If a country has ethnic/lingual, racial, gender/sexual, or wealth requirements is it really a democracy?

I’m not convinced that the USA was a democracy prior to 1964.

1+2 is not always online on ps5, in fact I can’t get it to go online at all!

I can only speak from my own experience.

My strategy is committing to planning my day at the beginning of the day (9:10AM after I’ve gotten my kids to school) and then talking with my wife before bed about how well I managed to stick to the plan. Ie did I actually plan tasks for the day, did I accomplish those tasks, is there anything she’d like me to add to tomorrow’s tasks etc.

Planning my day includes assigning time frames for the tasks, including one task right after planning. If I know I’m likely to want to play video games that day, plan a time and duration, and set an alarm on my phone to interrupt my play at the time I thought I should stop.

Try really hard to frame things in an analog way. Ie As progress instead of as victory or failure.

What I mean is you didn’t do exactly what I asked, and that’s fine you made real progress towards developing a sustainable solution.

I use a paper productivity planner to plan my day and I’ve found it very helpful. maybe do 30 minutes of research into options available to you.

I am diagnosed with ADHD and your experience sounds similar to mine, ie executive function disorder. Not getting anything done until the last possible moment, and then only the bare minimum because it was all I had time for.

Of the various strategies I’ve employed, having an accountability partner has been the most useful.

I Tell someone what I’m going to do, and when I’m going to do it by, and commit to talking to them about it reasonably soon after the time frame I set.

For example, I never had any success exercising until I started going to the gym with my father. It has been really good for both of us. We both want both of us to be healthier and we’re helping each other do it. Sometimes one of us can’t go and that’s okay, we acknowledge it, move on, and keep each other on track. This has been so successful that I even went to the gym on my birthday.

I would really like it if you’d spend 5 or more minutes brainstorming and listing some different people in your life you could sustainably use as accountability partners, before this post is 24 hours old.

Please either comment or DM me ASAP about whether or not you’re going to do this, and wait at least an hour before actually doing the brainstorming.

I don’t want to see the list but I’d love it if you could message me with the number of people on the list, and what areas of your life they intersect with.

I’m going to check this comment and my inbox sometime between 24 and 32 hours from now.

I’m in Canada where we have restricted some food dyes. I miss the old colours of Froot Loops and Smarties (similar to M&Ms, not rockets). But it’s fine because those colourants really do only exist to make junk food look good.

It’s not clear to me the exact scope of what they consider to be artifical dyes though. Is a dye produced by a genetically modified bacteria natural enough?

Conservatives have been saying that Dems want to force them to eat bugs, so it’s a little strange to be tacitly encouraging the use of Natural Red 4 which is made from crushed beetles.

I’ve been learning a lot about biblical history and early Christianity lately. To be clear: as a layperson. Ie I’ve been listening to podcasts by biblical scholars, and reading Wikipedia articles. I’m not an expert but I’m an interested lay person. I’ve been doing this as a person that doesn’t believe in the supernatural, because I’m interested in history and sociology, I haven’t been learning about hell specifically but more the context influence of Early Christianity.

Early Judaism understood the afterlife to be a sort of sleep/slumber/torpor.

Greek concepts of hades had an influence on early Christianity.

The Book of Revelation was kinda like a revenge fantasy for early Christians experiencing persecution by the Greco-Roman empire.

The lake of fire was not for human souls.

There’s also something about souls being fed into an eternal furnace, but the furnace is consuming the souls so the souls are destroyed through incineration, not eternally tormented.

I know a lot of current hell imagery is drawn from Dante’s Inferno which is medieval I think, but I haven’t really gotten that far in my learning about Christianity.

I’m sure scholars know why my hair brained theory is bogus, but what happened to the other 999 ships voyaging home from Troy? Also wouldn’t it be easier to maintain a 10 year siege if you were doing a bit of coastal raiding the whole time?

I like how they also failed to show a picture of a baked sweet.

Smells like nirvana in my ass.

(Weird Al)

It looks like a flame throated warbler to me. Nice shot. Nice cake.

Very interesting. I had no idea.

I don’t understand the posture you’re describing. How is it fighting dirty to use your elbows in a fight? Or are you talking about preemptively elbowing somebody in the jaw during a struggle for the puck? Like a sucker punch but with an elbow…?

I thought elbows up was about positioning your elbows to occupy space while digging for the puck in the corner. I don’t think it’s about fighting dirty but about asserting your entitlement to space. “This puck is mine, you’re going to have to go through me to get it” …but I haven’t played hockey in 25 years or so.

It’s all a bit moot because if somebody twice your size corners you and demands your lunch money, it’s not fighting dirty to use your elbows while trying to get away.

I don’t think the graphics are great. I think they get the posture wrong. I think the slogan is more about determination than strength. I don’t think Canadians should feel superior to Americans. But also I think it’s gross to see someone insisting we ought to feel shame about the suggestion we should protect ourselves.

Breakdowns should definitely count as being stuck. If crashes can reasonably be attributed over confidence in vehicle autonomy then imo those should also qualify as stuck too as it’s a Tesla failure resulting in a person/ vehicle being stuck.

Jesse Brown from Canadaland had long lamented Canada’s inability to define itself except in contrast to Americans. He’s right that we ought to have more positive identity markers but I think it has inadvertently resulted in a very robust independence sentiment. Ie because so much of our identity is defined as differences relative to America the idea of being American is offensive to the core of our identity.

Mate I’d be buying a car that ISN’T American, because international manufacturers would be diverting supply away from America. I have and use a bicycle, but it’s difficult to bicycle to the ski hill with my family’s skis.

As a Canadian shopping for a car should I expect price drops due to diverted supply?

My buddy warned me about the mint the pervious owners planted, and I pulled it right away. It was right by our basement entrance so I frequently peer in and inspect for mint shoots. I think there must be a buried barrier or something (like landscaping cloth) preventing it from spreading outside the bed it was in. I found a small sprig 4 years after pulling everything I could find.

Could you suggest alternate wording that succinctly conveys what the commenter obviously meant?

Part of loving your country is wanting it to be better.

Isn’t it a lot more like a capitalist treadmill? Work hard to make number go up! It is in fact beatable in the sense that the number can’t actually go up forever, eventually the system crashes.