No political posturing.
Driving without touching my phone.
So close to an upvote until I saw it said phone.
WHAT DID YOU THINK IT WAS???
I genuinely do not know
Penis
Every damn person every damn day. It’s a sickness
Basic hygiene, sadly
Popping their ears. I can “pop” my ears by opening my eustachian tubes on demand. I can even hold them open if I want to. Apparently a lot of people can’t do that.
I can do this too. It feels like I’m trying to flex my jaw muscles downwards. And makes that satisfying crackling noise when they open up.
I can also do this but it feels like I’m flexing them outwards, not down. Weird!
TIL there are people who can’t do this
I can pop them also! Which is good because I need to do it frequently because of sinus problems ‘clogging’ them.
Do you know people who can’t do this? Seems pretty common.
That right there is a skill I learned. When I was a teenager I got these terrible sinus headaches, driving up and down hill would get me. Then I went to flight school. I can control the pressures in my head pretty precisely now.
Ear rumbling!
Holy shit, I can do that too. I noticed just now because of your comment.
Thank you for unlocking my new power.
Explaining difficult technical concepts to laypeople. Just gotta find the correct analogy.
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t know it well enough.
That’s one of my favorite sayings.
With the caveat that a simple explanation stipulates a basic understanding of the topic at hand. I could explain the concept of First Break Positioning to anyone, but it’s gonna take a while unless they have a basic understanding of how a seismic survey works.
I excelled at tech support with this skill. I can quickly figure a person’s technical ability. If you talk below them, they’re insulted. If you talk over them, they’re insulted. Gotta hit 'em where they live.
Embracing the chaos.
Not everything works out, not everything goes to plan. Routines will be disrupted.My job in a nutshell. Not a bad job, per se, but I’m the kind of employee who get paid handsomely to show up at weird corners of the world to make stuff work with whatever resources I can muster. Planning ahead can only get you so far.
Your “everyday carry” must be amazing! 😀
In my work backpack, off the top of my head:
20Ah USB battery.
Laptop with charger.
A multi-tool. (Goes into checked bag when flying)
Laptop with charger.
Console cables for various routers and switches.
A thick syringe needle with enclosure (excellent for those tiny reset buttons)
USB serial adapter.
Misc USB cables.
A Ziplock bag of all sorts of SFP modules.
A spare PCIe network card (SFP ports)
A microSD card with SD adapter.
A Linux live USB.
A general purpose USB with nothing in particular on it.
A spare SIM
Passport.
Seaman books from two countries
TWIC.
A plastic fork.
Cup noodles (because arriving hungry late when every eatery has closed sucks)
An extra pair of socks.EDIT: Forgot power adapters for plugging into US and UK outlets. And a few zip ties.
… and I suspect no small amount of experience in that backpack as well :)
A TWIC? You must really need to deal with chaos.
Only reason why I’ve been to Mississippi was to file the paperwork for that TWIC. I happened to be in Mobile AL for a couple of weeks, and Gulfport happened to have a slot, so I drove there.
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Computers just work around me. Steady the software and programs. I’m not in the tech or it field. I’m in retail management.
The amount of times people call me over only to say “well now it’s working but before it took me to some other screen”
“Glad I could help”
My husband is this way. I take advantage of it regularly. I used to consider myself tech savvy but I went into the arts and the tech world left me behind. I used to try and muddle through it, but eventually I just stopped trying because I’d be doing everything “right” without success and then my husband would look over my shoulder and suddenly it would work. So now I swallow my pride and ask him sooner.
Spatial awareness.
I was in gymnastics as a kid, so built up a strong sense of balance and where my arms and legs are in relation to the stuff around me.
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I was in my 40s until I admitted to my self that spatial awareness simply doesn’t work in my brain. My young friend across the street is excellent and I often have to call him over to assemble something I’ve taken apart. In fact, I’m going to hit him up to help me reassemble a shed. Used, it came with no directions and no way in hell do I figure out how it goes together. And I took it apart!
