You could almost say it’s timeless

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Goof Troop… Surprisingly hard to beat that game in co-op 😂

Inbox zero doesn’t mean deleting all your emails lol. It just means getting them out of your inbox. I do this myself. For each email in my inbox I “do something” with it instead of just leaving it there. Put it in a folder, tag it, spam, delete, archive, anything. Personally I use 3 zones:

• inbox: currently to-do. Things I need to reply to or action I “flag” so they’re at the top. Everything else is moved either to
• archive: things I might need in the future. Any important correspondence. Bills. Etc. The important part is it is “out of sight”. I use labels to tag everything, I find this is easier to search and navigate. Plus if you put a label on the email, you know why you kept it, it forces you to quantify that reason.
• trash. Auto deleted after 30 days in case I change my mind and actually need it. Most emails go to trash. Aggressively unsubscribe from newsletters.

I have good news for you, you get to spend days learning an entire skillset to solve 1 specific problem!

In all seriousness though, there’s actually a big problem with email “quoting” as you say, that each email client will re create the entire email chain in it’s own format, leading to a complete mess.

If you still have access to that email client, it might be easier to see if there’s an export feature to export them as actual email files, which would be much easier to process than a word document.

Another option, if you are ok with “close enough” and some inaccuracies, you could ask an A.I. like Claude to process these files for you.

Otherwise you’re probably stuck with manual tedious processing. Personally I would just start again and ignore the file you have. Create an actual indexed word document with a table of contents so you can actually find anything. Add a header per email topic, with a sub header per message / reply. Manually copy paste, being careful not to include the quote this time.

Yeah we have heaps and heaps of unused land, land isn’t the problem. Just don’t put it on the small bits of land that humans live on

“No one tells us about it, when I was at school, I was naive … I didn’t realise it was a loan that you have to pay back.”

Grace has chosen not to make voluntary repayments, wary that any savings she contributes could simply be undone.

“I want to pay [my HELP debt] off as soon as I can. […] I don’t regret it, but I wish there was a different way young people can still have access to education.”

This series of paragraphs is a wild ride. So she somehow was simultaneously:

• completely unaware that you have to pay for university,
• refuses to pay it off early because it might disappear somehow (?),
• but also wants to pay it off ASAP;
• while wishing there was another way to go to university other than taking a very generous loan.

Am I missing something here? Should university be completely free? Most of the article is also just pointing out that longer term loans means that you pay more in interest… Like, yeah? Do undergraduates not understand these basic financial concepts anymore or something?

Hello fellow wog!

I think the article is highlighting an interesting social issue: that ultimately there actually is no “universal culturally appropriate way” to refer to anybody. You actually have to talk to the people sitting across from you and feel out what they prefer and are comfortable with.

Anecdotally, the mob I used to hang out with were happy to be called black, and they called me white, which I was happy with, and that was the end of it. At the same time, I wouldn’t dare call random people black just because my friends were ok with it. So it’s a bit unfair to be bemused by people being cautious, since I think intuitively we all understand the rocky terrain in this area.

It almost feels like it boils down to a respectfulness thing. Like it’s fine as long as nobody feels like they’re being made fun of or spoken to disrespectfully, which can be hard if you’re not familiar with each other.

Yeah fireworks are allowed here too, but only when you would “expect” fireworks if that makes sense. “Firework displays and community events” are exempt. I think it’s pretty common sense whether something’s ok or not though. Like randomly popping off fireworks every night at 2am would get shut down. Definitely an entire month of fireworks is insanity. But I hear fireworks every major holiday like Easter, Christmas, new year’s, Chinese New year, etc. The dogs, cats, birds, possums, everything goes mad like there’s a bush fire.

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I know someone who used to literally move and go on vacation with their dog to a quieter place during fireworks season… Poor things

I don’t know about The North Americas, but in AU all of those things you listed are illegal here. Except the loud exhaust. You have to really piss someone off to get reported, but if your dog barks every night you’ll get a knock on the door with a mandatory dog training leaflet. Disruptive parties at night are tolerated occasionally by neighbours, but if it happens every Friday for 6 hours you might get told to turn it down by police. Same with belligerent or disorderly behaviour. I think the law is don’t wake people up between 7pm–7am mon–sat. But also the police here won’t attack you, so it’s more annoying than dangerous for the recipient.

Do you guys have noise disruption laws like this? Genuinely curious.

I wonder if that’s in a brute force database somewhere, and how many people have that exact password.

If you had a building with 1000 evil people, and 1 good person, is it ok to destroy it? I don’t know the answer to that, but I wouldn’t be able to do it personally. Seems like a variant of the trolley problem.

Yes you’re right. The font on the website is really hard for me and I must have read the 5 as a 2. Thanks for the correction :)

Isn’t Funimation dead now? I remember something happening to them at least.

Worth noting this is specifically ~200 movie titles purchased in the PlayStation store in the UK due to licencing changes. So still shit, but not as bad as the headline implies.

Personally I’ve given up purchasing movies or TV shows at all because they keep getting deleted from my libraries over time without warning. I agree with the article that the word “purchase” itself is misleading and it should be changed to something like “licence” or “rent forever” instead.

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Mmmm bone lube

Oh yeah I really wanted one of those, they look kind of fun. But it never arrived after months of waiting so I got a refund and gave up. They don’t sell them in AU

I thought the EU was all about digital privacy? The fuck is this American-ass policy?