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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • I used to look forward to weekends and would often postpone personal projects to the weekends where I would have the time to do them.

    It’s a lie. I don’t have time in the weekends. There’s always something else in the way, because everyone else also want to connect in weekends. It only causes frustration from not being able to do whatever I actually want.

    It’s also bullshit that I have to postpone private stuff for weekends. I want to live my life 7 out of 7 days. Not 2 and then work 5. I’m not happy with giving 70% of my life away, and hoping to catch up in the remaining 30%.

    It might seem somewhat egoistic, but if you want time for yourself, you will have to prioritize time for yourself. That includes giving lower priority and more often saying no to work, friends and family. If you try to please everyone, then your time will be consumed by everyone. You have to put yourself first and align other people’s expectations.

    However, it’s not really egoistic. It’s better to be fully present when you’re doing stuff with others, than to sit at their place wishing you were home. That includes work.

    Also, I’m now focusing on carving out time in weekdays for the things I want to do. No more overtime work, no more procrastenation and relaxing just to prepare for the next day. Sure, I will work the agreed hours to make money, but I am going to take ownership of the rest of the day. That’s somewhat easier in the summer where I have more energy and the weather is better. In the winter I am almost hibernating but then I also lower my expectations for what I can do.

    So in short, it’s necessary to plan your time and it’s necessary to align expectations from others but also your own.



  • The great thing is that this money doesn’t have to be found in other budgets or by raising taxes or anything. It’s quite literally fuck-you-money and can be spend as such.

    Of course it’s a shame to have to dig into the fund to cover for a war that should never have been started in the first place, but it’d be a lot worse in ten years to have sat on the money if Russia isn’t stopped and knowing that it could have been used for that.

    I hope they manage to find enough European manufacturers ready to take orders.




  • I’m beginning to consider the idea of having an apartment but then also a plot of land with just a shed or cottage. Something like that. I’d like to spend more time outside in most of the year but also keep the convenience of an apartment during winter. I have a house in a good location now, so it’ll probably not happen unless something drastic happens. Maybe when the kids move out.


  • I read a reaction from a Greenlandic politician. He was mostly upset about the laugh track that followed Trump saying “incredible people”.

    Watch the clip again if you didn’t notice.

    It’s perfectly reasonable that they don’t want to be addressed like that. The politician went on to call it an “unacceptable human view”.

    I agree. The act of the middle school bully doesn’t translate into anything remotely strong or respectable. It’s just disgusting. It doesn’t matter who or what they’re talking about, and when presenting themselves by giggles and eye-rolling, they’re really only presenting their own insecurity by hiding their disgusting views in the support of a laugh track.

    I am from Denmark, which actually colonized Greenland. We have made mistakes and treated them badly in the past for sure, but never like that. We have never laughed in their faces when doing so.



  • I’ve used Connect the most. Also tried Jerboa and Voyager.

    The reason is that I prefer a tiny list view with thumbnails on the right, just like old.reddit used to look and RiF could be made to look. I left Reddit due to this. When they cut off 3rd party apps like RiF, there was really no good way to view the site (in my opinion). Connect simply has the settings to make it look and behave exactly how I want it. I think Voyager can be made pretty close too. Jerboa was kind of buggy when I tried it.

    I’m sure things have improved in all the apps during the last year, but I’ve stuck with Connect because it’s both stable and flexible enough. It gets frequent updates and issues are fixed quickly. I reported a bug once and the developer got it fixed within hours.