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ya we were having battles and shit before humans were humans (i.e. pre Homo sapien)

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• EtherWhack@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just like asking someone with a walker to run around the block.

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• Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Every man and every woman is a star.
  Every number is infinite; there is no difference.

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• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I like how in the old comics they'd give the superhero some weakness that would negate their powers.

  For Green Lantern it was the color yellow. For the Martian Manhunter it was fire. For Wonder Woman it was being tied up.*

  *Wasn't sure if I remembered it right so I did a search. Over a million entries for 'Wonder Woman tied up.' Lotta comic fans out there.

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  • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    WWs creator was a fairly well known bondage enthusiast. It’s not a secret, the only mystery is why DC decided to make it a part of her canon lore, even to this day.

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      She also has a lasso, so she’s not the only one in her stories to get tied up.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t know, that kind of makes her cooler to me. She’s always been kinda like “the girly Superman” to me (I know, I know, Supergirl, etc…). She’s just…bleh. Boring. But I was always an X-Men and Batman kid. And The Tick!

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• Nightlight17776@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When there was only one set of footprints in the sand its because you were strong enough to walk alone

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  • FateOfTheCrow@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or it’s because they walk single-file to hide their numbers.

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    • alt_xa_23@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      xkcd.com/1575/

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    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And these blast marks, too accurate for sand people. Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise.

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe one of them was Good King Wenceslas.

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• ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m one of God’s weak soldiers and I relate, lol. This is why it’s important to be empathetic and have a softer approach to people as much as we can afford it!

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  • onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mocking our weakness would be very on brand for the abrahamic god.

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