I have a strategy for getting rid of stuff without that “oh I could use that thing I just threw out last week” devastation. It’s not super handy for organizing, but it does make organizing easier when you have less stuff. Maybe it’ll help you or someone else :)

What I do is go through stuff in rooms I rarely use. That’s where the junk tends to accumulate because when I clean the rest of the house the junk without a home goes into a spare room.

When I go through that junk, I put anything I think I want to throw out (assuming it’s not just straight garbage; that gets tossed) into one box, and anything I think I want to donate in another box. Everything else either gets put away somewhere (I have a lot of dressers/shelves for junk) or goes into a box of stuff to keep, like mementos and stuff.

When full, even if it takes months to fill it, I write the date and target action (donate/toss) on the boxes. And then I let them sit for 6 months. Unopened.

The 6 months is important because it erases all that junk from your mind. If you just toss it, that stuff is front and center in your mind so anything you do will naturally use that thing as a solution. If you let that memory fade, and don’t renew it, you don’t have that problem. If you decide you want something in the box, open it, take the thing, and put the new date on the box, to restart the 6 months. Never add anything to an existing full box; this breaks the workflow. Start a new one for new junk.

After 6 months has passed without the boxes being opened, do the thing with them you meant to (donate it or throw it out) without opening it. You no longer really know what’s in it, only that you haven’t needed any of it for a long time and it’s ok to get rid of it.

Bam, ability to clean and downsize without the crippling obsession with not throwing out something you’ll need a week later.

I had my uterus inflated with saline for an ultrasound screening before an ablation. It wasn’t a lot of liquid, but it was an absolute screaming amount of pain, and they said it wouldn’t hurt… I knew it would because I’ve had several iud insertions but they refused when I requested something, anything at all, for the pain…

I feel like if it was easy for him to get rid of the existing ones, he probably would…

Tho he got his kids vaxed and refused to answer if he’d do it again so there’s some chance he’s just being a disingenuous prick and fucking over millions for personal gain… wouldn’t put that past a single “conservative”

(Wild how in the wider world conservation means protecting things that exist, while American conservatism actively seeks to destroy everything that has existed for decades… wild…)

My understanding is that while they can make a new queen under the radar, hypothetically, the slightly different scent of her eggs/haploid larva is seen as a hostile invasion and it’s quickly dispatched by loyalists, which is why non-main-queen offspring rarely happens.

Something like because they are all essentially genetically identical, they all have the same pheromones, but the next generation won’t.

Honestly all the shit that’s been happening with defunding of education and school shootings and stuff, their education has already been impacted.

At this point we need mass movements across generations to block the tidal wave of shit. Because all of this stuff impacts people we all know, and the youth are super aware of this, and a lot of us are aware of this…

But society as a whole? Ehhhhh… idk… but they will be!

I live there and I had no idea 😅

I mean sure, but 20-something’s are dumb, as a rule. I was, you were, everyone is. That’s why the lower threshold for president is 35. When you are old enough to hopefully know better.

We should really have had at least one other metric, but apparently we didn’t.

Whenever I click an MSN link it takes me to the home page list of recent articles or whatever. Doesn’t bring up the article at all.

Different browser but all the same. Fuck msn.

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I also recently got a tcl with google, and haven’t hooked it to the internet.

The OS on it isn’t very good (seriously too many menus in too many places), it sets full brightness and then reduces to setpoint when you change inputs, and I haven’t figured out why it boots up my ps4 every time I turn on the tv, but beyond that I’ve been pretty happy with it.

It’s a very decent dumb tv.

Is that why potassium is K on the periodic table?

And now that I think about it, sodium is Na…

Damnit, our educational system has been telling us we are wrong the whole time! Sneaky bullshit!

The only stickers I buy are for my kegerator and my 2-gallon ukeg growler from the breweries I visit in my travels… so those go on pretty much right away, unless I forget them.

Sure, if they aren’t just round I have to think about where to put them, to fill as many gaps as possible, but that’s about it.

What sort of places is everyone else throwing stickers?

Got my tubes tied when I was 27 (no kids no interest).

So nope, not in the slightest.

It looks like a fat conure.

Two options means it’s a 50/50 chance, totally worth a shot!

I would love the life of a house pet as long as I can play video games instead of sleeping all the time.

We just collectively need to convince our new overlords that it’s enrichment and just let me keep it I already have it, and I’ll be totally friendly and compliant whenever you want, I can pause, it’s cool.

They -can- do that yes. Whether or not they will choose to, however, is anyone’s guess.

I’ve been using it for almost a year now.

It… works well enough. I really have no complaints, tho it does have some cookies, which I could do without (I don’t care to track how many trees I’ve contributed to planting, and I’d like a no tracking option) but that’s a pretty small complaint when I clear cookies frequently anyway. If you use ghostery or some other extension that auto-rejects cookies and randomizes data for those it can’t reject, you’ll be fine.

The sponsored listings are clearly labeled, the results typically come up fine. There do seem to be more sponsored results than there used to be, though, so… something to be aware of.

It’s not perfect but it’s a lot better than google, and they use the money for trees (I did look into that claim and it’s true as far as I can tell)

It’s funny to me, but one of my highest ratios was on a torrent that never even finished. It was active for many months stuck at 98%, and the seed never came back. So many people started that one, downloaded what was available, then scrapped the whole thing and found another option…

I’d uploaded ~500gb of a 6gb torrent.

That’s the joy/pain of wanting stuff nobody has available…

Here’s the inflatable kangaroo at least. Can’t help with the rest, but this one is giant!