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I like city building games and puzzles. I like other things as well, but that’s not important right now.


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  • Great suggestion. I think you’re both right - until we have such a library as you describe, we should try and keep this as a community resembling one. But a seperate resource actually designed for permanent knowledge hub would be more ideal.

    You’re never going to point to this thread or that thread and say the answer was already here the answer was already there. That’s not how communities like this actually work.

    This is (presumably) true. I guess another problem with people deleting their stuff is that it’s “bad etiquette” on the poster’s part, as it creates the illusion that less productive exchange is happening on this sub than really is, which then makes visitors less likely to ask for help here. And i guess the OP is hoping that people who need help will do a quick search before posting about their problem.

















  • We only really do things within what we are used to by habit. You can pick up a new hobby by revisiting the same time every day or every few days to do something related to that task or to just do something random, then you have time where you feel like doing random thing at that time. I have to cook for everyone i live with most days at the middle of the day so i always take a break from working then, i literally always feel like stopping work come 12:00 or sometimes even 11:00. Can’t fight this unless i’m in flow state and literally know someone else will make food today.

    I think i’ve already shared with someome recently, but this video is a great guide on habit formation and making time for things. AA: Truth about effortless yet insane productivity

    personal anecdotes

    Something that took me a long time to make a habit is running, because i actually don’t like doing exercise habitually, and i wanted it to be connected more to whether i feel like doing it. The key is to do build up activities - for running this included walks, to build up stamina, and to pick out different routes i could use. Also, tedting out different stretches and leg workouts.

    Spoiler alert: exercise really should be a scheduled thing, that’s what makes it Exercise™︎, like “Your body gets fitter” and not just exercise the biology term for “some calories are burned, i guess. Whatever.”

    Another hobby: pickling. First few times i was focusing on testing different jars i had, and practicing sanitisation of them, so i only made 1-2 jars of stuff at once.

    The first step is to gauge what time of the day you feel like doing that thing and can feasibly do it, and it might mean killing one activity you do at that time. And scheduling it - i just mark it out on google calendar and then get a notification reminding me. This takes advantage of the sunk cost fallacy, you’ve already sunk a small little effort+planning cost into it and now want to see the task through. It’s also like an appointment - a date/meeting with yourself.

    You can also juat use that time tk sit down and read about the hobby and then if ideas come to you whike you’re reading inspiration/guides, you can immediateoy get up and do them.




  • Red dwarf stars also flare more frequently than our Sun, unleashing waves of ultraviolet and X-ray radiation that is harmful to life as we know it. If the Sun can strip off Mars’ water and dense atmosphere from a huge distance, planets like Proxima b lying about 30 times closer to furiously flaring stars could lose their atmospheres in just a hundred million years. To make matters worse, such planets being tidally locked means their molten interiors likely churn slowly, generating feeble or no magnetic fields. This deprives the planets from the kind of radiation protection that is so effective here on Earth and contributes to its proliferation of life.

    In 2014, NASA’s Swift mission caught a red dwarf emitting a flare 10,000 times more powerful than any ever expelled by our Sun. Most newly born red dwarfs may emit such mega-flares, perhaps in revolt against us having judged them on size. The intense radiation from these mega-flares could prevent life from ever arising on nearby planets.

    Source:planetary.org


    Well, this makes Red Dwarf a very aptly named vessel and TV program…