looks at his comment count
Nah…
Hmm…
And here I thought you were the biggest commenter here. That person is beating you ten-fold.
Picard Maneuver posts main topic content, which is probably more important. Can’t comment if there’s nothing to comment on 🤷🏻♂️
Did you ever get a chance to check your Lemmy “karma” before the 0.19 update removed it? I bet you’re way up there.
I know I hit 1mil on my startrek.website account before that instance updated.
I never really noticed because Liftoff didn’t show it, and I only switched to jumping between Jerboa and Raccoon now that my instance updated to 0.19, which doesn’t work on Liftoff. I’m consistently upvoted more than when I get super high and say something stupid/make a joke only I understood at the time though. lol
when I get super high
I’m startimg to notice a correlation here
I’m glad they removed it. I used to make a new reddit account when I hit 10K.
This is the smaller of my 2 accounts right now, but yeah, I definitely don’t comment at the same rate as I make posts. Kolanaki is one of the power-commenters that see in my inbox multiple times per day.
Picard does have 3.5K on their other account
Single-handedly helping the fediverse thrive.
Which is a radical act to fight tech billionaires like Zuckerberg and Musk. Who have both been reasonably accused of enabling some incredibly awful stuff.
Contributing to the fediverse is probably not the most efficient way to fight for human rights and against billionaires and fascists, but it certainly makes some sort of tiny contribution. So I wouldn’t call it pointless. :)
This does make me feel a little better about my chronic internet addiction. Early on I commented even more because so many good posts sat with zero comments and I wanted more people to view them and hopefully add their own comments.
Edit: I also want to add being online all the time is why I volunteered to mod. I was not aware every one of my comments would appear with the mod icon at the time :|
I’m with you there. On Reddit I was overwhelmingly a lurker, but here I actually make an effort to regularly comment on things purely because I hope to get others talking. Once my work is done, I’ll go back to watching from the shadows. (In the least creepy way possible.)
Exactly. I’m not wasting my time. I’m fighting The Man.
He posted while in a Meta Quest 3 VR HMD
Yeah I don’t find it pointless at all. Doing my part too.
Dear lord, that’s 43 comments/day
I don’t think I go a day without seeing at least one Kolanaki comment.
Haha yeah…
I thought I had a problem…
Kolanaki sacrificing himself so we can feel a little better about ourselves o7
“We are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you any different.” --Kurt Vonnegut
Like this comment if you recently farted.
I farted while reading it, so idk what to think here
It’s the smell of success. No doubt.
Vonnegut is so based. Just all the time.
Definitely. It’s hard not to be upset that I spent the first half of my life in church learning bullshit.
well hey at least you made it out instead of sticking with the crazies for a few more decades
Yeah the wasted youth I spent doing church shit weighs on me.
Me as well. What really bothers me is it was mostly me driving it. My parents are/were god fearing but I was way more than they were.
All this information about the Bible and it does me no good at all.
Yeah. Nothing quite dechristianized me quite like committing to reading the Bible.
You mean life?
As a software developer, more frequently than I’d like. Pouring a couple weeks into an epic only to see the entire thing scrapped… At least I got paid.
Happens with personal projects too sometimes, I’ll start refactoring and decide at the end of the weekend I really don’t want to waste me next weekend on it and it’ll go to the archives lol.
But even in those cases, not entirely worthless. I still learned and grew my knowledge. Same applies to similar scenarios not related to writing code.
There will come a day when all the code we’ve ever written will be dead.
I know the majority of mine is.
“A man dies two deaths. The first, when he draws his last breath. The second, when the last bit of shitty band-aid code he wrote is overwritten.”
I’ll have you know that these are safety-certified band-aids
Guess as an infrastructure/factory guy I will be around for a while.
Hah! Only if you’ve never written a “temporary” dirty hack – that code will live forever.
Until the product is killed off.
Had a thing about this at work this week. Got a small project in that is loaded up with garbage requirements, client is never coming back to us after this, and the budget is marginal.
What’s the point? We aren’t getting new knowledge, we aren’t establishing a relationship with a new client, we aren’t even making money. Sales fucked up, these things happen, move on. It isn’t even a challenging assignment so the entire victory is hollow. Boss-man didn’t like my brilliant idea to just ghost the client.
