Notices by Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com), page 15

It's funny how the judge who sentenced Assange for violating his bail conditions was all "you did a stupid reckless thing".

I'm pretty sure a lawyer advised him to do it.

"The healthiest cookie" (says so on the box) has 22% sugar and 15% fibre in it. What's it like?

Kind of chewy, not super sweet... It's... Okay?

@Rich_Koning The whole point of saying what I said was as a mental trick to turn something "one might do" into "something one better do in order to not lose money".

@Rich_Koning You're kind of turning a "exploding brain" into a "little brain" here...

I suspect that dads play a big role in shaping your mentality when it comes to these kinds of things. My dad lacked ambition and didn't have a very healthy outlook on life.

It's like that bit in John Cleese's talk on creativity where he mentions that the research often unhelpfully points out what kind of upbringing you *should've* had in order to be a creative person.

I suspect that dads play a big role in shaping your mentality when it comes to these kinds of things. My dad lacked ambition and didn't have a very healthy outlook on life.

It's like that bit in John Cleese's talk on creativity where he mentions that the research often unhelpfully points out what kind of upbringing you should've had in order to be a creative person.

Knowing myself, I often *am* willing to pay a good chunk of money for convenience. I'll occasionally ride a taxi instead of walking up a long hill if I'm feeling tired, for example, and taxi rides don't come cheap here in Oslo.

That right there is what you call a character flaw. If your decision to save money doesn't hold up against temptation, your conviction isn't firm enough.

I find that I'm full of self-doubt and I always question my decisions. People who do that never get anywhere.

In other words, if you have an opportunity to make $50 for an hour of work, that's not an opportunity. That's something you have to do to avoid losing $50.

"When an option is chosen from two mutually exclusive alternatives, the opportunity cost is the "cost" incurred by not enjoying the benefit associated with the alternative choice."

For example, if you have the choice between sitting on your ass for an hour and making $50 for an hour of work, you should only choose sitting on your ass if you'd be willing to pay $50 for the privilege.

I know this, but I don't live by it, and I really should.

I've been called impatient, but if time is money, waiting needlessly is throwing money out the window.

I have wondered, from time to time, if it would help me to have a small office somewhere. The act of coming home kind of puts you in a mood where you don't want to do anything productive.

There are certain things you just can't rely on other people to push you into doing.

I'm not sure how I'd go about structuring my spare time. I have tried an approach where I scheduled a bunch of repeating events in my calendar, but that effort was too easy for me to derail.

When you're the only one who cares, there is no one to stop you from just going "Fuck it. I'm going to watch YouTube, read Hacker News and make pointless posts on Mastodon instead."

I've been in a habit for decades now of not really structuring my spare time. If there is an event, I might schedule that, but otherwise, I don't really have an after-work schedule.

Society doesn't expect you to have one, but I think it's the only way of achieving certain goals that no one cares about but you.

I tell myself I have a need to relax, but the fact that I don't immediately fall asleep when I go to bed tells me otherwise. In other words, I'm being lazy.

@jack @mcread Counting the steps you walk when you're not walking fast enough to break a sweat seems pointless, since you're not really getting the benefits of exercise from that.

@jack @mcread I never really understood the point of counting steps, except for that whole "10,000 steps a day" thing. I'm more concerned with how many calories I have burned, and that can be estimated from the speed and duration of the walk. I have a calculated column with the speed that you can't see on that screenshot.

@jack @mcread I never really understood the point of counting steps, except for that whole "10,000 steps a day" thing. I'm more concerned with how many calories I have burned, and that can be estimated from the speed and duration of the walk, and I have a calculated column with the speed that you can't see on that screenshot.

@mcread I thought I had to use collective transport to work. I still partially do, but only for a few stops, to make it to the office in time.

@Bells @OCRbot As a man, I view this as the domain of a particular kind of male. The kind I didn't hang out with in high school, and have had minimal social contact with since. To the degree that I've encountered it, I've been disgusted by it.

@mcread It is, but why is walking to work a luxury? Why would I not be able to do so in the future?

@mcread How is it a pure luxury?