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Volkditty

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  • It's Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year! What is everyone up to?

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  • First day of our first real vacation in...5 years? Since COVID, certainly. Long day of travel, couple of flight delays, but successfully made it to the hotel with enough time to order room service and collapse into bed.

  • What's the last message you received from somebody before they passed away?

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  • Every year we have a big family group chat to decide who will bring what to Thanksgiving even though everyone ends up bringing the same thing every year. I always bring pies.

    This year, my young, recently-married cousin said his wife was going to bake a pumpkin pie. He got that message out just moments before I hit send on my annual "I'll bring pies" text. A few minutes later I got a text from my dad saying, "Your grandma wanted to make sure you didn't buy a pumpkin pie since Allie is going to make one." I said I did see it and I promised not to upstage the newest member of the family. Apple and cherry were still mine to cover.

    Three days later grandma died in her sleep, and I take that as a sign to never buy pumpkin pie again.

  • Excel started development thousands of years ago

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  • Pivot tables are what separate us from the ape.

  • Bird flu has hit California dairies so hard that they’re calling it ‘COVID for cows’

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  • Seriously, it was right there.

  • Undocumented Chinese men say they're baffled by Trump's reported plans to deport them first

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  • I am not a socialist, trade unionist, or a Jew, so I don't see any problems here.

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  • Coronation Street. I spend $10 a month for a BritBox subscription to watch just that.

  • Superman | Official Teaser Trailer

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  • I get that it's cool to shit on superhero movies these days, but man I hope this is good. I am a DC fan and the Snyder movies never did it for me.

  • Smartwatch Shock: Study Finds Harmful Forever Chemicals in Wristbands

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  • Oh no! Forever is such a long time!

  • Box Office: Disney Clears $2 Billion in 2024, Only Studio To Do So

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  • Oh cool, congrats Disney.

  • What object that you recently had bought really love?

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  • Nice pair of sunglasses. Wanted them, didn't need them, bought them anyway. My wife thinks they look nice on me. Win win.

  • How do you avoid getting trapped by hyperfokusing on the wrong thing when working from home.

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  • What has worked (a little bit) for me...

    Make notes and reminders everywhere. Everywhere. I have time blocked off on my work calendar, do this specific task at this time, do this specific task at this time, 15 minutes of fucking around time in between. I will literally make a calendar appointment for taking breaks from work. I have a Kanban board of personal tasks to work on. I have alarms on my phone and watch reminding me to take a break for lunch or when to clean the litter boxes, etc.

    One benefit of having reminders everywhere is that even when I'm consciously avoiding "The Thing I am Supposed to be Doing," there's a higher probability that I will land on something else productive to do instead of zoning completely out. I know I need to write this report by the end of the day, but I just saw a reminder that I need to reschedule my dental appt. Great, I still did something productive. Now I'm one step closer to actually writing that report.

    It's also important to give yourself grace and acknowledge that you'll never be perfectly productive. Sometimes my 15 minute fuck-around break last 30 minutes. That's OK. Breathe and get through it. Find the next post-it note or block of time on the calendar that tells me what I should be doing and make an honest attempt to do that. It's not 100% effective, but it does help set the guardrails so I don't get too far off track.

  • ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

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  • Glad your kid is safe. Cannot imagine getting that phone call.

  • ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

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  • [Serious] What non-religious video(s) lights a fire under your ass to get shit done?

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  • Not for the music video so much, but the song "5 out of 6" by Dessa. Such a great hype song. Cannot walk normal when this is in the earbuds, have to strut.

  • Sheriff summons deputies after Burger King got his order wrong

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  • Mangione "really wanted to meet my other founding members and start a community based on ideas like rationalism, Stoicism, and effective altruism"

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  • I started reading Stoicism as an angry discontented man in my mid-20s. At the time it was very helpful and I still appreciate some of the philosophy but I stopped calling myself a Stoic when I saw how some online communities used it as a gateway to right-wing ideology.

    One of the central tenets of Stoicism is that the only thing you can control is your own thoughts and actions. It's very easy to twist that into "the only thing that matters is your own thoughts and actions and no one can ever tell you you're wrong."

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  • Not as bad as when you think, "That first time was probably a fluke...I'll try drinking again."

  • [Discussion thread] Gladiator II

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  • My wife enjoyed it as a simple popcorn flick, I enjoyed ranting about it on the drive home.

    "Ok guys, listen up! Emperor's been killed, and we got a whole bunch of dead senators, gladiators, and soldiers in the Colosseum. I know you guys have probably heard there's an army of 5,000 soldiers marching in a straight line right outside the walls and also that there's another army of 6,000 people that just got mentioned in the previous scene, but still we got a job to do. We gotta get these dead bodies outta the Colosseum right this instant!"

    "Boss, you want us to clean the whole Colosseum right now, when it was loosely implied that the whole city was fomenting a riot?"

    "You're goddamn right, Wazlowski! All the bodies, weapons, any debris, I want it gone. Now!"

    "Alright, boss, you got it. What do you want us to do with the giant platform that all the senators and that old lady were tied to? Obviously we'd remove that, too, right?"

    "Don't get smart with me, Wazlowski. Unchain all the dead senators, have someone climb up onto the giant platform and untie the dead broad, remove absolutely every bit of the carnage that's still raining down all around us, but don't move the giant platform one inch! That gladiator who got on a horse and chased Denzel Washington out of here a few minutes ago even though it doesn't make any sense that he and Denzel both ended up riding horses out of the same gate based on where they were literally seconds earlier, that guy may want to come back here immediately after the battle to gently touch the giant platform with his hand and stoically stare off into the distance, considering all he's lost...and all he's gained."

  • [Discussion thread] Gladiator II

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  • Late the the party, just saw this a couple days ago. What a ridiculous film.

  • Movies @lemmy.world
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    'Anora' is the funniest movie I've seen all year.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What's the weirdest word or turn of phrase you've used recently?

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Football Manager 25 delayed til March 2025

    www.footballmanager.com /news/football-manager-25-delayed-until-march-2025
  • Television @lemmy.world
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    Rolling Stone: The 100 Best TV Episodes of All Time

    www.rollingstone.com /tv-movies/tv-movie-lists/best-tv-episodes-of-all-time-1235090945/