I’m like this for most things except for cleaning the kitchen. It’s essential to know she’s counting on me, but if she’s actually there I can’t do anything. It could have something to do with the layout of our kitchen (she has to stand behind me if I’m washing dishes).
If she was working on something at the table I could probably ignore her and focus on cleaning, but if she’s trying to clean too, I can’t.
Stegosaurus has spikes on its back
to keep away predators trying to attack.
He’s the arch-twit
I love to be pedantic so I’ll point out that it had to be 3 equal mutually perpendicular golden ratio rectangles
I don’t think Jesse Owens was tainted just because Hitler congratulated him.
I don’t think people that resisted the Nazis are tainted just because Israel thanks them.
That’s why I disagreed with your initial comment.
Just as we shouldn’t consider Jesse Owens to be tainted by Hitler’s endorsement, we shouldn’t consider anti-Nazi movements to be tainted by Israel’s endorsement.
That’s all we seem to disagree on.
Yes, we should be skeptical of Israel positioning WW2 heroes as champions of Israel’s interpretation of Zionism.
Also for clarification: I’m opposed to Israel’s apparent genocide of the Palestinians. I think Israel’s crimes are more similar to the Americo-Canadian genocide of North America’s first nations than with the Nazi genocide of European Jews and other marginalized minorities. Ie Israel isn’t doing “murder factory” genocide, it’s doing “encroachment and suppression” genocide (and starvation, and persecution). Also similar to what Russia is doing to Ukraine.
The messaging could have been clearer but I’ll spell it out for the dumb.
Phase 1:
Don’t panic buy medical supplies expecting them to protect you. We don’t have enough, and frontline healthcare workers need them to protect themselves and others, you don’t know how to wear them and they probably don’t fit you properly.
Phase 2:
We still don’t really have enough medical grade masks but just fyi: any sort of mouth covering will reduce the risk of a contagious person sneezing into the mouth of a vulnerable person. If you have to go out, please wear something over your face. Cotton is better than nothing.
Phase 3:
A tight fitting mask really is best, it limits a contagious person’s generation of aerosolized clouds of viruses, and limits a vulnerable person’s exposure to clouds of aerosolized viruses.
Look mate I agree that Israel is probably committing genocide against the Palestinians. But that doesn’t mean that everyone that Israel has ever liked is tainted, that’s idiotic.
Okay, I think $80 Canadian for a case, psu, mobo, cpu, & ram is sounding pretty reasonable. I just don’t know of its enough processing power for the video stuff. But I guess if not I can upgrade the mobo/cpu or add a graphics card.
Thanks, that channel looks great.
Re offsite backup: Yes I don’t have so many family photos that it will be difficult/ expensive to store online. But I need to get them together first.
The Pope is woke! Gender ideology IS toxic.
We should support the catholic church in their initiative to reform their sexist gender roles.
I’m impressed the patriarch of Rome is so invested in dismantling the patriarchy.
… wait that’s not what he means? He supports highly defined gender roles? What a toxic ideology.
A few people in here conflating randomness with luck, as if the existence of probabilistic outcomes means that a person can have luck. Some people have fortunate outcomes from probabilistic processes and call that good luck. Some people: negative, and bad. The fortunate (too often) deny the probabilistic nature of the process, and call the unfortunate “weak”. The unfortunate decry the inequity of the outcomes and call the fortunate the benefactors of unearned luck.
Ron is doing a great job of demonstrating unscientific, motivated reasoning, since acknowledging the possibility of unfortunate outcomes for the “strong” undermines the entitlements of the fortunate. Which can be very damaging to their psyche/ego.
The problem our society faces is that outcomes often aren’t probabilistic enough. The main determinants of fortune are too often not luck, but the ability of one’s parents to create opportunity for, and invest in/ support their children. The people that end up with favorable life outcomes have more ability to do the preceding, and/or reinforce systems that increase the probability of their children having fortunate outcomes (ie decrease the probabilistic nature of the favourability of life outcomes).
