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  • KamiroKamiro Registered User regular
    Chanus.
    I feel like we need to split the difference?

    it's either going to be light at 11pm at night here and the sun is going to come up at 9am, or the sun is going to go down at four fucking pm in the winter

    man when we're not in DST midwinter the sun goes down at 2:30 here. Light at 11pm please, God. That's a problem I can solve with blackout curtains.

    try taking a toddler to day care when the sun still isn't up at 8am

    it'll be the same thing that happens to those places that don't have sun during that time normally?

  • SixSix Caches Tweets in the mainframe cyberhex Registered User regular
    edited March 2021
    Once I realized how much of a waste of time caring about my inbox was, my unread count skyrocketed. I do bulk deleted from time to time but honestly who cares? If I need something, I search for it. Personal email is mostly for receipts anyway. Work email is just a big database I can search for anything older than a day or two.

    Six on
    can you feel the struggle within?
  • Blameless ClericBlameless Cleric An angel made of sapphires each more flawlessly cut than the last Registered User regular
    Chanus.
    I feel like we need to split the difference?

    it's either going to be light at 11pm at night here and the sun is going to come up at 9am, or the sun is going to go down at four fucking pm in the winter

    man when we're not in DST midwinter the sun goes down at 2:30 here. Light at 11pm please, God. That's a problem I can solve with blackout curtains.

    try taking a toddler to day care when the sun still isn't up at 8am

    I love those late sunny nights - yeah we draw the blackour curtains and so she's asleep at 8pm regardless, and then I've got actual daylight to go outside with - but ain't nothing free

    you're not wrong!! I remember being a toddler in Ireland and throwing fits over having to go to bed while the sun was still up, and get up while it was dark. But when we switch to DST as an adult my entire life is better significantly haha

    Orphane wrote: »

    one flower ring to rule them all and in the sunlightness bind them

    I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
  • evilbobevilbob RADELAIDERegistered User regular
    Kamiro wrote: »
    bleric, those unread emails

    :bigfrown:

    uni email
    9o622534vieh.jpg

    personal email
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  • SummaryJudgmentSummaryJudgment Grab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front door Registered User regular
    I found a therapist

    Beggars can't be choosers, but the guy is 32 and I maybe unfairly have some misgivings about a therapist younger than me

    I've got career issues I want to talk through and I was hoping to have someone like...who has had a career?

  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    Chanus.
    I have 2,242 unread emails

    A lot of promotional emails from sites I don't care enough about to either unsubscribe from or read, delivery and payment confirmations, and LinkedIn notifications

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • Blameless ClericBlameless Cleric An angel made of sapphires each more flawlessly cut than the last Registered User regular
    Chanus.
    I found a therapist

    Beggars can't be choosers, but the guy is 32 and I maybe unfairly have some misgivings about a therapist younger than me

    I've got career issues I want to talk through and I was hoping to have someone like...who has had a career?

    hey you can absolutely be a chooser re: a therapist. No compromises for therapy. Hopefully he'll be rad but if he sucks fire him.

    Orphane wrote: »

    one flower ring to rule them all and in the sunlightness bind them

    I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    Kamiro wrote: »
    bleric, those unread emails

    :bigfrown:

    I frequently consider what it would cost to have someone go through 13 years of emails and sort and archive them bc it DOES bother me but I am never going to fix it myself

    Select all
    Delete

    that only selects the 50 on the front page.

    You get a prompt when you press select all to the right of the "50 messages selected" message that lets you really select all.

    Or used to

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  • KamiroKamiro Registered User regular
    Chanus.
    The only unread email I have is one I sent to myself reminding myself about D&D ideas I had.

    I had a burst of creativity for a few days where I was all about creating a D&D one shot, but then I stopped but I want that reminder there to finish it up at some point

  • credeikicredeiki Registered User regular
    Fuck Daylight Saving Time forever!
    My boss has returned from his deactivation

    I wonder how much money they offered him to stay

    He’s also now asking for data that I’m almost certain isn’t in the database, but I’m using good judgment and not voicing my guess (so I’m not accused of being negative) and just letting the guy assigned to check to figure that out himself

    And now it is weekend; give me your botanical gin recs that you think I might be able to pick up at a pretty well-stocked liquor store in DC in 30 min!

    Steam, LoL: credeiki
  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    At a certain point just select all and mark as read

    stop the madness!

  • KamiroKamiro Registered User regular
    Chanus.
    My inlaws are visiting and my MIL really wanted to try walking our cat.

