They tell you your brain is broken and you'll never live a normal life without medication?

I was seeing a counselor years back and she made this point to me. "If you had a heart condition that could be treated with medication, would you take it? What makes taking care of your brain different?" I was really the simple bit of logic I needed to hear. Luckily, the meds worked with only a couple minor increases over the years. Medication is absolutely an avenue worth exploring.

Right. I never pull the wrong one anymore because fan=fan and light=light. I know it's a stupid minor thing, but it's great.

Is the parka just to keep warm, or specifically to add bulk? Because I think that extra size is what really makes the 3rd on stand out and look more intimidating.

I do still look for Airbnbs every time we travel because we're a family of 5. Not a lot of hotels will accommodate 5 to a room and separate rooms means twice the price. Airbnb offers a lot more options for a family with the added benefits of a full kitchen and having a place that can actually be a short term home rather than a room with a bed.

Here's the last one we rented: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/794199620391731129

I get that Airbnbs take some homes off the market and in some areas (like mine), that sucks because demand is high and supply is low. But they aren't going to be the reason for a housing crunch. Here in Portland, Maine, we're a small city on the ocean, thrive on tourists, have great restaurants, and are an easy drive to Boston or to ski resorts or Acadia. The housing market has been bonkers for YEARS and it isn't going to change if we ban short term rentals.

I appreciate ongoing conversations about this, but I think they tend to be too broad. Managers aren't worried about the remote workers who are productive and reliable. The worry is the people who aren't. On my team, you are fully remote as long as you meet expectations. You don't, you return to office.

My wife's company recently went from a hybrid 2 days in office per week to 4 days. One month later, they're walking it back to 3 days because even managers were choosing to work extra days from home "so they could focus."

They only mention it once, but I do have issues with mentorship in a remote work environment. I just personally haven't been able to make it work. I'm sure some do.

I have some faith that eventually we'll all work it out. Just going through some growing pains.

Yeah, this sounds like a really GOOD use of AI.

Start with the largest. Beat it up a little each day. Every few days replace with the smaller ones in a worse and worse state of decomposure.

Lots of money to just trash things, but you know.

I recently had about $40 of Play Store credit that was inaccessible to me for weeks. Google support just kept telling me "Okay, wait 24 hours and it should be good now."

FINALLY someone got it straightened out, but during the course of it, I had to explain to support what Stadia was and why I didn't have a gift card number.

I think of them as "example given" and "in essence" which is close enough to remind me which to use.

Yeah, I don't know how it's going to help YT or creators, but having a completely empty home screen with just a logo and search box is fantastic.

!AlternativeNation@lemmy.world

Because I'm old and I like alternative music.

Why wouldn't I just do this?