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I started with the smallest task imaginable, and left it there until I finally felt the desire to ramp it up. Pick up one thing. That’s all you have to do that day. Even if 10 more things took its place immediately afterward, you still did something. Tomorrow pick up one thing again.

It took a few weeks, or even months in some cases, but if you’re like me, you might eventually start saying “well, while I’m doing that, I might as well also pick up this other thing” and all of a sudden you’re picking up 2 things.

Just let it ramp at whatever pace you want - the goal isn’t to get there quick - hell, the goal isn’t to get there at all, really. The goal is just to do something, and if you eventually decide to do something more on your own, that’s awesome.

Just look at the comment I responded to for the definition; if you’re doing an activity well, it’s a skill. You might disagree, but that’s between you and the dictionary. The rest of us will be here working on making sure people are paid well regardless of whether or not you think their work isn’t “skilled” enough.

The focus on skill in the first place was so that they can make it a competition that they can exploit to call people “unskilled” without backlash from the “skilled” workers. If you put effort into your job, you should get paid fairly for it. I can think of a few CEOs that would take a pretty big pay cut if that were the case, though, so we’re certainly not going to get it by asking.

As someone who’s had multiple surgeries that forced them to re-learn how to use their own muscles, anything that requires purposeful muscle movement is a skill. And even if it wasn’t, there aren’t any jobs that have you move a box. There are, however, jobs that require you to move a box to a specific known location without breaking the contents of the box, which is a skill.

I literally had to run as they were calling my name over the intercom. If that’s a normal Tuesday for you, I’m glad I’m not you. And yeah, of course I have 3 hours to kill doing “nothing,” it’s exactly the same as what I’m doing now. I can browse the fediverse, watch videos, play games, or just have a nice conversation with my wife. I feel no obligation to be productive to the point where I need to squeeze out 2 more hours of activities just so that I can risk having to run to catch a plane. What you do with your time is up to you, but I’ve never regretted sitting peacefully with my wife for a few hours in an airport.

The damage is permanent on a cellular level - the affected cells will either die, or in the case of radiation exposure, can become cancerous instead. If you got a small enough exposure, and immediately sought medical attention to remove the toxin from your body in the case of amatoxin ingestion, then only some cells will be affected, and maybe your organs can continue functioning and eventually recover after the affected cells die off. If the damage is significant, you might survive if you get a liver transplant and dialysis, since the liver and kidneys are the most affected due to their role in filtering and removing toxens.

It’s not just similar, it’s the same symptom - they both kill you through damaging your cells’ ability to create proteins, radiation through damage to the DNA itself, and amatoxins from deadly mushrooms through blocking of the cell’s ability to read DNA to create mRNA, which is necessary for protein synthesis.

I wholeheartedly believe that anyone who’s amassed more than 10 million dollars in this country is doing something unsavory to get it - we shouldn’t blindly trust anything they say about anything. Mark has orders of magnitude more than that; everything he says should be considered a lie until proven true from multiple sources.

That was an issue for me as well when I started working from home, but I was able to slowly start getting myself to do things on my own, instead of needing to tack them on to preexisting commitments like going to work, which has actually helped me out a lot. The trick was for me to do the smallest possible thing, and ramp it up incredibly slowly. I started working out again by literally doing one sit-up a day. For weeks that’s all I did, but eventually I moved up to 5, then to more, and added more exercises until now, where I’ve got a whole weekly routine.

I did the same thing for other chores that needed doing, and it’s been long enough now that I can just decide to do something that I need to do in the moment, instead of always saying “I’ll do it after work,” which would always turn into “I’ll do it after work tomorrow” when work actually ended. It makes outings more fun, too, since they’re not always filled to the brim with all the things I was putting off doing.

Missing a flight is flat-out unacceptable to me. I know you can reschedule or whatever, but no, I’d never even consider letting that be a possibility. A near-failure isn’t success, success is when you get there without the thought of missing the plane even crossing your mind. For me and my wife, that happens at the 3 hour mark.

I like that people like dogs - they deserve a good home and loving owner - but they make me nervous. I was almost attacked by a dog on the street as a kid, and my dad had to take the bite instead to save me. 2 other kids in my family have been bitten by dogs as well, both times by dogs they had spent a significant amount of time with, but that suddenly got triggered by something out of the blue and attacked. I just can’t trust that they’ll always be friendly, and even one second of aggression is enough to cause some real damage.

My wife and I are usually the 3 hours early type, and the one time we carpooled with her parents who are more like you, something had gone wrong at the TSA stations, and only 2 were open, causing a huge slowdown with the line going well past the zigzag ropes and down the hall.

We barely made it on the plane before they closed the doors. My wife and I agreed then that 3 hours will always be our time. Neither one of us minds sitting at the airport and chatting instead of sitting at home chatting - it barely makes a difference.

Yeah, annatto is a traditional cheese dye, but outside of the US cheddar doesn’t often have much annatto if any, so it’s not usually died orange. Here’s a video of someone making a marbled cheddar cheese where one part has annatto and the other doesn’t, so you can easily see the difference in the final product.

You can’t in one conversation, but if everyone they knew joined in, it would. Ultimately, it’s about whether or not they’re getting it from all angles. If there’s a group they can fall back on that allows them to hold their current beliefs, they’ll do that, but the smaller that group is, the more likely they are to change their opinion. People don’t often hold opinions that go against the opinions of literally everyone they know.

Sure, it’s unlikely that any of these conversations would actually realize that slim chance of making a difference, since just about everyone has someone that lets them voice even their most heinous opinions unchallenged, but I choose not to be a part of that group for anyone, regardless of how much time and effort it costs me. It’s not something you do for them, it’s something you do for you.

I used to work at FedEx, and while most people did try to get all the packages in safely and “this way up,” they just want us to pack so many boxes into each truck that it becomes impossible by the end of the shift no matter how good you are at Tetris, and you end up just having to put things wherever they fit, even if they’re crushing another box. But also, yeah, there was one guy who took great pleasure in punting boxes into his truck, so pack that shit up good.

Doesn’t always work, though. I remember I broke a pen as a kid while trying to take it apart. I knew my mom liked that pen, so I took apart another pen to try to fix the original. I broke that pen too and ended up just taping them back together and hoping she wouldn’t notice.

Steambot Chronicles for the PS2. It’s my favorite game by a wide margin. I almost never replay games, but I’ve played that one all the way through over a dozen times. It’s just chock-full of so many choices of what to do and how to do it, and the graphics and music come together to make the perfect atmosphere.

Pretty sure that was the joke - a guy randomly trying to kill people did more to punish members of a pedophile ring by complete happenstance than the governmental body whose job it’s meant to be to do so.

He only did it because Congress was already starting to move forward with the creation of the Department of Environmental Protection, which he wouldn’t have had as much control over as an agency.

Yeah, if you’re like me and like the fun dialogue the most, I’d just focus on DQ8 and see if you like it enough to finish it. If you do, I’d suggest giving 11 another go after that, since that’s definitely the most similar title in the franchise. If you do want to try getting into the custom characters games down the line, 7 reimagined would probably be a decent starting point, since they have some customization while still having distinct characters with personality and voice acting.