Ask Lemmy

Using any sort of digital device. I've really never had a problem figuring out how they work and what needs to be done to fix them.

• To not feel the need to stay connected to social media.
• To not have an opinion on everything and on everyone.

Situational awareness.

I get hit and screamed at a lot…just as a part of my job, and it doesn’t seem to phase me other than the mild inconveniences of injury. I’m sure my brain is a bit wonky. I do take summers off, and I get so bored.

Spotting fake BS on the internet. It just seems so obvious to me when someone is making up a story for clout, or to plug a GoFundMe scam, or to push an obvious narrative of hate toward a group of people. And then I go into the comments and want to fucking scream.

And then, when you point out that something is fake, half the time people get all defensive about it. "Who cares? It's still a good story" or "Well, it might be fake THIS time, but I can imagine people actually doing this, so I'm going to internalize this as more proof for my biases."

I don't get it, how is it so hard for people to spot? Like, yea, there's the occasional one that's done so well that it's easy to fall for, but 99% of these kinds of posts and videos are so blatantly fake that I worry about the level of critical thinking skills the average person has. I thought the explosion of AI shit would make people be a bit more skeptical with the things they read and watch, but it feels like it's going the other direction.

A lot of math things. It hasn't been nearly as lucrative as people assume.

Reading an article before offering an option.

Building stuff out of a pile of scrap.

Assembling flat pack furniture, bbqs, bicycles, snow blowers, cement mixers. Pretty easy to do but customers will pay a fee to the store to have the assembly done.

Time management seems to be something so many people I know struggle with, but I rarely ever have. I'm early for a lot of things, but never too early to where I'm waiting a long time to get to what I want. Only times I've been late is if it's something out of my control and even then I usually try to add enough of a buffer that it doesn't negatively impact me too much.

I'm not a picky eater. Too many Indians are averse to food from other places.

Fact checking, data analysis, troubleshooting.

Abstract thinking. Forget the details, I want the most broad ideas.

Hence I liked trying to understand Hegel or why I liked cubist and other surreal and experimental artworks.

Having calm discussions without screaming. Even if its a passionate discussions for example about Cheese. (Yes this gets very heated with me and my friends haha love them so much)

Openes to new facts even if it challanges your world view.

Empathie

Math is the big one, and logic by extension. Everyone around me seems to have difficulty breaking problems or logical arguments down into relevant incremental steps. They either get distracted by irrelevant things, or can't figure out how the output of one step provides the input for the next.

basic banking literacy. no, you don't cash a check into your account, you deposit it! cash means cash!

Abstract math.

The formulas lock together, setting themselves easily in complex patterns that represent something. I have preferred formalism because they have different flavors, even while having the same meaning.