Yeah, feels like this is much less of a challenge in a civilised country. I’d just go and say I’ve got amnesia. I’d probably get access to various supports so I wouldn’t be very worried, I’m sure I could requalify as something quickly enough. Be a bit of a hassle, but I can’t see any interesting ways to exploit it, so I’d just make the best of it.
Futo looks good! It’s the emoji prediction that kept me hooked to SwiftKey. Anyone know the word that will suggest the 😘 emoji? Kiss and heart suggest others. (I know it’s a little cringe, but my partner and I use it a lot in messages so I need it to be convenient.)
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I don’t think crickets really means a lot when your commenting 1 hour after someone else…
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Would never have got purple on its own. I wonder if some of the links are USA specific.
Android phone, old android phone (for bedtime audiobooks without any distractions), Linux desktop, windows laptop (for work), Supernote writing tablet, kobo ereader, pixel watch. I fly quite a lot and always get a look at security when I pull out my 5th device…
My boomer parents shared some boomer comedy video about “pensioner adhd” or something, with an old lady trying to send a letter and being continually distracted, forgetting what she’s doing and starting a new task, again and again. They were laughing and saying how that’s what it’s like when you get old, and I genuinely didn’t understand, “that’s just what my life is like”.
That, coupled with life long education / career problems that ended with me signed off work for longer and longer stretches I finally spoke to a professional about it…
My mother, grandmother and great grandmother all have same name, but used different short forms to differentiate.
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Failed! For the first time in a long time. I’m pretty hungover, but I do think it was hard one.
I’m sure that’s a good community for lots of folks, but I’d defintely be up for a more random facts / trivia / history / science type stuff rather than American politics, Israel / paltestine, etc. Anyone else up for something? We could start one.
I think that a lot about how many couples I know have mild friction because one of them is an early riser and the other more of a night owl. It can be a bit annoying, but for most of human existence splitting the time you’re awake and vigilant must have been quite an advantage.
Why would I have to abduct my alternate? Can’t I just make a living for myself in the the other universe? I’d be going to one that had much more liberal ideas about identity and needing money. I’m old enough that decisions made during my lifetime could* have lead to fairly different state if lefty / anarchist forces had been more successful than oligarchs and right-wing reactionaries.
*I’m assuming the point of multiverses is they don’t need to be highly likely, just logically possible.
It’s not even upgrade, even twenty years ago, most of them were either always rinsing or on some sort of intermittent timer. I guess when they were just a big communal trench it didn’t make sense for them to be flushed by an individual. (UK / various Europe)
Yeah, I caused myself a lot of misery by trying to follow the “eat the frog first” strategy, and get the big important stuff out the way before the easy / less critical things. Just led to me wasting days not doing the big thing, and all the little things were snowballing into much larger problems.
Now I go with “put the frog on your plate” - I tell myself honestly that the important task should be top of my list, and then proceed to avoid it by doing all the other shit. Sure, I have to deal with the problems of leaving something important til the last minute (and they are numerous) but at least everything else isn’t also on fire.
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To be fair, most cats ‘train’ every day, they just sleep in between. If you ate a controlled diet, spent most of the day sleeping, interspersed with some stretching and running and jumping on things, you’d be I’m pretty great shape.
Can you remember where to allow curse words? I’ve looked through the settings and tried web searches for curse and swear words but can’t seem to find it.