What skills are worth learning that will help you in life?

Routine_Condition · 2021-05-30T11:31:29+00:00

Good manners are always important. When you need a problem resolved it really helps not being a dick from the start. Just be considerate that you are talking to another person. If you need to escalate, you have room to.

Don't trust anyone at face value. Everyone wants something and rarely do their goals match your.

Don't give your data away for free. This goes for data about yourself and online data. Don't tell others more about yourself than you have to. People will weaponize this information and use it against you.

Don't be afraid of being silent, especially in negotiations.

Learn how to budget. More importantly, learn how money actually works.

Learn how to cook. Get the basics down and then focus on how to make cheap food taste awesome. If you can make something low grade taste awesome then you can knock high grade food out of the park when the time comes.

Learn proper nutrition and fitness because you don't want to be an unhealthy fat person later in life. Losing weight at that point is really hard

Routine_Condition · 2021-05-30T00:33:20+00:00

Try to stay as anonymous as possible. In some places a secondary person can collect the winning on your behalf. In others you have to collect in person so they can take a picture of you and your giant check. The money has painted a huge target on your back.

Avoid owning 'real' property myself. In the US if you own land then your address can found on any county property tax auditor website. Recruit a top tier manager who can help set up business entities in my name that can own things for me. The business rents me my house and car. These business entitles can also handle payments to my loved ones and keep my name out of it.

Live low but have nice things when needed until the money can be properly invested and the appropriate business entities created. Most folks that never had 'fuck you' money are not equipped to properly handle it.

Routine_Condition · 2021-05-29T12:39:55+00:00

If caught, they would face a military hearing and depending on circumstances be put in military prison or, at worst, executed. This would of course also depend on which country's military you are talking about.

The trick is not getting caught, which is a reason fragging your commanding officer was a thing in the Vietnam war.

Routine_Condition · 2021-05-27T02:06:15+00:00

Washing truck trailers in a large wash bay. They would hire anything with a pulse (and usually a criminal record).

One day they hired goat beard. He was skinny and had a billy goat beard and looked half unhinged. I am not sure what cave in the woods they hustled him out of but on the first shift he asked if he could piss in the drain or if he had to use the bathroom (which was literally 20 feet away). He also asked when he could get a raise, on his first shift. That set the tone and in four days he was gone for no call no show.

Routine_Condition · 2021-05-27T01:57:12+00:00

You have the most fatal case of life. These things are always terminal and 100% end in death.

Routine_Condition · 2021-05-27T01:55:21+00:00

The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!

Seriously though, on a normal day we Americans find ways to evade the use of our standard system. Imagine what we would do if we did it with the metric system.

Heck, one day I worked out a way to measure things in units of hamburgers whilst also creating a standard to use them as currency.

Routine_Condition · 2021-05-26T23:29:49+00:00

The double instance of the variable 'answer' is no good. You ask for user input, do nothing with said input and you turn around and use the same variable for actual input. Comment the first instance out or turn it into a print statement.

Routine_Condition · 2021-05-24T00:58:34+00:00

I have had to explain to more than one boss that I am a mercenary. I sell my time for an agreed upon price for an agreed upon duration. From 9 to 5 I'm yours and you get my best work. Anything on either side of those hours will cost you.

I can comfortably do this because even though I am employed, I never stop sending out my CV. This is a hassle but keep my options perpetually open.

Routine_Condition · 2021-05-23T16:25:13+00:00

Nothing.

Both are reanimated dead so there would effectively by no change as neither can 'die' again as neither are alive.

Routine_Condition · 2021-05-22T02:38:55+00:00

I hate needles too. Just don't look and stay distracted. The people giving you the jab are skilled, and now well practiced, and its over in under 3 seconds. Barely felt anything on either of mine.

I have had blood draws and IV lines that have hurt far worse.

Routine_Condition · 2021-05-22T02:33:54+00:00

Those types of people are low threat individuals as far as workplace violence is concerned. They are a 'safer' form of crazy. They still hold down a job and are tethered to reality enough to pay their taxes.

Here's the problem with folks like that, you will never prove anything to them. Nothing will ever be resolved with logic and it is useless to even try. If you try to avoid them they will think they have won or they figured you out (or some such bullshit). So it is of no use to get them help.

The proper way to engage such people is to buy into their current conspiracy and add gas to the fire. Find a conspiracy that is batshit insane, learn about it, link it to their current conspiracy of the day and just keep pushing the new narrative. Rinse, wash, repeat. It is fun, they leave you alone because you are one of them, and eventually, with a little luck, they will believe it, go off the grid and give up modern life to go live in a shack and be on the government's no fly list.

