What are some things you feel everyone should at least have a basic knowledge or understanding of?

[Anonymous]

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[genericname85]

i feel like in the contemporary times specially since 2019, we all collectively forgot and need to remember that: what we see in the media is litteral propaganda made to force us into compliance with things that are neither in our own best interest nor things we actually want.

we should all remember politics and media aren't our friends or partners. we can't ever just "believe" neither them, nor or especially not their "fact checkers". fact checking is each individuals job. you're not feeding on someone elses vomit. you wanna chew your own food. so why do people listen to fact checkers? i don't get it.

and we should all remind ourselfes especially today: no person on this planet is interested in fighting another person to the death. we are incited to hate people and be ok with cruelty and wars based on the one sided stories and lies we are told.

today more than ever, each individual has the actual means to take a look behind the curtain our media is trying to veil the truth behind. consume media from other countries, see their propaganda and talk to everyone on the globe to colllectively form a union against what national/global leaders may want. the fact that our current emergencies can still exist is litterally just the result of ignorance and laziness of individuals trusting in the wrong sources... i'll leave it at that before i get too wordy.

[front2back]

I could go on a whole blog about this, but to keep it short...
Skills for yourself:
• Basic Financial literacy - Investments, balancing budgets, how credit cards work, how loaned & interest work, how to properly pay bills.
• How to write a proper email
• Basic car maintenance ( @Peter_Penetrator had a good take on this on the Q below)
• Basic house maintenance (changing furnace filters, cleaning, basic plumbing, sealing up air leaks, etc.)
• How to write a resume and give a great interview
• How to avoid scams or phishing attempts

Skills for yourself and others:
• Lifesaving medical (CPR, Basic Life Support aka BLS, Bleeding Control Training)
• How to use a Fire Extinguisher
• De-escalation or removal from dangerous situations or individuals
• How to purify water and start a fire in an emergency

[mandyfire98]

The other gender.

Especially from an anotomical viewpoint. It's shocking how much some men don't know about a woman's body.

It's 2023 and you can actually lookup anything on the internet like an encyclopedia but some guys still believe ridiculous myths about women's bodies.

[Potteplante]

Lol, what good would it do me to know about mens anotimical view point? How would that knowledge benefit me in life?

[mandyfire98]

Because you might have to deal with men and their bodies. You might have a boyfriend or husband. Do you really want to be with someone and you don't even know how they physically work?

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Hygiene, and customer service. It’s really not that hard to empathize with service workers, the only people who don’t are people who never learned how

[Peter_Penetrator]

Preventive car maintenance. Parents are usually the ones to teach kids to drive. But far too many never consider teaching them how to check, add fluids, belt inspections, tire pressure or any of the things that could leave them stranded in rush hour traffic or on the side of the road, possibly at night, and in the middle of nowhere. Especially, especially their 16 year old daughter.

[front2back]

This probably won't surprise you as a man your age but I basically a "on call mechanic" for a lot of friends and family. Have saved a collective thousands of dollars for others by doing oil changes, brake jobs, sparkplug changes, filter changes, coolant flushes, battery swaps, shock & spring replacements, etc. since high school.

I'm not some certified mechanic but have spent countless hours learning (for free, most of what you need to know can be found on YouTube or the internet these days if you know where to look) as well as working on my own cars over the years.

It's a valuable skill many could learn (and that I try to teach), that everyone should know but many refuse to because of the effort it takes.
To be fair, changing oil and such is dirty and buying tools for yourself costs m-o-n-e-y, but it's an excellent long-term thing to know.

[love_conquers_lust]

@front2back Same here. Don’t like changing oil, best done with a pit or jacked up, not on a creeper. I’ll do the easy shit like rotating tires. But even that service is bundled with good tire deals. I did a shit job on my “performance” pads and rotors so I sound like an poorly lubricated train car everywhere I go.

True on purchasing tools. It’s an economy of scale and learning curve thing.

I miss my stick shift, but I could have gone my whole life without learning it.

[Peter_Penetrator]

Learning to drive a standard is a valuable job skill. Most young folk aren’t aware of that. My next vehicle will need to be special ordered with a stick. I love em. Even in traffic. Just hope l don’t lose the use of my left leg.

[love_conquers_lust]

I liked to wear down my clutch plate rocking up and down inclines instead of holding the brake pedal down.

[Peter_Penetrator]

How bout popping the clutch on a hill to get it started.

[love_conquers_lust]

My batteries were fine. So I didn’t have to resort to that. I had an asshole friend who liked to rev his engine and pop the clutch. Fucked up his transmission.

Had another who drove a brown automatic station wagon and would rev his engine and pop it into gear. Wore down the transmission and turned it into a granny carriage. We called it the shaggin wagon because he never got laid.

[Peter_Penetrator]

That reminds me of a couple guys from high school that shared a chevy panel van. We dubbed it the USS Intercourse.

[love_conquers_lust]

Haha. Love it. I drove a Ford Focus. I hated that car at first. But the memories I have from that thing are legendary in my mind. I miss that girly piece of a. It was actually a good economy car.

Friend in passenger seat thought he’d be funny and scream Focus over and over hanging out the power window. I closed it on him and made him squawk.

[Peter_Penetrator]

I learned to drive a stick on a 1980 Honda Accord with 300,000 miles on it my senior year. I drove it for nearly six months with no issues. One day l was driving my step sister back to her mothers house when all of a sudden the passenger door latch just let loose, opening the door while tooling down the highway. She looked at me like l had some James Bond button somewhere and decided to press it.

[love_conquers_lust]

My buddies Geo Tracker was a riot. He crashed it into a snow bank for a winter dance one year. His date sat in the car and rev’d the engine while he tried to rock it out. He was in a suit. He got frost bite in his hand and incurred nerve damage. Every time he’d make a gun with his hand, his index and middle finger would shake and twitch. We called it his finger fucking hand for the ladies.

Cousin’s gremlin wasn’t road ready and we would do donuts in a nearby field. No radiator fluid, not even sure if it had oil. Had to pop the hood and hose off the engine with a garden hose every 20 minutes or so or his engine would seize.

[Peter_Penetrator]

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[JacobJordan]

Cooking, hygiene (I'm sorry but guys are horrible when it comes to cleaning themselves), math (basic mental math for single and double digit numbers addition, subtraction, multiplication), how to deal with and treat minor injuries. Basic survival when it comes to shelter, fire, clean water, direction, reading, critical thinking, percentages, few other things

[NathanDavis]

the PROPER knowledge... CPR for infants and kids, actually for everyone in general

[Bethany22]

They should have a basic understanding of men's and women's emotional needs

[LiamJHayden]

Basic first aid, personal finance, basic cooking skills.

[Heelwwaringskannk]

The Holy Bible, the Word of God. The gospel.

[purplepoppy]

Grammar, etiquette and hygiene.

[love_conquers_lust]

Basic emergency response training

[Joker_]

how great I am

[SPIRIT208]

Music

[Aiko_E_Lara]

Parenting