Just going for a walk often resolves this for me. It often inspires me to do something and gets me into a doing things mode.

Also if it doesn’t, then no harm done. Fresh air and a bit of sun didn’t hurt.

No structures or inspiration needed. Just walk for a bit.

Some parties are bareaking even.

The absolute absurdity of work without pay becomes blatantly obvious when you reverse the situation.

Imagine you going to your boss and asking them if they could pay you for 10 hours of work even though you only worked 8 today.

It’d be considered ridiculous. But it’s the same thing.

In a employment relationship you got a contract stating the conditions in which you trade your time and skilled labor for money and benefits.

Neither side should feel entitled to free handouts on top.

But it is.

They know you can’t improve on a master piece.

Thierig also pointed out that sick leave tended to increase on Fridays and late shifts. “That is not an indicator of bad working conditions because the working conditions are the same on all working days and across all shifts. It suggests that the German social system is being exploited to some extent,” he said.

How bad of a manager can you be to not understand this? When your sick leave is more than three times as high as the automotive average, then your working conditions are so bad people are getting sick. Being too exhausted to work or unable to take another day of horrid working conditions at the end of the week is a symptom of that. Not being able to make it through a late shift for health reasons is not abusing the Healthcare system. That is what it’s for. Stop treating your people bad and they will be healthier and come to work. How hard is that to understand?

Just a normal alarm timer app.

Forget appointments? Lose track of time when doing things? I set timers. Most apps allow recurring timers. For example I got one going off twice each day to remind me to drink some water.

I gotta leave in 40 minutes so I got some time to read or whatever. If I don’t set an alarm I’ll lose track of time and be late. Easy fix.

As far as habits go.

Be honest with myself about my shortcomings. If I start gaming at 9 pm it won’t be half an hour. Be honest. Go to bed now or accept it will be midnight.

No, I won’t just do that later. I will forget. Write it down or do it now. Else I will forget.

I can relate so much. I’ve had both happen several times. I’m currently back to the plan of minimum effort but it’s hard.

Whenever I’ve gotten a fun hobby I just think about it all the time and it becomes so hard to focus on my job and even harder to force myself to do the same boring shit every day. Can’t wait to get home too finally do something fun and interesting with my life.

I only know the German translation where the name is Petterson.

Petterson is iconic but he would be nothing without Findus.

I wish there were actual consequences that matter for this type of appalling greedy behavior.

True but it helps get the concept across so much.

I found since people are used to app stores, I’ve had a much easier time convincing people to try out Linux. My mom even said that she always wished her windows PC had a proper app store.

I don’t think this is likely unless if none is the most voted option none gets killed. But if one always gets killed then there will be lots of campaigning and manipulating for certain votes. And the past years have shown people will fall for it.

So the escapist is closing down soon? Alright then.

Ah yes, sounds like a job.

That’s the spirit!

It might not look like it helped but who knows what would have happened if you and several others didn’t go.

I agree. I also think ads do influence us way more than almost anyone would believe or admit. Why else would companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars on ads without batting an eye. Many products cost as much or less than their ad campaign cost to make.

So I try to avoid ads as much as possible. I haven’t seen or heard an ad in a long time aside from billboards and posters which are basically impossible to avoid.