The article was very well written. Unfortunately, 90% of the people I’d forward it to would be TLDR…

Samsung who won’t even provide price estimates/quotes for reparation of utensils WITHIN WARRANTY without being paid $25 before hand. Their products suck that much.

But not all moms/mums are created equal.

Don’t conflate all pigeons/doves with rock pigeons. Or Turd/Musk.

Yeah, in my work I don’t even do a lot of 3D rendering, but 64 GB main RAM and at least 8 GB GPU RAM barely manage to cut it performance wise for the GIS and CAD systems we use.

I really love the pun about Prigozhin, that the plane hadn’t even lifted off when the Albanian prime minister called with his condoleances.

Thank you, I had forgotten some of the memes and jokes from that era.

Like Amazon, which only had net losses for several years (from 1994 to 2002) in order to focus on aggressive growth and outcompeting other similar services by setting excessively low prices on books and media.

Managed to misreply. Was intended to reply to your comment, but ended up as reply to post.

Go by the study. And then if there are other studies, look at the combination of them. Ignore the articles speculations, they do not undermine a study that was supposed to look at “how much micro and nano particles of plastics are released and we’re subjected to when microwaving food in plastic containers”.

Mindfulness for me, now, is to be aware of myself and my surroundings. It started with meditation during a one year chronic pain remedy program, and helped with learning to deal with all the noise that comes up (pain, stress, intrusive thoughts). To not ignore them, but to observe them. Detach myself somewhat and just “look” at it. This helped me to eventually do this during monotonous activities: brushing my teeth, doing dishes, combing cats, vacuuming, even emptying litter boxes. Then to external activities where I am observing the things outside and inside me: waiting in line, sitting on the bus, hiking, drinking tea at a café.

When I exit the state I feel a bit more refreshed. If I need more, and have the ability, I will go and sit in my favourite spot and meditate deeper.

I disagree regarding lying down for bed. Never teach your body to associate the relaxation of meditation with sleep. Unless you only need it for immediately before you sleep to calm your mind.

I can now have mindfulness while doing activities (not driving ofc). Your body will do what you teach it, and I’ve stopped falling asleep meditating when I removed it from bedtime.

Yes, the world needs more meditation.

I don’t brake check people, but I do flash my brake lights a few times if someone is tailgating me. That generally makes people realise “oops, sorry, I was too close”. If they ignore that I slowly turn the cruise control down until they’d rather switch lanes and zip off. Funny how I’m only tailgated when there is plenty of space in the passing lane to the left of me.

The brake checks that the assholes do are when they actually brake to have near-collision vicinity to trigger collision warnings/autobrakes on trucks and busses, or to really rile another car driver up/collect insurance. But they forget that many people nowadays have dashcams (thank you Russian insurance companies!).

I wish I had dashcam footage of the luxury Audi who was repeatedly brake checking buses and trucks on a major highway, swerving in front of them and forcing them all to come to complete stops before dashing away and repeating it with the next big vehicle. But that’s Södertälje (municipality south of Stockholm) for you.

Good question. But at least he used his blinkers, that is virtually never with the case with BMW or Audi drivers.

Looks like one.

Very exciting.

Phone friendlier links: Archive.ph, Archive.org

Just wish I hadn’t opened that site in Safari on iPhone first, putting it in reader mode crashed it so hard I had to restart my phone.

It was just her head and arm. giggles

It’s always easier to complain and threaten than it is to look for solutions that would benefit all parties.