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What thing are you exponentially more experienced in than the average person? (lemmy.ml)

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What is the best skill you possess that makes you stand above the average person?

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 10 months ago (8 children)

By feel I can identify 20 lb, 24 lb, 28 lb, 65 lb cover, 110 lb cover, and 12 pt matte paper. I'm increasingly impressed by people's business cards as a result, as it is often much, much heavier than 12 pt matte.

Using comparison I can distinguish 80 lb semi-gloss cover, 100 lb semi-gloss cover, 8 pt gloss, 10 pt gloss, and 12 pt gloss. (But then again, most people could, given multiple choices rather than a free-response question.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

@radix @Oka This is the most boring possible skill. How do you achieve it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thanks! Means a lot :D

I worked for a few months in a print shop. Turns out I hate doing customer service, but I did take home lots of excess cardboard and paper (slightly dog-eared, bent, stained

not professional level, but good enough for me) and bind a few of my own notebooks out of them.

To be clear, it's not my career. I'm going to school to study something else, and I only worked around 20 hours a week for about two months.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZVkW9p-cCU

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=aZVkW9p-cCU

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

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