One thing I’ve been reading is how the younger generations haven’t grown up with what we call traditional technology. There are people entering the workforce who have used iPads for most of their lives and don’t know what a directory structure is, or a file share, or basic word/excel/pp skills. Think about it, iPads made it so easy by showing most recent items that they don’t even really know ehat folders are.

Those are all things I took in my first few computer classes. How to make a word doc. Basic formulas in excel. How to make a PowerPoint do a star wipe. Those are real tangible skills that everyone should know entering the workforce. Then, if people show a talent for it, I would encourage them to pursue something like programming.

People here are suggesting low level things like bash scripting because it’s what we know and think is important, but for most people it’s things like how are files stored, and how do I sum a column in excel?

Agree, hr is more or less a one stop shop to being fired. Op is right, they’ll immediately label you someone who is willing to speak up, what’s the addage? The beach who perks up gets pruned. HR isn’t necessarily there to protect the company, but the status quo. They don’t want anyone making noise, else it is bad for everyone.

Oceans 11, I can watch that when I’m happy, sad, sick, or just on in the background. The perfect heist movie

Yeah people did this in drive thrus and thought they were being cute. It’s real cute until the next person ordered 6x as much as you did.

A nice thing to do is to see a mother struggling to pay for her groceries and offering to step in and to put them on yours. Paying it forwards sets off a weird chain of guilt that is not as nice.

People believed they are owed sex rather than it being a mutual thing.

Don’t forget endless AI generated images that morons just eat up

oh my god, what a snowflake mod. Not even a real reason, I have banned people from my instance. Reason? Racism. Homophobia. Transphobia. Never “republican”.

What’s weird is I have definitely been very liberal over there, I am somewhat active in !iowa@midwest.social and have never seen anything. Do the admins just have one snowflake mod?

Same. I forget what I was reading/watching, but it’s a shame that they build these gorgeous worlds just to put an assassin’s creed game into. Odyseey and Valhalla were both gorgeous, then they fill it with fetch quests and tedium. I don’t understand why they don’t just build worlds, and let smaller studios fill them out. They could do a base assassin’s creed, but think of how many other stories could have been told with the sheer size of Odyssey

Assassin’s creed Valhalla.

I had done the same thing for about 60 hours, and when I finally thought I was done with the monotony I was transported to 2 new locations that required me to do around and do boring fetch quests. I just never went back to it, and that was… 2 years ago? Still installed, just don’t care.

Story was fine but there was so much boredom between actual story that what was the point.

I’m actually flattered that I have this… reputation on Lemmy lol.

Personally, I don’t care if celebrities come and join, even Taylor. Honestly that’s one of the reasons I’m okay with threads starting to federate, I see celebrities joining there and then we can sub from our instances. Best of both worlds imo.

I don’t think it’s a huge deal, we’ll either know they’re legit or not. Care to weigh in @MargotRobbie@lemmy.world ?

One good thing IMO about threads federating, that we get the celebrities, we know they’re verified, but I don’t have to join corpo social media.

Thanks l, that all makes sense. I’ll keep an eye out

I have a manual process for admitting people, do I need to do anything if I know exactly who is on my instance, or do I need to do anything to protect my instance from other bad acting instances (beyond defederating, which I do when I notice a lot of spam). Any queries you recommend?

Awareness is 90% of the battle. Just being aware of where you are, what you’re doing, and who’s around you will keep you safe. In my city, and others like NY, I’m always shocked at tourists who are just so blatently tourists. Stopped on the sidewalk, pointing up at the big buildings, completely unaware of the world outside of them. Not only is it incredibly inconsiderate to the people around you, but it makes you an easy target.

The rest for me is confidence. I used to get nervous when I saw a large group of people that I’d have to walk through/around, but now it’s just a normal thing. Just confidently walk past them, don’t look at them, just keep going, and I’ve never been hassled. Hell I’ve had to literally step over people sitting on the ground before, just don’t look like you’re nervous and it’ll go well. If you go out expecting something to go wrong, it probably will. If you look like you go there a million times, no one will care.

Cities really have gotten safer, it’s pretty safe to just walk down any street now in most cities. Just don’t be an idiot walking around looking like you don’t belong offering an easy score.

Yeah I’ve learned that it’s usually someone just trying to do their best, so if you know who is pushing for the large thing, when you are describing what you want give them something they can focus on. Like for your slumber party adding in “<<Person>> if you can make that <<dish you really like>>, that would make it really special”, then they have an outlet to pour their effort, and you get something tasty!

I used to be like you, thinking there was nothing special about a birthday and not wanting a party. But, if you flip it around, the party isn’t really about you ironically. It’s about those you care about actually wanting to celebrate you, and that’s a pretty special thing in my book. Who cares how many, there are people who love you who want to make you feel special, and it makes them feel good throwing something, so just have a good time.

Now, if you don’t want a big thing, then just be honest with them. Something as simple as “I really do appreciate the thought, but honestly I would have just as much fun going to <<your favorite restaurant>> and sharing a glass of wine with you all.” Let them know how they can make it special for you, and then just have a good evening. Find something you enjoy like that that they’ll feel good treating you, and enjoy the people who love you :)

Nightmares for weeks.

Hey things should be better!

Sweet, let’s get started, go make something better

Nah, gonna give up instead.

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Oh no… Guess we can’t have leaf lowers anymore… Shame…