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GoodLuckToFriends

@ GoodLuckToFriends @lemmy.today

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Time to stop using lemmy.world communities, fellas.

  • Ads when you’re pumping gas

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  • Aye, get your used hotdogs for free straight from the source!

  • Ads when you’re pumping gas

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  • A match afterwards might help... better obscure your face, license plate, and use cash.

  • Ads when you’re pumping gas

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  • They're already putting in ads on the dash screen in Jeeps... I'd imagine electric cars (well, teslas, anyway) are going to start getting grumpy that radio stations and spotify get so much 'free' ear time, and start putting in their own ads in the speakers that will play when they feel like it.

  • So close!

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  • If you're throwing out the pasta water, you're wasting some very good stock to make the sauce you'll put on said pasta.

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  • That just sounds like one step up from what most consider vanilla sex. "Oh baby, I love it, harder, harder!" is about as much of a lie as "I have never consumed one unit of marijuana, sir."

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  • Remember that these things are basically ad-hoc devices that snake oil salesmen have convinced government agencies to buy into. The fact that your muscles near the buttocks move is enough for them to get the next level of the MLM, the interviewers, to be convinced that it can detect it.

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  • The interviewers know this, and will fail you after reminding you multiple times that the only answers you can give is yes or no. The mental breakdown has to stay inside your head to be effective. ;)

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  • Go take some classes on stress management and biofeedback and learn to control all those things they are testing for

    The only real measure that they can read is your breathing rate. Everything else is so variable naturally that it's just noise.

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  • There's a pad that you sit on that will register the flexing of muscles in the area.

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  • Because they get people to admit to things they wouldn't otherwise. A polygraph test starts with the interviewer "just talking" (and those are massive, giant quotation marks there) to you for about a half hour. They slip in little statements about other, experienced officers who are currently employed despite past wrongdoings, "because they admitted" to the bad shit. Meanwhile, when you admit to bad shit, guess who's not getting hired?

    The interviewer will give you a giant list to go through, asking if you've done any of the hundreds of bad things, and ask you to explain any "yes" answers you give to the question of committing a crime.

    So now you're primed to confess to things, and the interviewer and agency gets to comb through those confessions to see if they don't want to hire you. They also get to reject you if they don't like you and blame it on you failing the 'lie detector' test, or the interviewer can simply say you're lying.

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  • Go read the book called, and I may be remembering this incorrectly, 'Beat the polygraph.' It goes into the history, the failures, and the 'science' of polygraphs. It's enough to get you pretty deep in the subject without reading actual research papers.

  • On trees...

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  • woke rule

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  • Remember that the united states and russia were routinely inspecting the nuclear arsenals of each other. They may have been hiding how bad things were, but we can be certain they do have functioning nuclear weapons at a scale large enough to matter.

  • Not sure how to feel anymore

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  • This is me. :( I am so panicked by that 1100 hours appointment that I can't do anything for the entire morning, and ABSOLUTELY MUST leave with time to spare for traffic, getting pulled over, and maybe an unfortunate incident with the neighbor's cat, just in case!

    I'm bad with the 'routine' stuff, where I once had to call in sick to work because I couldn't find my keys, or I am on the computer, typing a reply on lemmy, when I have five minutes until I need to leave for work... speaking of... glances at clock

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    What do movies always get wrong about your job/hobby?

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  • Sailing, maybe, but rowing doesn't have to be upper middle class. I'm solidly lower middle class, if that, and I get by. With the club, it's about the same as a gym membership subscription at the end of the day.

  • The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities.

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  • No, why the fuck would you watch anything? Get out there and do the thing! I think I would rather watch paint dry (and have, don't get involved in research with darpa, folks) than watch someone else do something fun. It's just cuckoldry.

  • The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities.

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  • Alright, I give you the nerd credit. I'm just depressed because I found out there was a group starting a game in my theater troupe, but they'd capped it at 5 and I was too late. I'd even take D&D right now.

    The end of the world sounds fun. I'd bet it would be a blast to throw that wrench in 'session zero' of a fate game (which is my personal favorite, even the prometheus and werewolf games don't match up).

  • The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities.

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  • Take a look at a football playbook. You going to remember all of that, be able to recall it, and then also know all the audible changes to a play that you have to make?

    Bet you every penny you ever made that I could do it in one quarter of the time that most of the pros do it. There's a reason they have the training season.

  • The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities.

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  • I want more hometown sports. I daydream about leagues funded by local communities, starring local talent, with smaller local crowds.

    With pros, it's just whichever fucker can get paid enough to bring them here. I don't give a shit about their playing. I only watch because it's someone I know, so I can go congratulate them later. Otherwise, I'd much rather be playing the damn game. The highest I'll go is high school level sports. Those kids are still a part of my community. I know their parents, I probably know them.

    Maybe, maaaaaybe, I'd watch other local adults play, but only if they're my friends. It would be much better to just have more participation in adult leagues within the community. I'd play a thousand times against others in my area, getting my ass kicked if the good fellas join together, before I'd watch a game with people I don't know.