Hot yoga. Indoor climbing. Both if you can. Activity + heat + big, bright open space that tricks your brain into thinking you're getting outdoor sunlight.
I was up for confirmation, when allegedly the Holy Spirit enters you and you start a more adult phase relationship with God. Post-ceremony, the prep class teacher asked all of us newly confirmed kids if we had felt the holy Spirit enter us. Every single kid but me said yes. It was obvious to me that they were being influenced by each other and the encouragement of the teacher and the specialness of the ceremony. Realizing I didn't want to be carried away by the wave of group fuzzies was the start of my drifting from the church.
And then the firm end to it all was when I left home and got away from the network of religious friends and family I grew up around and really saw how the church treats gay people and women and children.
Find ways to rely less on motivation. Shift to discipline and habits or patterns.
I don't feel like going to the gym 9 times out of 10. I go because it's on my calendar and it's what I do Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
I don't want to practice the language I'm learning most days. I do it because I have phone reminders to practice at the same time every day right after breakfast.
If I get to the point of dreading the thing, I reevaluate why I'm doing it to begin with and whether I really want to continue. I've worked really hard on being able to drop things that don't "spark joy", to borrow from Kondo, without feeling guilty for quitting.
You mean Max Steel?
Edit: ty for the upvotes, kind strangers. This was the lowest rated film I could find that looked like something I would watch if I were high enough.
"The fifth" is American. They have the same or similar concept in other countries, they just have different names for it than "the fifth amendment".
Plead "the fifth" in NZ and they'll tell you that you watch too much American television.
I haven't modded on Lemmy so not sure how applicable these all are.
When removing a comment, cite the specific rule they are in violation of. It helps them understand why, it helps anyone else in the community know why, and it helps yourself and other mods if the person appeals down the road. Be transparent.
When removing a comment because a portion is unacceptable, i.e., they throw in an unnecessary slur when the rest of the comment is fine, offer to restore the comment once they edit it to remove the slur.
Establish ban guidelines within the mod group. First time offense? One day. Egregious offense? What's the threshold for "egregious" and when does it result in permaban? This person who got a 1-day ban for the f-slur, is the same ban length being consistently applied to other users of the f-slur?
If you feel a personal dislike of a user, check your decisions against another mod for an outside perspective. Or better yet, just ask them to mod that particular comment/post and remove yourself from the conflict of interest.
I live in the US and follow rugby.
"Rugby is a hooligan's sport played by gentlemen, soccer is a gentleman's sport played by hooligans."
So cringe. Different sports are different. I can like both, I can even play both, and neither suffers a loss.
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If it's available digitally from one of the many libraries I belong to, that's easier. I prefer it to Audible even.
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If not available by library, I can't recall the last time I wasn't able to find it through some alternative means.
Insert Pirates of the Caribbean meme about being, without doubt, the worst pirate I've ever seen.
Disaster. It's not just personal communication that uses the internet, it's banking, research, security, all sorts of infrastructure things that you don't necessarily interact with directly.
"I'm pretty certain he has already publicly apologized though."
Feel free to share evidence of the public apology, you seem to be remembering something no one else saw. All I'm seeing is him making excuses, no apology.
My mailman says USPS is still a good path; federal job with pension. He likes being a carrier, but says he's trying to get his kids to look at other roles within the Postal Service, like mechanic/technician or logistics or IT.
I do think any federal job that doesn't get dragged into politics too much would be pretty solid.
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I would go back to 2010 and tell myself, "buy Bitcoin, sell on Dec 17, 2017, buy after it drops and sell again on April 14, 2021. If you still need money after that, reevaluate your life".