• snooggums
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    2 months ago

    My download and upload bandwidth rates are not equal.

    • @Agent641@lemmy.world
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      42 months ago

      Just drop into screensaver mode. You don’t actually have to retain what they say. They will enunciate keywords to remember. Just nod and think of samurai pizza cats or whatever.

      • @unhrpetby@sh.itjust.works
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        92 months ago

        Or communicate that you aren’t listening. I would want to know, as the speaker, that my words are going in one ear and out the other.

  • @baldingpudenda@lemmy.world
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    122 months ago

    I sometimes end up, what started as small talk, in these long talks with strangers opening up to me. Most people need to vent so I ask follow up questions, but after trauma dumping on me, which I’m super interested in, they get to a part of a story I’m bored with and I feel bad telling them: Ty for opening up completely to me, a random stranger, but you’re boring me now so…bye.

  • Lovable Sidekick
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    2 months ago

    Actually having to listen to a real person who can tell when you aren’t paying attention is so much more taxing than pretending to absorb information from a screen.

  • Øπ3ŕ
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    -12 months ago

    Because they’re too often and consistently wrong? 🥲

    • Rhynoplaz
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      302 months ago

      Careful there. Going through life with that mindset will prevent you from learning and growing.

      Don’t discount any idea until you’ve picked it apart.

      Yeah, people are dumb, but if you assume you’re always right, you will be too.

      • Øπ3ŕ
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        02 months ago

        1.) Totally and completely in jest, and from the experienced view as lifelong captain of this meat-ship powered by an ADHD warp core. I do not disagree.

        2.) Let us not forget the immortal words of Saint Tommy, “A person can be smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals.”

        • Rhynoplaz
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          22 months ago

          What’s funny is that I was thinking about that quote immediately after I typed my comment.