By old ways, do you mean in-person interviews and work?

Because I won’t lie, I do find it easier to collaborate, focus, and communicate with my coworkers in-person, as opposed to the days I work remotely (I do a combination of in-person and work-from-home). And while I think it’s unfair to be denied a job for not being sociable enough (I’m very much in the same boat), the overall idea of wanting employees who communicate with and get along with their coworkers better isn’t inherently wrong.

Since I’m a vegetarian, a common question I’ve been asked since I was a kid was “If you were trapped on an island and the only food was meat, would you eat it?”

Or something to that effect. It’s been asked dozens of times to me before and every time it’s asked, the person asking acts like it’s some novel thought experiment I haven’t considered before.

Not only is a situation like that extremely unlikely to ever happen, but if it does, the answer isn’t any more complicated than a yes/no

Another question I hate are all of those “Would you do for X sum of money? No? Then what if we upped the money? What’s the minimum sum you’d do it for?”

The most common example of “repulsive thing” is usually incest. And it’s just an annoying question that isn’t even entertaining to answer.

The Super Mario Galaxy duology has the best overall OST in my opinion. The orchestral music is amazing for so many of the tracks.

For any individual song, however. It would be Weight of the World from Nier Automata. For context:

EDIT: I want to give an honorable mention to the Ace Attorney OST, across all of their games. A lot of people may know the Pursuit - Cornered theme, but every game in that series has banger tracks. Not as widely praised, and very underrated imo, hence the honorable mention.

Having studied history of world leaders as a bit of a hobby, I’m more biased in that regard

But I’d go with Lester Pearson

Been listening to more of them recently, and songs like Dark Necessities have been stuck in my head lmao

Coldplay is among my favorite bands, absolutely agree there

A lot of people criticize the direction they’ve taken recently, and while I don’t keep up with their newest releases, Viva la Vida is still one of my favorite songs. And other tracks like Paradise, Sky Full of Stars, etc. will always be fun for me to listen to as well

I didn’t know Duran Duran was even disliked lmao

Been listening to Rio by DD as inspiration for a writing piece, and it’s a pretty good song imo

Going through the Red Rising series, which some of my friends praise immensely. Lightbringer just came out, though I’m only just finished Morning Star, book 3/6 in the series. Going to be starting Iron Gold soon. But until them, I’m reading 1984, which I just acquired a nice hardcover copy of.

Pretty much the main two that I use as well lmao

A quick way to tell if something is an insect is if it has a head, a thorax, an abdomen, exactly 6 legs, and antennae

The 6 legs is usually the biggest giveaway, discounts millipedes, centipedes, worms, spiders, etc. from being insects

Only if it’s exaggerated for the sake of appearances. Some people might do that, either to make themselves look important or seek attention, but most of the time, people are in fact busy with some task, or are carrying something for a reason. And generally, that comes with some purpose that is important to them at the time.

It’s a logical conclusion to draw, even if some people may hijack that reasoning to be deceitful.

Group of friends is always nice, and there’s something atmospheric about watching a film in theaters. I watched Oppenheimer and Across the Spiderverse with my pals recently, and sitting in the reclining seats, putting your feet up, and seeing the film on such a massive screen in a dark theater is a great experience.

It feels more immersive, and the theater speakers make orchestral soundtracks and dialogue sound all the more impactful. Of course, this is all subjective, and I tend to be pretty eccentric, so there’s a good chance it may not live up to the hype.

To put it simply, I’d say its a more enjoyable experience than watching at home, and watching it with friends makes for some good memories. My pals and I still talk about movies we went to see in theaters years and years back.

Similar to my experience of quitting Hearthstone. It was difficult for the first few days, and I found myself opening the sites out of habit now and then, but as time goes on, living without them feels more normal and I’m less inclined to go back.

I may be in the minority on this, but I wear pants to work every day, even in the summer, and it doesn’t feel uncomfortable. I just like wearing my jeans, and if anything, I’ve gotten more flak from friends about not wearing shorts enough

Man, I absolutely love System of a Down. At the very least, I’m happy that those 6-7 years produced so many bangers

It’s a username I’ve used since a decade ago, probably. I used it typically for gaming, with XYZ being used in arcade style games where you can only input 3 characters, and Inferno being used for anything where I could enter a full name with no regard to uniqueness. Also, inferno is my favorite word in the English lexicon So I just combined the two, and it’s never taken on any platform I sign up for

I’ve noticed my feed can look stagnant if I go by the default, which is Local and Active. I instead set it to Subscribed and New

On Reddit, New wasn’t the best since posts were made so quick and a lot of them were low-effort, but at least in the communities I’m subbed to, posts are generally made slower, but are higher quality, making sorting by new valid.

I’m sure the answers here will be biased in favor of Lemmy, but I think I’ll be sticking around here for a while. There’s some communities on Reddit that, unfortunately, are too niche and don’t have an equivalent on lemmy. While I’m trying to create the equivalent of r/presidents, there’s other communities like r/aceattorney, r/slaythespire, etc. that to my knowledge, don’t have a large community outside of it.

Despite this, I don’t think I’ll be moving elsewhere. I prefer Lemmy to kbin as of now, and as far as forums go, the only non-reddit or non-lemmy one that I’d even remotely consider being more regular on is Historum. Though with Historum, I find it better to just browse older threads rather than partake in current ones.

Out of genuine curiosity, in what ways would a Karma system prevent Lemmy from becoming Quora? By giving users a reputation system of sorts?

I’m of the opinion that a karma system would just turn Lemmy into a popularity contest like Reddit, but I’m curious to hear what advantages it would have

Oh yeah, I agree it’s more effective, by far. I imagine that’s why Google has Opinion Rewards and other companies use surveys to directly understand the needs of their customers. Though getting people in mass to volunteer that info, especially without some small profit incentive like Opinion Rewards might be tricky.

At least in the realm of targeted advertising, the closest example to user input would be when you set up an account, you’re prompted to select your interests. Like with Windows 10, when you’re setting it up for the first time, you’ll be asked about your interests, which Microsoft will then use to send ads and news pertaining to those categories.

But yeah, I see what you mean