Ditto

Everyone’s an adult, nothing’s weird until things get weird.

Search (with some double checking), rough drafting and frameworks, templates, and scripting.

First time I’m hearing about either of these which is going to be a problem.

That’s pretty much how it works. I don’t know if it’s really a should/shouldn’t conversation per se. Money is still getting donated to the needy, it’s just also kind of undercutting what the company should be doing in terms of taxes and stuff. And some people just can’t get themselves to make the time to donate directly.

That said, 100%, if you can get yourself to make the time to donate directly to a cause, that is absolutely undeniably better than letting the company do the roundup thing and you should totally do that instead.

Hobby oriented stuff. Take a look at meetup.com or public recurring Facebook events. From a nerdy perspective also; Game stores that host groups and events public clubs like I have a monthly anime club near me for instance.

https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/

My reading is that the classic search listings are coming from Bing and the the quick answer type stuff is coming from DDGs systems.

It’s contextualizing, things suck, that’s real and gets acknowledged, not dismissed, they can suck more and probably do for other people, this is also real. It doesn’t make the suck you are experiencing magically better but it does put into a wider context and helps to show that you, likely, aren’t at rock bottom without any hope. Your actions and headspace matter. They won’t magically make everything great, but they can easily be the difference between bad and legitimately “ok” or better.

They “just” merged the Team/channel and Chat systems together ala Slack.

What basic features?

Is that regional? Ours is working fine out in the midwest.

Google has no room to talk here with Android.

Yes.

I’m trying to be better about checking out content in the Ground News app to see some right wing content. Not great about right now though. I don’t want to go to any communities because, especially when it’s detached from the news sources, they always come off as next level crazy. Sometimes the news does too, but at least the grammar is decent.

This is a big one. Its probably doomed to imperfection and hold out Mods who don’t want to do it but I think some kind of Community Sync option would be huge.

Scripting, both frameworks and finished code with testing and iteration.

More often than not it gives me decent answers for the kind of info I’m searching for. Saves me a lot of time digging through ad layden pages and search results.

Dang, my nightstand printer is such a great white noise generator too. ;p

Exercise

Perfection

Planning is well and good but your present self should be driving towards your future, not the other way around which is how this kind of feels. In some ways it strike me that you seemed to see yourself as the future state person that you wanted to be rather than who you are. It may be worth taking a step back to try and rediscover who you really are “right now” as a person, not what you think or thought you wanted to be, if the plan has been in place that long you may find that at heart you just aren’t in the same headspace as the you from all those years ago. With that done, reassess what the current you wants and set out to “make” those things happen, don’t trust for the new plan to just natural play out, each thing should at least be treated like its going to take effort. If getting a family together is a thing and really important, don’t just hang out at bars waiting for a connection to happen. Get on apps and sites and date like it’s your 2nd job. Building on that as an example, if you’re a halfway decent person you will find somebody, but it might still be person 112 and you have to put in the work to get through the first 111 to get to them.