MoonMelon @ MoonMelon @lemmy.ml

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Same. I just watch StarCraft now. I was never that good to begin with, but playing now is likely to make my withered heart explode.

It's happening in the USA also, farmers in Florida are replacing oranges that have died from greening disease with pongamia tree.

Hmm, interesting question. I would say social media but it's toxic for so many other reasons. Perhaps an online virtual assistant? Or maybe charge yourself a monthly or weekly fee into some account until you complete the task? Since it's purely for yourself, whatever act "costs" you should be enough. A friend of mine was a huge proponent of making physical lists at the beginning of each day. He would then move any uncompleted tasks to the next day's list, and the act of physically writing it was enough for him. He insisted it be on actual paper. This guy was super accomplished so it must have done something for him.

I also work well under deadlines but perform horribly without them. Upon reflection I realized a lot of my motivation is related to not disappointing others and/or embarrassing myself. Neglecting personal projects makes me feel like shit, but it's missing the public humiliation factor so it won't get me moving. A possible solution is to create deadlines for yourself and share them with people who will hold you accountable, or to whom you at least feel accountable. I also try to imagine how I will feel in a week, month, or year down the road when I still haven't done THE THING, and realize that it's only going to get worse the longer I go. This isn't 100% successful but it does work sometimes.

This isn't that rare. It is half the reason people hire personal trainers. The military also uses this technique, by framing failures as letting down your comrades rather than yourself.

This is a tricky thing to balance because using negativity and self criticism can become destructive. My grandma used to have a coal burning stove for heat. She said it was awful because too little coal and it would go out and was really hard to re-light. But too much coal and it would explode and blow coal dust all over their little house. I feel like self hate is kind of like that oven. Unfortunately nothing else has ever truly worked for me.

Also, I should add, one thought that brought me some self-forgiveness was the evolutionary roots of laziness. If you think about it, as an organism, if you're well fed and in a good location your best bet is to chill under a shade tree until something comes up. As humans we are kind of cursed with extra simulation cores in our brain that can constantly iterate every single permutation of the future, and that leads to anxiety, but laziness is actually a virtue from an evolutionary perspective. So cut yourself some slack now and then.

The couple of times I had to do this I was in a bathroom stall by myself, and I had to put the jar through a little hatch in the wall. There was one of those little liquid crystal fishtank thermometers on the jar, and I couldn't flush the toilet, but beyond that nothing crazy. I don't think you get actively meatgazed unless it's the military or the test is for something really serious.

I was the lowest rung CSR punching bag for many years, so no. I think that whole experience is what conditioned me to do what I've always done when I have bad service: cancel, chargeback (if necessary), move on. I've probably only left one or two bad reviews in my life, just to warn others of egregiously unsafe practices. One of those business reached out afterwards to "make it right". Nope, no contact.

Those years also taught me that if you fill out a customer service survey and you give anything less than straight 10's across the board then you are actively hurting the employee.

I just remember Jimmy Smits strapped into a big satellite dish, going fucking "Scanners" on some people.

For me this was Stone Butch Blues.

You've invented Cincinnati.

If you only care about pipes freezing there are low wattage pipe heating cords (also called "heat tape") that would use way less energy than a space heater. Also if you have drafty windows the temporary "window insulation kits" that basically shrink wrap the window work surprisingly well.

When things are great, even small things like a cup of coffee with a friend or a quiet morning, take a minute to say to yourself, "this is really great." Say it out loud. Years later you will realize those moments are as good as it gets, and if you don't mark them they just disappear. Bad moments stick around in your head regardless, but the good ones need to be memorialized.

Heh, you can buy it online, no need to even leave the house!

One of the reasons so many people are dying from it is American dealers buy it raw and then cut their products with it using the Magic Bullet Blender. But it turns out blenders are really bad at mixing dry powders, contrary to the old wives' tales that drug dealers tell each other. So you get one pill with nothing and another pill with a fatal dose.

It's been awhile since I read the book (maybe I should re-read) but from what I remember, while domestic production is possible (and probably still happens to a small degree), it mostly dried up because it's soooo easy to import it to Mexico and truck it up. Or, in the case of the OP link, import the precursors, put it together in Mexico, and truck it up. Like, as a drug trafficker, you'd be a fool not to from a risk and financial perspective. It's literally not illegal in China.

Whether this is an "opium war" is another question. We never would have had an opiate crisis in the first place if not for the Sackler's aggressively pushing prescription opiates. Or if we had, you know, the social will and character to actually treat chronic pain and drug addiction.

You're welcome, that book is actually the second in a series, the first being "Dreamland". They were both great reads (and popular enough that I had no problem getting them at the library).

Wikipedia has an overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fentanyl#Synthesis

It's not new. It was developed decades ago as a medical opiate by a renowned scientist. New, easier methods of synthesis have come around since, and abuse is exacerbated by the general opioid crisis in the USA, thanks essentially to the Sackler family.

From what I got reading The Least of Us the chemicals involved in the Gupta method are used in industry and essentially impossible to ban. There was some sort of breakthrough a few years ago that made this (relatively easy) method the standard way street fentanyl is made, although I don't remember the details. Also until fairly recently it was straight-up legal to export fentanyl from China and from there import it into Mexico or have it drop shipped to basically anyone in the USA. Direct import into the USA was illegal but easy to do.

Sorry, I know. I'm just mentioning that your joke is actually MORE cogent than the alternative, which is artists and producers in North Carolina who are feeding their families by inventing this bizarre "maximum effort" they must pretend is warranted for this ridiculous contraption.

I guarantee this involved getting CAD files and shit like that from Tesla, painstakingly creating a game asset, and going through multiple rounds of reviews and edits to "honor" the look of the cyber truck, for both the shape and surface appearance. Probably a few times someone heard, "Elon played the patch last night and he loooooves it, but yadda yadda."

At least that's how it was when we had to add a Motorola Razr to a movie with talking cows.

One is associated with transphobia and the other is Harry Potter.

Media and Entertainment side sucks too. No hate on the actual devs, I know a few of the Maya devs personally and they are competent and want to help, but M+E is like 4% of Autodesk revenue so management doesn't really give a fuck. At least there's still Houdini and Blender is getting better as the time as well.

The same thing happened to me with a few memories:

• People turning into blocks and interlocking to form a city. It turned out to be Unico: Island of Magic.
• Some evil guy crawling into a painting, and something about hair growing. This was a fucked up movie called The Peanut Butter Solution. This one legit scared the shit out of me as a kid and I had nightmares about it.
• A guy being surrounded with evil looking puppets. This was a stage show called In Search of the Wow Wow Wibble Woggle Wazzie Woodle Woo. I didn't remember this one until the youtube channel RedLetterMedia made fun of it.

These must have just been random VHS tapes my parents got in some bargain bin. I have no idea how we got them or what became of them.