Should be “wið”, no? 😉

I teach programmers to say “Oops” when they make a mistake, rather than apologize. It’s epidemic.

If “close enough” works, then it’s nice to have the skill. Having the skill requires occasionally using it.

Where accuracy is important, since we almost always have a calculator with us now, that’s a no-brainer.

Maybe more to the point, though, understanding how percentages work is wise. It’s one of the few arithmetic topics that we encounter regularly in life.

In this case, 23% of 53 and 53% of 23 each have their own little trick, depending whether you’d rather overestimate a little with 1/4 of 52 or underestimate a little with half of 24. I find it handy to be able to think that way, especially for example when trying to get out of a taxi and paying cash.

Pretty close to 1/4 of 52, so like 13-ish, but maybe closer to 12.

(13 + 0.25 - 0.53 - 0.53, really. If I had to, I might be able to keep that in my head.)

You’ve already had several good suggestions here.

I learned that when rest no longer leads to recovery, that is burnout and maybe even depression. Pay attention to this feeling and take it seriously. Good luck.

If you’re thinking about what you could be doing, you might have some unhelpful conditioning related to “being productive” and other such myths of how to live “correctly”. You might be able to think your way out of that way of being and you might need to talk to someone to do this, such as a therapist.

If you’re worried about forgetting something that you need to do later or about some deadline sneaking up on you, then writing things down and setting reminders could help. I did a lot of this and it trained me to literally forget things that I didn’t yet need to start working on without risking missing deadlines. I found it very freeing. Something like that might help you.

I hope you find some peace from something in these replies.

Low feels more numb than dark. More like being on pause than everything is terrible. More “I’ll try again later” and less “this is never going to get better”.

I don’t remember the transition. I can’t tell you how long it took. I was only on antidepressant medication for about 18 months.

Peace.

Äntligen! Ett tvättmaskin som förstår mig!

I use Spectacle for taking screenshots and I’ve enjoyed using it for several years. After that, I’d crop it in any image editor that has a freehand selector tool. Gimp would be the first thing I tried, but I’m sure you could find something easily enough.

You don’t have to commit to any one thing in this life. I’m doing very little at age 51 that I was doing at age 27.

I also wasn’t doing what I truly wanted to do most in life until my 40s.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/133403-we-should-do-away-with-the-absolutely-specious-notion-that

If you have social anxiety, then why are you blaming women for being difficult to talk to or flirt with?

Women didn’t get me until I grew into my 20s. For some of us, it takes longer, and it feels terrible in the meantime. Peace.

This is the kind of paradox that leads us (I mean humans more generally) to look for some fundamental assumption we’re making about time that will turn out to be wrong. I assume that’s true although I wonder whether it’s literally impossible for us to even imagine how time “truly” works, let alone measure it.

I was a kak user for several years and am giving hx an honest try this year. So far, I’m quite happy.

(and yes, I’ve been both an emacs and vim user.)

hx

Dumb question: do you have a key on your keyboard that disables the microphone? I don’t have my laptop in front of me, but I know there’s a key that disables the trackpad and another that disables the camera. I realized that I’d accidentally hit those by going through something similar to this.

Good luck.

Kat.

Les Oulhamr fuyaient dans la nuit épouvantable. Fous de souffrance et de fatigue, tout leur semblait vain devant la calamité suprême: le Feu était mort.

Are there no prisons?

Are there no workhouses?

Plausible is more like conceivable.

It’s possible that when I slam my hand on the table, it will go through the table, but it’s not plausible. We can’t imagine it actually happening, even though we know it can.

Pump and dump of penny stock. 🤷