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"So just do it" is a glaring one for me.

Simply because it is disregarding someone else's thought processes and how their mind works. Where simply 'just do it' is not as easily and readily accomplished. This kind of advice is always uttered when one person is going on about how they're tired of something and want to do something else. So this gets mentioned.

It could be a lot of reasons as to why, even if it is down to the obvious reasons. My valid reason a lot of the time is that I just don't have the energy or will to just magically get myself to do something.

Someone just asked the opposite of this question here and I was wondering if there are cases were you're just not interested in something but you know the community is great nonetheless.

What is your line in the sand?

Edit: thank you all for your responses. I think it's important as an American we take your view points seriously. I think of a North Korean living inside of North Korea. They don't really know how bad it is because that is all hidden from them and they've never had anything else. As things get worse for Americans it's important to have your voices because we will become more and more isolated.

Even the guy who said, "lol." Some people need that sort of sobering reaction.

I guess that this 50501 movement has somehow gained some recent popularity from somewhere, but the sheer volume of content, communities, and even instances seems weird.

Where did this all come from and why did it seem to come as a sudden flood?

Could be an attached memory or sentimental value, whatever.

Conventional worth be dammed.

Given to me it would either be the quilts my grandmother made, or the charts my grandfather followed along with during the moon landing.

Personal items would be the assorted thank you notes the elderly have given me from being in retirement industry. Want to make a collage of them one day.

cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/19617221

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I'm interested in ways that people document, prioritize and execute items they need to do. What have you found useful?

For me: I don't particularly care about other Outlook functionality, but flagging emails and managing them in the sidebar has helped me a lot. I have it set to display only items due today, and then sorted into categories like "now," "soon," "pending." If I don't expect to get to an item today I change the due date to tomorrow or next week. Items don't have to be based on an email either, you can just type into the sidebar text field.

When I get emails I either immediately reply, flag it for later action, or ignore, and then I drop all emails into one giant folder. If I need to find something I do it all by search.

I've tried other systems like gmail's to do list, but it feels like way more friction to accomplish the same things, especially wanting to only view tasks due today, and categorizing tasks.

Likewise I've tried to-do-list apps, but not being able to instantly convert an email into a task, and not having documentation easily at hand when I go to perform the task makes them feel more burdensome.

I am in a temporary one-year position (not in the tech field) hired directly by the company so no recruiter involved. At three months in I asked about how I could transition to full time (my manager previously mentioned he was pleased with my performance and was impressed how quickly I was able to ramp up). The response I received from my manager was that I would have to wait until closer to the end of my one-year contract when a "headcount" would be completed. My manager also asked if I was looking for another position (I said No) and to inform him if and when I do.

I took that as a sign that I should start looking, but I'm now wondering how I should communicate my reason for looking for a new position during interviews with a potential employer. What would be the professional manner of answering such a question?

What age would you choose? Mentally you still keep growing and you keep your normal life span. Also, what age are you currently?

For those versed in Feng shui (please, no internet researchers) what is the right Cardinal directions the head of a bed should be oriented to? I've been having sleeping problems, and I had it oriented north-west. Searching the web says south-east it's the ideals direction, but again, nowadays I don't know what sites are ai-generated.

If you can give me a link to a website that may have this information, or have an answer, I'll be forever thankful.

Take care everybody

Like crewless, zero crew. There isn't even any flight attendants.

Pilots are just an AI Autopilot and flight attendants are all just robots.

American here. Granted, the tea stands on its own merit. But if not for TNG I probably would still be drinking standard Lipton like my parents did.

I'm a 3rd year medical student and I've already been caught off-guard a few times by the WILD medical misinformation my patients talk about, and figured that I should probably get ahead of it so that I can have some kind of response prepared. (Or know what the hell they've OD'd on or taken that is interfering with their actual medications)

I'm setting up a dummy tablet with a new account that isn't tied to me in any reasonable way to collect medical misinformation from. I'm looking at adding tik tok, instagram, twitter, reddit, and facebook accounts to train the algorithms to show medical misinformation. Are there any other social media apps or websites I should add to scrape for medical misinformation?

Also, any pointers on which accounts to look for on those apps to get started? I have an instagram account for my artwork and one for sharing accurate medical information, but I've trained my personal algorithm to not show me all the complete bullshit for the sake of my blood pressure. (And I have never used tik tok before, so I have no goddamn clue how that app works)

Hi. I'm new here after becoming completely frustrated with Reddit.

I'm looking to share artwork for stickers and flyers of a political nature, and would like to find find good communities for that.

My questions are; are there more communities than the ones listed in the "Communities" tab/link at the top of the page and is there a community devoted to noob questions?

In my experience learning online is way more effective and efficient.

Why it is not the default option for universities?

So recently I found out that google lens allows you to use a lens overlay to read news apps that are not in English. An example being "The Conversation" app.

I would like to trial it on other news apps from Europe and Asia. At the moment Australia's world news is focused on America and the wars. Nothing incredibly wrong about receiving this news beause it is a concerning and scary time. I just would feel more comfortable knowing I had other options to learn about current affairs and not have language to be a barrier to entry.

World news apps are fine but ideally ones without a paywall. I want to make a little list to look through. Thank you!

-Edit: Thank you to the few that noticed my horrible error in the title. In truth, this was fixed in an earlier today but the voyager app struggled to process the change. I will be more diligent next time before sending posts.

Got an email that says "please pay $33 + shipping to get a t-shirt with our ad on it"

There's people that would actually pay for something like this? This stuff is usually give away for free at conferences and then used as a sleeping dress, no?

Organisational Theory Thesis Survey

Hello, I am doing a thesis on organisational theory. I would appreciate as many responders as possible.

Survey here, shortened google forms link https://forms.gle/GqdmseDSVgdyUy7FA

Hi everyone,

I've been a single-server built from whatever desktop I upgraded for years kind of guy, with a hostname of the street it is on (better than server, which is what it used to be).

However, at some point in the future my home lab will be located in a place I will not have immediate access to, and since it's getting on in age and due for an upgrade anyway, I'm going to build in some redundancy. So, current names:

• OPNsense micro-router: ingress01
• OPNsense backup: ingress02
• Cluster micro-server with essential services: cluster01
• Cluster micro-server with non-essential services and replicated essential services: cluster02
• NAS: nas
• Powered on remotely when needed:
  • Mac mini dev/release box: macmini
  • Primary remote development server (basically my old desktop): desktop

Bring on the Mini-MacMinifaces, and any other ideas you have.