morgan423

My personal target is 105% of the performing mark, when I’m in a churn and earn job somewhere that I don’t want to promote.

That wiggle room is enough to keep me above the performing mark if there are any productivity impactors outside of my control that my company refuses to adjust for (that has happened to me in jobs before), and it also keeps me off of bottom-performer lists when layoffs roll through. And it’s barely more than the bare minimum. Win / win / win.

You could argue that no one is ever truly remembered. Even people who are mentioned in history books and have their specific deeds remembered and preserved…

…within a couple of hundred years, there are no other humans left alive anywhere on the planet who personally knew said famous person. No one who knew them on any personal level, any more deeply that the handful of cold facts written down about them on record.

We are meant to be forgotten. Just another thing we have to come to terms with regarding our existence.

What about a password type? Like the password has the same format, but is different for each site? Like if her birthday is May 25 and her favorite dog’s name is Bunny, she can start it with that and then finish it with a differing sentence?

0525BunnyThisIsMyAmazon! 0525BunnyThisIsMyBank!

, et cetera.

It’s not the most secure, but at least it should keep it from being brute forced and give her things she can easily remember. And if there’s a leak and they have to be changed, you can just change the front part.

Person who had an alcoholic / addict father here. Speaking from my experience in what I saw in his world growing up. Both him, and in his world of helping / sponsoring others during the last couple of decades of his life whilst sober and recovering.

For some people… an intervention can actually cause them to see the severity of the issue and be the catalyst for a motivation for wanting to change. It is a very small percentage, though, and it sounds like you’ve already tried or are already past that point.

Sadly, for the overwhelming majority, most alcoholics / addicts have to hit a rock-bottom epiphany experience (which will vary person by person) to get them truly into committing to recovery. Nothing that anyone else says to or does for them is going to flip that switch.

They have to flip that switch internally themselves. Once they do, they must also realize that every single day is going to be hard, and they will need to stay motivated.

My dad once told me that even after being sober for almost two decades, he still had somewhere between 3 and a dozen serious cravings a week that he had to work himself away from. It gets easier to talk yourself down over time, but… the brain wiring was changed in addiction, and the temptations themselves never go away. Staying sober is a life of constant vigilance. You have to be committed, forever.

Like for everyone afflicted, I hope your friend reaches that point sooner rather than later and moves into recovery. Best of luck to them.

I like it as an idea flow starter. I’ve used it to generate stuff like site profile logos (like my little ghost in baseball cap here) and screen savers. I’ve used it for minor tasks like coding Excel macros and such.

But would I say it’s a major life impactor? I’d have to say that even though it saves a little time here or there… no.

How did everyone die? Assuming that you were the rich person or the indentured servant of a rich person, it would depend on that for sure.

Was it a horrendous, highly contagious mega-pandemic that no one is immune to, and you survived because you billionaire-bunkered the moment that news reports started to hit? I’d think you could resurface sooner rather than later, and there will be places you can travel to that aren’t really contaminated by the dead (like places that had low population before the outbreak).

After a few years, you could branch out to wherever (not that any single place is really that much better than others in a nearly empty world), likely the plague will no longer be virulent among the dead. You could quickly carve out a decent life for yourself, though you’d better get self-sufficient fast, without the support structures of the old world being there to do everything for you.

But if it was nuclear apocalypse? You’re going to be bunkered for a long time, with little company. You’d likely end up envying the dead.

Weirdly enough, VSauce just put out a short on this a couple of days ago.

If you mean “check it five seconds per day because my extended family keeps a chat hub there, and I just want to make sure no one’s reported an emergency,” then yes.

Paging Steve1989 to the thread

My only rule for PTO days is never forget that you put in for them and accidentally go to work. So far I have a 100% success rate in avoiding that.

Speaking on ads, they are definitely one of the leaders in this category.

I can honestly say that there have been maybe a half-dozen or so ads I’ve encountered in my entire life span that introduced a product into my awareness, that I later looked into and decided to purchase.

And for that microscopic amount of success for the advertisers, I have been exposed to tens of millions of ads over my life span (mid-40s now). All of those hammering on your mood and/or sanity, some worse than others, but every one a punch of annoyance.

AI is improving in this regard. With the right set up, you’re having conversations with a grammatically native speaker who isn’t a real person, but who will talk as long as you want and gently correct and teach you without judgment as you go. May be worth checking out.

Imagine acting like everyone in England has the same accent. The only thing more ridiculous would be saying that everyone in the US does.

Something else to consider is that it’s a wonderful social window if you have friends that you don’t get to hang out with very often due to geography and life.

I have a couple of good friends who are too far away after I moved to another area. We play games online and have a nice social hangout for a few hours each Saturday. Voice chatting works great.

It’s fantastic to be able to regularly spend time with them.