[-] Treemaster099@pawb.social 8 points 5 months ago

I've had to train literally hundreds of people over the various jobs I've had and it causes me to over explain in almost every conversation.

I got two tricks to figure out how much someone knows about a topic and encourage them to ask questions rather than lie just to avoid being a little uncomfortable.

First, I look for them to use vocabulary that I haven't already mentioned or if they seem to understand something just by using a couple words.

Second, I ask them to explain something early in the conversation to make it easier to ask if they don't understand something later. It's usually really simple, but it really does work to lower communication barriers.

I like to think it makes us feel more like equals trading expertise, rather than like I'm some authority talking down to them.

I hope this helps anyone

[-] Treemaster099@pawb.social 105 points 1 year ago

The US really is becoming a third world country by the day, isn't it. God I hate it here

[-] Treemaster099@pawb.social 16 points 1 year ago

He also will lose an eye, so he'll have plenty to be grumpy about

[-] Treemaster099@pawb.social 8 points 1 year ago

Honestly at this point, even a low corruption government seems harder than balancing a boulder on a toothpick for the super powers of the world

[-] Treemaster099@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I understand what you're saying, but I don't think that's what the meme was meaning. I think it meant when you leave empty handed, it looks like you're shoplifting. That makes you nervous and you start acting weird which makes you look even more suspicious and more nervous. Wash, rinse, and repeat till you get home and cry because social situations are awkward and hard and life would be so much easier if I was alone on a deserted island like Tom Hanks in that one movie.

... I might've lost track towards the end, but you get the idea.

[-] Treemaster099@pawb.social 28 points 1 year ago

There's no debate. Jenny used forest and threw him away as soon as he didn't have what she wanted. When she ran out of places to go, she comes to forest just to torment him, get pregnant, then run away again. Then, she appears out of nowhere to hand off forest's kid that she had been hiding from him for years right before dying of the aids that she probably also gave to forest.

[-] Treemaster099@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

I've had them before. If you want to hide them, wear a jacket or sweater. It's not a big deal anymore though. The only people that ever said anything was friends and family teasing a bit. I'd still have them if my body didn't reject them so often, but that's just something to do with me

[-] Treemaster099@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

I kinda thought that was how most small towns worked. We got a couple big factories that take up a big chunk of the workforce here. They have a huge amount of power in controlling the wages for the town, which is always worrying. They pay the highest, but it's still not very high

[-] Treemaster099@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's pretty cool. What's the story with the robot and little one on the bottom right?

[-] Treemaster099@pawb.social 15 points 1 year ago

At least it ruins their ability to advertise with r/place like they wanted to. At this point, making as much of reddit as useless as possible is the last way to make them listen

[-] Treemaster099@pawb.social 31 points 1 year ago

I put tor on a flash drive. It bypassed the schools website blocks, so I could go onto any website I wanted. I mainly just went to YouTube to listen to music while I worked. If I really felt like goofing off, I'd go to friv.com and play a bunch of flash games.

Of course a couple friends had me to go to a porn website, but we quickly realized it was awkward and not as fun to be horny when you couldn't do anything about it.

[-] Treemaster099@pawb.social 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good. Technology always makes strides before the law can catch up. The issue with this is that multi million dollar companies use these gaps in the law to get away with legally gray and morally black actions all in the name of profits.

Edit: This video is the best way to educate yourself on why ai art and writing is bad when it steals from people like most ai programs currently do. I know it's long, but it's broken up into chapters if you can't watch the whole thing.

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