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Comment on What are some of your "life hacks" you use regularly? in ~talk
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Comment on What are some of your "life hacks" you use regularly? in ~talk
snake_case LinkI started showering before bed when I worked in the medical field and had to, but I kept doing it even though I work from home on a computer all day because of the routine. Showering and brushing...I started showering before bed when I worked in the medical field and had to, but I kept doing it even though I work from home on a computer all day because of the routine.
Showering and brushing teeth isn’t something I have to think about, its part of my bed time routine. I know that it takes 20 mins to do, and so then I know I have to start the routine before I actually want to be in bed and this also enforces a bed time.
On the outside I look really put together but really my entire life is just a series of routines like this.
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Comment on This life gives you nothing - Your attention is all you have. Wasting it is annihilating in ~life
snake_case Link ParentI do really regularly check with myself if its still worth it. Like you gotta understand, this guild, these people, they’re here for me when all my irl friends have decided they’d rather stay home...I do really regularly check with myself if its still worth it.
Like you gotta understand, this guild, these people, they’re here for me when all my irl friends have decided they’d rather stay home and read books than hang out with me.
Nothing against those friends, we have jobs and families and they’re too tired to be social I get it, but I need friends, and so this is my way of maintaining a social life post covid.
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Comment on This life gives you nothing - Your attention is all you have. Wasting it is annihilating in ~life
snake_case Link ParentYeah its a whole situation. I stepped in cause the other leaders had life stuff come up, and I keep trying to get members to help but no one else can reliably step in. Its been just me and my...Yeah its a whole situation. I stepped in cause the other leaders had life stuff come up, and I keep trying to get members to help but no one else can reliably step in.
Its been just me and my buddy all year and thankfully the guild is smallish but like we have weekly events that need to be managed and its just been rough tryna hold it together on our own.
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Comment on This life gives you nothing - Your attention is all you have. Wasting it is annihilating in ~life
snake_case LinkMy mind has been absolutely torched by Reddit posts, and I have been trying to read more for the past couple years. Its going okay. Mostly my issue is that I tend to read physical books, but I'm...My mind has been absolutely torched by Reddit posts, and I have been trying to read more for the past couple years. Its going okay.
Mostly my issue is that I tend to read physical books, but I'm super active in this online game where I'm in a position that other people rely on me to be active, so I end up choosing the pc over the physical book.
I know there's a ton of really easy ways to just read that same book on the pc, but for me, I wanted to read the book to get away from the pc.
So I'm kinda stuck, between spending my attention on the online game which requires it or else the community I've built will fall apart, or doing a solid for my mind and my attention and reading a physical book away from the pc. I haven't found a good in between. Maybe I should just try reading books on the pc and see where that gets me.
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Comment on Statement from Mozilla's new CEO in ~tech
snake_case Link ParentI wish there were enough people like us to carry an entire web browser but we are few. They gotta do what they gotta do and I’ll stick around for as long as theres at least a way to disable it,...I wish there were enough people like us to carry an entire web browser but we are few.
They gotta do what they gotta do and I’ll stick around for as long as theres at least a way to disable it, and it stays disabled when I do disable it.
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Comment on Other people might just not have your problems in ~life
snake_case Link ParentI also have an Aspergers diagnosis from the early 90s that was never quite taken seriously and I have also had to just accept that this means I struggle with things that come easy to most everyone...I also have an Aspergers diagnosis from the early 90s that was never quite taken seriously and I have also had to just accept that this means I struggle with things that come easy to most everyone else.
The struggle doesn’t reflect on you as a person, and I know you know that, logically, but to really internalize that your struggle is just your struggle and this is just life is a step I didn’t reach until my mid 30s.
It means most days I just make sure that my own basic needs get met and I don’t have room for much more and thats okay.
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Comment on The populist revolt against cognitive elites in ~society
snake_case Link ParentThis is anecdotal from working in the industry but any company that processes healthcare claims right now is making bank There is SO much money in the algorithms that decide how claims get handled...This is anecdotal from working in the industry but any company that processes healthcare claims right now is making bank
There is SO much money in the algorithms that decide how claims get handled its been basically free money for the past like, 20 years. The companies that own and run them get a cut of every single claim processed.
