No Stupid Questions

Tools that are used to create human misery on a mass scale.

Seeing machines, mostly

This month I'm building Bluetooth headphones for a teen I work with, he needs them to function but his parents won't spend money on them and he keeps breaking the cheap sets he has.

I'm working with a school metal shop to make steel frames for them and I've made the cups 3d printable and easy to replace. Of he does manage to break these, it will take no skill to repair them.

Carbon dioxide. A metric [emphasis]-ton of dust. Other waste.

Sometimes I write small Perl programs or Bash scripts, but that's rare, and it's mostly for my own benefit or amusement; even more rarely do I share them.

Sometimes despair. Sometimes happiness. Hopefully a sense of being informed and/or entertained if not also a (weak?) sense of camaraderie by means of weird little text interactions with people online.

I create useless applications for daily use. Now im working on an organizer that reads my work ins and outs to control my work hours and eventually cash in free days due to excess working hours.

A hopeful path towards peace for people who struggle with stress at their job.

I organize electrons in ways that make fancy sand organize more electrons.

Lots of poo.

A good bit actually though. I'm disabled, so no job. This means that while I'm on my ass recovering from the necessities of living like cooking and cleaning, I have a shit ton of spare time.

Part of that is spent fucking around on lemmy.

The rest is usually spent on some variety or another of writing fiction. Short stories, a few ongoing novels, that sort of thing. Here and there a poem or song will pop in my head.

Then there's a bit of panting, occasional drawing, that kind of visual art.

I've also been known to run ttrpg sessions here and there, which is its own art form in a way.

Profit for shareholders.

Waste that I expell in the bathroom.

I create hastily designed lumber creations that are used to organize and store things.

Every couple of years I create a world for friends to play tabletop games in for a shared experience.

Some days I get paid to create written documentation and shared understanding of complex systems used to collect and report data that someone else will hopefully analyze and use for improving the educational opportunities of children.

I love the reframing of the question.

Various 3d printed items, Last week I sewed some dust covers for my HOTAS peripherals, scripts to help manage my media library, nonsense comments on Lemmy.

35mm film with picture negatives on it

Novels and short stories. Also very large children, carved wooden staffs, and random pieces of art.

It's a byproduct of our society to ask what value your work does rather than you as a person. A better question would be "what stuff are you interested in?" I bet taking that spin will actually make people stop and think a second not only because it's not the normal question, but people have lots of interests and now they'll have to pick one that they want to share.

I have a comic that I work on if I got the time and energy (I usually don't).

I also DM and I make stories and maps for my table

Ive always hated that question. Its usually asked to determine social status.