Honestly, my heart goes out to all these people. Every person on both sides of this senseless invasion is a person. They have parents who probably love them and want to see them again. Friends, siblings likely.

Also, Russia has a long history of conscription, right? I’m wondering how many of these soldiers want to be there.

So much senseless violence and loss of life on both sides, and for what? It’s gross.

I knew it. I after with the sentiment this is a good thing, but it’s really bad for domestic manufacturing. A few of my friends work in manufacturing and their companies are already ramping up assuming these contracts will be fulfilled. I warned them that there may be a rug-pull coming and here it is…

I may be reading this wrong, but that’s almost their entire net worth of $1.57T.

…good

Physical feedback becomes un-ignorable.

If I’m not standing or moving enough, my body tells me because my back, legs, or knees hurt. Drink too much or too late? I’ll wake up at like 3am and not be able to go back to sleep. Haven’t worked out lately? Everyday tasks are perceptively harder and I’ll sleep like trash. Eat too much or not healthy enough? Tummy ache.

Feeling good is simply being kind to my future self and I actively know when I’m mortgaging my short term future.

Now if I could just figure out how to do the same thing with work obligations…

American here, can confirm. Drank the “greatest country” kool aid as a kid, then started to travel in young adulthood.

I’m still struggling with the fact that I feel least “at home” and most isolated in the place I call home. Every single place I’ve ever been outside the US (7 countries and counting, 4 in the EU) has seemed more welcoming, interconnected, simple to get around, and vibrant. Let alone a more reasonable cost of living and a much better safety net.

True Detective, season 1

Yup!

Socialize it.

I think it’s because most people are right handed, often landing harder on their opposing foot, leading to a “rightward” bias, or counterclockwise.

It’s an issue with orienteering where people tend to walk in circles, even when trying to keep a straight line. This is where dead reckoning pays dividends.

It’s on sale for like $2. I’m giving it a shot.

I didn’t truly enjoy reading until my early adulthood. Now I love it, even though I read for a living (working in fintech). My rules that lead to being a book lover:

1. Read 20 min a night before bed. It’s relaxing and makes me tired. I leverage that.
2. Read what you like. Read the first third of as many different genres as possible. Libraries help with this, but used books are also dirt cheap. I prefer “hard sci fi”, where physics is obeyed. Also, I love a good “dude with amnesia” story because it puts you in the same place as the narrator.
3. Don’t guilt yourself for not completing a book. Who cares? Learn to enjoy the process, not the payoff. Bored of the book? Put it down. Move on.
4. There’s no test at the end. Don’t read like you need to know everything. Just try to absorb the story.

These work for me. I finish about 3-7 books a year but start many more.

Benefits I’ve noticed:

• Better attention span. As others have said here, books demand more commitment than other media.
• Extensive vocabulary.
• Gets me away from screens. Working in tech means I use a screen 8-12hrs/day. Going home to use screens for entertainment is a bummer to me.
• I connect with wisdom imparted by books. IMO, “The Daily Stoic” wouldn’t connect as deeply for me if it wasn’t presented in that packaging.
• The social aspect. I promise sharing the books you love with others will kindle relationships, and sometimes life long. That benefit exists whether or not you like the same genres as them.
  • Related: books are never lent; they’re given, and ideally have a long lineage of owners.

These are my opinions, not statements of fact.

Like most things in life, there’s no “right” answer. It just needs to be right for you at that time. Be patient and try to not judge yourself harshly for the things you do or don’t like, but do try as much as you have appetite for.

I recommend Andy Wier (The Martian, Project Hail Mary) and Blake Crouch (Dark Matter, Recursion) to anyone looking to read more engaging fiction.

I get superstitions about being cocky or headstrong. Nearly every time I do, the universe corrects my behavior, typically by me failing in some huge, embarrassing fashion.

There’s another way. Adaptive headlights can fix this: https://youtube.com/shorts/AgxVuXC0T44

You’re not wrong though. Even crappy headlights on taller vehicles seem much brighter to observers. My buddy’s 2005 RAM is proof. When we’re in it, I’d have better luck seeing with a flashlight, but when he’s driving behind my car, it’s like someone’s shining the bat signal into my rear window.

Also, don’t get me started on people who replace their bulbs with HID or LED bulbs but don’t spend the money on projector headlights. It’s infuriating.

All fair points. Also, I meant the EU. 🤦‍♂️

I’ve had some success playing tinnitus ringing over headphones and it made it markedly better. Still comes and goes, but from what I understand, it’s encouraging the mind to start ignoring it. Kind of like going nose deaf.

Or earwax. See a doctor.

Installed my huge emulator library, but GameNative is where I spend the vast majority of my time. It runs PC games from basically any online market (Steam, Epic, Amazon, etc).

Plays 2d perfectly and most of my games are indie titles.

Great “pick up and play” format.

This is my dream. Get stranded somewhere in the UK. Contribute to a society that isn’t completely soul sucking.

I know it ain’t perfect, but what is🤷‍♂️

Yup. Very similar. I quiet the voice in my head saying “I’m too tired” or whatever with “ignore it and just get to it”.

…with teeth