Which is your default sort for posts on Lemmy?
I’ve used “hot” for a long while but recently changed to “active”. I honestly can’t say the difference between them.
What is the oldest common food in the typical western diet?
Of the things available to most of us, what are common and the oldest things we might find on a store shelf?
If you were a video game boss, what's the most likely or most fitting way the protagonist may beat you?
What's the worst natural disaster you've been in?
What skill or talent took you longer than it should have to learn?
Professional Scientists of Lemmy: What is your field of study's, most complex unanswered question?
How do you cope with, life and the decaying world around you?
Mine is nostalgia. That's literally my copium drug and it really is strong some days. It's not that I sit here everyday and never move on to newer things, I do sometimes embrace new things and realize there's more out there than what I have....
Most unique looking celebrities?
I’m working on a side project studying variations in human facial features. It’s been helpful to study celebrity faces because it’s easy to find numerous reference photos. I’ve actually got a fairly good range of weird looking white men, turns out Hollywood is pretty flush with those, but it’s been harder to find...
What's the most notable skill a GF or BF taught you?
CompTIA certifications
Are CompTIA certifications still a viable way to get back into IT? I left the workforce at the start of 2020 to be a stay at home and I’m wanting to get recertified so I have options if I want to reenter the workforce....
What's the most notable difference between you and the other people in your neighborhood?
The Offspring, The Beastie Boys, Van Halen w/DLR, and the B52s. Are there other bands that rock, but are often silly/goofy and funny?
What is the point of cruel and deadly border policies if employers could just be penalized for hiring unauthorized labor all along?
What was your most and least favorite unit in gym class?
Austerity has my roommate had her class of 12 kids moved into a windowless side room.
Hello! so my roommate is a SPED teacher. The school changed how SPED works to be identical to standard education at the expense of the 6th 7th and 8th graders that have mental disabilities. because of office politics and “Test Scores”, all SPED teachers got assigned a subject based on “who would make the best test...
Are all phone calls voip (voice over Internet protocol) now?
Some RSS links from lemmy feeds are broken - or is it my reader?
Most entries in lemmy’s RSS feed have a that points to the relevant lemmy post eg...
If you were Jesus, what would you get God for Father's Day?
Do we like Bill Burr now?
Let me preface this by saying I’m not a fan at all of Bill Burr, but he recently went on Bill Maher’s show, and said he was with the students. He’s also said some inflammatory things in the past, so I’m not sure. Are we cool with Bill Burr, now?
How do you deal with feeling a great connection with one of your children, but not with another?
Not that I’m having this issue, but my wife and I are considering a second kid and this is a thought I’ve had.
Do you ever go back and reread your own posts and find yourself wondering how the hell you managed to say the words that you said?
Like sometimes I'll make a post and I go back and I reread it and I'm like somebody way smarter than me wrote this, and sometimes I'll go back and reread it and wonder how the fuck was I so stupid as to write this?...
What if as I get older, like a Mandela effect, everyone's understanding of what the average life span is increases?
I know this sounds like the basis for a cult or something but it’s kind of a crazy thought.
How much did the transition to cashless impacted inflation ?
Is used to be common for store owner to put the cash directly in their pocket. Which is not possible with electronic payement. Meaning that you add 20% VAT to the price, an when transforming the money in a salary need to pay for unemployement/health/retirement insurance to finally get a taxable income....
Does anyone else notice an uptick of extreme troll accounts?
I swear, every time most of the time I see someone being particularly rude, ignorant, and inappropriate on a post (usually political in origin, or they swing it to being political) I click on their profile and see it has been created that same day....