Picked up my guitar after more than half a year. Really happy that I was able to pick up the things I learned in the few lessons I had beginning of last year. I hope to be able to restart my regular lessons again this year!
Picked up my guitar after more than half a year. Really happy that I was able to pick up the things I learned in the few lessons I had beginning of last year. I hope to be able to restart my regular lessons again this year!
Might not be the best time for Signal to be flaky or completely down, while masses of people are joining the service because of WhatsApp…
I think CGP Grey said that he thinks about his yearly theme already waaay ahead of time. I think I know why… I’m still not done with writing it down and setting up a system. I didn’t get around to it in more than a week now. In parts because I didn’t follow the easy steps I intend to do better this year. Hope to get this done on the weekend.
I get notifications in Telegram and Signal left and right of people joining the services. With some of those I did not have contact since I left Facebook two years ago. Maybe the revolution has started 🥳
This is the way.
The Mandalorian provides some much needed focus for the upcoming year to me.
Someone one day will make a really good movie out of this. Or a new incarnation of House of Cards. The delusional President and the zoned out First Lady: ‘Trump was raging because the white trash mob made him look bad’ says White House insider
How do you make important, long lasting and far reaching life decisions if you have no gut feeling for it and everything has its pros and cons? We can’t for some reason. Deadline tomorrow and we‘re feeling like one day this one day that. Maybe no gut feeling is enough gut feeling
📚 I got back to reading Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving after letting it sit for 5 years. Didn’t read much fiction the last couple of years, but now I know again why this is my favorite author. Strange, quirky stories with a special kind of dark humor. Perfect combination!
The ban train is rolling. Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Reddit, even Apple… But it’s too late. Now they all found a thankful exit strategy. It’s 6 years too late. They helped getting the world where it is right now. They have dirt and blood on their hands. All of them.
🍿 Watched Soul today. I liked it and enjoyed watching it a lot. Not that excited about it somehow. ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
The way Apple One and iCloud storage is treated is stupid. It makes no sense for me to sign up yet. Maybe if Fitness+ is available in Germany. We will all have to learn English to convince Apple. I didn’t hear any reason why this is only available in „english speaking countries“.
Everyone voting for Republicans at least in the last couple of years is responsible for the degradation of their country. The world feels sad for you and is somehow sarcastically laughing at your country. MAGA? Come on, these days are long gone. Leaders of the free world inviting rioters into their „sacred“ halls of lawmaking. There are videos showing officers leading them into the Capitol. Were they black they would have been shot from behind in a millisecond. Your Republicans support baseless conspiracy theories, destroying your country.
Why I even care about this? You are responsible for many other politicians in this world that think behavior like this is ok. It’s not. People like you create and follow actual fake news without any facts legitimizing „political“ practices that are simply unacceptable. You created a system of irrational media that makes money off of uneducated people. You are in large parts responsible for the same thing happening in my country.
You voted for „the good Republicans“? Well congratulations, they did nothing to prevent this and helped creating it.
This is on you.
Good job Twitter. This should have been done many years ago. Easy to do now… tough call avoided before when it would have been right.
Tried to get some fresh air today
This is not going to be over in two weeks, two years or even four years…
Creatures storming the center of American democracy ™… I‘m sure there were „fine“ people as well.
I understand people not liking the way we need to handle the pandemic right now. On the other hand I think there’s still too much leeway in the lockdown restrictions. It has to be all or nothing. Everything else just makes this whole mess even longer. Everything else just confuses people and leads to edge cases that make no sense at all. History tells us a lot about how things were handled in the past, especially during the Spanish Flu. Yet we didn’t learn anything, and we‘re making the same mistakes again. (Here‘s my German post from a couple weeks ago on the history and what we learned)
Jack Ma, one of the most influential persons in the world, just disappears from one day to the other. I wonder how long the rest of the world is trying to ignore the practices of China, kicking human rights in the name of saving their money.
I was so close to giving up and stop thinking about a yearly theme, goals or whatever. I realized that all of this is bound to make me feel even more miserable. But I might have cracked it. I need some more time to think about it, but I‘m on to something helpful here…
Checking Fox News to see the other side of that crazy phone call … … Ok not even mentioned. Moving along…
I wanted to come up with something nice or funny or insightful for the end of this terrible year. But I’m just out of words. There were a few bright moments of course, especially with our second daughter being born… but professionally, mentally, physically, productively… it was just horrible. It can always get worse, but I hope next year, maybe late in the second half, might improve a little.
Good Riddance, 2020.
“In science, it is only right to seek truth from facts and not to play safe,” Dr. Zhong was quoted as saying. “Otherwise patients will be the victims.”
Bold statement. How they tried to cover up: 25 Days That Changed the World: How Covid-19 Slipped China’s Grasp
When did the telephone app loose the ability to paste copied phone numbers? It’s really annoying to have to type the numbers from memory or using the app switcher when I could previously just paste it. Number recognition in websites or apps often is broken or not supported.
Trying to think about how the theme system could help me next year. Previous tries with similar journaling „systems“ didn’t stick. I’m not good at such things but I always see the great benefit it could bring to my life.
Didn’t get to the themes yet, but this sentence really nails it. Can’t believe how fast this crappy year went by…
Farewell 2020, we barely knew you!
Cortex #110: 2021 Yearly Themes