My local Ace hardware is great for cleaning supplies and random hardware, way less overwhelming than home depot or lowes.

Ebay is great for used clothes if you want to update your wardrobe. New clothes tend to be low quality or overpriced. You can get excellent condition used clothes that are high quality for a fraction of their original cost.

What kinds of things are you looking to update?

I would just say I’ve been working here a long time and thought it was policy that I could eat because that’s what I’d been told in the past. Now that I know it’s against policy, my bad! Apologies! Thanks for letting me know.

A small breath of fresh air

I have location services turned off in windows on my work computer and MS word really dislikes it. Whenever I do a side by side window with word included I get a notification (from word) that I should enable my location services in settings

I agree with your assessment. You’re creating healthy boundaries around your work. You’re taking your breaks legally. You’re doing your job. A job it sounds like you took specifically because you didn’t enjoy the other roles. Those other roles probably do need to be reformed. The more people that put up healthy work boundaries, the more likely policies will be adjusted to actually accommodate for (usually legally mandated!) break and lunch periods. If everyone skips lunch that becomes defacto policy and ruins it for everyone (including the patients getting worse care because their team isn’t in top form).

I held on to mine longer than I wanted to but got fed up. There’s definitely friends I don’t keep up with as well now though. Wish there was a simple and secure way to share updates and photos with friends/family aside from group chats.

I never used Snap but back when I had instagram I tried to train my algorithm to show me ONLY cute animal posts by only clicking in to view those videos (selecting from explorer rather than scroll mode). Nonetheless, IG insisted on including fitness and diet influencer videos and random “funny” clips in my feed

I agree, Kirk wasn’t minding the party line on Epstein list matters

TIL!

It’s an urgent “hurry” maybe similar to “careening”

My guy Zo

No one deserves anything in the state of nature, everything just is what it is.

Desert regards The Social Contract. The contract says we mutually agree to behave respectfully towards eachother, to honor eachother’s right to exist and persist in the world. When a person fails to abide by the contract, they aren’t covered by it either. A person who hoards resources beyond what they can possibly use is not covered by the contract and deserves no protection under it.

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

Some days all I do is watch the sky

The research on it is pretty murky because marketing firms frequently fund research studies but if you poke around at some of the many meta-analysis papers out there I think it’s hard to conclude that advertising is a net profit for big companies, at least in a dollars in dollars out sense. Freakonomics did an interesting episode on the topic in 2020.

For a new brand with zero visibility I’m sure ads gain new customers, but established brands (which make up most of the advertising I see) probably aren’t making much of an impact on their sales with their incessant campaigns.

Ads make me especially mad because there’s reasonable evidence to suggest they aren’t effective at increasing sales so the whole thing feels like a scam to waste everyone’s time and money

Learning to make workplace smalltalk will make work easier and more pleasant. You can learn to deflect away from topics that are super boring to you and you can develop an “I’m super busy” persona for times when you need to focus.

Glad they canceled the program when parents said something.

AFAIK most clients don’t automatically tag posts as any language, so almost everything is lumped under undetermined. When I post from voyager I don’t have an option to select the language.

Some former software like kbin automatically tagged language and added hashtags automatically to make posts discoverable by microblog fedi communities. Maybe mbin or piefed are currently using that capability?

But I think the short answer is that the language feature isn’t very practically useful right now, but might be in the future as features are built out/expanded.

Things like good public education make society more pleasant to live in for everyone including greedy opportunists and their families.

Same with balancing resource extraction against environmental stability.

What billionaires are doing seems totally illogical and self destructive even from a greed perspective.

Even if we assume they’re thinking they can escape on a space ark it makes no sense to want to live in the cold, harsh, hostile environment of a space instead of on the one planet that we can naturally breathe on that also happens to grow delicious things and stuff.

From no perspectives can this be a smart move, I refuse to believe it!

I just use a spreadsheet currently. No fancy template or anything basically just a monthly expenditures list into a few categories.

I used/liked Goodbudget (an app based simulation of an ‘envelope system’) for a while. I think it was especially helpful for developing budgets across moves if that makes sense. Not sure what their free features look like nowadays but before you could share it between people so your whole household could see how much was available in the “groceries” ‘envelope’ for example and move money from another ‘envelope’ if they needed more.