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Welcome to the public domain, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)! https://archive.org/details/SteamboatWillie

‪i'm calling it: let's make 2024 the year of unironically enjoying things.‬

‪in 2024, let's make a less cynical world, together.‬

in 2024 let's shine together
chase dreams and find joy
be the selves we need to be
make the world we want to see

wait so… do eu citizens moving to germany just show up at their local registration office and register themselves almost exactly like if they'd moved house within germany? it's not even a different form? they don't need special evidence of the basis of your right of residence???

started the journey of learn about german bureaucracy and already fascinated by the ways it differs from sweden's

does local government in germany just not even attempt to serve non-german speakers? is that why some have a hard time with it? (rip to them but i'm different)

Holy crap. I'm waiting to verify the details, but it looks like the parking app used in Brisbane and elsewhere in Australia (as far as I can tell, "CelloPark") had an enormous billing clusterfuck, and anyone who's used the app since December 18th has been billed to at least one particular credit card.

My oldest friend (~40 years!) got a call from his today bank asking why they'd maxed out their $15k credit card on parking.

Perhaps something of interest @stilgherrian and @daedalus (and all you other nerds).

New Blobhaj, New Blobhaj!!

Kyra has commissioned a dancey blobhaj for all to share!

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@gvwilson I think a lot about this underappreciated 2009 blog post, "5 Time Management Tricks I Learned From Years Of Hating Tim Ferriss", and similar posts from people who noticed that a lot of these "10x productivity hacks" boil down to "define 90% of your obligations as not-work, and when you can't, just get somebody else to do them."

https://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2009/01/08/5-time-management-tricks-i-learned-from-years-of-hating-tim-ferriss/

@mhoye @gvwilson Yep. This learning hit me particularly hard:

“Tim is all about time management for achievement and winning. But there are not trophies or measurements for relationships. There is only that feeling that someone is kind. And good. And truly connected.

And Tim is not.”

Lots of "how to be 10X more productive" lists flying around. None I've seen make any mention of things like looking after children, elder care, needing to manage long-term disability, etc. "Take control of your time" feels pretty privileged to people who have to spend hours in line at a government office sorting out botched immigration paperwork or a weekend fixing leaky pipes because the landlord knows it'll take years for any complaint you make to reach a tribunal.

extraction completed agent, we're all in the clear now.

wait, before you go. show me the files. i need to know.

i know it sounds self-evident when i put it like that, but, so many people just Don't give feedback, or give only one half of the feedback, and as a result their friends may end up guessing whether they're appreciated or just get further reinforced in the belief they're hated when nothing is further from truth

you could go a long way towards building a lasting friendship by telling your friends that you like something whenever you like what they do, and that you don't like something whenever you don't like what they do

(-- sun tzu)