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Another fun thing about Melatonin is also that nocturnal animals produce it basically the same way - dim light makes them produce melatonin while bright light flushes the melatonin out of their system. The melatonin itself just affects their nervous system in the opposite way and acts like a stimulant, so they get less sleepy when they have a lot of it. I think that’s kinda neat and maybe a bit counterintuitive if you have never thought about it before. I sure know that I would have either expected nocturnal animals to have their own separate compound or to produce melatonin at daytime.

Yeah, for many people they do that! But if your brain is in absolute overdrive by nature it’s actually a performance boost to slow it down to a point where you have proper control over it.

I don’t work in the food industry, but I do have the flavor of ADHD that would absolutely LOVE the work environment. There really is a special kind of zen you achieve when everything is on fire and you have to think on your feet all day. Plus the working times are fucked up and your diet consists of cigarettes, energy drinks and coke. That might not sound like an upside but if your life already is like that it really must be quite nice to have a job that conforms to it.

Nothing, I have the day (and all other Wednesdays until October) off so I’m just hanging out on my couch at 8am instead of working. It’s nice. Might go play some games later

Yea, working in tech be like that sometimes. I quit my current job because I hate the AI push (especially the part about paying Antropic 250€ per month per employee) and because I think relying on AWS for critical European infrastructure is a really stupid idea.
The new job I’m starting in October isn’t much better though. It’s with a company that I would personally never ever enter a customer relationship with. It’s still reliant on AWS, but at least it’s not critical infrastructure. An AWS outage would only cost the company, not the customer. And the AI push in the new company is much milder because the teams there are highly skilled 3-5 senior engineer teams that don’t tolerate being told what tools to use.

i smell slop

I hate python. Just hate it.

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Just one 🤷 I’ve always been picky, so anyone who’d get that far would be someone I could see working out long-term. We’re in our 7th year together now.

I prefer the term “load-bearing indentation”

As a reptile, this offends me.

Nah, it’s mostly fine, even though I don’t eat any. I’m super bothered by anything that’s fish or seafood though, cooking anything like that kills my appetite for as long as there’s still any detectable smell in the kitchen

No need for outside tools, go to Settings>Apps>Default Apps>Opening Links and set which apps open which links. No idea if it’s an Android or a Graphene feature, since I’m on Graphene as well. I’ve set up Revanced to handle all my Youtube links, works flawlessly.

I mean, I agree with the fact that it’s fun to know the basics to software engineering (just knowing the words in a coding language is kinda useless by itself) but no one’s building their own alternatives by themselves. The field is too vast. Find your specialty and contribute to open source projects.

Outertune, Harmony, etc. kept dying on me too, so I pulled the nuclear option and set up a Jellyfin server for my music. yt-dlp can download whole playlists, so I had it pull the 250-ish songs I regularly listen to from youtube. I use FinAmp as the music app on my phone now, it’s set to automatically download the songs I add to my Jellyfin.

Only thing I haven’t figured out yet is how to find out about new music, but at least I’m now always guaranteed to have something that works.

Maybe try ZorinOS! I’ve used it for a bit on a Laptop with a touchscreen and it performed reasonably well. Didn’t get to try it for very long because I gave that laptop to my parents, but they’re still using it with no complaints so far :0

Would you see someone who is paid to interact with you as an equal though?

So that leads us into the actual question: would you be willing to take a job where you pretty much just train men on how to act around/ treat women?

Nope, hard pass. Never been into the social field myself, because it’s full of bullshit jobs. What would make this one any different than any of those “Life coach” jobs that promise to teach you all the secrets that will instantly fix you, as long as you have the money to keep paying for that “wisdom”?
Reality is, there is no single proven way to treat women. And if anyone claims that there is and they know it, it’s a scam.

It’s oddly specific, but vegpool.de has a weekly newsletter that lists all the vegan foods on sale in german supermarkets for the week. It’s usually only a few interesting items per store, so getting it compiled like that is super handy

I think Valve is one of the only companies I don’t actively hate. Steam is a pretty solid platform that hasn’t been too enshittified over the years, even though the gambling on there is kinda concerning.
The advances in Proton are usually attributed to them. And I like how permissive the family sharing on there is (I personally only own like 2 games and just leech the rest from my husband).

But of course, they might just have a good PR team and be secretly shitty. I’m always down to just hop back to pirating games.

Oh, in that context, Humble Bundle seems pretty decent as well. That’s where my husband got most of his steam games from