Bad habits are things we usually don't question.

At the point we evalute and assess them, we come to the conclusion that they are useless and limiting.
Shed a light on the downsides of bad habits, remember yourself often, preferably every time you think about them or you are drawn towards them.
You also almost always need to define alternative actions, in which you visualize yourself carrying them out instead of using your "bad habits", every time you think about one of them, at best.


I think i read something about how long brain cells need to "travel" from the brain stem to the outer, grey matter area, which is about four weeks.
After two weeks, some other significant milestone is reached. Don't remember details, but researchers were assuming that it takes two weeks of practice to get used to some behavioural practice, another two weeks to automate it.
This also matched my own experiences.

I think you mean what i would call "mankind". By "humanity" i was meaning our emotional, emphatic nature of our being. "humaneness" would be a synonym.
All other things you said are right, though.
The central problem here, i  guess, is that we are capable of thinking ahead, evaluating consequences of our planned actions, but we don't really do this, nor we know how to do this. Mankind, i mean...

Not only conspiracies, there was a social shockwave going around the planet.
(i should not sound too dramatic, though)
This crisis has put our nerves and viewpoints to the test, not to mention the numerous facepalm events, that still make me feel like they left a slight groove on my forehead...
A good outlook how much we would fail in face of a real crisis of bigger magnitudes, and they definitely are already building up slowly.
Not to sound too negative, but humanity is very far from being able to "control" anything on this planet. Pretty risky for a "we shall address this later, let's just keep calm and continue observing". From an tech enthusiast's view like me, it's like looking at a historically overgrown piece of proprietary software, which every programmer is afraid to touch in fear of breaking things.

Imaginary developer: "Let's just let this thing run, it always worked in the past, so it will probably work forever. The smoke coming out of the vents should be nothing to worry about, right?"

My perception is definitely things went down after the start of the pandemic, not only referring to this thread.
But i'm used to having (sometimes very)  different perceptions than most other people around me, and i learned to accept others. Not that i expect others to accept mine, just saying.


That would be way too egoistic to demand, imo.


Altruism is like a curse, sometimes.

Imo, a small group of people here do help, though.
That's what kept me here, actually.
But for me, learning to deal with toxicity in a constructive way was THE secondary most beneficial experience around here.
Not engaging with trolls is a simple way to keep focused at the funny side of WO, but it got way more grumpy and stupid here in the last few years, while highly valued contributors left the ship. This is a shitty but steady development.

Gotta start a serious talk with my wife, then  


Coincidence?
Mrs. OOM went over me last night as well, there might have been some special energy in the air, around the globe, last night?  


Some (dudes) never grow old  


Gotta check these out, soon. TopGun 2 is already on my HDD, has to wait a bit though, because "Chappie", which i missed is on the watchlist first, and currently i just started "The White Lotus", E01 seemed not to be too bad.


Shit, got no time, but i can remember. I won't give out a hint, though (or should i?)

I wish you all a fulfilling New Year here at WO  
Keep up the good vibes, cuz...

... you have NOT been given this life to fill it with:

- Greed
- Misery
- Envy
- Hate
- Grudge

The less negativity you feed, the less negativity you have to swallow.
I don't know shit about the meaning of life, i only know that it's the most precious thing in this cold, infinite universe, possibly multiverse.

2023 is just a number  

Yeah, i was considering that too at some point, but i came to the conclusion that i should put on my glasses more often when typing on small screens 
Maybe i also inhaled too much of the good stuff yesterday? 

What i have learned from "loud children" is how to ignore them  
#justmytwosats

EDITed a typo. today i make lots of em 

You helped me a lot to decide that i will not get my hands on LN in the near future.
I'm more busy with real life lately, but i have read about the shit that's going on to happen around the farm project.
I can only reccomend to go more often to the inside of you. Too much messy stuff for too long will grind you up sooner or later.
Reserve a little time to live a simple, relaxed life, if possible. What do youreally  need to just feel good? Yourself and your loved ones inside a space of "timelessness".
Afair, you wrote that the locals started to try finding ways to help you out, regarding the elevated driveway mess? This is great, even more if it will succeed  

Looks like a job for the WO "where-am-i" crew
Fillippone?
xhomerx10?

