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- Comment on Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press? 1 day ago:
Reading books, writing, doing crafts, going on walks, hanging out with pets, gardening, doing chores, cooking, making art, looking at the stars…
- Comment on Fucking math... 2 days ago:
I just figured 4% is 1/25 and divided 75/25
- Comment on "United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym 2 days ago:
Spain and españa are also just cognates
- Comment on Squiggly Boie 3 days ago:
Thank you
- Comment on Squiggly Boie 3 days ago:
I’m not a bot and I have no idea what the image is
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 3 days ago:
Rhubab’s just sour celery
- Comment on Great business idea, tbh 3 days ago:
Incredible name, I really want to say it out loud but my husband’s sleeping next to me
- Comment on Phrases like “I am here” or “Are you here yet?” are used today more than in the past because of cellphones. 3 days ago:
“Where are you?” is not something that many people would have said aloud outside of a game of hide and seek before the advent of pay phones and only rarely until the turn of the century or so.
- Comment on Red balloon 6 days ago:
Just extremely boomer memes.
- Comment on Oppa oppa 1 week ago:
That’s not correct though, you don’t start at zero
- Comment on There is a key difference between walkable and car dependent living: 1 week ago:
If you’re not habituated to cold winters, it can be difficult to live in a place that has them. I’m from New England and live in Germany, so I’m always slightly disappointed by the winter (I’m not in not Bavaria), but for people who are from warm places, the cold literally hurts. You adjust to a point, but especially if you’re older or skinnier, it might be a struggle every time.
- Comment on Oppa oppa 1 week ago:
Psst. 2001-3000
- Comment on Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more. 1 week ago:
Tbh, I think they started early enough that it all still fell under the same umbrella, but folk, bluegrass and country gradually diverged between the 40-60s
- Comment on Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more. 1 week ago:
Oh, so many! Check out Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. Sixteen tons was written by Merle Travis, who’s got a bunch of other great music as well.
- Comment on Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more. 1 week ago:
It’s striking how much better country was when they had class consciousness
- Comment on UK | Andrew told Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ day after Virginia Guiffre photo emerged 1 week ago:
According to the lawsuit, he raped her in New York.
- Comment on UK | Andrew told Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ day after Virginia Guiffre photo emerged 1 week ago:
That’s the special relationship
- Comment on So I told that librul teachin' lady that the only letters I need to know is U-S-A 1 week ago:
If they’re skilled enough to make that reflection in photoshop, they’d probably have made it look more realistic
- Comment on Happy Thanksgiving everyone! 1 week ago:
Guy Fawkes day superiority
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
That sentence took a moment to parse, lol. I initially thought you were saying the opposite
- Comment on soda 2 weeks ago:
I still like flattish soda, but as a kid I preferred totally flat soda because the prickling hurt more.
- Comment on Stray bullet takes out Spectrum fiber, knocks Texans offline 2 weeks ago:
I read the article, but I don’t think it’s deliberate at all. There are 150M guns in the US, and lots of gun owners are morons. Episodically targeting Ohio, Texas, and California doesn’t seem like it would do much to benefit anyone.
- Comment on Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms 2 weeks ago:
I just sleep like I’m a freeze frame of the party boy dance on my face
- Comment on Bacteria may kill us entirely, but we will never kill bacteria entirely 2 weeks ago:
We’re just caretakers for grass in the end
- Comment on When a person gains weight and keeps the weight on for a long time, is that old fat in your body, or does the fat get replaced over time? 2 weeks ago:
From your body’s perspective, fat is insurance. Our bodies aren’t used to excess, so we’re built to accumulate fat whenever we can.
- Comment on what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly? 2 weeks ago:
I currently work at a bakery as essentially a barista. I don’t have any special passion for the work, but I love the idea of being a part of putting bread on so many community members’ tables. I considered switching to a cleaning job at my company and I would have the same motivation.
I don’t expect anyone to have a passion for sweeping floors and would also think they were lying if I heard that, but they can have a passion for the work the business does and want to support it any way they can.
- Comment on what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly? 2 weeks ago:
Managing large teams is less about managing their work and more about managing the people so that they can work more effectively.
Well done for realizing that within three years. It’s true for smaller teams as well, but with a smaller team, it’s possible to get away with managing their work, it just won’t be nearly as effective.
- Comment on FlatEarthers will work around it 2 weeks ago:
Is there one that isn’t nonstop (excluding stopovers in New Zealand- not because it doesn’t count, but because I’m wondering whether there’s a place to stop between South America and Oceania)?
- Comment on fresh fakakta bread 2 weeks ago:
I just grew up around Yiddish and speak German
- Comment on fresh fakakta bread 2 weeks ago:
I think your spelling is a little verkakt, but the bread looks incredible