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Optimistic nihilism is my chosen way of life. Here’s a really good kurzgesagt video on it: https://youtu.be/MBRqu0YOH14?si=2xh3B1eQJN4xosI6

[insert happy/sad bus meme, but both sides say “nothing matters”]

Another way of thinking of it, if you only get to experience this once, make it the best experience you can.

Dang. I thought I was the only person who had ever heard of this one. Might have to boot it up in an emulator one of these days and give it a go.

I speak from experience that no one other than professionals should be handling their own mail servers in 2024. I worked for a mail host. The amount of spam and attacks that befall a mail provider, even a small one, is bonkers. Plus, mail is just too damn important.

I wish it wasn’t the case because the idea of everyone privately hosting their own mail servers would be pretty awesome. Sadly the modern internet makes it way too risky.

What a deep cut. One of my favorite tracks from him.

I wonder what part they canceled. They’ve been doing construction on I-25 adding an express toll lane for the last year in NoCo. Maybe they’re referring to the fact that there’s bus stops along the way that will use said express lane?

It would be hilarious if we finally figure this out and all our pets are like “Nah, man. I’m not that interested in talking. Just leave me alone.”

I never watched this one back when it was new. Does it hold up at all?

Somewhat surprisingly, I’m not able to quickly find someone doing it on YouTube, but it’s the puzzle where there’s a cube propping open a wall panel where Ratman was. There’s several cameras in there. If you take all of the cameras and your cube, you can basically make some janky stairs and climb your way up to the next section.

There is a puzzle in the original Portal that you can solve by stacking up a bunch of cameras. For the longest time, I had always done this and never attempted to properly solve the puzzle.

Not sure if this applies, but “You can never love someone else until you love yourself” was a lesson my dad taught me from a very young age.

If you don’t like yourself, you’ll almost inevitably end up with someone who is taking advantage because you won’t be able to stand up for yourself and you won’t speak up when they hurt you.

There are the very rare exceptions, but they are the ones who help you help yourself. Someone who truly helps you will not shower you with gifts or compliments, but rather will help you recognize and change what you don’t like about yourself. In other words, “Only a true friend would be that truly honest.”

I totally forgot about these. Man they were fantastic.

1, 6, 7, 8, and 10 are all saying the same thing.

2 and 4 are also pretty similar.

And none of these suggest that an external factor could be changed to improve things. I’ve often felt significantly better after finding a different job. And the day to day situation was often drastically different by the time I left these positions.

Your own mentality and approach are not always to blame if your job isn’t going well.

Side note: don’t tell me what I haven’t tried.