What happened to the inquiry/trust busting of Colesworth? Last time I heard they were being made to give suppliers a less exploitative deal I think? But I donβt think anything was done about the price gouging.
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I'll just have a listen to two weird LPs I bought the other day. Not sure what they are, they could be awesome or they could be awful or they could be risible.
Ever since, I deleted InstaGratification and Tik Toxic, I've noticed (finally) that my doomscrolling on those apps has been replaced with the following:
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opening 500 tabs of long form videos and reading the comments to find out what the video talks about. Most of these videos are things to do with self-help, which I am exhausted learning about from information overload. It's like watching how to stop procrastinating videos and inadvertently using them to procrastinate. Trying to find out how I can do the work on myself is stopping me from actually doing the work.
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compulsively googling every thought I have. This has lead me back to the other place, because a Redditor from seven years ago has had the exact same experience as I'm having. I think it's doing more harm than good though, and am thinking of avoiding Reddit altogether. I played my keyboard and ukulele for a bit, even though I have next to no dexterity, and I felt way more at peace doing that than actually trying to reassure myself that I'm going to be better by reading advice on how to be better.
The people in my life use junk content on social media to switch off, but my brain has been switched off for so long. It's time to get into the real world. Maybe one day I'll be able to be indoctrinated into Big Social Media again, and use it in a healthy way. Not today. Not tomorrow. Or the next day.
Social media content is purposefully designed to keep users on there for as long as possible. Because more data collected, more advertising presented, more $ for the owners. Itβs designed to keep you watching and not realise the time passing. Most people donβt even realise itβs messing with them, so you are already winning just from that.
Here is what I have learnt about "self help" videos. If I have a read an academic book on the topic then I can pretty much guarantee I know better than the twit giving us their opinion.
99% are crap or worse than crap, many are actually harmful.
Just watch videos by famous and respected peer reviewed doctors, but these videos are far and few between.
I do watch some how to videos. Like how to do upholstery, etc.
so hugs and just keeping doing real stuff. :)
Me: all I want right now is to watch a streaming service My tablet: ?!&@/[>update&Γ)(@:;$&fuckyou&#]<;@;@;Γ
TV?
People in Carlton shouldn't be allowed to wear black if they insist on jaywalking.
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YOU'RE NAUGHTY
Bane of my life is cyclists in tarmac colored clothing. You'd think they WANT to end up in the ER.
If I was riding at night I'd wanna be lit up like a Christmas tree.
Oh I am. Hi-vis vest, lights fore and aft, and gold sparkly duct tape on my bike carrier and wheel rims. And hi-vis gloves for signalling. Just wish more people did likewise. Worst I ever saw was a young woman with her BABY in her bike carrier - black/charcoal grey clothing, no lights, no helmet and wobbling down the centre line of the road and not stopping at stop signs or signalling. And wearing a long long scarf that was easily long enough to get caught in the wheels, Isadora Duncan style. I'm cool with her decision to risk her life, but her BABY???? Not cool.
and without even any lights on?! Suicidal... I wish I could say I've never seen any but they're really not uncommon.
People anywhere shouldn't be allowed to wear black if they insist on jaywalking.
That is very true. I can't understand why people would stop in the middle of a two lane road that's poorly lit wearing dark clothing. It's rampant here.
I confess: I was up all night playing contraband police (I was stuck on a level and it was annoying me), playing some missionchief, and messing around with JavaScript and python.
I don't understand JavaScript and evidently chatgpt doesn't either, because my attempt at modifying a chrome extension didn't quite work. But I used it to create a python script to take a few dozen JSON files from a web scraper, de-duplicate them, and output it to a CSV file, which can then be imported to google sheets and bulk archived onto the Wayback machine
I've always read JSON as Jason in my head. Now that I found out what it stands for, it could still be JaSON.
The only people I've heard pronounce it drastically different from Jason are the tech elitist types. You probably know the ones. The arseholes that spend 13 hours a day on tech/programming forums and nitpick every single fucking thing anybody says
I say it slightly differently from Jason, but barely noticeable. Jason is more like Jas'n, the O mostly vanishes. Similar to Melbourne, it's not Mel-Born, but you still out yourself as a yank if you say Mel-ben or Mel-bin, because almost everybody from here gets rid of everything between the b and the n. It's just Melb'n. JSON I pronounce with a more noticeable O. I do not say "Jay Ess Oh Enn", or JavaScript Object Notation. It's just Jason with a harder O
Australia is so beautiful, the colours are just incredible. ISS film footage from July. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojbBLENz15s
That's incredible. I expected a myriad of space junk.
Stayed in bed for an alarming amount of time today watching Fast Forward and Full Frontal clips after someone on the other site mentioned that the infamous breakdancing reminded them of Jane Turner doing gymnastics as Berylina Stumpy...
Why do I sabotage myself like this! Spent a very large part of a very fine day in bed, when I actually HAD energy to do other things if I'd just put away the phone. Could've indulged in videos at night instead. Now I am behind on stuff for next week. At least I got a brisk 30min walk in rather than sitting in negativity.
I watch tv in the mornings and then do work and activities until bed time. Morning is my time. :)
I did the same, but on the couch. Watched some tv but was mostly on my phone (and I looked at that clip too!). It does feel like Iβve wasted the day but was feeling pretty blah earlier, so maybe needed some downtime. Good on you for getting a walk in - I reckon half the battle is just getting out of the house sometimes.
Half the battle is getting out of bed, for me π once I'm actually out of my cocoon it's easier to get going. I think I've been so fatigued recently that my body needs some conditioning to want to do something with my life. I fit the walk in with a time sensitive errand. It's the only way I seem to get any exercise in.
It has been nice to completely and fully blob out in some ways though. I feel ready to get stuck into some uni work tomorrow!
i didnβt know i miss hanging out with people my age that much
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Can I just have a fucking break? I put a cat down three weeks ago, and now a dog has fucking cancer?
Can I just get a month where nothing fucking goes wrong?
That's extremely rough mate. I'm incredibly sorry. I hope some good turns come your way soon and that you dont need to fight battles at work to take some time off
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I'm crossing my fingers for the best
Iβm so sorry. It doesnβt let up
Hugs. The worst news. So sorry for you and your family.
Hugs. Thatβs awful.
Iβm so sorry. Internet hugs.
Oh shit man I'm sorry, that's fucked.
so many hugs
I'm so sorry, that is devastating. Sending you my love, please let me know if I can help in anyway π
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