Middle East everyday problems

i was going to search for an email just now and... https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255191779?page=1 can't search my emails anymore 🤷‍♂️

salt dough is called trolldeig (trolldough) in Norwegian

it's always funny to look at websites from the 90s and go "that was their idea of graphic design?" i mean, the reality is that you barely used graphic designers in those days. imagine looking at this website and investing millions in it.

when your calculations get sinful

this colour doesn't exist in the rainbow. it's equal parts blue and red, which are different wavelengths that are not close to one another. it's a bit like white, in that it's several wavelengths at once, except it's missing the green. it's a colour that your brain creates.

what is it about airlines and constantly going bankrupt

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i think if you ever have any expectations of anybody and you make this known, you'll be called "demanding" by somebody

how does Europe fund its generous welfare benefits? simple:

List of countries by tax revenue - Wikipedia

France's tax revenue is 46.2% of its entire GDP. for Sweden, it's 44%. for the United States, it's 27.1%. for Nigeria, it's 3.6%. the further down the list you get, the lower the taxes are, and the worse off the country is. i'm not saying that if you just turn up the taxes, this will fix everything. but it's an observation...

actually had what i'd describe as a "fine" day yesterday. am i broke and eating struggle food? yes. do i have a decent real-life social network? no. am i still single and jobless? yes. but i was absolutely fine about it. i posted on here, made dinner and some crêpes, watched a movie and then went to sleep. was it a *great* day? did i accomplish anything? no. but it was perfecly fine.

does anyone else have a tendency to treat a day job as just another hobby that you drop when you get bored of it? i don't really know how to treat it differently. pushing myself to keep a job comes no easier to me than pushing yourself to keep a hobby. i mean, who does that? you just stop doing hobbies when you don't feel motivated for them anymore. what happens if i keep pushing is that i start shutting down. the heart revolts against the brain.

how do people even stick to their goals? for me, there's always just The Goal, and if i'm serious about it, everything else starts derailing. if you're so busy with your goal that you're not showering, eating or paying bills, bad stuff starts happening pretty quickly. so you have to ruin your focus on the goal to take care of these stupid everyday matters, and by the time you're done with those, you've lost sight of The Goal. i have a flip switch with two labels on it: LIFE [O ] GOAL "why don't you just orchestrate a larger plan that incorporates the goal then?" i can't have that many thoughts in my head at once!

agreed

wtf human?

this is the first image result you get for "gambling addiction" i can assure you that no one looks this sad while gambling

me working: i wish i had more time for my hobbies. me unemployed: time was not the problem...

home screen

hot take: the third prong on the mains plug is overrated. it's only there as safety. ideally, electricity would kill no one. but even if we removed all ground prongs and holes from all mains plugs and connectors today, it wouldn't kill all that many people. light bulbs don't have grounding. they work fine. the ground prong is designed for the sort of electrical apparatus where the chassis is made of metal and some wire or the other might accidentally touch the chassis. it's not all that useful in a computer, for example. i mean, if you have a habit of touching the PSU of your gaming rig, sure, maybe, in the unlikely event... you can mostly get away with no ground wire. i'm prepared to get into an argument about this. relevant information: i understand Ohm's law.

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