insomnia itself and especially caused by trauma can be much more harmful, the author did choose a weird and stereotypical example but if you can’t even get a night’s relief from your stressful impossible to escape situation. after years of a situation why wouldn’t you just assume the long term is bleak and prioritize short term counter productive relief.

assuming dying is something you’d be avoiding at all costs at that point really shows a lack of empathy

I need to keep things new or hopeful, so trying new systems, new supports like therapy, or arrangements with friends to do a little work and exercise. DBT has a lot of small things that help https://dialecticalbehaviortherapy.com/.

Systems I’ve tried:

• On/Off days: I can push and try to be normal, and expect it will make stuff harder the day after and probably crash
• Straight outta the house: work from a coffee store instead of home esp if I feel laggy
• Improve the moment (dbt) I’m going to stay in bed, what are two things I can do to feel less shitty while I do, usually this is take meds, drink water, pee.
• do something different, I was depressed as hell and not leaving bed more than a few times a week and kinda decided to try standup, going and watching gave me a lot of inspiration and realized these people aren’t that great. I’ve moved onto Improv, but a lot of the people I met there keep popping up
• Choose a depression station, maybe a chair that isn’t bed or a relaxing couch. This video has some good ideas on maintaining mental boundaries if physically isn’t possible. https://youtu.be/snAhsXyO3Ck?si=bgJ6xhT2VfxbvM7x I like how it suggests to think of the hygiene of your different stations.

I still have down times, and still using a tonne of supports. But happy to talk about it as it’s shit and not fun for anyone.

The monthly log in bullet journaling, along with the life logging thing where you just write things down as you do them, has a nice spam->review cycle, your most important stuff tends to bubble up anyway.

Affinity was an affordable and featured alternative to the Adobe suite, but just sold to canva so yay capitalism

Mercury was a before release review game, which for mobile graphics was pretty mind blowing for me at the time of release.

https://youtu.be/vSWmmA9PkZ0?si=OsdH1ue1kpJ04S6Z

they’re just prequels really, I can’t remember anything groundbreaking. It’d /maybe/ be better to play 3 and vice city first, but it’s mostly just callbacks. Liberty city stories protag is just a quest giver. Neither super spoils the other but I might be wrong.

They have a crisp cubish feel which was fun, I remember playing around with mods

When looking back with green tinted glasses green tractors just look like normal tractors

I’m not 100% on what you’re after. But in a past life I set up an XSL stylesheet to transform an XML file into a website via Php. it’s feasible you could set something similar up. XSL/XPath as a query language is really slick and similar to CSS, as templating language it’s not amazing but might suit your case.

Somehow it’s still going so it really shows that technical debt is forever.

The huge popularity of free-to-play online games such as Fortnite and Roblox consumes hours of playtime that had previously been spent on $70 titles

Wonder if people buy less of things if they are more expensive but not as good as the things they already have.

so in twenty years this comment will be “we only ai generated like respectable men” under an article about the formerly Twitter X Friendcorp LinkedIn For Friends headquarters being invaded by naked Taylor swift robots

I like VPNs because you get a colorful selection of who to potentially get man in the middle attacked by.

Lcd soundsystem: home

for a lot of reasons https://youtu.be/53yEyj0mjfo

That’s also assuming true artificial intelligence isn’t just an emergent property of electrical grids, networks and computers. Like that thing where it seems like computers are listening, maybe they are.

I had no idea this was happening and I’m so relieved it hasn’t.

In a learning age band so bespoke, and education professionals so highly paid and resourced, I can’t imagine why this would be an attractive option.

Maybe we let professionals decide what tool is best for their field

We do this every single windows release, the major downside of faster version cadences is we’re going to get multiple versions as the “best version”.

What they don’t mention is that some of their printers don’t work on the 5ghz band, which means that it’s difficult to get it to work with newer routers and band switching. This also breaks usb printing and wifi direct printing. Print anywhere barely works and other fun times since trying out one of their printers.

Elex II
Expeditions: Rome
The Gunk
Nobody Saves the World
Midnight Fight Express

Compared to other sites, and their relative costs to run, and amount of ads. YouTube has been fairly ok. They have balanced the consumer friendly skip this video and sometimes short ads with the probably higher engagement metrics from them.

However YouTube the lite plan being discontinued right before this mostly means I’m going to move from Gmail to Zoho and wait for the ban.

The final YouTube lite plan didn’t include removing ads from music, which seems to suggest the reason why YouTube music is bundled and maybe even exists, is in part the music industry being shitty.