Depends on the task. For larger project I need sub goals. Break the job down into smaller tasks. I don’t like starting stuff that can’t be finished in the available time that day. It’s better to have 5 smaller targets, so I can do one or two of them that day and scale up or down depending on what happens. I like to reserve time to also clean up the stuff, so I can continue on stage 3 the next day from scratch instead of leaving a stressful mess that’ll get in the way and remind me of having do it.

For more mondane stuff like cleaning it’s mostly a matter of just putting things back once I’m done. Cleaning is a lot easier if I don’t have to tidy everything up first. Cooking is the same. Most dishes involve some time where food just heats. Clean up your fucking mess in that time, so you can start cooking in a clean kitchen again tomorrow.

Just offering a helping hand.

Absolutely. I read your post assuming it was intended to be in agreement to begin with.

I like how this is even possible on Lemmy in contrast to other places where disagreement is assumed as the default.

Yeah well, I don’t stop strangers on the street to have a conversation about politics.

Most recently the debate where I live has been about agriculture against the environment. The subject came up at my last family gathering and despite the unspoken notion to keep it as civil as possible and just to nod in agreement I decided to stand up for my own opinion and made them think. Nobody dared to speak up for the opposing side, which would otherwise have been the consensus, and by now I’m pretty sure I’ve got my point across and that they themselves will be exposing this point of view or at least bring up that I’m of that point of view if they ever get into that debate elsewhere.

I count that as a win. Also the government made a decision yesterday in this favour, and while I obviously can’t take any credit for that, at least my family will now understand why the decision was made.

I believe that a person can only change their mind when they themselves understand something.

F.i. You can’t teach math. You can provide a pupil the necessary examples to come to the right results, but you cannot force feed knowledge. It only makes sense to the pupil when it makes sense in their own mind.

I also believe that many casual right wingers only hold their political views because they didn’t think about it and didn’t generate their own opinion. They caved in to group pressure. Each and every one of them must have at some point been aware of a situation in which they chose to not want to think about the righteousness of it and simply went with the stream of the group that they wanted to be in, even if it didn’t necessarily align with anything they’d ever heard or believed before, because they were afraid to challenge the view. Some of them even pretend to have formed this opinion themselves and act proud and superior for going against a more commonly acknowledged opinion. But they’re not. Their talking points are the same on a global level.

In every country in Europe the topics are the same, the false arguments are the same, the talking points are as irrelevant everywhere, yet they keep yelling them as if they had witnessed the second coming of Christ themselves. They’re being fed like sheep, and I’ll be honest and admit that I don’t know how it works that well. It shouldn’t but it does.

Anyway, I do not want to make group pressure, nor do I want to force my own opinion on them in a similar manner. I just to debate them enough and provide them with the necessary examples that they can form their own actual opinion.

I suppose it depends on what shape you already have in the 4th dimension.

If you or the current 3d space don’t already occupy any length in the 4th dimension, then you’d simply disappear from the world, or from your point of view, the world around you would disappear. Just like a cutout stick figure on a piece of paper.

Now, you can obviously move a flat piece of paper upwards without destroying the drawing, so if your friend is kind enough to include your surroundings in the dimensional shifting, then you’d be fine. Fly around the 4th dimension in your bedroom or whatever.

Be vocal about it. Not just online. Word of mouth is much stronger than a thousand online posts.

Posting about it on the fediverse does jack shit, because we already agree. Posting on Facebook or shitter where the boot lockers are also does jack shit, because the algorithm will sort your opinion out of where it needs to be, and it’s cost free for them to post their angry indoctrinated talking points.

However there’s absolutely nothing Zuckerberg or Musk can do to stop you from expressing your opinion to your family and friends in real life.

I’m fucking done with avoiding topics of politics out of politeness at family gatherings. I have absolutely no desire to cozy up in unspoken agreements of class war or racism or fascism.

I speak up, and so should you. Keep in mind that you need to repeat a point at least 3 times before they even begin thinking about it themselves. And that’s what you want: Them to start thinking. They will come to right conclusion if they just start thinking.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0779982/

It depends on how nearsighted you are. If you have something like -5 you’ll still notice being nearsighted, whereas someone with only -1.5 might suddenly experience seeing perfectly.

It’s because the refractive index of water is different than air. Also, the pressure has an effect on the eye, changing the default focus. Finally you’ll also have a more narrow vision from goggles or from squinting, which itself helps focus ever so slightly.

If you’re in a pool there’s not a whole lot of details to look at to begin with and we’re not terrible good at judging distances under water anyway. So the whole experience is different and difficult to compare to normal vision.

If you do get goggles with lenses you might want to choose a correction that is a few points under your normal glasses because the water gives you one for free.

If you nitpick your own suggestions the same way, you’ll find that nuclear weapons were made by Germans in America and that rock music is a rip off of blues which is from Africa, and so on.

All inventions are based on knowledge that comes from somewhere else. It’s the exchange of knowledge that pushes inventions forward. It is very rarely the country of where that person had his or her ass situated at the time of the patent application that caused the invention.

Here are some.

• Antibiotics (Germany)
• Bluetooth (Denmark)
• C++ (Denmark)
• DVD (Japan)
• Electric clock (UK)
• Graphene (Canada)
• Helicopter (Russia)
• Linux (Finland)
• Penicillin (Scotland)
• TNT (Sweden)
• Wegovy (Denmark)

I keep a professional distance to all my co-workers regardless of age, gender, title or experience.

I don’t even know which is worse; working with people you like or people you don’t. Both have their challenges in time.

I’d definitely stay clear of any clique mentallity. Best to stay assertive with those sorts of people.

Or in sports terms. Don’t get dragged into their drama. They can keep that shit game on their side of the court. You focus on the ball.

Nobody can hear you lying in space.

Motörhead - Heroes

Original by David Bowie 1977.

motörhead recorded the cover version while recording their last album in 2015.

Generally I would say I like the music of Bowie better than motörhead, but in this case, their cover of his song is better than the original.

Yeah, I think the word means the same to both groups, and the ones using it in a positive sense just needs to own it. Don’t let the ones using it sarcastically take ownership of that use.

If someone called me “wOkE” to my face, I’d say “yes I’m woke, do you have problem with that?”

The definition is one thing. You can easily look it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke

The use is another. People are obviously not on the same page in the way it is used.

The word has existed in American politics since the 1930s.

It is only recently that it is being used by Republicans as a negative term.

I think walking is on the right track. If you feel mental fatigue from playing music (or other hobby), you will need to recharge and get new inspiration.

Physical activity is the best way to let the mind recharge.

Personally I currently have a lot of wood to chop, and so I do that hard manual labor just to disconnect the mind. People keep asking me if I want to borrow their electric wood chopper. I have turned down 5 people by now, and my in-law even delivered one without asking - insisting to help out. Obviously I don’t use it, because that’s not the point at all. If I wanted chopped wood I could simply buy it. I want to chop wood, because it’s a way for me to mentally zone out.

Anyway, you can spice up your walks by bringing a sketch pad and draw something. Perhaps that’ll keep your mind more focused on observing the sorroundings and giving a purpose to the walking.

Don’t tell me how to pronounce TLA.

You’re supposed to have a plastic handle for it.