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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • Where I live, that would mean tomorrow I’d work over 14 hours.

    Even if we adjust it so it’s 1 hour of sunlight before work* and 3 hours after (for an 8-hour day on average), I’d work 12 hours tomorrow, but only 4 hours in December. No thanks!

    *For health, sunlight is most important for waking up, so 1 hour of sunlight before work gives just 1 hour to wake up and get to work. Anything less is sacrificing health for evening sunlight.)

    Edit: It would probably be good for SAD in the winter, though, encouraging people to be outside during the daylight hours instead of at work. I could get on board with reduced work hours in winter. ;)


  • IIRC, there is a setting to just make it open an Explorer window every time and skip all the crap. I’m on my phone, so I don’t want to look for it rn, but it’s only a few clicks.

    (It might just skip the OneDrive step; I don’t have documents this way often, so I can’t recall off the top of my head.)

    Ironically, I just passed Explorer to save to a OneDrive folder, but it’s faster and easier to get to the right spot with a classic Explorer “save as” window.





  • The point is that the scapegoat is usually female. Why is Taylor Swift being singled out for her private jet use? Is it because her use is assumed to be less legitimate because she’s a woman?

    A quick Internet search brought up this:

    Among the most polluting jets covered by the list was a Boeing 767 wide-body aircraft used by the Rolling Stones. It emitted an estimated 5,046 tonnes of CO2, the equivalent of someone taking 1,763 return flights from London to New York City in economy class.

    Aircraft owned by Lawrence Stroll, the billionaire owner of the Aston Martin Formula One team, recorded a combined 1,512 flights since the start of 2022. His private aircraft, including two helicopters, also made the most journeys of 15 minutes or less.

    Thirty-nine jets linked to 30 Russian oligarchs – including Roman Abramovich, Leonid Mikhelson and the recently deceased leader of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin – were responsible for 30,701 tonnes of CO2 (equivalent to the total average carbon footprint of around 1,000 Russians).

    Source

    So, attacking billionaires who are abusing private jets is totally fair, in general, but always singing out the woman who does so is misogynistic.

    Where are the Rolling Stones or Laurence Stroll memes?





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    As someone with two “real” jobs and two side jobs, it’s because of interest rates. I can’t afford my house unless I work more than full time.

    On the plus side, my two main jobs have job security and benefits, so I’ll be able to retire early since my pension will scale with my extra FTE. Or I can keep working to the usual retirement age and give lots of extra cash to my kids to start their adult lives debt free and with a head start on a house down payment. So, it’s not all bad.




  • I also think it’s important to have hope for technological advancements. Carbon capture technology exists and is improving rapidly. We need to get to net zero, of course, but we can also go negative and cool the planet to pre-industrial levels.

    The world is changing rapidly, both for the worse and for the better.

    Yes, there is going to be a mass extinction event. But mass extinctions have happened before and biodiversity recovered. We also have technology to save species and reintroduce them later, too. A hundred years from now, when CO2 is back under control, who knows; maybe we’ll be able to “print” extinct species’ zygotes from saved DNA code.


  • I was looking for someone who labeled themselves in both axes of religious belief: theism vs. atheism and gnosticism vs. agnosticism.

    For those who don’t know, the idea is very roughly that theism is the axis that defines belief in higher powers/spirituality, and gnosticism is the axis about whether the beliefs are knowable/proveable.

    So, for example:

    1. A gnostic theist might believe in god and believe they have proof of its existence.
    2. An agnostic theist might believe in spirituality, but that organized religion is just based on other people’s ideas about spirituality, not the divine word.
    3. An agnostic atheist might not believe in spirituality, but that it’s impossible to prove that spirituality doesn’t exist, either.
    4. A gnostic atheist might believe there is nothing spiritual and that the origins of all “spirituality” can be explained by anthropology, history, or human psychology, so it’s all provably false.

    I fall into the gnostic atheist camp, myself. A minority within a minority. ;)


  • Record your baby’s cry! It seems weird, I know, but they lose that newborn cry so quickly.

    In general, though, remember to take pictures of the (literally) shitty moments, too. Kids love to hear stories about themselves as a baby and you’re so sleep deprived right now that your memory isn’t firing on all cylinders.

    Records will help you remember so you can tell your kids the story of the time they shit an over the wall explosively. They’ll love it.

    And I know it seems like that should be something really memorable as a parent, but you’ll be cleaning up so many bodily fluids it isn’t really noteworthy after a while. And did I mention the sleep deprivation affecting memory? I don’t remember.


  • To add to not taking rejections personally:

    In most cases, for skilled work, most jobs that are posted will be filled by someone they already know, if indirectly, through their network of contacts. They often only interview people who come recommended to them, so it means absolutely nothing about you or your skills if you aren’t interviewed.

    On the flip side, networking is incredibly powerful. Meet & impress people. Put yourself out there.

    I’ve bootstrapped a network from effectively nothing in four different cities/towns, now. I started by just showing up in person to introduce myself and tell them about my skills and that I’m looking for work. Then, once you have your foot in the door, make sure you’re staying visible and contributing so people remember you when you apply for new jobs/promotions. Networking has landed me literally every single job I’ve ever had. (Well, not counting my school’s co-op program.)