The meme is a bit of physics and a bit of sociology.
Oh the injustice of people opting for a different meme template!
Hey mate, too much hyperbole rots your brain.
Please be better informed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Righteous_Among_the_Nations?wprov=sfla1
Yeah the inconsistencies are interesting.
Is it because of the “than”? Do we just not like saying “fewer than”? Because it wouldn’t offend my ear to hear “we need less than 5 chairs”, but “we need less chairs” is outrageous to me, (for less than however many chairs it takes for them to become dequantized) [I did it again there, did you notice?]
Or maybe it’s to do with the minutes being a quantization of something continuous, whereas usually we deal with the transition the other way.
“couches vs. furniture” couches are discrete, furniture is discrete things as a collective.
“time vs minutes” time is continuous, minutes are a quantization of it. That is a difference compared to couches/ furniture. How do we talk about other quantizations of continuous?
Distance: how far is it? Less than 5 miles. Maybe it’s an acknowledgement of the fact that we talk about miles but inherently understand that distance isn’t countable.
Oops that used “than” again. Uhhh… “the battery in my electric car is degraded so I get 10 less miles per charge”. Hmm I’m not sure if that sounds right…
I have had issues with the wifi on mine. Frequently losing connection and having to restart the network adapter or reboot entirely.
Adjusting the wifi to avoid 802.11ax seems to have resolved the issue.
Holly shot! Reminds me of a recirculating linear bearing, not what they were testing and not what they’re suggesting the Egyptians did but neat parallel.
I’m not the one you were replying to and haven’t read the comments you referenced but couldn’t let this stand unchallenged:
It’s not censorship when they’re removing posts by both sides.
Yes it is censorship, it could be censorship with reduced bias, it might even be appropriate censorship. But it is literally censorship to censor speech.
I think of it as directing initiative.
I generally know what’s important but very little of it actually needs to be done RIGHT NOW. There’s actually a bunch of important stuff for me to do coming up. First thing in the morning I’ll list it all out and start tackling things one at a time. None of them are that hard or that urgent really. It won’t take me long to get through. But right now I’m focusing on explaining my experience on Lemmy, this context could actually really help somebody turn their life around. Oh dang I forgot to renew my car insurance, they’re closed right now so I can’t do it this instant, that will be at the top of my list tomorrow. Hmm I should probably get the oil changed too. I wonder if I should have them rotate my tires while they’ve got it on the lift. How do those lifts work anyway? Probably like a hydraulic cylinder or something. I wonder what the difference is between hydraulic oil and engine oil. You’d probably be okay putting engine oil in a hydraulic lift, but I wouldn’t trust hydraulic oil in an engine, even if it was clean. Oh I need to remember to clean the living room and vacuum the couch tomorrow. Oh goodness look at the time.
That didn’t really illustrate the point I wanted to make.
Ummm even though I know what needs to be done I struggle to summon the initiative to start it. There’s always something more interesting I could direct my attention to.
I never really was able to summon the initiative to read a book about organization etc.
But I have learned that short term accountability is really effective to me. The system that has evolved and seems to be working okay is:
Every week I have a meeting with my boss to talk about ongoing projects and what specific tasks I am going to complete on which dates in the coming the coming week.
Every night after the kids are in bed my wife asks me if I have completed everything on my list for that day. (She doesn’t need to know what they are)
What works for me is that I’m not overburdening any single person with what’s traditionally considered personal organization, and my boss isn’t micromanaging me, and doesn’t have to follow up with every task. But, I’m still getting the micro accountabilities that give me that sense of urgency because I don’t want to tell my wife I didn’t succeed.
I have a buddy with adhd and he’s also a musician.
He forgot he had to make a music video.
Not like he really ought to make one to market himself. He is contractually obligated to make a music video and he forgot… well he forgot until it was just barely possible if everything went smoothly and he ran himself ragged.