Yeah I just used it last night.

Well, he’s dead, so I doubt I’m bothering him. Plus he worked hard and got a lot done and his profile picture is sort of paternal and approving and I guess that helps me feel better about the list.

❌ everything the way I want it
✅ comfortable
✅ no angst
🤷‍♀️ no nagging feeling
🤷‍♀️ sure how to achieve goals

To keep a to-do list in an environment where I can use emojis

I use FB messenger to text Peter Norbeck, the second governor of South Dakota, my to-do list

No chance. Have you seen what grad students and research professors are like at top universities? Especially during grant proposals? Competitive doesn’t begin to describe it. Cutthroat barely does.

It always meant “hallucinate”, that’s why it was funny.

Oh no, so when I eventually set up my own piefed instance, I’ll have to spend ten more minutes then initially expected? That’s awful.

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I conceive of myself as a decision-making process. I’m not my body and I’m not my mind and I’m not my feelings, but at the same time I am not myself without those things; they are the filters that give the (imperfect) inputs to my decisions and execute the (imperfect) outputs of those decisions, and with different filters I would make different decisions.

The above is a very Stoic way of viewing the situation, and you’re welcome to read more.

To address your own situation, you seem to be concerned with with what I’ll call “authenticity”: are these my real feelings, is this how I really think. Don’t be. Authenticity is a trap. Human nature is kinda shitty. You can be better than it. That’s not an act or a fake; that’s ethics.

Whether you feel depressed because the world sucks or the world seems to suck because you’re medically depressed, the answers are the same: Make the world better, make yourself better (by medication if necessary). It’s okay to have something wrong with you; we all do. But you gotta try to make it better. If I don’t wear my glasses to correct my nearsightedness, that doesn’t make me noble, just impaired. But at the same time, it may seem that the world outside my window is blurry not because I forgot my glasses, but because I need to wash the window. Sometimes one or another is enough, sometimes you need to do both.

Chellenging: Getting their attention that long.

Rewarding: Getting their attention that long.

I joke a little, but seriously, homes are distracting. It’s where all the videogames, food, siblings and windows are.

But at the same time, it’s rewarding to spend that time with them; and to provide for them education on things that the public school can’t or won’t teach them, like civics, advanced mathematics, Native American history, and extra art.

It’s sad I have to include this caveat, but I want to make clear that I’m not advocating for homeschooling as a replacement for public school, but as an addition or complement to it.

Is that… six sevens?

It’s already plural, like pants.

cold water

No, I rinse them after hand-washing them.

“Do you have any sugar?”

I offered you sugar and cream when you ordered the coffee, and you just said “cream”. This is on you.

soooo… relevant username?

His grandfather had invested heavily in stocks.

Have you tried complaining? It’s amazing. One of my favorite activities.

I haven’t found anything better than Jerboa. To me, the only flaw is that it will never, ever support piefed.

It’s the closest to the RIF experience.