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  • Can’t believe I’m about to say this, but hear me out … take a gander at “How to Win Friends and Influence People”.

    For the record, every time someone mentioned this to me, I’d cringe with disgust. I avoided it for most of my life because I viewed the content as a way to manipulate people. And yeah, maybe it kinda is, but at its core, it explains human psychology and the way our brains really work. We’re just kinda selfish, ya know? Most of us need to get before we even think about giving. We’ve got a lot to worry about and too much to focus on sometimes.

    Idk, maybe there are better books out there, better references, etc. But that book helped me with a lot of my social issues, improved relationships with my coworkers, etc. To me, it’s more than just a “Tell them why they want it before even asking them” type of thing, it helped me understand the other person’s point of view better, helped me empathize with their needs before charging through, full speed ahead. Instead of thinking “this is a really good idea, everyone should back me”, I think more about how it would actually benefit others instead of “this is what I want, we should do it”.





  • devAlot@lemmy.worldtome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    3 months ago

    Hey thanks! I gave up Facebook, Twitter, and the like many years ago. I browsed Reddit endlessly until the API fiasco, switched to kbin for a bit, then gave it all up for a few months. Got bored one day and found my kbin link was dead, so I switched to Lemmy and just realized I’ve been getting hooked again - thus experiencing this same vicious circle.

    Time to give it up again and get back to real life, my morning routine has definitely been slacking. Maybe I’ll find a podcast to keep up on the latest while working out.

    E: formatting



  • fetal bovine serum (FBS)… is derived from the blood of calf fetuses after their pregnant mothers are slaughtered by the meat or dairy industry.

    I did not know this… and after reading the wiki, I found it rather disturbing…

    The first stage of the production process for FBS is the harvesting of blood from the bovine fetus after the fetus is removed from the slaughtered cow. The fetus dies from the lack of oxygen by remaining in the protective environment of the uterus for a minimum of 15–20 minutes after the cow is dead