We need friction between us and the things we want to do, otherwise the things we want to do will feel meaningless and hollow
but like seriously do try it
Submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@toast.ooo to memes@sopuli.xyz
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zebidiah@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Rhoeri@piefed.world 1 day ago
How does one spend 15 minutes making coffee?
autriyo@feddit.org 17 hours ago
Manual mill, mokka pot, and a pot and french press for making frothed(?) milk. Plus rinsing off the milk afterwards
Not quite sure if ppl call it frothed milk or steamed milk…
justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 2 days ago
Birdwatching: get and support the Merlin app. Its a great way to find out what birds live or pass through your area.
marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
Same for iNaturalist for plants and fungi!
stray@pawb.social 1 day ago
My immediate assumption is that any observations made by me are meaningless noise and that I should avoid making them unless I see something really weird. But that could also be a problem because then it looks like shiny Caterpie is really common in this area while the regular one is rare. Do you know what behavior the creators of the app prefer?
stray@pawb.social 1 day ago
What does it mean that this bird is “likely in 4 today”?
runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
geese. geese are what pass through my area.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
What is the 48 cookies doing in here lol.
ICastFist@programming.dev 16 hours ago
Probably what you have after Lex Luthor steals 40 cakes
other_cat@piefed.zip 1 day ago
My brain just automatically supplied “hour” 48 hour cookies. (You make the dough then chill it in the fridge for a couple days to make the flavor change.)
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 days ago
It’s definitely good for people who struggle with a wide array of mental health issues, and is good prophylaxis against the same.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 14 hours ago
I think part of the problem is we’ve really perfected computers to where they’re overly-effective entertainment machines. You can play games that suck you in for hours on end, you can watch videos and movies on any topic. Hour long video essays on isoteric and ultimately unimportant topics. 2-10 second videos each delivering laughs, cultural experiences and information, all queued up to watch one after another so you’ve watched 10 unrelated videos in a minute. And if that’s not enough stimulation now it’s becoming common practice put an unrelated video on part of all of the screen so you don’t have to get worried about being bored for a few seconds. Pepper the video with split second clips from popular shows or movies for an added laugh and remembering the reference fondly and you’ve got a recipe to never be bored for a single second.
We’ve defeated boredom and it shows. Now we as a society have to learn why being bored is good again, why our brains need some boredom so that everything else can have meaning.
People need to relearn how to go make stuff. Read books, read magazines, play instruments, ride bikes and skateboards and run and jump and have fun away from screens. I think this is a growing trend as people realize how bad for us these dopamine drips that are fed to us on our phones, computers, game consoles, etc. the rise of products and services to add friction to accessing our computing devices, the resurrection of feature phones, phones with intentionally boring screens to discourage use, etc.
starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
I’ve tried this and part of the problem is if you’re already tired, being bored doesn’t suddenly make you capable of doing more, now you’re just tired and bored. It’s better in the long term because the times you might not be tired you’ll be more willing to do things instead of the instant dopamine activities, but I’m not sure if that’s worth all the time spent being super bored.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 hours ago
My point was less “do nothing” but rather “do things other than stare at screens for entertainment” with a touch of “be mindful of what you’re doing when you do stare at your screen for entertainment”
Draegur@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Slowmaxxing my travel ironically makes the journey feel shorter
tomiant@piefed.social 2 days ago
NO TIME!
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 2 days ago
My stand mixer would cry trying to make 48 cookies in a go. I’ll stick with 24 and eating them all up then making more!
Xenny@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I read it as 48-hour chocolate chip cookies. I make those often actually. I find with my recipe especially the 48-hour rest really helps the cookies flavor. It’s been fun. Experimenting.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
maxxing
This is how they taught you to spell?
stray@pawb.social 1 day ago
That is the correct spelling in this context.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
They’re just grammarmaxxing
ValarieLenin@midwest.social 2 days ago
Vibes af
foodandart@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
NGL, in a pinch get a good nature sound app and pop in the earbuds and just crash out on the sofa and listen.
I have been using one called Naturespace for a decade and it’s glorious. Best track is called The Imaginarium. Whoa.
Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Gonna just let people know about MyNoise, tons of sound generators and most of the nature ones are made with field recordings.
foodandart@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
Thank you, wil definitely check this out!
nuggsy@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Thanks for this. This is fantastic!
edg@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Have you ever listened to field recordings? It’s a genre of audio recordings that include nature sounds. Bandcamp has a wide selection, sounds like you’d be interested.
foodandart@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
Oh, I’ll check that out! Part of why I like the Naturespace recordings so much is that many are straight field recordings. There used to be an iOS ap called Ambiance that had the ability to record and share one’s own soundscapes. there were thousands of files available to download through the app and it was maintained until Apple dropped the 32-bit downloads from the AppStore. I got the best ones I could and have it still on a handful of older devices. Got to crack it open at some time and excise the sound files as it’s only a matter of time before the devices get spicy pillows and fail.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I’ve been using a mix of nature sounds to help fall asleep for years. If I’m having a particularly rough night, I’ll play some repetitive calm music I’m super familiar with as well, EQ’d to just be barely audible through the nature sounds. ADHD brain uses all the extra energy that would be keeping me up spinning ideas around to tune one or the other of the “two” audios out and I’m out pretty quick.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 1 day ago
I do the same but with real nature audioscape tracks people put on youtube. Creeks and blackbirds especially.