The basic rules of the road that have gone largely unchanged during our lifetimes. Just use your fucking blinker and drive predictably. And get off your motherfucking phone for 15 seconds and pay attention to where you're piloting your 3000 lb person squisher, tik tok will still be there in 15 minutes.
this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2026
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Every single established procedure we have at work which are there to prevent people from shooting themselves in the foot, which they instantly forget if they haven't encountered whatever that situation is in the last, oh, three days or so. And then proceed directly to shooting themselves in the foot by making up their "own way" to handle whatever it was because "they didn't know what to do," which then turns out to be wrong 100% of the time. Which is why we have those procedures in the first place.
Shutting doors when the A/C or heater is on. Apparently closing doors behind you is rocket science out here in California.
I think this is something that gets to homeowners as they age.
I did some research on this the other day because I was curious. Apparently it's better to leave the doors open if you have a central-air heating system, but closed otherwise (e.g. baseboard heating).
I think they meant exterior doors but that's interesting to know about the interior ones, thanks!
I think we are talking forced air over radiant. the forced air you want more intermixing.
The Search Function on almost any platform.
Hundreds of posts asking the same question on a particular topic on enthusiast or hobby pages….these bury actual new topics & discussions.
Or people on buy/sell/trade pages looking for certain items, when there’s multiple posted within the last few days, and are still available.
I think there's a perfect middleground between banning reposting existing topics and no moderation. You don't want to create a StackOverflow situation where people can't ask a question because someone asked a similar one 15 years ago
That other people exist in the world.
Dre.
Motherfuckers
Tact
Definition
Tact (noun): a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense
Me. People forget about me all the time. I don't understand why I'm so unremarkable to them. It's either that or they don't care about me and I'm choosing the former because it's less depressing. However, I fear it's actually the latter.
Either they have ADHD and it's hard to remember you exist unless there's something to remind them or, your friends and family suck and it's time for new people in your life.
That Wednesday is trash day.
It's Thursday for me so thanks for the reminder
Mostly stuff about me I know I’ve told them. If you ask me a question I know I’ve given you the information for before I’m having a bad time. To me it’s about how much attention is this person actually paying to our conversations or are they just phoning it in.
To answer the topic - the value of my time.
To comment on the YouTube thing - AFAIK it only makes you log in if the video is flagged for mature content. Embeds still work fine otherwise.
No, it doesn't matter the audience flag. People have posted videos on forums using the proper YouTube tag. They mind as well not have it anymore because again, Google being fucking Google, breaking shit that didn't need to be broken.
When you embed YT on Lemmy, it does not work whether you are logged in or not.
I'm assuming that's a VPN problem? They always work fine as embeds for me.
No VPN here. It "works" in that you can click it and it sends you to youtube's site. I cannot watch on Lemmy.
Ah. Okay. I use a client that handles YT embeds so that's why then. However, when I'm on a VPN, sometimes it puts me through an endless captcha loop.
That in the US, it is usually legal to make a right turn at a red light. People who drive up to a red light in the middle or toward the right side of the right through lane forget this. When inevitably a car seeking to turn right stops behind them, blocked from progressing to the intersection, they pull up 5 feet while failing to move their car more than 3 inches to the left.
I've been behind drivers who do this at one intersection, recognize that people behind them can't get by, and then stop in the same position at the next intersection to have the scenario repeat itself.
I've also been first at a red light, pulled fully to the left side of the right lane, and had a car drive up behind me a half a car-width further right be surprised when they find out they're blocking right-hand turners. What do you suppose was the thought process when pulling up behind me? "Look at this maniac stopped all the way on the left side of the lane!"
These people are saving lives in the grand scheme of things. Turning right on red causes a lot of accidents, especially with pedestrians and cyclists..
I hadn't considered that they were purposefully impeding legal vehicle maneuvers as the safety police.
That's actually far less likely than those drivers just not knowing what's going on. There is considerable overlap between them and drivers who spend all their time on the right side of their lane / overlapping the bike lane.
Go figure that on Lemmy the "fuck cars" crowd would get behind this, though.
Oh they are 100% oblivious to what they are doing. But the unintended effect is likely still there.
Driving dangerously is generally illegal everywhere else. As someone not in the US, the first time I heard that ridiculous law exists I thought it was a joke. Especially when I found out it was just a scheme to save fuel at the expense of every other road user and especially pedestrians. Insanity.
You're upset that people aren't risking lives to save you a few seconds. You're not exactly the good guy here.
Leaving dishes in the sink to "dry". Take 5 seconds of you previous time, use a towel and put it in the cupboard so the sink is usable if you need it for something.
Isn't that what the drying rack is for
In the sink?