In elementary school standard tests I’d excel at every subject except spatial reasoning. I’d try! But no, I have no idea how those shapes rotate to make the shape wanted.
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Being isolated. It’s always confused me how much people complain about loneliness. I genuinely don’t think I have ever felt that emotion before.
With age, I have become more introverted also. I guess i havent met that many amazing people. But ive been working in offices a lot, so probably why.
i feel it when I’m in a group of people who I find alienating and miserable to be around. or after breakups briefly.
i recently had to quit a group i’d been a part of for years… because the new members were really petty and vindictive people and being around such people is awful. they’d sit around after activities and just talk shit and mock people, it was disgusting.
Fixing things. Repair. Assembly. Construction. Diagnosis. It always surprises me how many people are incapable of understanding how something works or what needs done to repair it.
From engines to furnaces to plumbing, computers, electronics, whatever, I do it all myself. And it’s not even remotely connected to me career. Repairmen hate me!
Repairmen hate me!
No I don’t. I sometimes even give free tips to my customers on how to do something themselves so that they don’t need to pay for me to do it for them.
I struggle with mechanical jobs, but I try anyway. About everything I can repair, upgrade, repurpose, etc. I but almost nothing new. If everyone had those habits and knowledge, the economy would collapse.
Getting up when the alarm rings
Not touching my savings
Paraller/reverse parking
Finding joy in mundane little thingsI’m a professional driver. Used to be a trucker, have spent a lifetime working shitty blue collar industrial jobs. I can back any trailer, with any vehicle, into any space. I’m a ninja on a forklift, a crane, a loadall, whatever. I’ve spent thousands of hours just parking stuff. I can’t parallel park. I mean I can, just not quickly, gracefully, or taking all the gods names in vain.
On Reddit (sorry) a million years ago, someone posted an image or maybe a gif that made it super clear for me and I’ve never had trouble with it since. It basically explained where in the process to turn your wheels. That said, I was an okay parallel parker already but my skills improved after I saw that gif. I’m not finding it on the web though otherwise I’d share it happily.
Strangely enough, I went to high school in a downtown area and often parked on the left side of a one-way street and therefore my parallel skills on the left are better than the right.
All that being said, I find trailer skills to be awe inspiring!
I remember that image/gif.
Line up back wheels with rear of the car you are packing behind.
Cut the wheel all the way to turn towards the curb and back up.
When 45° to the curb, turn the wheel the other way to go straight.
If necessary, straighten out as needed.
That gets like, 90% of whatcha need to do. Your individual car might change it a little based on turning radius, but it’s not that hard. A little practice and you’ll know where your rear curbside tire is and how long your hood is.
Being happy by myself.
Not judging other people. Partly, I’m just quite easy going, partly I’ve had enough personal history of making mistakes to understand that people often have others reasons for their actions. But mostly I just don’t see the point in wasting headspace caring about someone’s appearance, opinion or behaviour.
But I feel like I’m constantly hearing people bitching, moaning and picking at other people. There are situations where you need to take a decision about something (particularly if you’re in a position of responsibility or authority) but most of the time there seems very little point in being judgemental about someone.
I don’t believe in free will so I always think to myself that if I was in their shoes I’d be acting the same way. It doesn’t mean I have endless tolerance for bad behavior or that it doesn’t affect whether I want to be around said person or not but I don’t act as if they’re personally responsible for who they are or that they’re actively choosing to be that way.
Our brains start firing to take action before we are conscious of that action. We can see this on a scan.
Not a comfortable thought, but our brains are driving and only after taking action do they send an executive summary to the little homonculous behind our eyeballs and we say, “I did that!”
Before every 3rd annual review I set out getting competitive wages from competitors to bring to my review for my current employer to match or else I accept the competing offer and my current employer can use my annual review as my 2 week notice.
Has worked 5 out of 5 times accross 3 different companies over my 20 year work span.
Do you go through the whole interview process or do you just reach out to competitors and ask what they’d pay for someone with your resume?
