If I could sleep on Sunday nights, maybe they wouldn't be so bad. But for something like 8 years running, come Sunday night I'm usually tossing and turning for an extra hour or two, and when I do fall asleep it feels like I'm just barely skimming the surface. I'll roll over and look at the clock at 2 a.m., and first think I still haven't slept at all, and then realize I can remember dreaming, but otherwise seems like I'm still on edge.
I don't know that this is about work. I'm usually not thinking about work at all. I'm not dreading work or worried about it. But after so much time, and it occurring so consistently on Sunday nights, I don't know what else to attribute it to. It doesn't happen on vacation, either, but then usually everything's messed up on vacation, so I don't know if it's a good test. I need to pay more attention when there's a Monday holiday and I'm home, I guess.
I don't spend a ton of time there, but I flip through a couple of times daily. For me, #1 is pretty important, and I know too many people who mostly/only put info on Facebook, and I wouldn't keep up well enough with otherwise. Also, I'm pushing pics/updates of my kids to family elders, all of whom embrace Facebook and it's easier for me to use one centralized tool than to keep 20 separate households in the loop.
What I've found that really helps is an addon called FBPurity (or purify?). It's pretty customizable, but can cut out a lot of junk. Not just ads, but also a lot of the second-hand "so-and-so commented on this unrelated thing" notifications. It also can keep the feed in chronological order and resist duplicates. I'll flip through a couple of screens and then get a "if you want more stuff here, get more friends" which is Facebook's way of saying they've run out of pertinent data. It really makes a huge difference in how I interact with the site.
(As for #2, if you don't want updates, you can technically be friends but just hide them from your feed, so that's already a solved problem.)
With the dongle, sure. But either I need to buy three dongles (car, office, and home) and then hope I don't lose the little things, or I have to try to carry it with me everywhere, which almost assures that I it'll get washed or lost or left behind pretty quickly. And there's at least a couple of hours at work where I can't listen and charge my phone at the same time. That's not ideal, and certainly a step down from what I've got now.
I eat breakfast at work, as do several of my co-workers. For me that's got less to do with having/making time, as I just don't like mornings. I get up as late as possible, do as little as possible to get to work, and I'm not usually really hungry until I get there anyway.
I think I saw recently that some of the Ghost Limb issues can be addressed by the ways the nerves were severed. I can't recall the source now, so I could be wrong, but I seem to recall that the effect could be cured by trimming or modifying the damaged nerve endings, and they would stop reporting phantom limbs.
The people on the right talk about how excellent Christianity is...;
There's correlation between conservativism and putting a lot of weight on group membership. Conservatives are going to feel more strongly attacked by criticism of their group, and be less inclined to badmouth their own team's issues, and more inclined to emphasize the positives.
the people on the left....
Are more prone to consider self-criticism fair game. They'll readily point out the worst aspects of their own team because they want to improve it, and put less focus on the parts they see as positive and working well. A really big chunk of the left *is* Christian.
talking about Islam....
I don't have enough of these conversations to comment or generalize. The snippets I've seen are more along the lines of "they're more like regular people and less like the demons you appear to be making them out to be" but my experience may be limited.
Give it 3 generations, and then let's see what it's become. One day some kid, raised in it by joking parents, now searching for relief during a 4 a.m. hangover, is going to have a noodly vision and start treating the whole thing as real.
Atheism isn't the lack of belief. It's the belief that there is no such thing as a god.
For the most part, no. A few will make that strong claim, but most do not. Most only say they do not have belief. Of course, if you don't believe, you're going to act like it doesn't exist, and in many ways those two things are indistinguishable.
But in these discussions someone always comes along and insists that atheism is an active belief in an unprovable theorem, primarily because they're out to paint atheism as just as "religious" or "irrational" as religion. It's a poor argument, and doesn't reflect reality nearly as much as the majority who just say they lack belief.
I think an early anti-smoking campaign went the opposite direction: when asked to figure out the harm a cigarette does, someone went out and timed how long it took to smoke one. Seven minutes. So the phrase, "Every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off your life," was born.
Sleep isn't so bad. I have vivid and entertaining dreams. I'm usually reluctant to wake up, and sometimes those dreams contain creative ideas that carry over in productive ways to waking life.
I find this post illogical. Just because some people are in this situation doesn't mean you can generalize to the claim we're all headed that way. Socrates is a man, therefore all men are Socrates.
I've been looking forward to those. I live at 7100 feet, in the southwestern desert. I'd like to ride on an airplane that's more comfortable than being at home.
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The assistant's name is Paging. The office manager is named Stat.
I'm sorry, but "new promotional rates" is not lowering prices.
1. It doesn't reduce anything for anyone who is already paying.
2. It's a promotional rate. The regular rate is the same.
So, it's a temporary sale to lure in new subscribers. That's different.
Diet isn't particularly different on weekends, so I don't think that's it. Good question, though.
Relax, nobody's spying on you. It's probably only a malevolent demonic spirit, nothing really dangerous.
