Not necessarily dumb, but I had a harlequin rasbora that loved to lay down on anubias leaves. Like, fully horizontal. I can’t tell you how many times I thought it was dead and went to remove it, only for it to swim off when I got close with the net.

It wasn’t sick. It didn’t have any swim bladder issues. The little jerk just spent years pranking me for seemingly no reason.

Still one of my favorite fish.

In no particular order:

• Sahara
• Hercules (1997 animated version)
• Mulan (1998 animated version)
• 27 Dresses
• Jurassic Park (although probably not for sleeping given all the screaming, lol)

Same! I’ve been using the Lifefactory ones for the last few years and just run them through the dishwasher with everything else. No special treatment, and they’ve held up well.

I swapped from Sync to Summit and have been loving it. The dev’s super responsive too, which is a big plus.

I usually take a request for a work sample to mean “an example of something you created” rather than “an example of work you did for a past employer.” The latter could serve as the former—assuming you’re allowed to show it, which it sounds like you’re not in this case—but it’s not the only way to go about it.

You could make a sample or mockup of something similar to what you’ve made previously without including proprietary information. If you need branding guidelines or a set of content to work from to get started (maybe you’re building a website or something), you could search online for publicly available versions of those documents from other companies to demonstrate that you’re able to follow guidelines when requested.

I was sadly not quite imaginative enough to consider radioactive worm eggs, but I do seem to recall Ivan Inkling opening up an ice cream shop at one point and Max E. Mum and his sister Minnie coming in to consider all the different flavor combinations they could buy.

I used to be a teacher, and I kept a list of funny names that I would use for word problems and the like. Just silly stuff like Ivan Inkling, Chris P. Bacon, Millie Peade, etc.

Why do they need to work, though? If AI can replace so many people that there aren’t jobs for them all, wouldn’t that also mean AI is producing enough to sustain those people, jobs or not? At that point, why must society continue to expect everyone to support themselves if society’s developments as a whole make that unnecessary?

OP’s question seemingly indicated that they felt someone who couldn’t earn money was immediately a net negative to society. I don’t believe that’s true now (stay at home parents are a good, but far from only, example), and I can’t see me believing it’s any more true in a future where AI can replace large segments of the workforce.

Ignoring the odd idea that this hypothetical person is somehow completely unemployable regardless of industry or upskilling, why do you assume that that immediately makes them a negative to society? Is a person’s entire value predicated on their ability to earn money?

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Any recommended brands/models for the pillow? I’ve never heard of such a thing, but it sounds incredible.

I use a similar question: “What do you like best about working here?” I then follow up that conversation with a second question: “We all know every place has something they could improve on. If you could change one thing about working here, what would it be?”

I’ve gotten some very interesting answers to that second question. And because it’s not phrased as a complete negative - “what would you change” vs. the more common “what do you dislike” - it doesn’t put people on the defensive.

A second opinion on your resume certainly couldn’t hurt. If money’s a concern, I think there’s a community on Reddit that allows you to submit your resume for review? Tread with caution, of course, but it could be worth a shot. Or I’ve seen people on LinkedIn or various job sites that help give back to their respective communities by providing resume feedback - I’d probably look for people in HR or who work as hiring managers.

That sucks about your business, but I think being honest about it is your best bet if/when it comes up. Businesses fail for a variety of reasons, plenty of which won’t necessarily reflect poorly on you. And if the gap is the last five years, well, there’s definitely been enough going on in that timeframe that you won’t be the only one with an employment gap.

Applying for jobs can often be a numbers game, but if you’re not reaching the interview stage at all you may want to have someone review your resume for you. It might be that you’re not highlighting your skills and experience in a way that the systems will pick up on - every industry seems to have it’s own buzzwords - or you might also have a resume format that the ATS can’t parse correctly.

I’ve been using Summit lately and like it so far; the dev is responsive and there are quite a few customization options.

I previously used Sync (now abandoned), Jerboa, and Connect as well. Jerboa didn’t seem quite so customizable, but it was a nice and simple UI.

Maybe Valheim? You could turn the settings to peaceful mode if you don’t want to deal with combat quite yet - although combat at the beginning isn’t super in-depth - but it doesn’t have a ton of buttons and the start of the game is a lot of basic “walk around and find things to interact with.”

I’m a checklist person, and the free version of ClickUp gives me what I’m after: task status, due date, priority, etc. I’ve also used Notion and Trello in the past, and they were both fine for their respective purposes (knowledge management and kanban boards, respectively).

As for email, anything that comes in gets left unread in my inbox until it’s dealt with, whether that’s a reply, an action, or whatever. Once it’s dealt with, it gets filed into a folder based on topic (Outlook search isn’t super helpful, so the topic breakdown helps).