• artifex@lemmy.zip
    101·
    3 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
    58·
    3 days ago

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

    • spy
    • bouncer
    • detective
    • headhunter
    • diplomat
    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
      21·
      2 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.

      • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        8·
        2 days ago

        I think it’s very context dependent.

        Pharmacists often recognize me and I’d rather they didn’t. But I get it. I’m there almost every week for something.

        My favorite bubble tea place now recognizes the car I drive so they will prepare my tea as I’m parking and it’s ready by the time I get to the counter. I did tell them that on occasion I’ll order something different but I appreciated it nonetheless.

      • corvi@lemm.ee
        3·
        2 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
        42·
        2 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
    42·
    3 days 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·
        3 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·
      2 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·
        2 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·
          2 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.

          • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
            1·
            1 day ago

            If it was me id host my shit on my own platform and post shorts on YouTube and everywhere else linking back to it. Being a content creator sounds like he’ll to me though so this is all hypothetical.

            • Nangijala@feddit.dk
              3·
              1 day ago

              Sounds like too much work, honestly. People on youtube can’t be fucked to click on links to other websites. It would also be a terrible business model for someone who aims to make content creation their job.

              If it is just for shits and giggles, then I don’t think youtube or your suggestion is that big of a deal. Then it’s just a hobby that people can do when they feel like it.

              What I was talking about were those people who decide to make a career out of it. That is hell. There are a select few who get lucky where it doesn’t destroy their lives, but for most, it is just an unforgiving and soul destroying endeavor. I cannot imagine letting myself become essentially an ad-prostitute where I earn my money by blabbering on about sponsors every video and probably not know for sure if the company I advertise is good or turns out to be some corrupt scam or a cult some years down the line - making me look like the tool I am. I cannot imagine having to produce x amount of content with advertisement in it to uphold my end of whatever contract I have with a sponsor - essentially being their puppet until the contract runs out. And maybe I was an idiot who didn’t understand lawyer-speak and now I have committed myself to be their mouthpiece for seven to ten months for free because I signed that shit. Everyday turning on the camera and dance like a monkey for my followers while my sponsor gets free advertisement.

              And then gradually being recognized and getting weird people following me, finding facts about me I don’t know where they got them from. Shit like that. And the pay is still nowhere close to being worth all that stress because you’re also constantly paranoid about demonetization and being basically having no privacy anymore. Even if you try and cover all your bases, people will find out who you are and where you live and with whom. The more you try to hide, the more persistent they will be.

              Like I said = hell.

  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    22·
    2 days ago

    My father was frustratingly difficult to watch movies with, because of this exact thing. He would pause the movie to explain that the actor on screen had been in some other obscure movie a decade ago. It was especially bad if two actors had previously worked in the same project, because then he would start listing off other cast and crew they had worked with in the past.

    Okay, great, please press Play. I just want to watch the goddamned movie.

    • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      My wife and daughter do this a lot, but their version is to quietly look up the actors and then announce their results during a lull, so it works out fine. I just do it in my head so I’m like yeah I know, she was also in whatever with Val Kilmer.

      There are certain TV shows where you could spend the whole time figuring out who used to be in what - in the 80s Murder She Wrote featured just about every middle-tier actor from the 60s or 70s. Before that they were on The Love Boat. Seems like there must be a modern show full of 90s through 2010s actors but I don’t know what it would be. Hey, there’s Topanga!

    • _stranger_@lemmy.world
      21·
      2 days ago

      Ah shit. I do this and I just assumed my kids were cool with it. Thank you for being the mirror I didn’t know I needed.

    • oni ᓚᘏᗢ@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 days ago

      lmao My friends and I do this, but we do not pause the movie. We can keep track of what is happening, give obscure info, tell jokes, even, if it’s necessary, we do pause the movie to go to youtube to watch some video because someone remembered see some similar scene or something. Maybe that is our useless skill

  • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
    19·
    2 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·
    2 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.world
      English
      17·
      2 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.

  • Heikki@lemm.ee
    15·
    2 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·
      2 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·
      2 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·
      2 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·
        2 days ago

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

    • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl
      61·
      2 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·
        2 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·
        2 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.

  • ours@lemmy.world
    14·
    2 days ago

    IMDB used to have an amazing cross-search. You could put any combination of actor, crew, movie/show title and it would bring out common movies/shows.

    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      That sounds like it would be a pretty simple program to create a replacement for if IMDb’s data is scrapeable, but I don’t know anything about programming

      • Bosht@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        I’m sure some AI cuck will steal that idea and act like he’s god for creating it with vibe coding.

      • ours@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        That sounds like it would be a pretty simple program […] but I don’t know anything about programming

        As a programmer, that phrase tends to raise my blood pressure. But it depends on how they structure their data but since all the elements are already related, it should be easy to query them all together. I bet they’ve abandoned it more because the query UI is a bit dense for most. But nothing that could be replaced with a simple textbox that could take any combination of cast/crew/titles and find anything that matches the combination. But they might need to add some specific indexing that would use up additional resources.

        • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 day ago

          As a programmer, that phrase tends to raise my blood pressure.

          Completely understandable. But it really is quite similar to an excel macro that I used to use for a job. The source information is obviously different and I could see it being difficult to readily access, but I figure if someone can program something similar in excel, it can’t be that complicated… perhaps that’s just as loaded a phrase. I am familiar enough with excel to realize that I don’t actually understand how functional it is, lol.

      • TheColonel@reddthat.com
        5·
        2 days ago

        I’m guessing Amazon bought them and dicked everything up.

        Guessing, I have no idea if that’s true but it would add up.

        • ours@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          Pretty much, closed forums, removed or paywalled features. Right now, they are on yet another iteration of dumbing down the UI to the point of being nearly useless.

          • TheColonel@reddthat.com
            2·
            1 day ago

            It’s sad that all I needed to do was know that Amazon bought them and put the rest together based on a long list of shit they just ruined.

    • untorquer@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 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…

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 day 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.

    • beveradb@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      2 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·
        2 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·
        1 day 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·
        1 day 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·
        18 hours 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!