Daily Discussion Thread: ⚡️🐞 Wednesday, November 27, 2024

You can do it.

Ah yes, and how are the astroglia in your medulla oblongata on this fine day. Corpus callosum in good balance?

You should write a book Baku

I, too, am soooooo envious.

Take me with yooooooouuuu! ✨

And why shouldn't Littlehampton have its own chook shed? Just needs a bit of wire mesh, a floor and some chooks I reckon.

This is as much fun as the airport at Mt Gambier back in the 80s during the pilot strike - literally was a tin shed and a coke machine with all 3 of Mt Gambier's taxis waiting outside in the boiling sun. I believe they've upgraded it since.

Wishing you the best and hoping that something can be worked out with your manager.

Document! clockify is a good app with a free level that lets you break up and track work. Even a week or two of that broken into projecta/projectb/ admin/staff management/adhoc queries etc is enough to give you something to point to and ask how to change things. Or if you are asked to do something you can point to it and ask which thing should slide.

(I mean this is totally a do as I say not as I do situation!!)

cant believe it all went to shit so quickly. is this due to the pay dispute?

did you call the cops? I would've

At least he didn't light it up too 🙃

Pizza so U can have leftovers

Everything is going to be alright 🤗

I had this lovely dream about shopping with a friend, that turned into something so awful that I wish my brain would forget it.

dreams… calling Gina Rnehart

In the biz we call that nightmare.

This is definitely weird dream weather.

How may I direct your call? :)

I went bowling recently with work. My repeated loud calls of Over The Line! were neither appreciated or thought of as funny.

It is easy for us to get distracted by the big picture, and it can feel overwhelming when everything is is much bigger than us.

Remember that it is in the nature of our governments to disappoint us - this is because we live in a democracy centered on compromise. This is a good thing! This is another reason for us to have our representatives deal with that process - it allows us to keep moral clarity while they try to get the work done. We can sit in judgement of them while they make the Faustian bargains which keep the peace between those of us who would slay each other in the name of what we think is right. Sometimes, however, we need to look away from the sausage making. Give yourself a break, and come back to the body politic refreshed and refocused.

Would I change the system? Absolutely! Would most people agree with my changes... well... I'm not so sure... hence a system of disappointing compromises.

We can also get distracted by our personal struggles, stuck in the small frame of our own lives.

I am currently stuck in my small frame too, my personal struggles have overwhelmed me and I have found my self seized, stuck, immobile, useless, rotting, failing... well, you get the picture I hope.

I am trying. Slowly, the gears will be oiled, and the machine will move, and I am going to build capacity and become part of a community.

That is the middle ground - the place humans used to live. The way humans evolved to live. Act local, build community, and simultaneously the big picture and the small frame both start improving.

This is easier said than done!

To be honest though, you are already doing it here! This is a community. These people would not see you return to your creator, and I am absolutely certain the creator will be willing to wait many years for you to come back. They will call you when you are both ready.

I am not trying to offer advice, as I do not know your struggles.

I hope that you can continue through them, and I hope that your growth and success inspires others to continue their struggles.

I hope that your success can inspire your community to more success, more unity, and a better life for everyone.

(This post turned out much longer than I had initially intended - tldr: "Keep at it, we're with you")

I’m struggling with getting sucked into doomscrolling. All I can do is try and take a break and think about something else.

Useful hobbies. Practice gardening for if it ever comes down to subsistence farming, and art skills to trade for rations in gulag /j

But no. I’m grateful to be housed and be able to have my pet, that’s what I’m holding on to

When I did this I used to take a bar of Dove soap for my body and hair, a kid’s toothbrush (smaller) and a mini paste + a small tube of Nivea spf15 lotion. And a small roll on deodorant. Chapstick if you need it, a folding travel brush and a couple of hair ties if your hair is long.

That did well for me. I did find my face would get a bit dry though with the Dove and no separate moisturiser. And the tiny Nivea tube is now discontinued.

Is this for plane travel? That’s only the limits for carry on. You can take any size toiletries liquids in your checked baggage.

Can you not buy toiletries there?

Tiramisu is not baked. It’s made up of already cooked sponge which is then soaked in a coffee and liqueur mix, layered with marscapone cream. So if you ever need to be below an alcohol limit, you need to consider that tiramisu contains alcohol. How much is a guess, depends how heavy handed the chef was.

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would he still if there is an inch of water covering it? Dude needs a hobby. Go sit in the garage in a camping chair like my neighbor.

It's possible that if caulk was used, it didn't have time to dry and immediately carked it. Sticking a plastic sheet over it may have helped but then they would've had to come back to remove it. May have just risked it to save you the money of them returning. It was either a definite return to remove whatever was covering it, or a potential return if the fix carked it.

That's just my two cents anyway, I'm just spitballing.

Don't worry about what Seagoon said tbh. My urgroßvater (great grandfather) was captured by the Russians and spent the rest of the war in an actual gulag, he suddenly returned home after the war ended. He could not and would not eat with his family, and would only make himself a sandwich when everyone else was finished (he didn't trust anything he didn't make himself due to his experience). And yet, I have joked many times, while going to work, "welp back to the gulag".

It's an offhand joke, and not worth worrying about tbh. I only said the above to state that everyone has different opinions, and different ways of coping and joking, and I personally do not see an issue with what you said.

But yes, doom scrolling, reading about the US and worrying, it doesn't help our mental state. It's feels heavy and insurmountable.

But, you have us and your hobbies, and while it may be difficult to do everything you want, you can still find joy and peace away from those news sites/reddit/whatever. They are nothing more than enragement engagement machines designed to make us feel angry, sad, and helpless. But you are amazing, kind, considerate, thoughtful, clever, you have so much to offer the world. Don't have to take any advice from me, but overall it's better to avoid the sites that bring us down. You are an integral part of this community 💜💜💜

We certainly live in dark times. The times only get darker if we cannot joke about them.

No one has a monopoly on horror.

No one should make you feel like you cannot joke about those horrors.

It is not tasteless to joke about the horrors that exist, and have existed. It's tasteless to pretend they didn't exist, don't exist.

I want you to forgive yourself for making light. We NEED light.

The dead have already suffered. The dead do not command us. The dead do not control us.

Live for the living. Laugh for the living. Laugh for yourself. Laugh for me. Laugh for us. Laugh because we need laughter.

Here is one of my favourite jokes:

A holocaust survivor dies of old age and goes to heaven. When he gets there he meets God and tells him a holocaust joke.

God says, “That’s not funny.”

And the man says, “I guess you had to be there.”

I didn't mean to upset or chide, I was half joking . hugs

life is insane , who knows what will happen

and can I add that news is presented much differently now than when I was much much younger.

Now we hear every about every single event that happens in Sydney or Adelaide or overseas as if these events have relevance to us. They don't, they aren't news. Yet all these reports add up to a mental image and feeling that the we are surrounded by accident and evil when that's just not true. I don't watch or read local news anymore because it's not local, I just read big headlines now.

Last time I saw a laptop-randomly-sleeping-every-few-minutes issue, it was the magnetic wrist band of a schmancy new smartwatch triggering the magnetic lid-closed sensor in the palmrest.

You don't have something like hot corners set up with that laptop do you?

This is such a lovely way to spend an evening, enjoy!

Yeah, by forcing myself to get up at 7 and staying awake until 9, and feeling like absolute shit.

I'm too hot & sticky to be hungry rn. Maybe a tall iced lemonade?

We sometimes make the thread earlier so people don't actually have to stay up till midnight or after to make a thread.

It can be up to an hour earlier sometimes depending if people need an early night and we've accepted that we don't move on to the thread till midnight or after.