Well, if you are going to argue that we need to figure out a way to get virtual kiddie porn to pedophiles so that we can protect kids, you should be sure it won’t lead to more kids being abused first.

Did I misinterpret your position?

I don’t believe that there are any studies that have shown that acting out fantasies in virtual spaces will reduce actions being taken out on real people.

Since it seems like your argument rests on that, do you have anything you can reference to back up the claim?

I do this sometimes, all of my arguments have been countered, but I’m so sure I’m right. I’m probably just phrasing it wrong or thinking too slow, yeah thats it.

If I don’t realize what I’m doing I’ll go spend the next hour trying to solve the puzzle of “what I could have said to win the argument”.

Hopefully they come back and think on it again when they are less defensive.

You can always just format it.

Honestly, an emoji button should probably make its way into the standard keyboard layout very soon with how prevalent it’s use had become

Good idea, get that tool over to a better shortcut ASAP! Thanks for the tip! Is that similar to using AutoHotKey or is it more of a different approach to remapping keys or shortcuts?

Oh nice so you are saying essentially you can submit screenshots directly from the clipboard?

Hey no one ever said having an alternate way to do something is a bad thing! Redundancy is good! Thank you for the tip!

I agree, I think it’s only going to work for me with memorizing it because one of the MMORPGs I used to play used the period key for chat options, so I’m piggybacking on that.

The shortcut choice sort of screams “there weren’t many shortcuts left”

Sounds like maybe when they released the feature initially? Although I’m more thinking of the normal style of rollout where they trial a region first.

Thank you I didn’t notice that yet! Immediately reminds me of how the start menu works with the built in search bar.

I shoulda known I was going to get a bunch of good tips back from posting this! 😆

Nice I didn’t know that one either! I definitely didn’t just test it while typing out this reply…

I actually hadn’t clicked the clipboard tab yet to see the extent of that tool, so thank you for pointing that out. That might actually be the most useful part of this tool so far

It’s been a long time since I’ve given Linux much of an opportunity, I think I will give Mint a try.

It sounds like you are talking about running it in a virtual desktop first, dual booting with my current Windows OS. Is that accurate?

I posted a reply about the drinking part of your post but I also wanted really quickly here to post about the motivation thing. Something helped me a ton was realizing that we aren’t meant to feel motivated before doing things usually, unless we have already developed a good routine with it and at that point you aren’t going to worry much about motivation anyways.

I am sure I am explaining it poorly, but the idea is “Do not wait for inspiration, inspiration is a result not a pre-requisite”.

This article explains it far better though: https://www.entrepreneur.com/living/dont-wait-for-motivation-do-this-instead/232349

Oh gosh, it sounds so similar to my past I wish I could give some advice to get you to a sober version of yourself.

I guess one thing I can say that maybe is not a commonly expressed opinion, is to acknowledge the positives of drinking, specifically for you, and then find something else that can replace drinking. Provided we realize that anything we do as a routine over and over is likely to have negatives, and that the degree varies widely, all we would need to do is switch out drinking with a less dangerous routine.

Ill give myself as the example here though. For me, drinking was a social thing. I was increasingly forced to socialize more and more as part of my day (work and starting a family) and I at least when I was younger was someone who preferred long periods of time alone, and longer periods of socializing would leave me exhausted. Alcohol made me the star when I was socializing, although I would realize later on that I only thought that in my head and I was making a fool out of myself far more regularly.

That was the main trigger that lead to drinking, and then I was convinced also that “there are definitely people who can drink one or two a day and be fine”, so that was my goal of “healthy” drinking. Anyone who has been through addiction will quickly realize what dosing your drug of choice every day without fail is going to lead to tolerance and addiction in most cases, which is what happened.

In a twist of horribleness, I would use alcohol itself to cover up the negative side-effects of alcohol. I know that sounds ridiculous at first, but for example after about 6 months of the casual daily drinking and I had moved on to daily binge drinking I would drink to deal with the hangovers immediately after waking up. That ones common, hair of the dog right? But also if I had a headache because I was dehydrated from drinking only beer or liquor, I would try to drink that discomfort away. Must just need more alcohol right?

Anyways, a less dangerous routine right? If you get to the point I was, someone had to stop me physically to sober me up for at least a handful of days before I could get a handle on it. Hopefully you are far earlier in this process where the discomfort caused by swapping out drinking for another routine will be bearable. For me unfortunately I was only able to switch to something that I am sure many would say is just as bad as drinking, and that is smoking recreationally legal marijuana in my state. I can’t say what it will be for you of course, but for me and dealing with the amount of socializing that’s required working a full time customer service job and having a wife and two kids it is a world of difference, as my wife can attest to.

Final thought: Drinking is the worst solution to almost every problem, pick something else, ANYTHING ELSE. You would literally be better off if you went to a methadone clinic tomorrow and switched to that. I am NOT advising that is the ideal way to get off of alcohol, I am saying its a routine that could replace alcohol that would be healthier for you by leaps and bounds. My point is that baby steps can work here, just go with something just a little less bad, and then when you get used to that in 2 or 3 weeks make another baby step if you still don’t like where you are.

TLDR: Drinking is the worst solution to almost every problem, pick something else, ANYTHING ELSE. You would literally be better off if you went to a methadone clinic tomorrow and switched to that.

Ha! That really is the other side of it. Done a ton of spring cleaning this year, which is just code for garbage, garbage, garbage.

Maybe I’ve just been misunderstanding the draw of baseball all these years, because that 2-6th inning nap sounds amazing. Maybe I’ve just been doing this wrong all these years lol

If it helps there are some interesting papers on the idea that motivation comes from seeing the results of your own actions, and not before.

So that means you are supposed to feel this lack of motivation, and once you start writing and the feedback loop kicks in, the motivation will come on its own.

Feel free to ignore me if that doesn’t help but here’s a link to some more information on the idea: https://www.entrepreneur.com/living/dont-wait-for-motivation-do-this-instead/232349

Lol are you me?! Small world when our entire families are playing the same games!