All my sMerit to the finder (5 or 6, atm)  

EDIT: Hey, Bob, you came online to post a christmas greeting card, didn't you?  

Don't leave us hanging 

Thanks!
I have to admit, one of the nicest presents today    
This one counts as gay christmas card as well, doesn't it?
Merry Christmas!


They won't.
It will be fixed inherently on itself by breaking down, followed by another iteration.
Seems humanity is doomed to repeat history.


Sad.
Still got "Insomnia" on my car's mp3 player. Epic tune.
I am resisting to link some article about the impact of sleep deprivation on life expectancy.

Merry Christmas, first of all.


Nope. But (rapid) climate change is a scientific fact. Being sceptical to climate-change, like i was too in the past, is more or less idiotic, facing nowadays fact base.
So there's that. It's easy to look stupid when one is chanting in with a sceptic's narratives.
Don't take my words too personal. I'm not a very social guy, so my words are often taken as offensive, when they aren't in reality. That's also the reason why i almost never feel offended by anyone. It's complicated, i can't even explain it just like so.
You'd better off to take my words like just a different opinion.



Right. I compare this to the bell curve of religions. There is Islam, with 1% radicals, and Christians on the other side, with 1% radicals (rough numbers).
The end-of-world-parts are even less, but both are following the same dynamics, originating from fear (of death).


I wouldn't trust either models too much. We know that a model is only as good as the complexity it can follow, based on reality. This correlations are typically very basic and simple. Even if the climate change was 100% human-driven, we couldn't reverse or slow it down suffciently.
Now there's the good part: Our species is used to adapt quickly, and this is what made us the dominant lifeform on this planet (when you leave bacteria and viruses out of the equation). Let me redact that to mammals, ok?

Greta is innocent, and this is why she is being easy to be (ab)used.
Again, it's the mighty ego that drives (some of) us to identify with narratives like "last generation".


That's a very simple view of what's happening, but i can't rule out that it is partly true, at least.
There's a common underlying entity, named the human ego, which is driving people to do many strange things which they don't question, and it's used to justify anything in the name of rigtheousness. Whatever that is, you know?


We can sure both agree on that.
But then, when you watch what they do, it's very different to what they say.
I suggest that's how things work nowadays. Mostly since 9/11 - imo the latest real Black Swan event in history - politics and society have changed a lot since then, on a global scale. I don't know how to say it in a simple way, but fear is the key to everything behavioural in humans. If we could handle fear in a consious way, we'd be far better off with everything. It may need a lot of time to get there, though.


You obviously didn't understand Merits. You claim they are worthless, on the other hand you give them so much (negative) attention, which shows how important they are to you.
Explain.

ChartBuddy's graphs looking like boring books that were finally left, opened, after being half-read...
#BuddyBreaker

Yeah!
Who needs science anyway, when nobody is able to understand it?
If there were no scientists, there would be no climate change, aminotrite?

 

Well, what would you expect from men staring at endless combinations of red and green vertical bars for hours...
I don't even consider myself as mentally healthy, but it's fun, jokes and memes everywhere around here.
If i would like to have fun going out in a club, it would make some awesome nights if it was like here  
Except for the beggar at the entrance (you know who you are) and the dude in the corner, regularly shouting out the number of drinks purchased at the bar after every hour...

SBF always loved fiat. He exploited Bitcoin arbitrary at younger age, just to make millions over millions of dollars and built his exchange with that and also false promises.
He's just a fake bitch fiat whore. I hope he's getting fucked like he fucked Bitcoin.

You can't lose money that has already been spent, can you?

Cuz' "it's going up forever", right?
(Just not in a bear market)

1. English is read from left to right.
2. ... from top to bottom.

Since this is a time limited task, it's quite logical that the searched word should be near the right bottom.
Took me a few seconds this way  

Life's going on, read yours later, cheers brothers