I’m talking about like, the software backbone of this whole entire shitty system. Thousands in counting of these mid size dysfunctional companies that landed accidentally on a gold mine who’s purpose is specifically to waste everyones time.
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Comment on Your grocery store is a bewildering sea of overly processed food. Here’s why and what to do. in ~health
snake_case Link ParentYeah I had to learn to be totally okay with mixed up version of the same base 3 ingredients. Turns out there really is a dish I could spend most of the rest of my life eating and 8 year old me was...Yeah I had to learn to be totally okay with mixed up version of the same base 3 ingredients. Turns out there really is a dish I could spend most of the rest of my life eating and 8 year old me was wrong its not mac and cheese
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Comment on Your grocery store is a bewildering sea of overly processed food. Here’s why and what to do. in ~health
snake_case LinkI've thought about this a lot since I started actually cooking for myself. The entire aisle for frozen dinners always struck me. The cereal and lunch snacks one too. Also the lunch meats one. The...I've thought about this a lot since I started actually cooking for myself. The entire aisle for frozen dinners always struck me. The cereal and lunch snacks one too. Also the lunch meats one. The dairy one is great though that can stay.
Those aisles were great when I was like 12-18 and just starting out selecting food for myself, since I didn't know how to cook, but I finally learned how to cook in my 20s and so these days I use all of the opposite aisles. Fresh produce, meat, frozen food section for frozen veggies, dairy section for yogurt and then and the baking section. My entire grocery trip spans like 4 sections and that's only 1/4th of the store but you bet they have each of those 4 spread out so I have to walk through the whole store anyway cause marketing
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Comment on Why Canada really lost its measles elimination status in ~health
snake_case LinkThis seems to go a bit deeper than “giving up on religious people cause we’re tired of them” and more “yet another government continues to only be one step above actively committing genocide...This seems to go a bit deeper than “giving up on religious people cause we’re tired of them” and more “yet another government continues to only be one step above actively committing genocide against minority communities”
And like, I know thats hyperbolic, but come on, reaching out to a known at risk community only took literally speaking the language they speak. Such a low bar.
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Comment on Twenty years of digital life, gone in an instant, thanks to Apple in ~tech
snake_case Link ParentRegulations won't even be discussed unless Apple looses everyone's data. In 2007 the government waited until they literally tanked the entire world economy to do anything, and even then they...Regulations won't even be discussed unless Apple looses everyone's data.
In 2007 the government waited until they literally tanked the entire world economy to do anything, and even then they didn't do much. Regulations don't protect the people, regulations protect the government. The government won't do shit until they themselves are at risk.
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Comment on Twenty years of digital life, gone in an instant, thanks to Apple in ~tech
snake_case Link ParentI think there's two kinds of people here, people like me who have been managing their own backups since we were 12, and then people like OP who have likely never managed their own backups, relied...I think there's two kinds of people here, people like me who have been managing their own backups since we were 12, and then people like OP who have likely never managed their own backups, relied entirely on cloud services for their entire professional lives and literally never had any reason to even worry about managing their own backups. 20 years ago was 2006.
The first type, me, and probably you, lost all our data at the ripe young age of some time in our teens and learned better practices from trial by fire.
The second set of people doesn't experience this until way, way, later, when the damage is well, this amount of damage.
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Comment on How do you plan out your meals for the week/meal prep? in ~food
snake_case Link ParentHonestly the biggest hack for us was just finding something that we agreed on and didn’t mind eating all the time. So, for five days out of the week at our house, its Indian style. When we go...Honestly the biggest hack for us was just finding something that we agreed on and didn’t mind eating all the time.
So, for five days out of the week at our house, its Indian style. When we go shopping we just have to restock Indian style.
