• artifex@lemmy.zip
    92·
    30 days ago

    I know we’re all here for the LOLs, but just a quick reminder: it’s ok to enjoy things without being able to monetize them.

  • Gutek8134@lemmy.world
    47·
    30 days ago

    I think recognizing a person by hearing them once would be useful as:

    • spy
    • bouncer
    • detective
    • headhunter
    • diplomat
    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
      18·
      30 days ago

      Also just for any kind of sales, honestly. I’m always surprised that regular customers at my bakery like being recognized, but they generally do. I was once in the Taco Bell drive through and the cashier asked me how I get my hair to grow so quickly (I grow it out until it’s long enough to donate, then chop it off and start anew), which implied a very long term recognition, so I stopped going to tb for a few months, because I hated the idea of being observed. I’m autistic and not especially social, though, so I can understand that I’m the outlier here.

      • corvi@lemm.ee
        2·
        30 days ago

        I would be proud of being recognized at a local bakery, and similarly uncomfortable being recognized at a Taco Bell.

      • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
        32·
        30 days ago

        People recognize my husband (visual disability) and my twin (distinct dress style) around and it makes me so fucking uncomfortable when they do. Especially now here in the us. Please don’t remember us. Forget us and leave us alone. But they act like I’m an asshole for being super uncomfortable with people just fucking coming up and being all “oh you’re from x place!” cause also just because they recognize someone doesn’t mean you comment on that?? I was taught that was rude as fuck?? You also don’t know us at all???

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
    36·
    1 month ago

    It’s a sign of intelligence to be able to “connect the dots”, so arguably this is a transferable skill.

      • theangryseal@lemmy.world
        3·
        30 days ago

        I did that for a while, and I’ll be exaggerating my uselessness but here goes.

        “No, that can’t be him. See, the man who did the robbery was wearing a pair of pantyhose on his face. This guy has no such article of clothing on his face. His friend had on a ski mask, I don’t see a ski mask on this man’s face. Yeah, they’re wearing the same shoes but what about the face coverings, hmmmmm?”

    • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      30 days ago

      Well hey, if you monetize it whatever service you monetize on will just demonetize it without warning for no reason anyway.

      • frezik@midwest.social
        4·
        30 days ago

        Why anyone would even start a YouTube channel right now is beyond me. Unless you’re planning to go full Louis Rossman and DGAF.

        • Nangijala@feddit.dk
          2·
          29 days ago

          Working for youtube as a content creator sounds like my personal hell. You’re basically a slave to your channel once you decide to make it your full time job.

  • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
    17·
    30 days ago

    I can say the alphabet backwards, really fast. I also know all the digits of pi in ascending order

  • jaschen306@sh.itjust.works
    15·
    29 days ago

    I knew someone that worked at an Audi dealer that can recognize everyone’s voice and associate their purchase.

    I called him 4 years later to inquire about a new Audi and he asked me how my TT was treating me and if I was ready for a bigger car(I mentioned that I was going to start a family soon).

    • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      29 days ago

      Born politician right there. Seriously, some of the shittiest villains in politics would nonetheless wow you with how they can legitimately work an entire room full of people, remember names, make you feel special, etc.

    • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl
      61·
      30 days ago

      that’s on the fly volume calculation. very useful for when you have to pack a truck.
      also helps if you have some Tetris experience. so def monetizeable

      • AFK BRB Chocolate (CA version)@lemmy.ca
        2·
        30 days ago

        Funny, I just had to help someone pack a house into one of those POD things and they ended up saying, “You’re better at this, you say what goes where.”

        I don’t think I’m as good at it with really large volumes, but the storage container thing is pretty handy.

      • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        29 days ago

        I went to college with a guy who was paid very well for figuring out the most efficient way to load a freighter. This was before computers were in common use. Also, never bet money on a chess game with him.

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      29 days ago

      My SO can identify all actors by voice (she follows all films by ear because she’s playing some kind of Candy Crush game — several of them, because she runs out of levels). And as a lot of them are foreign, and dubbed, she’ll tell me that this was the guy that was doing the voice in (litany of roles).

      Of course I have to pick films accordingly. She’s never seen Tenet.