    So they're in the backyard with the cat on a leash

  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    Chanus.
    Aioua wrote: »
    Chanus wrote: »
    The biannual caterwauling about an hour of difference sustains me.

    it literally kills people

    that argument bugs me because it's built on kinda faulty logic


    like, that same logic means the government can't really do anything, ever

    You can do things, they just have to be worth it given the people that die from literally any stressor no matter how minor. I feel this is a good lower bound for government action.

    daylight savings time changes fail this test instantly

    yeah but nobody ever applies this very special analysis anywhere else

    it's just that some stats nerds were mad about losing an hour of sleep

    life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
    fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
    that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
    bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
  • syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products, Transition Team regular
    Chanus.
    At a certain point just select all and mark as read

    stop the madness!

    Once every three months or so I apply a filter to only show unread, and group by sender.

    I then start unsubscribing from things that provide no value to me and bulk deleting by sender.

    Takes about 30 minutes, 3-4 times a year.

    SW-4158-3990-6116
    Let's play Mario Kart or something...
  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    Fuck Daylight Saving Time forever!
    I misclicked a button and visual studio has been updating for 30 minutes. Lets see what fun new features are broken now.

    A couple of weeks ago there was an update that crashed if you tried putting two documents side by side.

    At least they fixed it in the following update.

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  • Blameless ClericBlameless Cleric An angel made of sapphires each more flawlessly cut than the last Registered User regular
    Chanus.
    My policy for finding a therapist for any reason is as follows
    • Call every therapist within 45min of travel from me, AFTER HOURS
    • Leave a long voicemail stating my name, insurance, concerns, and contact info, in which I request that they DO NOT FOLLOW UP WITH ME if they don't have room or take my insurance, unless they are calling bc they know someone who does
    • Do not pick up and let the ones that call back leave me a voicemail (that way if all someone has for me is information or they can't follow my instructions I don't deal with them directly)
    • Return calls for peoples whose voicemails I liked
    • Schedule 2-3 visits in a two-week span until I find someone I like
    • Come to all first visits with a list of priorities

    Orphane wrote: »

    one flower ring to rule them all and in the sunlightness bind them

    I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
  • SixSix Caches Tweets in the mainframe cyberhex Registered User regular
    Here’s some meaningless shit. I got cold-called to invest in a hedge fund and before the call they send over the prospectus and this is the FIRST SENTENCE describing the fund.
    Quantamental algorithmic long-short hedge fund employing a GARP discipline to purchase well-priced assets with accelerating growth and sell short overpriced assets with decelerating growth.

    Yeah, sure. Sign me the fuck up.

    can you feel the struggle within?
  • evilbobevilbob RADELAIDERegistered User regular
    It's 8:30am. I should probably go to bed if I'm going to force myself to see friends for the first time in a month and a half this evening.

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  • credeikicredeiki Registered User regular
    Fuck Daylight Saving Time forever!
    I found a therapist

    Beggars can't be choosers, but the guy is 32 and I maybe unfairly have some misgivings about a therapist younger than me

    I've got career issues I want to talk through and I was hoping to have someone like...who has had a career?

    Totally valid to switch based on demographics like that (like I know someone who feels too competitive towards other young women and needs her therapist to be a man so she doesn’t lie to seem cooler)

    But also college ends at 21-22, msw in the next 3 years, he has been a therapist for probably 5-7 years already which is not nothing

    Steam, LoL: credeiki
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    Chanus.
    As someone who hasn't had the luxury of a consistent sleep schedule since they were 18ish, the fact a single hour change can wreak so much havoc is fascinating.

    Studies on sleep deprivation follow a similar pattern as studies on drunk driving: you are measurably impaired before you know you're impaired. You also have measurable cardio risks before you know that you're sleep deprived. Consequently, you should be self-skeptical towards any instinct that you can dismiss the negative impacts of circadian rhythm disruption just because you haven't personally noticed a problem.

    And even if you have noticed a problem, the notion that just because you had to suffer through Objectively Bad Thing therefore other people should, too, is (to put it mildly) silly and unhealthy.

    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    Why would the polygons tend to have seams between them on the PS1? Need a graphics lesson.

  • credeikicredeiki Registered User regular
    Fuck Daylight Saving Time forever!
    O waitttt my boss is back for 2-4 weeks and he might be taking a different position at the company or he might be starting his own company after this
    He does not actually know
    Interesting interesting

    Steam, LoL: credeiki
  • SixSix Caches Tweets in the mainframe cyberhex Registered User regular
    Only psychopaths walk a cat so that checks out.

    can you feel the struggle within?
  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    edited March 2021
    Fuck Daylight Saving Time forever!
    I've got no unread emails and very aggressively go after any spam or unwanted newsletters to keep the volume under control. It works great.

    2000 or unreadable so is a very manageable number to go through if you just do it.

    first, kill all the bulk mail. start at the top of the unread list and for every bulk email you find, filter for it, then unsubscribe and delete all. After about 20 rounds of this, 75% of the email will be gone. If something is not like a store newsletter but actual spam be sure to mark as junk.