Ive done both but always go to the first interview. It all depends on how the interview goes. If they seem desperate for help and seem to have high hopes they found their guy, ill flat out tell them that I will be allowing my current employer to match their offer. Thats only happened a couple times over the 5 times I’ve done this. I try to bring no less than 3 offers to the table for my employer to match. So even some of the shittiest companies I had zero intentions of committing to, will still be used.
The two biggest cards in my deck tho, in my opinion, are 1. That most people who work with me know that I dont balk at much. If I say im guna do something, I make sure I do everything in my power to make sure it happens. 2. Im 37 year old male unmarried and childless, my risk management allowance is muuuuuuuuuch wider than most people I compete with on the job market. If my current employer doesnt match someday, then I have no problem jumping ship and changing course.
The key is that your employer knows you would jump ship if it comes down to it. At rhe same time, you need to know what your value is for your employer and the cost they will pay to train ypur replacement so they know they aren’t only retaining a valuable asset of their company bit theyre doing it at a lower operating cost than it will cost them to train someone compleyely new to get them up to your current work load.
Not engaging with other humans. Whether in person or online, I simply don’t feel like talking to people is necessary.
Will I do it? Sure. It’s fine. But the difference is that I can go weeks without speaking to someone else - and frequently do since I’m disabled and a bit of a shut-in. However, it seems to really bother people to not have others with which to speak. I’ve never understood this.
Easy to understand! We’re social animals and evolved to cooperate. We’re not strong enough to survive 100% on our own and thrive in groups of ~150. You can only live like you do because it’s now and not 10,000 years ago.
I have a good imagination. After meeting people with aphantasia it seems I have an exceptional ability to call to mind sights, smells, sensations, sounds, and simulate the interactions they would have entirely in my mind. I can imagine a different set of curtains on the wall and tell you if it would clash with your paint, and I can taste a spoonful of a soup and go through a mental library of tastes and combine it with more salt, onion, wine etc and make a suggestion based on what “tasted” the best. I thought everyone could do it but some people don’t have a “mind’s eye” at all. Some people only can see in their imaginations, not smell or taste or hear etc.
Same, but it sounds like you’re a little better than I. Reading posts on reddit years ago was what made me realize that some people can’t picture things in their head.
I’m a solid 1 on this scale, had assumed everyone else was as well.
The downside is that when I get a song stuck in my head, it’s really in there.
That can be annoying, but I can usually chase it out with one of the other songs that lives in my head. Sometimes I’ll put on a song in my head just because. It’s not always the same as the real thing, but it’s pretty good, especially the vocals.
It’s funny - I am very good at knowing what will look good, design sense is strong, and I can throw together food and know what it will taste like.
But I wouldn’t say I literally see or taste when I do this. It’s a different sort of perception.
I do absolutely see, hear, taste and feel in dreams so I know my mind CAN do it, it’s just not how I figure things out, it’s a different sort of imagining.
It apparently doesn’t have to be as realistic as hallucinating or dreaming to be exceptional though. There are tests for aphantasia that involve picturing a loved one, their face, then some common piece of clothing they wear and if you can see them clearly in your mind and describe them as if they were in front of you that is something reasonably out of the ordinary. You might be “hyperphantasic” too
Maybe. When we moved into this house, it had what I’d describe as “bad feng shui” for lack of a better term, it was so awkward and had a remarkably weird layout, but I KNEW it could work, said we take out this door, take this out, put a wall here, it is amazing now and I do slowly improve it, my husband is always so surprised by my ‘eye’, says he can’t do that, can’t see the potential.
With cooking it’s probably experience, I’ve made a lot of food and tasted a lot of ingredients.
Music doesn’t stay forever but it’s funny, I can sometimes remember pieces of old songs and then recreate them enough to find them (most recently Sentimental Lady), and get auditory hallucination too when I’m tired, hear music in the fan sounds or running water so that can absolutely be the same as hearing it with my ears, not just knowing. But not like I can crate music and I can’t read music so don’t know if I could hear it unheard, or just remember.
