In their defence, it is a difficult concept to grasp. My dad started his career shovelling gravel for a few dollars an hour. Now he’s a vice president making very good money. In his mind, anyone can replicate what he did by working hard instead of being lazy and asking for handouts.
I eventually got through to him one day when he was talking about hiring for a senior management position. He was interviewing all these people with fancy degrees and credentials. I asked why not promote one of his hard workers? He laughed and said the person needs to be more than a hard worker to manage multi-million dollar projects. But where would he be now if his old boss had thought the same thing? My dad has none of the credentials of the people he was interviewing. He’d still be shovelling gravel 60 hours a week for minimum wage if nobody gave him the opportunity to advance. How could he think hard work will be rewarded when he doesn’t even reward it himself? That’s when he admitted the world works differently now.
It’s funny to think that future people will have no idea what these jokes will mean, but we’ve translated 2000 year old Roman dick jokes. Future historians will just say the same of us as we do about the Romans. “They created amazing technology that shaped the world we live in today…and they were really horny.”
Terrible first day, but he had a senior position at New York TRACON (which controls nearly all air traffic in New York) for years before getting the federal position. He was definitely experienced.
So the article explains that official tournaments use a unique words list that contains a lot of generous words like “zzz” and “aa”. Mostly intended to allow high scoring words for people who studied their list.
The company that maintains the list has added a lot more of these “not a real word but it scores high so we added it” words.
For some highlight words from the article: MIREPOIXS, HORSEFEATHERSES, SUBSPECIESES, GRATINEEED
Players are complaining that high level tournaments are basically going to be competitions for who knows the most gibberish from the tournament word list and it is alienating the general population from joining tournaments and scrabble clubs.
If you’re actually trying to manage your weight, do not increase your physical activity. Reduce how much you eat.
Most sites say running burns around 60 Calories/km or 100 Calories/mile. The average person burns 2,000 Calories a day by existing. If you ran a 10k every day, then you’d be using 2,600 Calories a day.
The difference in effort between “existing” and “runs a 10k every day” is massive, but the difference in Calories burned is equivalent to a large fry from McDonalds. So would you rather run a 10k or just take the fries out of your order?
One time a girl in my computer class kept asking me for help. She’d ask me to stand behind her and point to where she should click. She asked if the view was nice, which was weird since it’s just a computer screen. Eventually, she decided I should move her hand while it was still on the mouse. That happened a lot and I always thought “wow this girl really doesn’t get computers.”
I was in my late 20s before I realized she wanted me to look down her top and touch her hand. She must have been thinking “wow this guy really doesn’t get women”
I’m just starting with lemmy, so this may be a very basic question, but why do these numbers differ? I’ve searched for and subscribed to cats community for example. Why all the comments/reactions haven’t been synced?...
So I think what you’re saying is that you’ve created a Lemmy instance and joined a community from another Lemmy instance but you can’t see all the posts?
My understanding is that your instance will only start syncing content from that community AFTER someone on your instance joins it. If you’re the first person on your instance to join cats then you won’t see anything from before the moment you joined, but you will get all the content that is posted after you joined. If you aren’t the first person on your instance to join then you’ll be able to see older posts.
Watching mouths fill up with towels (lemmy.world)
SSB is a little messed up, when you think about it. [Safely Endangered] (startrek.website)
It's all downhill from here (lemmy.zip)
Old but gold (lemmy.world)
I can still hear every sound including the error at the end... (lemmy.ca)
The duality of Man (startrek.website)
Words to live by (sh.itjust.works)
Future historian breaks down and interprets memes (www.youtube.com)
time to code (lemmy.ml)
i’m living in a school with gamblers (lemmy.world)
we've been anonymous
Wat is your favorite breathing technique and what effect does it bestow?
I like the 4/7/8 (inhale/hold/exhale in seconds) = not sure if its “relaxation”, “sleepiness”, or both context-depending
Kurzgesagt — An unofficial community for discussing Kurzgesagt's videos on space, biology, philosophy, etc. (kbin.social)
An unofficial community for discussing anything and everything related to Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell....
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It's my first day, how bad can it be? (lemmy.ml)
Scrabble’s New Official Word List Contains Dozens of Stunning Additions. Elite Players Are Mortified. (slate.com)
I have never understood that. (lemmy.world)
We'll Birdie Birdie, OK? (media.kbin.social)
When the calories burnt equate to food you can then eat maybe it's a problem... (lemmy.world)
Anyways (startrek.website)
You also found them really attractive too (lemmy.world)
Why do posts from other communities on my server don't send all the comments/reactions?
I’m just starting with lemmy, so this may be a very basic question, but why do these numbers differ? I’ve searched for and subscribed to cats community for example. Why all the comments/reactions haven’t been synced?...
Rent-A-Peak (ani.social)