    Next find all recurring billing emails, same as the other stuff. Filter, select all, mark as read, and possibly archive them if you want records.

    After this, 90% will be gone. You'll have about 200 messages remaining. Button through them, deleting, junking, and archiving as necessary. In an hour, two tops, this task will be done forever and upkeep is easy.

    Donkey Kong on
    Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Fuck Daylight Saving Time forever!
    Aioua wrote: »
    Aioua wrote: »
    Chanus wrote: »
    The biannual caterwauling about an hour of difference sustains me.

    it literally kills people

    that argument bugs me because it's built on kinda faulty logic


    like, that same logic means the government can't really do anything, ever

    You can do things, they just have to be worth it given the people that die from literally any stressor no matter how minor. I feel this is a good lower bound for government action.

    daylight savings time changes fail this test instantly

    yeah but nobody ever applies this very special analysis anywhere else

    it's just that some stats nerds were mad about losing an hour of sleep

    yeah i'm pretty okay with "people die as a direct result of a completely pointless and unnecessary thing that literally serves no actual purpose, therefore we should stop doing the thing"

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • SleepSleep Registered User regular
    Fuck Daylight Saving Time forever!
    I've got no unread emails and very aggressively go after any spam or unwanted newsletters to keep the volume under control. It works great.

    2000 or unreadable so is a very manageable number to go through if you just do it.

    first, kill all the bulk mail. start at the top of the unread list and for every bulk email you find, filter for it, then unsubscribe and delete all. After about 20 rounds of this, 75% of the email will be gone. If something is not like a store newsletter but actual spam be sure to mark as junk.

    Next find all recurring billing emails, same as the other stuff. Filter, select all, mark as read, and possibly archive them if you want records.

    After this, 90% will be gone. You'll have about 200 messages remaining. Button through them, deleting, junking, and archiving as necessary. In an hour, two tops, this task will be done forever and upkeep is easy.

    Or, and hear me out, select all, mark as read, start new.

  • SixSix Caches Tweets in the mainframe cyberhex Registered User regular
    I've got no unread emails and very aggressively go after any spam or unwanted newsletters to keep the volume under control. It works great.

    2000 or unreadable so is a very manageable number to go through if you just do it.

    first, kill all the bulk mail. start at the top of the unread list and for every bulk email you find, filter for it, then unsubscribe and delete all. After about 20 rounds of this, 75% of the email will be gone. If something is not like a store newsletter but actual spam be sure to mark as junk.

    Next find all recurring billing emails, same as the other stuff. Filter, select all, mark as read, and possibly archive them if you want records.

    After this, 90% will be gone. You'll have about 200 messages remaining. Button through them, deleting, junking, and archiving as necessary. In an hour, two tops, this task will be done forever and upkeep is easy.

    Or:

    Just don’t. Look at the first 10-15 emails only. If there’s something important, read it. If you miss something important, it will be sent again.

    Masturbate for 2 hours.

    can you feel the struggle within?
  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    credeiki wrote: »
    O waitttt my boss is back for 2-4 weeks and he might be taking a different position at the company or he might be starting his own company after this
    He does not actually know
    Interesting interesting

    Is enthusiastic shirt removal now mandatory during meetings or forbidden at all times? I think I missed the end of your work drama

    Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
  • credeikicredeiki Registered User regular
    Fuck Daylight Saving Time forever!
    Six wrote: »
    Only psychopaths walk a cat so that checks out.

    @Shivahn

    Steam, LoL: credeiki
  • FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    Chanus.
    Aioua wrote: »
    Aioua wrote: »
    Chanus wrote: »
    The biannual caterwauling about an hour of difference sustains me.

    it literally kills people

    that argument bugs me because it's built on kinda faulty logic


    like, that same logic means the government can't really do anything, ever

    You can do things, they just have to be worth it given the people that die from literally any stressor no matter how minor. I feel this is a good lower bound for government action.

    daylight savings time changes fail this test instantly

    yeah but nobody ever applies this very special analysis anywhere else

    it's just that some stats nerds were mad about losing an hour of sleep

    what are you even talking about? stat nerds? what?

    No, it's that car accidents, strokes, industrial accidents, and heart attacks rise in the month after the spring time change. And despite what matt said above, they aren't balanced out: most studies don't show the reduction in heart attacks in the fall mentioned by matt's linke (and even then, matt's link shows that the quantity of fall reduction isn't enough to offset the spring spike), while car accidents spike immediately after both the fall and spring clock changes.

    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • Hi I'm Vee!Hi I'm Vee! Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C E Registered User regular
    Fuck Daylight Saving Time forever!
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    Kamiro wrote: »
    bleric, those unread emails

    :bigfrown:
    Her inbox is only 1000 unread? That's amateur stuff. Hahnsboo's is 17,000 unread and counting. :/ It bothers the hell out of me, too.

