Pencil and paper. Or a calculator. Obviously. My CPA is a horse. Loves stomping around on his giant TI83.
Pencil and paper. Or a calculator. Obviously. My CPA is a horse. Loves stomping around on his giant TI83.
Own it!
Haha, I can definitely understand this feeling. It can be difficult to overcome! It doesn’t always “work”, and sometimes you will just stand there awkwardly. The good news is that nobody is going to care or remember. Seriously. You’re basically an NPC to people you don’t know. I’ve been to hundreds of parties in my life and have zero tangible memories of other people’s “awkward proximity”. Nobody cares about you as much as you do, which is slightly sad but majorly liberating.
Since I didn’t see any responses that directly answered the question of what do you DO, I’ve prepared a short guide for a generic social gathering. This guide may be inappropriate in some contexts such as a dinner party or event/tv show watching party, etcetera:
This was probably too much info. I have insomnia. I hope someone reads this.
I got this reference! Thank you, (my) child with terrible taste in movies.
I choose my facts carefully and this one is the one.
Tutor people trying to get better at solving coding puzzles?
Yeah, Neanderthals were famous for their efficient large-scale manufacturing capabilities
Governments are one of the few entities that are able (and occasionally willing) to spin up a mass production endeavor without the profit motive necessarily present.
Sometimes they essentially do this themselves via federal employees, or contractors. Sometimes they achieve the ends indirectly by incentivizing private companies with subsidies and the like.
Regardless of how it gets done, everyone shows up for work in the morning motivated by something. In the Soviet Union this was often the fear of imprisonment or other such violence, which was a really shitty situation for a lot of people to be in. In the modern world, it’s typically the hope that the money made will pay for food and housing and such.
Without the motivation to make a profit, few entities are both willing and able to engage in the considerable expense, risk, and effort required to spin up a mass production line.
Well now I’m gonna watch it even harder!
Wow, this sounds terrible! The new gold standard for en$hitification!
Always wear your stylish eyepatch when simping with pain elemental bae
This reads like it was written by an AI trained exclusively on Indian call center telemarketers
They would know I guess