We had zero this year. We even put out decorations and every year we give out full size bars and pokemon packs. Live in the center of town in a dense neighborhood. I do think part of the reason is none of the street lights ever are on anymore
Just don't use your wife's cutting board, like I did. It had a big crack and I figured I was upcycling. She didn't notice it was the same and weeks later I got in trouble when she asked where the small cutting board was and I pointed at the butter dish 😅
I guess this is specifically illegal according to the Hatch Act which is supposed to prevent using public service websites from being used to smear a political party.
I was gonna buy one of those Lite phones, but it was expensive so I just deleted time-wasting apps and now my smartphone respects my time.
Hardest part was getting people to just text me instead of various social media messenger apps. In the end, I deleted my accounts and now everyone from school thinks I'm dead, but those close to me can reach me easily.
Sometimes I still binge YouTube via Firefox on my phone though, so I installed "Unhook" which blocks recommended videos, so I can only see what I search for.
I guess just remember that your smartphone can be dumb too. And still a lot more convenient than a flip phone.
I agree 100%!
Butt I'm joking about a façade of optimization. Making code confusing and hard to interface with by making up custom data types. And for more context, their main project is a UI that takes >10 seconds to load and uses 2+GB of RAM. But at least the UUIDs in the SQLite DB are stored as hex instead of strings 😅 (even though I think everything in SQLite is actually stored as a string under the hood?)
I do still admire the desire for optimization - but it might be some sort of coping mechanism to ignore the insanely unoptimized bits of the project
I have a coworker who does stuff like this and it's always low-benefit optimizations that cost the team time to interface with - but I do still kind of love it
My mom is a school counselor at a tiny school in a tiny town in Montana. There is no way the school stays open. Or 90% of our public schools for that matter. Part of me wants to tell her "I told you so" but generally it just sucks so bad I don't have the energy
Well, how'd everyone do?
I had to order some magic cards so I stayed up until midnight to do it lol. I also need to replace a pvc pipe under my kitchen sink so that waited until today and I've been getting water from the bathroom...
My wife told her family and all of them are very enthusiastic to join (20 ish people). Unfortunately I still have trouble convincing my family that Trump shouldn't be allowed to do illegal things
Thanks for the recommend! I just finished it (I'm also not actually gonna do the 30 day plan). Even though my internet vices aren't actually on my phone, and my phone might as well be a dumb phone with how little I use it, the book was still uber relevant to my life. Part One in the book that went over the negative effects of tons of media consumption was the wake up call I was looking for. I definitely notice many of the negative effects mentioned in the book in my life... I wanna take back my free time and attention :)
Bonus points that the book is entertaining. It has a few actually good jokes, and useful perspectives. And it's not at all preachy or judgey (which sometimes is a pet peeve of mine with self help books - where they feel like they're trying to sell you an ideology too hard).
Pretty crazy that the book is from 2018 and is still so relevant - if anything I feel like our knowledge that media addiction is bad for us has only gotten stronger, and as a population our media addictions have also gotten stronger - and more socially acceptable. I'd love to read a similar thing that was more modern and could scare me with up to date statistics that knew about TikToc and such.
Yeah I was thinking about checking them out. I looked at their pricing model and was really confused and put off by it. Makes it seem like you have to pay more to be better informed. The lowest paid tier for example doesn't show the factuality score of a publisher, which I feel like would be important to me, but who knows maybe it doesn't come into affect with how they show the news.
Does seem like they support RSS feeds which is sweet
I definitely don't need it for anything. I might just note down some of my ambient music playlist that I like to work to.
I'll have to figure out a new news source for political news, maybe this weekend I'll try setting up an RSS reader to aggregate some sources. But yeah, political news I think is what got me to start using YouTube a lot more since I'd be waiting to hear about updates to all this craziness (in the USA).
I read most of my books, but I also enjoy audiobooks. I usually read series I love, and listen to the "meh" stuff. Sometimes I'll even stop an audiobook and go buy the book version if I like it enough.
I 100% agree that audiobooks are another form of media, but I disagree that they're comparable to algorithmically addicting media (which I have a problem with). You can listen to a book and have your life changed, meanwhile, it is doubtful I'll remember anything I scrolled through yesterday, or watched in YouYube compilations.
I'm sure someone could waste a bunch of time listening to books they didn't even want to, but I don't struggle with anything like that. I read basically daily, but I go through regular audiobook slumps. And especially when it comes to attaining new information (I'm thinking a biography, not a math textbook), I think reading and listening are both fine enough. I mostly read fantasy though, for what it's worth.
But yeah I suppose I read the things I love because I do notice some sort of difference. Can't put my finger on it right now, but I will continue to do both with my arbitrary distinction :P
I do the same, but with my turntable