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I’m a below average height male and on periodic occasion I don’t trigger the motion sensing ones and it’s awkward. Now I typically always just raise my arm and wave instinctively. Not quite jedi gestures, but eh.
I’m a below average height male and on periodic occasion I don’t trigger the motion sensing ones and it’s awkward. Now I typically always just raise my arm and wave instinctively. Not quite jedi gestures, but eh.
I’m nowhere near Bill Gates money and never will be.
I think amongst my circle of family and friends, I probably net 3-4x more than the highest earner I know. For the most part, I can buy myself whatever gadgets or books or food or things I typically want.
But…I don’t, well, I don’t always.
In fact, oftentimes I find myself putting off buying Book A or B because I just don’t feel like it’s a good use of money right now.
Sometimes I won’t even buy myself new socks until all of mine have been worn down to absolute tatters. I own two pairs of jeans and one pair of shoes and they’re going to go until they completely fall apart.
Other times, I want this new game and I don’t buy it because I can’t really justify it for how much time I might end up having for it.
But if anyone I know gets me any of the above or similar, I’d honestly be super happy. It removes that mental battle for me and I get something I actually want / need.
I’m loving my Galaxy Tab 9 Ultra. It’s sturdy, can go in the shower (I don’t normally but I wanted to test it), has great multi-window features, has Dex which is also sometimes useful, is snappy, and I can basically sideload whatever I want.
You win my favorite internet comment of the day.
My personal cuticles need more seasoning.
Where is here…asking for a friend
I’ve been looking at options for leaving the country. It would be a massive task, significant uprooting, certain things I’m part of would have to be completely dropped or divested.
Problem is finding work and satisfying citizenship requirements in other countries. Other problem is that it isn’t like my US debts magically go away and as best as I can tell, no other country would pay me the same for what I do (Software Engineering).
That’s interesting…I’ve also been diagnosed with ADHD. Hmm…
Favorite I’ve owned? Model S Plaid
Favorite impractical? Maybe a Porsche 918 Spyder
Favorite classic? Ford Fairlane 427 Black on Black
Favorite right now but I haven’t driven it or seen it in person? Maybe the new Corvette AWD Hybrid.
+1 for YNAB.
Or, also, I do a lot in custom built spreadsheets, but YMMV.
Portland, Oregon.
Fair enough, appreciate the insight!
Portland, Oregon.
Wherever is easiest to get up and out and go pee because I snuck in beer and I have a small bladder.
100% this. I used to be able to control my ceiling fan, my portable a/c, and my TV from my phone.
Now I have to use the fan remote, the a/c remote, and install and create an account with some stupid TV app.
…it was also fun for changing the channel of TVs at bars & restaurants.
I’m confused by this and totally open for evidence that proves otherwise, but literally everyone I know who is vegetarian or vegan is a bit more or…insanely more on the conservative side.
I don’t know any liberal vegetarian or vegans.
If you’re there, can you hear them if you put your ear to the ground?
I sold cars for a year. During the initial onboarding we were asked to “sell a pen” to the trainer.
Everyone jumped right in to selling the qualities of the pen they had in hand.
At the end of the exercise the trainer said, “I’m looking for a pencil”.
The point was, don’t assume what the customer is looking for. Ask qualifying questions and identify 3-5 hot buttons, then based on what should be knowledge of the inventory and inventory of surrounding dealerships (yeah, they’re all connected to some degree), make recommendations that fit their needs.
Then describe all the ways it could fulfill their wants using positive, yes questions. Don’t ask a question you don’t know the answer to. We were taught that it takes 5-10 Yes responses to offset the negative mental energy from a question asked resulting in a No - so we weren’t supposed to mess that up. That was just one of numerous psychological plays we were taught and forced to use or get threatened with being fired or having bonuses taken away.
The whole training series was bullshit. And I say it was bullshit because it sucked playing all these games on people. Yeah, 1/5 of the time it didn’t work because they caught on. But the amount of times it actually worked made me feel guilty and sad.
The amount of times you put someone into a car they couldn’t afford because you successfully sold them on their wants and not their needs was awful.
I quit near the end of that year because fuck car sales and fuck car dealerships. This was 15 years ago, so who knows what it’s like now.
Also, because I assume someone might ask (lol assuming, I fail), this was for a conglomerate that owned 5 used car lots, a Scion lot, a Toyota lot, a Lexus lot, and oddly a Ford & Chevy lot. Last I heard they’re just down to a Lexus lot and one used car lot now. Apparently the mortgage bubble and COVID hit them hard. Fine by me.
Do you mean Vivaldi runs in Gecko or is Chromium?
I’m Asian and live in rural Oregon.