Always a great reminder to focus on the basics. In addition to hygiene and cooking, there are a lot of little things like basic repair by tightening screws, cleaning surfaces, and upkeep on utensils and other things that are used regularly that are great to pass on if you know how. While my parents did teach those things when asked, they were extremely busy and didn’t always volunteer the non-basic stuff and I didn’t know to ask.

Thank you for the reminder, @DaddysLittleSlut@lemmy.world

Elected positions always have that risk, but normally there is some kind of expectation of relevant experience by voters.

It’s probably pretty similar to sports. Some people are naturals, but almost anyone can learn to be really good at them, it just takes a shitload of work.

Being a natural at something is being good at pattern recognition, whether it is music, sports, cooking, writing, or pretty much anything prople can be good at. While the vast majority of people can get good at things through practice, there are people on the opposite end from the people where it comes naturally that won’t be able to do better than a beginnger even with a lot of practice.

There are the equivalents of being tone deaf for pretty much everything humans do.

Aged like a fine wine!

“I enjoy chocolate more” and “I associate chocolate with positive memories” are both explanations that are still personal experience that isn’t necessarily shared experiences but can be understood through communication.

That doesn’t have anything to do with the timeline of fish > reptiles > dinosaur evolution.

Fish existed first, reptiles evolved from fish. Mammals evolved from reptiles alongside dinosaurs who also evolved from reptiles.

The only dinosaurs that survived the mass extinction 65 million years ago were birds.

I have pet plenty of birds.

For entertainment purposes. The birds would fly out when the dish was uncovered.

Chicken are dinosaurs, and taste different than ducks and goose which are also dinosaurs.

If you have had duck, chicken, goose, and pheasant you have already have had some dinosaur!

With the wide variety of dinosaurs they would have had even more vsriety than we have with modern birds. Just like with the wide varety of fish and mammals.

Crocodiles are not dinosaurs, they are reptiles.

Yeah, both nanotech and cybernetics are everyday things. Still very expensive, but both have mostly reached enough milestones that they go by whatever their more specific puposes are. Like prothetics with feedback aren’t called cybernetics because cybernetics is too broad a term.

Except when it was lupus!

The Usual Suspects is the first one that comes to mind that isn’t horror and the villain winning by getting away. Does that fit the ‘evil wins’ concept you are looking for?

Soda can have a tiny amount of alcohol as a side effect of the manufacturing process. Beer and other alcoholic beverages just meet a certain level before they count as alcoholic beverages.

I think you are taking the beer flavored soda comment too literally.

Both are beverages people drink for fun and have calories, which is the comparison said in a lighthearted manner.

This will seem like a weird tangent, but it is setting up some context.

I was taught as a young person to be humble, and to avoid making others feel bad for not being as good as me. So while Inwas always told I was special, I wasn’t supposed to acknowledge out out loud to avoid being seen as bragging. This was either driven in or internalized to the point that compliments still make me feel uncomfortable because of a natural urge to dismiss them despite knowing they are being given in good faith.

Compliments given when I am not present seem more genuine to me, like they aren’t just saying it to make me happy at the moment. Thise sre my favorite, hearing about someone telling someone else a positive thing about me.

It sounds like you have a kind of reverse situation, where you prefer to have something bad said about you in person and don’t care about what is said when you aren’t around. That kind of sounds like confidence in yourself being able to handle negativity, but not getting pleasure from compliments. It could be a coping mechanism, and that would be my first guess. The reason for your isolation would probably provide some context, but that would be better to discuss with a professional than the internet.

What’s wrong with reading a book, writing poetry or a novel, exercising, playing with the smartphone

The jobs people complain about tend to penalize them for doing those things instead of pretending to be busy.

At home I have the game I’m playing on one screen and Discord and a web browser on the other so I can communicate and look things up without needing to alt tab.

For work I generally have references, teams, email, and other stuff on other screens and a main one that I’m working on. Like querying a database while testing, editing screenshots for docs and issues, having reference docs open, etc. I don’t do development itself, but do a lot of requirements documentation, testing, and project management stuff on web apps. Sometimes it is just two screens, but sometimes I have the laptop open too and put teams and email on it so I don’t have to bring it forward if something comes up.