    • untorquer@lemmy.world
      6·
      29 days ago

      If it’s an elf woman that may or may not be particularly is either extremely horny or ace, i have a pretty solid guess of the English voice actor…

    • beveradb@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      29 days ago

      Oh man so much love went into crafting code for low end MP3 players in the Rockbox project, then everyone ended up carrying around smartphones with tons of compute and memory resource to waste

      • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        29 days ago

        I used rockbox on a recent holiday for my ipod 6g. It’s always my go to for holidays so i don’t need to use up my phone’s battery

      • Tier 1 Build-A-Bear 🧸@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        29 days ago

        Man I still use my iPod with rockbox. A terabyte of storage and a massive battery and I never have to worry about giving streaming revenue to pedo rapists like red hot chili peppers, or worry about rumors being true about pedo rapists like panic at the disco

      • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        29 days ago

        Rockbox was so cool. I had it on my SanDisk Sansa e250. It was so awesome. Better video format support, better interface. And it ran fucking DOOM.

      • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        28 days ago

        most code from the before times, from the long-long-ago, actually didn’t need a browser, and could fit on a floppy disk!

  • CatZoomies@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    30 days ago

    The actor who played Oscar in The Office also was in The Italian Job (Marc Walberg, Charlize Theron). He was the security guard for the rich guy (Edward Norton) and said maybe two lines while checking ID.

  • ummthatguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 month ago

    This goes beyond financial viability. For the sake of shared trivia amongst strangers, does anyone know the connection? I’m not very familiar with the former, but I’m fairly versed in Seinfeld.

  • Heikki@lemm.ee
    11·
    30 days ago

    No completely true. You can win gift cards at bar trivia.

    I know this because, in college, I had to take Greek mythology to get an engineering degree. I can honestly say I’ve never used the Greek mythology knowledge anywhere but bar trivia.

    • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      30 days ago

      Reminds me of a story of a friend of mine… She did her undergrad and masters in classics and archaeology. As part of her studies she participated in a summer dig on the island of Cyprus. She spent the summer working on remote archaeological sites in the rural countryside.

      Well one day she needed to go into town for something. She goes in to the only store in town, a tiny little grocery store. She finds what she’s looking for then goes to check out. Suddenly, with horror, she realizes, “wait, I don’t know how to talk to this guy. I can’t speak modern Greek.”

      So she attempts the next best thing. She tries to talk to the shopkeeper…in ancient Greek. She tried to have a random conversation with someone in ancient Greek in modern Cyprus.

      The shopkeeper looks at her like she has two heads, pauses for a moment, and says, in English, “lady, no one has talked like that here for two thousand years!”

    • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      30 days ago

      There have been few things in my life more satisfying than being in a room full of generally smart, knowledgeable people, and being the only one who knows the answer to a trivia question. It’s happened a few times in my life, and usually it’s about mythology.

      One time while scoring the round, the quizmaster was asking the questions aloud and letting the crowd shout back the correct answers. When it came to the Greek mythology question I was the only one who shouted, “Tartarus!” Someone in the back of the room shouted, “Nerd!” Later in the round he found me and apologized, but it didn’t bother me.

      For my first baby shower we hired our quizmaster to host trivia. In the interest of fairness, our six person team was split across three of the teams. It ended in a three-way tie, and the tiebreaker was the name of Odin’s horse. It was Sleipnir, which means “Slippy”. Slippy the eight-legged horse. That one was especially satisfying.

    • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world
      3·
      30 days ago

      I think you could get more creative with your language, with that knowledge. If nothing else, reading the Bible (or catching the cliffs notes) and getting a firm understanding of ‘The Classics’ gives you an immense wealth of phrases and references to help illustrate your point that are so ingrained in Western culture and media that you’re likely to strike more points with it than without.

      I’m still making my way through that herculean effort, that sisyphusian task. I struggled like Odysseus returning home to get through the Bible the first time, but once you get through all the parables and their Lot, there are some really interesting stories that make for easy metaphors and similes.

      • Echolynx@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        30 days ago

        And metaphors are useful because it makes language a bit more digestible and accessible to people who understand those metaphors.