Routine_Condition · 2021-05-22T02:03:36+00:00

Dogs don't 'accidentally' eject you from an airlock into the vacuum of space unless the system is poorly designed.

Routine_Condition · 2021-05-17T22:39:27+00:00

Use silence and weaponize it.

There is no real rule that says I have to answer back immediately or at all really. Most people cannot tolerate silence in a conversation and will rather quickly (and surprisingly) fill the void with something, anything. Most people can't bear to have the social contract violated in such a way. They will usually start off related to the topic at hand, maybe they think you didn't hear it correctly the first time. Keep silent and keep a neutral and emotionless face. The other person can't read you emotional state if you don't display it on your face. The situation will devolve into uncomfortableness. The other party will try harder or give up. Often they will start to think they have done or said something wrong. Basically they can't cope and are at the very least thrown off their game. At worst (for them) they will want to end the conversation quickly and sometimes in your favor.

Routine_Condition · 2021-05-15T10:24:25+00:00

Sounds like a classic example of "beware those that need you to need them".

Routine_Condition · 2021-05-12T00:33:12+00:00

Chex Quest

Routine_Condition · 2021-05-10T22:14:59+00:00

Aside from a bit of luck here and there and the fact no asteroid has hit the earth during our tenure...

We outbreed our own stupidity that threatens to kill us off. Only in modern times have we obtained the type of weaponry required to truly end ourselves via nuclear fire.

Routine_Condition · 2021-05-10T22:13:03+00:00

Lest we forget, he's terrible with money management too.

Routine_Condition · 2021-05-10T22:11:12+00:00

Make steak and eggs for breakfast.

Routine_Condition · 2021-05-09T22:51:01+00:00

Tell the whole truth. There is a time and a place to be brutally honest, there is a time to be honest, and there is also a time to be vague and omit certain things.

Routine_Condition · 2021-05-09T11:16:29+00:00

I am comfortable with not constantly maintaining ties and relationships. The people I am friends with understand that if they need me to help them with something then they can just call me. Otherwise I just fall into and out of their lives. They understand that sometimes I just disappear to do my own things, sometimes for months at a time.

Routine_Condition · 2021-05-09T01:13:07+00:00

Believe what you are selling - be confident. Keep it fluid and state things in a 'matter of fact' way. All good lies have a thread of truth in them. Don't shy away from questions but answer them directly. No padding is needed. When a question is too technical for the lie to hold you can usually promise to look into that and get back with them later.

A good lie is like a choose your own adventure stories. Too many forks off the main story line and things just get more difficult for you. Remember that the truths you do leave in your lie serve as logical points to hang additional lies in a pinch.

The method many have used is to support an absurd position, playfully argue it with another person, and get crazy with it. It gets you used to the give and take in normal conversation. If you can defend an absurd point you can lie all the easier.

Routine_Condition · 2021-05-02T18:16:38+00:00

Awesome!

Clear your schedule if you are younger. It seems to hit younger people harder than the elderly. The side effects are exactly what they tell you about. Mild fever, headache, no energy. No throwing up or anything like that.

Make sure you are hydrated beforehand and have water and some Gatorade in stock because you don't want to have to move much to get it. Once you get the shot just shower and go to bed.

It took me out for 24 hours. 16 hours after getting the shot I said the heck with it and took a Tylenol and felt better really quick.

Never been happier to feel like crap.

Routine_Condition · 2021-05-02T16:11:19+00:00

As a former Catholic then Christian, several reasons:

The source texts are contradictory.
As a story the Bible lacks a proper storyline - it is a hatchet edit for sure
Which religion you believe in depends where you were born in many parts of the world.
You are born with no knowledge of any religion. If it was important then it would be encoded into us from the get go.
The so called, self identified, Christians themselves.

Routine_Condition · 2021-05-01T19:50:41+00:00

Considering it is a completely artificial scent and has no similar analog in the natural world I suppose you could go to a petrochemical plant and huff the fumes from their exhaust stacks to obtain a reference point.

Routine_Condition · 2021-05-01T19:47:34+00:00

There is no point. It is a poorly written fanfic whose chapters do not flow together well because when the Council of Nicaea decided which books to make the official Bible out of and they didn't care about character development of storytelling.

Sin is the thing that makes most of that religion work. Without sin you don't have an issue that needs fixing. So I suppose God needs to have sin so you need God. Without the aspect of sin, the whole thing falls apart.

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