I have ADHD, anxiety, and trauma.
A solid 75% of everything I’ve ever attempted to do takes more time to do than regular folks because it has to be perfect. And then I may not tell anyone about my efforts because I don’t want the attention. Or if the work is too hard or I’m too scared of revealing I can’t do it all myself, I give up. Assuming, of course, I don’t forget about what I’m working on until the relevance has passed.
Oh shit are you me? Adhd + anxiety is such a shitty combo, I feel like I can never accomplish anything and when I do I don’t even get the satisfaction of a job well done because the chemical reward system in my brain is screwed up. Shit sucks.
In my retail days, every time we had visits from corporate. We would bust ass on overnights to make our location look good.
One time, as a fucking manager, I was told I needed to literally scrub the floors. Our machine that did it hadn’t been repaired in 6 months due to the GM pinching pennies. He told me to scrub the real bad parts by hand.
Corporate came the next AM. Spent all of 5 fucking minutes in our store to tell us his flight got changed and had to leave. I chewed out my manager and told him it was the last time myself, or any of my crew was slapping lipstick on a pig for a corpo visit.
Work.
Early in my career, I made the mistake of revealing to my employers that I’m competent at my job. More and more work flowed onto my plate and before long, I was assigned tasks that were supposed to go to seniors. So, the seniors received almost double my salary while they enjoyed more open schedules since I was doing my work + some of theirs.
It’s simply not worth it to go above and beyond at work, unless it’s your own business.
if you can dig a hole the fastest someone eventually is going to hand you a bigger shovel
-an uncle of mine multiple occasions.
I do have to mention that he was one of the laziest people I have ever known and died in his mid-40s due to his weight and zero exercise. So while he was technically correct you might be better off being wrong in this one case.
All things in moderation. Hard work is a virtue, but it’s good to recognize when it’s not paying off for you.
Why yes, I am human.
No no don’t you know how these things work?
We’re to use this extremely common feeling to diagnose a variety of mental illnesses over the Internet. You can then take that information and put it into your Insta Bio, and your AIM status to up your street cred.
- Signed a Bi-Demi-Autistic-AHDH-Bipolar-Split-Personality-Australopithecus-Queen
Honestly, slay!
Sure. Two big projects at work come right to mind. Both were fucked before I started and ended up fucked when they ended. There is about half a football field in the Great Plains full of valves, boilers, plumbing, and pumps all ready for a chemical process that doesn’t make financial sense to run. The company that paid for it went bankrupt from the project. It sits there rotting. Months of my life, working well over 60 hours a week
I spent years of my life and a ton of money on a 150 gallon salt water tank. I had a thriving coral population and a lots of cool little fish and crustaceans. The metal-halide hood alone cost $2,500. I moved houses and just couldn’t bring myself to set it back up.
Often… I have sometimes spent hours trying to photoshop faces of my mates (with permission) on random objects or random scenarios, like a cat or kettle, trying to make it look as normal as my skills allow for a 1-off joke.
bro you gonna have phtoshop skill of a god, you just need to make it useful
You have more faith in me than I do xD
Appreciate the kind words
That feels like time well spent.
Most things, in my experience, are not worth the effort. I really feel that a lot of people who are constantly hustling, going out and doing things, etc. are doing so because they can’t allow themselves to stop and think. I tend to focus on necessary things (food, shelter, etc) and some things that let me feel comfortable. For the rest, I just try to live a quiet life.
Yeah, a lot of things tbh. I think if I hadn’t then I’d not be who I am today. I’d probably be a better and happier person.
I’d probably be a better and happier person.
don’t say that while i’m in university, i’m gonna start second-guess myself…again.
Plenty of things, college being the biggest. But, I’ve gotten to the point where I’m able to see benefits in just about everything I’ve done in my life.
Agreed. I’m sad I wasted time and money on a failed attempt to get a degree, but I appreciate the people I met and the experiences I had.
Listen, if you want a degree, you don’t have to do the usual route. Check out WGU - it’s competency based so basically if you can do the math test, you pass the math class. If you can write the english paper, you pass the english class. Just push through and you’ll be done, and it’s super cheap. My advisor said she had someone finish a masters in 6 months.