We do pay attention to whats on sale a little bit too for like desserts and lunch items, but mostly we just get chicken thighs and then those little Indian sauce meal packets. Theres so many flavors!
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Comment on How do you plan out your meals for the week/meal prep? in ~food
snake_case Link ParentWe do the same thing! Basically the same 5-6 meals we agree on for dinner all the time.We do the same thing! Basically the same 5-6 meals we agree on for dinner all the time.
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Comment on How do you plan out your meals for the week/meal prep? in ~food
snake_case Link ParentI used hello fresh to learn how to cook! Imo these days it costs as much as eating out but if you keep the recipie and reuse them its totally worth it. They taught me how to bake chicken which was...I used hello fresh to learn how to cook! Imo these days it costs as much as eating out but if you keep the recipie and reuse them its totally worth it.
They taught me how to bake chicken which was huge, I basically live off that knowledge now.
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Comment on How do you plan out your meals for the week/meal prep? in ~food
snake_case LinkWe eat the same 5-6 meals pretty much always. A large pack of chicken thighs is super versatile if we do decide we have the brain capacity to actually cook, but usually we just use one of those...We eat the same 5-6 meals pretty much always.
A large pack of chicken thighs is super versatile if we do decide we have the brain capacity to actually cook, but usually we just use one of those little Indian spice packets, a couple thighs, some frozen veggies and some rice. Theres so many different flavors of packets we really don’t get bored of it.
Less frequent alternatives include chilli, soup, one of those pre made meals at costco, and sometimes when I’m feeling fancy I make salmon and couscous.
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Comment on How to watch one of the year’s best meteor showers, the Geminids in ~space
snake_case LinkThere actually wasnt a whole lot of info here, they said northern hemisphere does that include as far down as like, Florida?There actually wasnt a whole lot of info here, they said northern hemisphere does that include as far down as like, Florida?
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Comment on These travel influencers don’t want freebies. They’re AI. in ~travel
snake_case Link ParentYeah thats true I guess there are bottom of the barrel types who’s videos offer no substance, just like there are those people in every industry, the people min maxing a niche to squeeze money out...Yeah thats true I guess there are bottom of the barrel types who’s videos offer no substance, just like there are those people in every industry, the people min maxing a niche to squeeze money out of the market instead of producing any value.
But they’re still people, and so the ones which are successful still have some special bit of creativity that sets them apart from the other wannabe influencers
I’m not sure AI will have that. I’m not sure what would set an AI video apart from all the other AI videos. Just like how all advertising looks the same these days
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Comment on How to get found by recruiters on LinkedIn in ~tech
snake_case Link ParentSame, my spouse has been out of work for 5 months now. They were ~10 years from retirement in the tech industry and if I learned anything from the great recession, this probably just means they...Same, my spouse has been out of work for 5 months now.
They were ~10 years from retirement in the tech industry and if I learned anything from the great recession, this probably just means they wont ever make the same salary as they were making, if they do actually find another position.
They’re getting interviews, so its not the resume, I’m not sure what it is.
My hair is the total opposite. Its super humid and frizzy when I get out of the shower and don’t blow dry it, but when I sleep on it, it calms down.
I shampoo and condition it every night. I use a 2 in 1 shampoo so it doesn’t dry my hair out too much and then I rinse and run a dab of conditioner through it and let that sit while In wash the rest of my body and shave. Then, I rinse that out too. I don’t leave any product in my hair, ever, Ive never even colored it. I comb it before I go to bed and again in the morning. When I wake up I spend a good bit in the morning running my hands through my hair to spread out the little bit of natural oils I built up while I was sleeping, and that gives it a nice sleek shine. Like I’ll do that once before I dress, again while waiting on coffee, again while I change into street clothes, once more before I leave the house for good measure, and probably a lot of times in between that. I’m always running my hands through my hair.
I have really thick slightly curly hair and its always a little bit of a mess no matter what I do so some of this might just be me caring about it less than you do. Its always a little bit frizzy cause I live in a warm humid climate but its 100000% worse if I shower in the morning and let it air dry.