dude who said he would fix our laptop 2 months ago finally did

who's gonna tell him he's a measurer?

I want a goat story mug that accepts a contigo autoseal top. That curved shape fits perfectly on my hip and the contigo autoseal keeps my stupid ass out of trouble. I messaged a company that does food safe 3d prints and they quoted me $600 at the least and I don't even really have the skills to 3d print something let alone select the right material, make sure the nozzle is lead free and has never been used for anything else, then sand and seal (and I'd have to make sure the threads still accepted the cup after sanding / sealing). Alas, it is but a dream.

I'm hoping emdr fixes mine

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🤣 I do it to keep weight on so what puzzles me is people who drink protein drinks to lose weight. My diet plan is pretty simple (it's just a basic hierarchy of choices):

• eat the option with the most fiber
• that being equal, eat the option with the most protein
• THAT being equal, eat the thing with the highest polyunsaturated fat
• after that, eat the thing that tastes best and has the least uncomplicated carbohydrates
• eat the thing with the least trans fat

I usually don't even get past #2 and very rarely past 3.

I draw small cartoons. It's a little horn / confetti if it's a celebration card and a dove holding an olive branch if it's a sympathy card.

I'm with you. People like this are why nobody likes Linux users.

The only difference between you and a dog is that you choose what you want to be trained to do.

Willpower as a concept is (mostly) fake and a significant portion of your life will be spent on autopilot. Make sure your autopilot is very well trained / programmed, and give it good environmental "rails" to follow to keep you on track.

Pavlovian conditioning is also more about innate reflexes and autonomic (involuntary) reflexes. The dog can't decide (as much as it does decide anything) to drool when it hears the bell, it's body (and salivary glands) have just associated the bell with the food deeply enough that the former stimulates the same response as the latter.

This means that you can gain more control over your involuntary reflexes by pairing them with external stimuli that you do control. The most common use-case is using sound and smell to calm oneself on-demand without pharmaceuticals. For example:

keep a small keychain or necklace with a sealed container with a cotton swab soaked in essential oil such as lavender. Mediate daily or at least several times weekly in a space you feel safe using breathing exercises and inhaling the scent of the lavender. Then, when you are in a space you feel less safe but need to be able to calm yourself (such as when giving a presentation to an audience) you uncap the container and smell the lavender. Your conditioning to that stimulus should cause your autonomic nervous system to calm itself (however, if you stop meditating,l / practicing calming yourself to the stimulus more often than you use it in the upsetting situation the conditioning will reverse and you will begin finding that stimulus upsetting).

I mostly use this for sleep, I always sleep to the sound of a raging thunderstorm which serves both this sensory function as well as covering unexpected noises that might wake me.

Hope you find this useful!

I'm collecting religious shitposts at c/gnostic. Making shitposting an integral part of my spirituality has been very healing.

The guinea pigs are never the rich.

Oh I'm superstitious about a great many things but I try to make it as useful as possible by being the most superstitious about not practicing regular gratitude. So for instance I'll "wish" or "bless" someone with something like "a boring shift" because that's the kind of thing it's important to remember to be grateful for. Or instead of saying it's "quiet" (a common bad-luck superstition in healthcare), I'll comment that "I have been blessed with a good night so far."

A core component of my spirituality that I've reflected on lately is that regardless of what I do or don't believe cosmologically, spirituality and religion offer a huge amount of emotional / psychological tools that have stood the test of time and appeared across multiple religions in various forms due to sheer usefulness. These include things like community and regular gratitude and mindfulness practices.

They absolutely can and have been analyzed and implemented in other ways, but that requires a lot of research and very careful coordination of a lot of individual components. Meanwhile I've found a remarkable amount of success emotionally and psychologically in connecting with a faith community that has all those things built in and which has a LOT of other people who are doing the same thing to support me sticking with it.