Asklemmy

43965 readers

1885 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

196

What small piece of advice would you like to give that isn't heard enough ? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Vcio to c/[email protected]

214 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Computer related:

Don't be your family computer savy guy, you just found yourself a bunch payless jobs...
Long desks are cool and all, but the amount the space they occupy is not worth it.
Block work related phone calls at weekends, being disturbed at your leisure for things that could be resolved on Mondays will sour your day.

Buying stuff:

There is expensive because of brand and expensive because of material quality, do your research.
Bulk buying is underrated, save yourself a few bucks, pile that toilet paper until the ceiling is you must.
Second hand/broken often means never cleaned, lubricated or with easy fixable problem.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 48 points 10 months ago (3 children)

When driving don't be nice, be predictable.

Eg.: If you are on the priority road, drive - don't be nice and slow down to let someone in from a side road. That's how you get rear-ended.

[–] LifeOfChance 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is really good advice I also want to emphasize this when it comes to motorcycles for the love of God just take your turn at stop signs and lights do not wave them on. I have been apart of and seen people almost die from it.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

In Portland, these "polite" drivers WILL STOP for people who want to cross in the middle of the street.

It drives me insane as a pedestrian.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I'm in Portland as well, and as a cyclist, it annoys me no end when a driver with no stop sign stops and waves me through my stop sign. I call them "niceholes".

[–] Woovie 1 points 10 months ago

All of Washington too. Coming from Texas, these people are just as dangerous as the drivers speeding.

[–] 0_0j -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Quick question, you American? If yes; well, duuh

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think they probably meant Portland, Kazakhstan.

[–] gac11 1 points 10 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Portland

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

My main transport is a bicycle. I do my best to be predictable, and obvious about it. And when someone tries to 'be nice' and let me go first when it's not my 'turn' / right of way, I start with all sorts of body language that says I'm not moving till after you do. Put my foot down, look at the sky, look 180 degrees away from the 'nice' car, look in the direction the 'nice' car is supposed to go, point in the direction they are supposed to go, shake my head point at the ground, cross my arms, etc, etc till they give up and just go. I've even had the opportunity to verbally explain the importance of predictability and Right of Way, but it usually doesn't go that far. LoL, we all just want to get where ever in the heck we are trying to get to, after all.