I regularly go about 2 ½ days without making a single audible sound with my voice. Friday through Monday.

I used to talk to myself a bit or sing/hum along while listening to music but I kinda stopped doing that.

The funny thing is, I've recently realizied that the last and first thing I say throughout the weekend are usually the same. I say "Goodbye" to my coworkers on a Friday evening, and then I say "Goodbye" to the cashier near the self checkout at the grocery store where I grab my lunch for the day on a Monday morning. It's sort of ironic that the first thing I say after a long period of time, is something that usually ends a conversation.

This happens in Europe.

I’m a nurse looking for something else because my job now is breaking my back, literally. I was at home for several weeks because of back pain.

A B.Sc. Physician Assistant would mean that 20% bump, it’s something I’ve always considered, but I’d miss just working 35 hours a week instead of 39. That’s 16 hours per month, 2 free days per month. I’d feel like a loser. I really want those free 2 days per month.

There’s a small practice that would cover the costs of that B.Sc. and offer me a job, so I’d work and study at the same time… but 39 hours per week, till I retire… I don’t want that.

There are other bachelors I could pursue, like Case Management, but that would earn me less than that 20%. Still 39 hours per week.

I’m not going back to bedside.

To make it more complicated, this 35 hour per week workplace is unionized, most smaller practices are not.

If you know of other bachelors I could pursue, simply post them.

I hate reddit letting all the bots in and shadow banning my account. Will that happen on lemmy.

Lets say l support right wing policies about "free market" but left wing about ownership/property ownership/guns.

Or none of my beliefs are radical, is more correct.

Does that make me a centrist or indecisive?

There are some people in my university who are jealous of me and whenever I do some message, they reply me with messages that have that sarcasm that look funny and insulting and I don't have any comebacks for them. They also get more reaction and when I do msgs, more people gather and intensify hate. I want to have comebacks but I don't know how to.

Assuming time, money, living situation, and the law wasn't a factor. I'd love a skunk. I'd name her Oreo and i'd love her and she'd be my best friend.

I’m trying to dive deeper into RSS but I’m so tired of these clickbait or super corporate sites that I don’t know what’s good anymore. I just started getting into baking and self hosting; would love to read people’s blogs but I don’t even know where to even look for that.
As a sys admin I can easily find solutions to my problems by searching and researching online but when it comes to other topics… I suck at it and don’t get what I’m looking for. So, I agree what gets talked about on here and thought it would be easier to get recommendations by all you cool folks.

cross-posted from: https://retrofed.com/c/ask@piefed.social/p/2109773/what-are-your-ideas-for-public-holidays-that-can-be-celebrated-by-everybody

A lot of holidays are associated with religion and colonialism, but I think it would be a lot better if we had holidays that were universally recognised regardless of your beliefs.

Take my home country of Australia. You of course have the Christian originated holidays of Easter and Christmas, and Australia Day is awful (it's pretty much celebrating the colonialism and slaughter of the indigenous peoples of Australia).

New Years should stay, it's universally recognised for everybody using the Gregorian calendar, and memorial days for those who have died in war is also important to keep (like ANZAC day!), as well as the various independence days

Personally, I would propose the revival of the summer and winter solstices (the longest and shortest days of the year, reversed for the southern hemisphere), and May 8th as the new Australia Day (mate!)

What holidays do you think should be universally celebrated?

If you have the option, do you use the cashier or the self checkout line at the grocery store? What about other types if store like hardware stores?

With the ever-ongoing ‘progress’ of the proposed UK nuclear power plants, I wonder if this is the best course of action (not just in the UK, but across other nations also)?

I don't see why they would use AI instead of picking an appropriate image or making something quick in Gimp or paint, it just makes me not want to be part of those communities.

I like thin crust, enough veggies to be almost classified as a salad, and damn near burnt to a crisp.

So there i was, hazy in between sleep and wakefulness trying to concentrate on a design problem (which i don't think the dream directly featured but was tangentially related) and whenever i tried to focus on thst problem, i noticed that i'd have to stop breathing to produce the next word in the sentence or weave each syllable into my breathing pattern. Even when i'm typing this out it happens. You guys do it too, right?

I keep hearing people say that the far-left is significantly less organised, more fragmented than the far-right. Why is that? (And to be clear: I’m asking about the far-left, not just the left in general (though they may be linked)

Hopefully I’ve worded the question right.

I was once told (I could never verify if it was true) that a crocs company once almost went bankrupt after they made their crocs practically indestructible. Whilst the story was most likely bullshit, it makes me wonder: if a company can make a product that is practically indestructible, is it ethical for them not to make them indestructible, so people will buy more from them?

The way I look at it is, on one hand, I feel like they should make products to the highest quality if they can so that the consumer has to spend less money and that less is wasted, but at the same time if it leads to the company going bankrupt, what of the workers and their families? So I can’t decide, what do you think?

As said, I’m learning traditional Chinese using Taiwan’s 華語八千詞 database. That’s the 8000 most common Mandarin Chinese characters according to Taiwan’s Ministry of Education (教育部)

The list I work with has the character's pīnyīn transliteration and meaning in English, but I'd prefer to use 注音符號 (ㄓㄨˋ ㄧㄣ ㄈㄨˊ ㄏㄠˋ).

this is a list with 8000 entries, I have copies in .ods, .odt and .pdf formats, if it helps.

The same can be said in reverse for Japanese people on how they see the Western world: Do they assume the USA is like Hollywood or the UK being like British Television? They perhaps assume that all Americans live in a large home with a white picket fence depicting a nuclear family as if its 1950.

All they talk about US is California or New York since most movies and TV shows use either as their main setting. Is the US in real life similar to Hollywood (everyone having a nice car, big home & white picket fence)? That's the kind of response from non-Japanese assuming Japan is like anime.

I believe it does. I wish we were back to an internet where none of that garbage existed. Because all that bringing voting systems and karma systems has done, is make people fret about what they say. Because it's hard to tell sometimes if they're saying it while focusing on the score they'll receive after saying it, than they're saying it and not do that.

And that even includes the ones who really have these systems go to their heads. Where, the higher karma count they've acquired, the more of a holier-than-thou attitude they possess.