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kent_eh, to asklemmy in Are Americans more prone to conspiracy theories than people in other countries?

Visiting Rushmore as a non-American is even weirder than you imagine.

The levels of over the top blatantly performative “patriotism” is quite bizarre to be surrounded by.

And the suspicious looks we got for not participating enthusiastically was discomforting (no, I’m not going to recite a pledge of allegiance to your country. Why would you expect me to?)

kent_eh, to asklemmy in We've already started this year off with crazy shit. What else do you guys think will happen this year and why?

Not to mention increased wildfire risk.

kent_eh, (edited ) to linux in what caused you to get into Linux?

In my case, specifically Windows 95.

kent_eh, to asklemmy in how similar are other North American countries to USA??

A little too similar in some cases.

It seems that we are importing the worst examples of American politics and capitalism into Canada.

kent_eh, to asklemmy in Do you prefer to wear a smartwatch or a regular watch?

Regular watch.

My good old Timex Ironman has survived tons of physical abuse over the decade or more ive had it, and it’s battery only needs my attention every few years. I doubt a smart watch would improve either of those scenarios.

Plus, I don’t see any value added to my life by having phone features on a smaller, harder to read screen. If I want to use phone features, my actual phone is less than a foot from my wrist.

kent_eh, to asklemmy in Tech workers - what did your IT Security team do that made your life hell and had no practical benefit?

And in my company the password change policies are very different from one system to another. Some force a change monthly, some every 28 days, some every 90 days, and thwn there is rhat one legacy system that no longer has a functioning password change mechanism, so we can’t change passwords there if we wanted to.

And the different systems all want different password formats, have different re-use rules.

And, with all those uncoordinated passwords, they don’t allow password managers to be used on corporate machines, despite the training materials that the company makes us re-do every year recommending password managers…

kent_eh, to asklemmy in What are some modern bullshit jobs?

price stability.

No, the opposite of that.

kent_eh, to asklemmy in In which scenario would you last longer before being outed as a time traveller?

Depends if the future is Star Trek type utopia or Terminator style post rise of the machines.

kent_eh, to asklemmy in What are your "poor person" money life hacks?

Avoid subscription services like the plague.

Check what services your library card gives you free access to.

kent_eh, to asklemmy in Would you choose invisibility or teleportation?

Some assumptions are common with teleporting.

If it takes the same time to travel 10 meters or 10000 kilometers that kinda implies faster than light.

kent_eh, to asklemmy in What do you do to reduce your use of single use plastics?

Any individual “reducing their plastic use” is just a drop in the ocean.

No raindrop blames itself for the flood…

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Masses of individuals each making small local changes can add up to some very significant impacts.

kent_eh, (edited ) to asklemmy in Do you have a story about when you saw snow for the first time?

This feels like such a foreign concept to me.

My dad had to shovel snow so he could drive my pregnant mom to hospital for my birth.

kent_eh, to asklemmy in Those who chose "never" in a "now or never" moment. How is it going for you?

Getting g a mortgage just before the rates started skyrocketing seems to have been a good choice.

Hopefully you are locked in for long enough that the rates can return to some sort of sane level before you need to renew.

kent_eh, to asklemmy in Would you choose invisibility or teleportation?

world travel becomes something possible to do any time of any day on a whim, you could do anything.

I feel like Greek food for lunch, suddenly appears at a cafe in Athens.

Maybe some chocolate for dessert, pops into Switzerland for a moment , then back home in time for my kid’s soccer game.

kent_eh, (edited ) to asklemmy in If you had to restart your job at your current employer, what would you do differently?

I wouldn’t start with this company if I was starting today.

This is a very different place than it was when I started.

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