If anything, I wish they made passports into the size of a regular ID so it fits in a wallet/cardholder and you don’t have to worry about it getting folded or wet. Make visas and stamps digital so a chip scan of the card provides all the info, instead of eye/face recognition/tracking.

There’s a saying that goes along the lines of: “The best time to buy a house was 10 years ago. The second best time is now”. Rates are bad but you can refinance down the road. I was also on the fence because I wasn’t 100% sure yet if we’ll still be in our city in 5 years, but our lease was ending and I was getting tired of moving with ever increasing rent. Back in my home country, you typically buy a house and live there forever, so it was also a culture shock for me to learn that the average homebuyer in the US lives in their house for only 7 years before moving on. So I had to change my mindset, and we bought a house earlier this year.

I’m off this week until after new years, although I’m on-call next week. I didn’t ask to swap with someone else because it’s typically quiet during the holidays, so I get to use my turn on the rotation without actually having to do much.

I appreciate your optimism, but I’m more on the cautious side of things. At the end of the day they are still a corporation that needs to profit as much as they can, so we have yet to see what happens when they become the dominant player in the space. Hell, it was just reported that they are now planning a subscription model, waaay earlier than Elon did with twitter.

I’m an urban person, so city view and skyline would be my preference.

I hope so, but I feel like people will move to youtube shorts or whatever instagram calls theirs before they would consider Loops, just like they chose Bluesky over Mastodon.

!dailygames@lemmy.zip

Compartmentalization. Prioritize dealing with the things I can control first. The rest is noise until I have extra time to worry about it.

Sit in front of an open closet full of clothes or cover yourself in a blanket.

Same. I just buy store brand generic filters for my Brita.

And IIRC, most of his wealth comes from his books and speaking engagements

That’s too bad. Their Mammoth app for Mastodon is pretty good and has a curated feed feature that kinda helps new users get content into their feeds, something that people who are used yo algorithms complain about when they try out Mastodon.

The border crossing music from Sicario.

Oh wow I think I had an account with them but it was so long ago I don’t remember my account details nor any of the photos I uploaded.

And nothing of value was lost.

While that is true, even independent artists who don’t have a label grabbing all the profits still get shafted, earning next to nothing with streams.

Considering the butterfly effect, I think the safest way to do it is to go back the immediate past 24 hours to have as little a domino effect as possible and prevent altering what I already have in my current life I don’t want to lose. So I’ll probably just go back to yesterday and buy a lottery ticket or something.

How does one do the clapping thing in real life? Do you clap along with every word, or alternate between word and clap?

I’m not from a native english speaking country, but my parents taught us siblings english first before we learned the local language. There were some minor issues (i.e. other kids won’t talk/play with us because we couldn’t converse well), but it paid off in the long run because we are generally more fluent than the average person from our country, and we have neutral accents when speaking english. It helped a lot working in the corporate world.

Also, make it a habit to wipe down your shower walls after a shower. This prevents gunk build up and mold. It will be harder if you don’t clean it regularly.