A pretty coffee bean canister. I was using original bag + ziplock, so the new can keeps them fresher and looks better.

1. the concept of Dark Triad traits is overused early 00’s pop psychology

2. it’s like BMI: fine for applying to a large population, but breaks down when looking at an individual

3. even if useful at the individual level, “dark triad” indicates three traits but says nothing about the balance between them, e.g., a high mach and a low narc pairing will looking very different than two high machs.

IMO it is not useful to oversimplify any single relationship down to “two dark triads”.

I know a person who uses a pillow of this shape. Strict side sleeper.

I agree with you, I would be challenged to come up with something more uncomfortable that still meets the definition of “pillow”.

None beyond their own bodyweight.

The photograph shows an impressive feat in which dozens of acrobats stood on top of each other (relying on mounted platforms) to create a human tower in the likeness of the torch.

Emphasis mine. Most of the weight is born by platforms that the humans are obscuring the view of. Look at the postures of each tier; none are braced for any significant weight.

Lol, I just blocked Donald J Musk yesterday! The Fediverse is still such a small world, I love it.

This is firmly in “talk to your doctor” territory, friend. No one here is qualified to advise you, and any advice needs to be 100% custom to you. Good luck. You are worth getting help.

Report it. IDK how terminally online the mods are in this community, but a post in the middle of the night is going to linger a while. Reporting makes it way easier for the mods and reinforces that the community still wants that rule enforced.

No specific piercing. I’m vanilla AF, so any piercing or amount of piercing that I can’t help but stare at probably means we aren’t a great match.

Actual red flag … maybe if the piercing has a swastika or other political/religious/other sentiment I find abhorrent.

That’s why I said this part

Put your anti-MAGA efforts towards improving your IRL community where you don’t have to futilely battle pseudonymous trolls.

Edit: that was a little blunt. To elaborate, I don’t engage everyone I see in the grocery store wearing a MAGA hat. I don’t knock on the door of everyone flying a Trump flag. I don’t engage the white nationalist ass hat spouting off in the bar. We pick our battles based on many factors, including personal safety and well being. Find a way to help that actually does something and makes you feel good about it.

I’m here for entertainment, as I assume most people are. If seeing that sort of rhetoric is a negative to you, block it. Marie Kondo your online life and yeet anything out the window that doesn’t spark joy. Put your anti-MAGA efforts towards improving your IRL community where you don’t have to futilely battle pseudonymous trolls.

Yeah, HireVue. My company uses them for some job postings at the discretion of the hiring manager.

In general I don’t like them. I’ve seen some job postings that get literally hundreds of applicants though, so I get the company would look for ways to process that many more efficiently. I also think it would be difficult for a hiring manager not to judge an applicant on “video presence”, hardly a skill that is top of the priority list for most jobs.

If AI sorting of videos is available I’ve not seen my company use that feature. To my knowledge, all videos are reviewed by humans. From a previous Lemmy posting about HireVue, I also learned it can be set to only allow one attempt at recording and answering a question, or unlimited.

I kinda think of it as an escalating arms race. Companies put filters in place for resumes. Applicants found tools that aid them in mass applying with a single click. Companies add more filters like HireVue now to deal with the flood of applicants. Applicants are replying by declining or posting to GitHub or whatever.

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I wouldn’t in the US right now. Look at the SAVE act, which if passed would block a person from voting if their name doesn’t match what’s on their birth certificate.

Under the current administration, women should seriously think before taking their partners name if getting married. Folks like you, OP, should weigh the trouble of legally changing your name versus just introducing yourself by a nickname.

Sorta. I dreamt I had an imaginary family in which I was the only child. IRL I am one of seven kids, plus some cousins and other kids my parents informally took charge of.

I used to imagine getting new clothes and toys instead of hand me downs, and getting to go to first run movie theaters (too expensive with 7 kids at $10+ per ticket), and eating foods nicer than basic bulk nutrients (Lunchables were the pinnacle of unnecessary expense on food).

Now I am employed and financially self sufficient. I don’t think about the imaginary family. I do sometimes have trouble spending money on myself. I recently bought a new jacket for $40, very reasonably priced for what it is and the quality. I had in the back of my head for a good three days after buying it that I didn’t really need it and it was a waste of money. Maybe I need the rich imaginary version of myself to tell me to stop feeling like a class-jumping fraud.

I still have never had a Lunchables, but that desire is long gone.

Felt very rich so I made a single-serving of egg nog with real egg and Amontillado sherry. Also felt not-rich and drinking some boxed wine. I contain multitudes.

No interest in it, I have a long list of other projects I would enjoy more.

Wait,blackmailed for dick pics as in “send me dick pics or else”, or blackmailed for sending dick pics, “yo, you just send nudes to a minor, give me cash or I’ll tell the cops”.

Yep, I have one for keeping friends and family updated on my travels without relying on FB/Insta/whatever. If interested, they can subscribe to my RSS feed. If not, I do it for myself and Sarvesh, a random (alleged) Indian man who thinks I am very beautiful and wants to marry me.

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

It’s a summation of low grade damage over years and years from activities like football, rugby, hockey. Physical evidence requires an autopsy or maybe tracking changes in the brain over years (which no NFL player watching out for his paycheck is going to want to do).

That’s not to say there won’t be a way to detect it in still-live people in the future. CTE is still “new” in the context of medicine, which moves at glacial paces.

If a gathering seems like maybe a host gift situation but maybe not, skip presents for the human hosts and get something for their pets. Picking out wine for a gift would give me hives, everyone will be much happier with treats for the dogs.