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Whats a small habit or change you could make to improve your life only 1% today or soon?
  • I forget if it was here or back when I was on that other site where I read it, but at least a year ago someone suggested "don't put it down, put it away" as a mantra to mentally recite whenever I'm holding something at home to prevent clutter build-up in common spits to sit. I don't always follow it, but it's been a huge help in managing my own item organization and management.

    As a way to combat the difficulty I have with noticing messiness in visually busy environments like a household room, I also try to pick up a piece of refuse or dirty dish l that may have been forgotten whenever I know I'm going near or to the kitchen; I've developed that into a reliable habit, which is extra helpful when I forget why I went to the kitchen in the first place- only to go back to the kitchen for a second time, with yet another item in hand.

    The individual actions are very easy, simple things I can remember to do in the moment when I think of them as I'm doing something else.

    Edit: I'm aware the ask was about things we could implement, not have implemented, but I felt I hit the general idea; very simple changes that may improve QoL.

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    Screenshots of what I'm playing, day 1: progressing through Sonic 2
  • I remember planting so, so many rings in a single place with debug mode enabled in Sonic 2 just so I could play through each stage as Super Sonic without effort- aside from the super slippery controls.

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    Mail carriers reach tentative contract with USPS that includes pay raises and air-conditioned trucks
  • Some states don't require observation of heat stroke risk mitigation for their workers. Getting it into their federal labor contract ensures a) the feature will be required as a functional feature in all their vehicles, and 2. they can't be told not to turn the feature on.

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    How to handle getting overwhelmed late game?
  • My approach has been to accept some spaghetti or otherwise inefficient production lines when figuring out the new mechanics. Once I feel confident in my experience I'll approach the next factory for similar production lines in a more efficient manner.

    Crucially, I absolutely refuse to do a full teardown of my old spaghetti and inefficient structures so long as they're still producing what I need of them (at most I'll do the bare minimum to get them working again), and I try to limit how much rebuilding I need to do to incorporate new production lines to the existing system.

    Is it inefficient? Yup. Does it lead to wild power fluctuations? You bet! Will I have to wait an extraordinary amount of time to complete each phase? Absolutely.

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    Russia’s Central Bank reports record staffing shortage.
  • To add to this: taking territory is the easy part.

    The hard part is holding it, because you don't just have to worry about staffing the front line, but maintaining security in the occupied regions long enough for non-state actors to cease hostilities and accept the invading force as the new legitimate authority- which may never fully occur- all the while dealing with resistance fighters.

    This means orders of magnitude more personnel, funding, and equipment for an unknowable length of time across a much larger area than just the line of incursion.

    It's taken them two years to fail to take the land, and now have an incursion into their own soil to contend with. so I'm skeptical they'd manage to keep it permanently.

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    Day 92 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots
  • I've been playing this game off and on for years, and it's always a delight.

    That perfect investigation bonus can get pretty big, and that needs a full photo album of 3-Star photos. Disturbed salt is an easy way to get close to that, so your friend is sleeping on some great cheese.

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    How to get liquids high enough?
  • I can confirm it won't indicate the end around 100m away on the horizontal axis; I recently placed a second mk2 pipeline from the area with all the mushroom trees(I've yet to learn the names of each biome) to my grasslands base after the 1.0 update, and could not find the indicator or get it to snap-to on any one spot on the pipeline from far away.

    My solution was to look for the last full length of pipe and put the pump there, repeating the process until that stopped happening or I had an opportunity to add vertical piping. It seems to be working.

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    A jellyfish with a superpower — it can fuse with another and become one
  • The better we understand the nervous systems of other species, the better we can understand our own through comparison and testing, which in turn can lead to more ideas for medical treatments- or augmentation, if you're into that kind of thing.

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    What happened to the turn based RPG and RTS genres?
  • For C&C fans, Tempest Rising is C&C in all but name. The most recent playtest felt like a hybrid of Tiberian Sun and Tiberium Wars. It's not out yet, but I'm very excited about it.

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    The massive U.S. port strike has begun
  • If there's anything to learn from US politics for the past, well, forever, it's that some politicians and voters don't let the truth interfere with their narrative or perceived reality.

    Springfield, Ohio is probably the best evidence of that.

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    Criminals set up fake online pharmacies to sell deadly counterfeit pills, prosecutors say
  • This is one way that the DEAs' approach to ADHD medication boosts the black market. Artificially restrict the supply of legitimate prescription meds, and desperate people become easy marks for this kind of thing.

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    Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games
  • The Wiiimote and Nunchuk combo needs a little tweaking (maybe make the wiimote more like a nunchuk for ergonomics, give it an analog stick for coarse camera movement) but it was the most comfortable controller ever since I could place my hands in different positions relative to one another.

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    USA | California governor vetoes bill requiring speeding alerts in new cars
  • Noise alerts should be limited to imminent threats or severe safety warnings (fast approaching a slower vehicle in the same lane, seatbelt not fastened, etc) but not for activity that a) may actually be totally legal, and b) may cause panicked, reflexive actions, or c) may cause confusion for the driver.

    I could also see it get really annoying for those of us without functioning cruise control trying to go the speed limit consistently, depending how close to the speed limit is started to beep.

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    A man trying to cremate his dog sparked a wildfire in Colorado, authorities say
  • Sometimes, in northern US states, people burn their houses down because they think they can use flamethrowers to melt the snow and ice off their roofs. Ice is pretty resilient to flames.

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    Judge to approve auctions liquidating Alex Jones' Infowars to help pay Sandy Hook families
  • Personally, I think redirecting to Knowledge Fights' site would be a good move; though I mostly hope it doesn't wind up under ownership of some other grifter.

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    Coming Soon: Pathfinder: The Dragon's Demand - Kickstarter
  • I hope it turns out well; I've wanted to experience 2e as a player since before the playtest, and this would be the closest I expect to come for a long time.

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    US Postal Service electric trucks are finally here and drivers love them
  • USPS is self-funded through postage and other services they provide. They did receive $50 billion from an emergency funding bill back in '22, but that also removed a hefty, arbitrary load: back in 2006, legislation was passed that forced the USPS into pre-fund retirement plans for the next 75 years. The emergency funding bill lifted that requirement and gave emergency funding to the USPS under the condition that the USPS adopt changes listed in the bill to further address funding shortfalls and become solvent again.

    The people paying for USPS windshield replacements are effectively paying customers, much like how toll roads are supposed to fund their own upkeep by charging for its use.

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