It looks civilized, but is it really? Alligators should never be stored so close to electrical equipment! The bad electric vibes can make them aggressive.
In my personal experience if you have to pick one, animal manure (I count human poop under that as well) works better than compost from just plant material (like plant cuttings, kitchen waste, weeds, wood chip ...). Best is a mix of both.
Believe me, in too many cases somebody thinks that a lower price can somehow be had without compromising quality. What if we let a bot do it and a human quickly checks the result? It's like proofreading, right?
I wish this was more easy and mainstream, people are still uptight about polyamory a lot. I wouldn't want to have husbands or wives though - just partners. Or so I think sometimes, but time is limited and I cherish my alone time too much.
Avoid all or nothing thinking and perfectionism, one time fail is no excuse for giving up all. Do this one badly, the next one will be better (applies indefinitely).
Make up a fantasy why doing the thing is my sacred duty because I'm the chosen one (silly but works)
Be kind to yourself. I found this the hardest one - start noticing your negative self-talk, and replace it with words of kindness and patience. This is basically a re-parenting where you re-train the voice of authority inside of yourself. It took me about 2 years from a therapist noticing it in me and suggesting I should work on it to today, where I am mostly free of it.
Start thing now. By asking 'What can I do to start thing more easily?' you are actually procrastinating again. Reading the manual (again and again), reading one self-help book after another, or endlessly buying more tools or craft supplies can be an avoidance strategy. And remember point one, if you didn't manage to start now, you can start now now, or the next now that is available.
That’s an interesting view, because one way I always looked at it was it became a gating function (in a negative way). Just like the rich raise the barrier to entry, I always thought that there were people who were dismissive of others because you couldn’t speak their language perfectly.
I think that's more or less the same idea as language carrying an authority. You can only use language for gating an ivory tower if the plebs believe your expensive terminology describes real and relevant facts. I think an insider language that doesn't carry this authority gets called other names, slang maybe? Also used for gating, just not as a barrier towards rising towards a higher status position in academia or rich circles.
English and the internet have this potential of bringing people together, it's quite powerful. You suddenly find out how your situation relates to people on other continents. I remember that before there was a much stronger feeling of 'other' towards people from other countries and cultures, and often the only information you could get about these others would be through the eyes of someone else. To be honest, even if the powers that be fuck up the internet beyond recognition now, that's a kind of devil difficult to stuff back into the box.
An orphanage in Venice was also a music school. Vivaldi was one of the many teachers. The orphan girls were taught all sorts of musical skills from singing to composing. How much nicer is this than work them to death in the doom factory!
Here's the thing: human translators have been using 'AI' for over a decade. It used to be called machine translation, and for anything but the dumbest stuff it's a dumb idea, first nail in the coffin of translation. Translation agencies loved the shite, of course, because they could now pay a translator 0.05€ per word instead of 0.10€, arguing that now the same work took less time (it did, and also a lower quality translation was produced with a lot of costly bullshit software in the middle). The translators, as is to expect, hated it, but were forced to accept it or starve. We are now very slowly reaching the point where we are hired back as esteemed professionals after AI-caused communication mishaps and business fuckups keep piling up ...
Language is in a peculiar decline these days - there's the process of English becoming the most badly spoken and written language ever, because all of us non-natives use it online and often also at work. Together with the inescapable avalanche of slop being churned out.
Also, language used to carry authority and this is getting lost for more and more people. We have been bombarded with advertising, propaganda, lies for many generations now and it's becoming stale. Longer texts used to carry more authority, now a topic can be communicated very precisely through a meme, and why not? For a translator I am getting awfully distrustful of words I'm afraid. I believe we are already standing right under the crumbling tower and will have to learn to communicate through shrugs and grunts. And again, why not?
This is very important. I'm in a situation where the work I used to do is supposed to be taken over by the shitrobot. On a job platform now 15% of the job offers are the original work, 85% is AI slop fixing in one way or another. This led me on a 2-year odyssey of trying manual work (too weak), being really poor (getting better at that), and finally deciding that if I'm forced to serve the shitrobot to avoid starving I'll serve it badly. Btw so far I've managed to avoid these jobs, may it remain so.
That said, if you are in need of a real human translator for tech or creative EN-DE projects do contact me, I'd be glad to keep doing work that makes sense!
I am here reading and snorting a bit about how particular some people are about their food and its protein content, and wondering who can afford all that salmon and greek yoghurt ... although, I'm fussy about my food as well, just in a different way.
Morning is home made sourdough, butter, cheese, often an egg, sometimes meat.
Lunch is the same, if I don't forget. Dinner is either insane amounts of meat and vegetable, all home raised and grown, or something insanely unhealthy, like 1l of custard or a ramen soup or two pieces of cake. Meals I forget are replaced by coffee and a blunt (lots of small meals throughout the day are good for you!).
It's balanced in the way that very unhealthy things are combined with top quality stuff in a balanced way. 🧐
Since I often forget to eat I always have to have a quick option available, therefore custard and ramen are the lesser evils. Other than that I try to produce everything myself out of local ingredients and eat really well for really cheap.
I feel you. People here seem to be so particular about their diets? Wtf is Ezekiel bread, and how do they manage to make it look like the blandest white bread one could imagine? Why is there baby food with added protein now? So many questions???
There are soo much 'AI rating' shite jobs going on currently. Disclaimer: I believe AI is bad, so if you are forced to do it you are obliged to do your work as badly as you can. I see these jobs on what used to be a freelance translators' platform, but I suspect you will find them on other platforms as well.
Other, useful online work is of course nicer, so if you have time maybe polish or pick up a skill - language, art, graphics, programming - or even something manual you can sell online. You can also start with something that pays the bills and later branch out into nicer stuff. All this is very slow and takes time, but it's possible to get there.
Every plant is poisonous if you manage to eat enough.
But seriously I love the idea! If I ever get a tattoo (unlikely, but who knows) it would probably be something planty.
For a poisonous plant that's not commonly known I recommend Daphne gnidium. It was used to catch fish around here. Flowers have a hypnotic smell.