    My unarchived Inbox stuff is 40 e-mails.

    Oh hey that's what mine's at too!

    Well, my main personal email anyway. If you add my secondary and professional emails (not my work email, the account I use for job searches and whatnot), it's more like 22k.

    Someone around here has like 40k+ iirc.

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  • TTODewbackTTODewback Puts the drawl in ya'll I think I'm in HellRegistered User regular
    Justice for Ben Franklin! Save the Farmers!
    Georgia has introduced legislation to always be Standard Time just to fuck everything up.
    Why Georgia, Why

    Bless your heart.
  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    It's been a long time since I've seen somebody dragging an upset cat around on a lead. There was a period where you'd see it at least weekly.

    Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
  • KamiroKamiro Registered User regular
    Chanus.
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    Kamiro wrote: »
    bleric, those unread emails

    :bigfrown:
    Her inbox is only 1000 unread? That's amateur stuff. Hahnsboo's is 17,000 unread and counting. :/ It bothers the hell out of me, too.

    My unarchived Inbox stuff is 40 e-mails.

    Oh hey that's what mine's at too!

    Well, my main personal email anyway. If you add my secondary and professional emails (not my work email, the account I use for job searches and whatnot), it's more like 22k.

    Someone around here has like 40k+ iirc.

    you

    are

    a

    monster

  • Blameless ClericBlameless Cleric An angel made of sapphires each more flawlessly cut than the last Registered User regular
    Chanus.
    I've got no unread emails and very aggressively go after any spam or unwanted newsletters to keep the volume under control. It works great.

    2000 or unreadable so is a very manageable number to go through if you just do it.

    first, kill all the bulk mail. start at the top of the unread list and for every bulk email you find, filter for it, then unsubscribe and delete all. After about 20 rounds of this, 75% of the email will be gone. If something is not like a store newsletter but actual spam be sure to mark as junk.

    Next find all recurring billing emails, same as the other stuff. Filter, select all, mark as read, and possibly archive them if you want records.

    After this, 90% will be gone. You'll have about 200 messages remaining. Button through them, deleting, junking, and archiving as necessary. In an hour, two tops, this task will be done forever and upkeep is easy.

    These are great instructions to give to whoever I someday pay to do this bc I will not, ty

    Orphane wrote: »

    one flower ring to rule them all and in the sunlightness bind them

    I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    Fuck Daylight Saving Time forever!
    Six wrote: »
    I've got no unread emails and very aggressively go after any spam or unwanted newsletters to keep the volume under control. It works great.

    2000 or unreadable so is a very manageable number to go through if you just do it.

    first, kill all the bulk mail. start at the top of the unread list and for every bulk email you find, filter for it, then unsubscribe and delete all. After about 20 rounds of this, 75% of the email will be gone. If something is not like a store newsletter but actual spam be sure to mark as junk.

    Next find all recurring billing emails, same as the other stuff. Filter, select all, mark as read, and possibly archive them if you want records.

    After this, 90% will be gone. You'll have about 200 messages remaining. Button through them, deleting, junking, and archiving as necessary. In an hour, two tops, this task will be done forever and upkeep is easy.

    Or:

    Just don’t. Look at the first 10-15 emails only. If there’s something important, read it. If you miss something important, it will be sent again.

    Masturbate for 2 hours.

    But that's really annoying. Email notifications become useless and every interaction with email becomes a bit of a slog and you legitimately miss things if they come in with a big pack of trash. That all kinda sucks.

    Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
  • KamiroKamiro Registered User regular
    Chanus.
    I've got no unread emails and very aggressively go after any spam or unwanted newsletters to keep the volume under control. It works great.

    2000 or unreadable so is a very manageable number to go through if you just do it.

    first, kill all the bulk mail. start at the top of the unread list and for every bulk email you find, filter for it, then unsubscribe and delete all. After about 20 rounds of this, 75% of the email will be gone. If something is not like a store newsletter but actual spam be sure to mark as junk.

    Next find all recurring billing emails, same as the other stuff. Filter, select all, mark as read, and possibly archive them if you want records.

    After this, 90% will be gone. You'll have about 200 messages remaining. Button through them, deleting, junking, and archiving as necessary. In an hour, two tops, this task will be done forever and upkeep is easy.

    These are great instructions to give to whoever I someday pay to do this bc I will not, ty

    I bet DK would do it for free

  • SixSix Caches Tweets in the mainframe cyberhex Registered User regular
    TTODewback wrote: »
    Georgia has introduced legislation to always be Standard Time just to fuck everything up.
    Why Georgia, Why

    This is one of the three good things about Arizona so I’m actually surprised Georgia’s on this trolley.

    can you feel the struggle within?
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