Cutting toxicity out if my life in general.
I’ve blocked, unsubscribe, and filtered most email. I’ve completely reduced my physical mail to nothing because I don’t need spam every day. I’ve cut out ads on my devices, I don’t need to be constantly manipulated by companies. Speaking of, I left Windows like 2 years ago and it’s been great. I also filtered most news out of my life because it enrages me and I don’t need that stress.
Just going to second this because I had to complain about the process being a pain here on Lemmy, which earned a lot of upvotes, before someone asked how I used the software center and I said the same as the Microsoft Store which was to say not at all. The number of downvotes told me I was way off and I needed to give it a fresh look.
I imagine this in the style of the narrator at the beginning of a Twilight Zone episode.
Reminds me of the Team Fortress 2 Expiration Date animation.
Spy: Final Question… You have a dinner date for seven… what time do you arrive?
Scout: Seven. A.M. Case the restaurant, run background checks on the staff. Can the cook be trusted? If not, I gotta kill him. Dispose of the body, replace him with my own guy no later than 4:30…
Spy: You’re ready.
Scout: Really?
Spy: No. Everything you just said was insane… and, we are out of time. Congratulations. You’re a failure.
They are both on bagels and the reasoning is because I had recently been introduced to bagels and quite liked them breakfast sandwiches, so I figured they would work for a lunch sandwich.
The Venn diagram of games I want to play and games that won’t run on Linux is two disjoined circles. My buddy really likes Helldivers, but that didn’t play nice because of the invasive anti-cheat. That has been the only one.
The urge to overfill may be overcome by using a scale. No need to be precise, but it does help keep you consistent.
They get moody if you don’t give them enough attention and start giving you the silent treatment.
Filters; opt-out of negativity. I switched to Voyager from Boost because it supports filters and I can just blacklist topics that cause me stress. Anywhere I can just stop a topic from ever entering my perception, the better. A single bad headline may ruin my mood for hours from just a glance, better to never get the chance.
Subscriptions; opt-in to the topics and news you care about. Find a good source that offers curated feeds instead of a firehouse of everything. You can only care so much, so use that attention sparingly on things that deserve it.
Avoid algorithms. They are designed to keep your attention on them and outage is good at that. Save your health, find it yourself.
Community. Find people, groups, or organizations that have a similar mindset and share good content with them. If they share good content in kind, you all can improve your state of mind.
An easy answer as it is not for a mortal to decide which gods are deserving, rather the gods must decide by whomever survives.
5 day weeks, 6 weeks per months for 30 days each, 12 months in a year, 5-6 days of celebration of the new year.
I love the idea of working 3 days and being off for 2.
I went to a game for the first time a few years ago. I recall the moment where everyone was sitting around and not doing anything because they were waiting for the commercials to finish. It felt like watching actors drop their characters the moment they step out of the spotlight.
One of my favorite teachers taught computers and pointed out that the less than symbol is towards the side of the keyboard with smaller numbers.
It’s been 14,000 years since a creature was born with the ability to reach that deep or a proper fear of what they will find if they do. Environmental pressure is a hell of a driver of evolution.
Or does that fractional reaction cause the brain to shift forward more than it would if they had not reacted? Could that reaction lead to worse brain injuries? Makes me wonder.
For patients that are feeling up to it, a better score will be assigned to your medical history if you do a sick flip while entering the MRI.
I’m more of a Thanksgiving burrito person.