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Your fun fact is hilarious from an American perspective. It’s the biggest day for bars and pubs in the US and it’s not close.

It’s funny how Irish culture in America seems so different from its motherland counterpart. Same or more so for Italian. No judgements either way. Just interesting how diaspora cultures evolve

Self-awareness is how I look at it. And it is finally taking hold with age :)

I can better manage my emotions by simply being able to recognize them almost from an outsider’s perspective. My inner monologue switches to 3rd person

“Yeah you’re feeling super irritable right now, you better go chill out somewhere before you say something you don’t mean and then create a whole big thing for no reason”

Younger me would have started some shit and created unnecessary problems

Or photos of your own children.

We have a Tumblr set up for family to view pics of the kids. Several photos and videos of our kids when they were under 2 were taken down either temporarily or permanently by their CP algo.

These were a pic or video of kids in the bath or without a shirt. In none of them could you see bum or bits. Just a semi naked baby.

Algorithms like this get things wrong all the time

Potentially? Seems to me that potential is already being realized.

But please don’t subject your children to commercials.

They don’t need temptation to eat/get garbage thrust upon them by high production value propaganda from giant corporations

/rant

My bet is that it would decrease the amount done.

If it’s free why not sign up, maybe someday I’ll use it. Maybe not

Edit: decrease the amount done as a percentage of signups. Perhaps the growth in signups would make up for the percentage drop in aggregate terms. Ie flood the gym with memberships and only find one more person actually working out

We use Tumblr in a custom domain + custom theme and I’m really pleased with the setup.

My wife and I can easily post from the tumblr app on our phones. Password protected site so only family can see it. Easy backups to Wordpress just in case.

It’s easy for family to check the site whenever they want rather than putting it on social media. We turned off commenting so there’s never pressure for anyone to leave a comment and we don’t have any sense of needing affirmation for every picture we put up. It’s all just there if family wants to see it. Grandparents living far away especially appreciate it.

For our own usage, it has been invaluable too. I made some theme updates so we can go back in time and look at specific months easily. It’s been a great asset of curated family photos we can go through to see the kids at different stages. They’re 7 & 4 now.

I’d be happy to share my custom Tumblr theme with anyone who’s interested.

For me, Peterson has a message/messenger dissonance. I like a lot of his thoughts on self improvement and psychology, but find his delivery and tone off putting at times. He can come off patronizing and condescending and in interviews often seems a little too emotional when challenged or asked about arguments critical to his.

I prefer reading articles like this where I can get the message without the messenger.

Pavement = sidewalks

Translating British for my fellow Americans. Carry on.

On top of that, downplaying the severity of covid is critical to the arguments of those who want this to be over for political, economic, or any reasons.

The focus by many has been deaths. Mortality rate can be spun to make covid seem not so bad.

If we start talking about the percentage of people whose lives are significantly affected, we create a much bigger percentage. If you’re trying to paint the opposite picture, it’s not in your interest to acknowledge or increase awareness of that percentage.

Humans have had a very large hand in this evolution.

Dogs are probably the most heavily bred animal in the last 300-400 years. Many (most?) breeds of dogs only exist because humans specifically bred for certain traits.

When breeding for behavioral traits, a dog with expressive eyes who can make humans feel a connection has gotta be a winner over ol wolf eyes over there.

I‘ve gone through many chairs. They all create issues if you are sitting long hours.

My new thing is to move the ottoman from the living room into my office. I switch between sitting cross-legged and legs forward like a normal chair. I’m digging the change up fwiw