By July I think it'll be pretty uniform for the clover lawn experiment, so I'll update then :) The tall stuff is from last year and I already over-seeded they're just like 1-2cm tall rn in the lowest spots. Went so well I'll do the backyard, but it'll be 5X the work next year. I think from what I read clover is nitrogen enriching the soil unlike grass, so maybe that's why it thrives forever.
Thanks for the support. I hope your travels go well, be it work or leisure.
Oh, not the total owed, but the actual usage graphs. Yeah I only get an annual email containing a recap pretty much at years end for a few services. Otherwise it's off to the shitty website.
My workplace tried to make me attend a steak dinner after work with my "coworker" who I don't like and some random new shift supervisor in the highest turn over position on site. Predictably he was gone 4 months later. I refused to go. While the food would be compensated, my time wouldn't be and that's the #1 thing of value to me. I don't work for free.
While I fixed my diet that resulted in severe GERD, and the symptoms are lessened, I still have more pain throughout the week than not a year later. I have a family doctor, I just don't respond to gut drugs even after eating properly and drinking only water or fake milk unsweetened Almond/Coconut like a saint.
Not sure if regret is the right word when I don't consider myself very responsible for beginning my poor habits in the depths of brutal depression spells however. Never really "good" either, so hard to quit once I start something. I eat better purely motivated by the pain becoming constant.
Possible future regret is if I get cancer that's linked to smoking cigarettes or vaping. I don't smoke much, limited to twice a day for the past ten years, but combining some smoke inhalation with near constant THC vaping is probably a pretty bad combo. I don't truly want to quit either of them at the moment, so...yeah.
Google doesn't do global roll outs with their updates. The anti adblock stuff especially. They target only some % of randomly selected users to spread confusion online, and I would guess their hope is to frustrate people into disabling ad blockers on Youtube after reading a bunch of misinformation and placebo bad advice when looking for tech support.
One of my BlueSky accounts I use for what you're missing. Follow artist starterpacks to get started faster, the AI and Politics mass block lists too, and avoid Catch Up like the American doomer plague it is. "Show less of this" everything political/not the account's focus in your Discover feed. Block them first when you have the patience to do this tedious task. After awhile all you'll see is artists/indie. Disable risque/adult content default-on blocks as desired.
Is Newgrounds a diminished community? Yes. Is it still active? Also yes. Had a bit of a artist population boost around when the exodus to BlueSky from Xhitter was going on too.
I may be more willing to be skeptical. I'm not sure if the reduction in bad faith is really worth the downsides of vote ranking myself.
If SomethingAwful can survive to this day without it and an intact strong community identity, I think it comes down to the usual things that tip the scales heaviest of all things considered: Site ownership, moderators. A sense of humour doesn't hurt either.
I have Total Aphantasia, and zero sense memory at all. I do have an "inner monologue" of sorts. I can't "hear" it in my head, but I understand all the same. I don't know how to explain with words and I don't know how I work either, really. My outer and inner voice are the same thing to me and I have full control over it., often transitioning back and forth when I'm alone. As in, no racing thoughts. One of the ideas behind meditation where you try to silence your mind? I don't have to try. It's not something that takes effort for me. I bring this up because this is how I'm reading books, with that silent inner voice. One of my friends is like me with Total Aphantasia, but he has no inner monologue either. Which is bonkers to me. I don't get it, neither does he! Haha. Many different kinds of human minds out there, it's not so simple.
Hard to miss what I've never experienced, I still enjoy thinking about these fictional worlds even if I can't conjure up a representation of what is written in my mind.
I read every genre. It's actually specific writing styles I lean towards. If the author is really detailed with describing environment constantly, I appreciate that. I can't really "fill in the blanks" so to speak. I also really like it heavy on the internal monologue side of things with main characters. I think that's why I liked Ender's Game so much when I was a kid.
I do prefer any visual media. I save all my book and research reading for when I'm at work these days, which is a lot of time actually. One of them hurry up and wait jobs. Books are far better when it comes to potentially constant interruptions.
I go see what the fascists are saying directly in their safe spaces once and awhile instead of hearing about it 2nd+ hand. Do not recommend.
To be more specific: The sanitized idea in their non-verbatim words (I think this was in the lead up to the first Trump campaign?) was to see if "leftists" would let them ruin an already long established funny hand gesture to the point anyone who wasn't white nationalist would stop doing it out of fear.
Then alt right grifters picked it up and it kinda worked...if you let them have that win.
Idk it's kinda pretty to me. Maybe once cleaned up a bit whatever grows there seems to pay off haha.