If I could sleep on Sunday nights, maybe they wouldn't be so bad. But for something like 8 years running, come Sunday night I'm usually tossing and turning for an extra hour or two, and when I do fall asleep it feels like I'm just barely skimming the surface. I'll roll over and look at the clock at 2 a.m., and first think I still haven't slept at all, and then realize I can remember dreaming, but otherwise seems like I'm still on edge.
I don't know that this is about work. I'm usually not thinking about work at all. I'm not dreading work or worried about it. But after so much time, and it occurring so consistently on Sunday nights, I don't know what else to attribute it to. It doesn't happen on vacation, either, but then usually everything's messed up on vacation, so I don't know if it's a good test. I need to pay more attention when there's a Monday holiday and I'm home, I guess.
I don't spend a ton of time there, but I flip through a couple of times daily. For me, #1 is pretty important, and I know too many people who mostly/only put info on Facebook, and I wouldn't keep up well enough with otherwise. Also, I'm pushing pics/updates of my kids to family elders, all of whom embrace Facebook and it's easier for me to use one centralized tool than to keep 20 separate households in the loop.
What I've found that really helps is an addon called FBPurity (or purify?). It's pretty customizable, but can cut out a lot of junk. Not just ads, but also a lot of the second-hand "so-and-so commented on this unrelated thing" notifications. It also can keep the feed in chronological order and resist duplicates. I'll flip through a couple of screens and then get a "if you want more stuff here, get more friends" which is Facebook's way of saying they've run out of pertinent data. It really makes a huge difference in how I interact with the site.
(As for #2, if you don't want updates, you can technically be friends but just hide them from your feed, so that's already a solved problem.)
With the dongle, sure. But either I need to buy three dongles (car, office, and home) and then hope I don't lose the little things, or I have to try to carry it with me everywhere, which almost assures that I it'll get washed or lost or left behind pretty quickly. And there's at least a couple of hours at work where I can't listen and charge my phone at the same time. That's not ideal, and certainly a step down from what I've got now.
I always thought it was Sonopanic, Magmavox, and Sorry.
Don't tell me you've never heard a True Scotsman speak? It's practically unintelligible, until you get used to it.
"Common sense" is just a term that means "agrees with what I already think."
I think then it becomes an Irony.
I eat breakfast at work, as do several of my co-workers. For me that's got less to do with having/making time, as I just don't like mornings. I get up as late as possible, do as little as possible to get to work, and I'm not usually really hungry until I get there anyway.
Ah, whoops. Thanks for the clarification.
I think I saw recently that some of the Ghost Limb issues can be addressed by the ways the nerves were severed. I can't recall the source now, so I could be wrong, but I seem to recall that the effect could be cured by trimming or modifying the damaged nerve endings, and they would stop reporting phantom limbs.
The people on the right talk about how excellent Christianity is...;
There's correlation between conservativism and putting a lot of weight on group membership. Conservatives are going to feel more strongly attacked by criticism of their group, and be less inclined to badmouth their own team's issues, and more inclined to emphasize the positives.
the people on the left ....
Are more prone to consider self-criticism fair game. They'll readily point out the worst aspects of their own team because they want to improve it, and put less focus on the parts they see as positive and working well. A really big chunk of the left *is* Christian.
talking about Islam ....
I don't have enough of these conversations to comment or generalize. The snippets I've seen are more along the lines of "they're more like regular people and less like the demons you appear to be making them out to be" but my experience may be limited.
Give it 3 generations, and then let's see what it's become. One day some kid, raised in it by joking parents, now searching for relief during a 4 a.m. hangover, is going to have a noodly vision and start treating the whole thing as real.
Atheism isn't the lack of belief. It's the belief that there is no such thing as a god.
For the most part, no. A few will make that strong claim, but most do not. Most only say they do not have belief. Of course, if you don't believe, you're going to act like it doesn't exist, and in many ways those two things are indistinguishable.
But in these discussions someone always comes along and insists that atheism is an active belief in an unprovable theorem, primarily because they're out to paint atheism as just as "religious" or "irrational" as religion. It's a poor argument, and doesn't reflect reality nearly as much as the majority who just say they lack belief.
Heh. I want to know the last time that part of Egypt hit -40 C. (Or -40 F, for that matter.)
Yes. We're seasoned nerds who matter. We are capable of understanding an explanation.
Hell, I bet half of us could have fixed the problem, too.
I think an early anti-smoking campaign went the opposite direction: when asked to figure out the harm a cigarette does, someone went out and timed how long it took to smoke one. Seven minutes. So the phrase, "Every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off your life," was born.
Sleep isn't so bad. I have vivid and entertaining dreams. I'm usually reluctant to wake up, and sometimes those dreams contain creative ideas that carry over in productive ways to waking life.
I find this post illogical. Just because some people are in this situation doesn't mean you can generalize to the claim we're all headed that way. Socrates is a man, therefore all men are Socrates.
You know who hyperbolized things for fun? Hitler, that's who!
I've been looking forward to those. I live at 7100 feet, in the southwestern desert. I'd like to ride on an airplane that's more comfortable than being at home.
What possible comfort could you possibly get from having the sink run while you're brushing your teeth? Why would anyone need to do that?