theragu40 @ theragu40 @lemmy.world

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Of course it is. But you know, kids lives only really matter up until they are born. At that point the kids, their parents and their livelihoods and happiness...all that can fuck right off.

sitting for 8 hours doing maybe 2 hours of work

This is funny, and something I've thought about and talked about with coworkers a lot. When I first started permanent WFH at the beginning of COVID, I used to feel really guilty about doing random chores and stuff around the house during the workday. I felt like I always had to be "on" trying to busy myself or whatever, even if there wasn't really work to do.

Over time as we have done a partial return to office and I realized I do even less work on the days we go in, I have done a lot of reflection on the way we used to work when we were 100% in the office pre-covid. My conclusion is that on any given day most people were doing between 1-4 hours of actual work, and the rest of the time was spent wandering around, bullshitting, taking walks, browsing the Internet, etc. And everyone thought that was just fine. But a solid half of most days was literally wasted doing nothing productive at all.

So these days I have shifted my attitude to one that is focused on getting my assigned work done, and being somewhat flexible on meeting times and when I can accomplish things. In return I don't feel guilty if I need to mow the lawn or do some laundry during the day. I have a smartphone and I get notifications. If there is something urgent I'll drop what I'm doing to handle it. If it can wait, I finish up then take care of it. It's greatly helped my sanity and I think it's improved my work, too. We do go to the office once a week or so but I honestly plan to get almost nothing accomplished on those days and consider it a bonus if we do get work done.

Careful what you wish for regarding cubicles. I would kill for a cubicle in our office. When companies implement these modern collaboration space ideas, it's all about hotel desks, movable workstations, short or no dividers and open air spaces.

Having a cubicle to myself was fucking awesome. Now there is no privacy, no space to call my own, no place to simply have a phone conversation without everyone within 50 feet of me hearing every word.

I used one of those shit delivery services twice. First time they completed fucked my order and I had to drive to the restaurant to get it fixed. Second time the food literally never arrived and I called the restaurant who said it was picked up. Took me an hour of playing phone tag with a bunch of super unhelpful morons and then I still had to go over from a completely different restaurant to get food.

Never again.

This is happening to me right now, too. And it feels shitty because I know the servers aren't asking for this.

But you hit it on the head. My guilt levels are rapidly diminishing over time because I am just bombarded with requests for tips in every scenario no matter how ridiculous. My internal threshold for when a tip is merited has been steadily going up as I'm forced to sit and think about it during what feels like over half of transactions I make.

I'm excited for BG3 but I guess I struggle to see why it needs to be compared to TotK at all. Feels like that is selling both games a bit short. They aren't really that similar.

Unless you're Waukesha, Wisconsin, where they specifically voted to stop giving kids handouts (i.e. free lunch). Because, you know, kids should work for their food or something instead of using their energy to learn.

5th grade basketball coach wanted nickname for player, decided on the big ragu. Thebigragu was taken on aol messenger, so settled for theragu. 40 was jersey number.

Yeah camparis are pretty legit.

Which is why you use them together to give you the best shot you can have.

Cameras should be used in conjunction with your mirrors, not exclusively. It makes more sense to me to learn to use safety features rather than ignore them.

A lot of things around the world were better before the Internet. And they were definitely better before smart phones reached ubiquity.

Or you can be like me thinking I hated tomatoes, until I tried home grown ones finally and realized it isn't tomatoes I hate it's shitty mealy store bought tomatoes that I hate. And it turns out everyone actually hates those because they are shitty.

Completely fair!

• Pulp Fiction
• Donnie Darko
• The Big Lebowski
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
• In Bruges
• The Matrix
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Ocean's Eleven
• Indiana Jones original trilogy
• Get Out
• Bladerunner (a book, apparently)
• Bladerunner 2049
• 28 Days Later
• American Beauty
• The Usual Suspects
• Gladiator
• Schindler's List (also a book??)
• Saving Private Ryan
• There Will Be Blood (dammit, a book!)

It's maybe the best theater movie I've ever seen.

It's just completely overwhelming in that setting.

My daughter just turned 6!

She loves watching, in no particular order:

• Horizon Zero Dawn (when I let her)
• Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart (rivet is a strong female co-lead)
• Bugsnax (lots of characters of various genders)
• Tears of the Kingdom (Zelda is her favorite)
• Metroid (she's watched Prime Remastered and Dread and loves that Samus is a girl)
• Mario Kart 8 (so she can be peach or Rosalina)
• Kena Bridge of Spirits

She also likes playing Pokemon and Drawn to Life now that she can read.

I'll have to check it out. I'm not scared of some terminal myself, but it's something I always question when people say "oh you don't need terminal for everyday things", because my experience has always been the opposite. Thanks for the reply!

Yeah I think this is a bigger risk for Tesla than current owners selling.

I'm not in the market for a car right now but there's a decent chance that the next one I buy will be an EV. Up until maybe 2 years ago I'd have said a Tesla would have been top of the list for options. I don't really feel that way anymore, and Musks instability is the primary reason.

I think his antics will have a snowball effect on future sales.

If that is the case today then that indeed is a huge leap forward. The last time I tried in earnest to daily drive a Linux distro was a couple years ago and I was running terminal commands almost immediately for basic desktop setup items like network settings, setting up multiple displays, or installing/configuring applications.