peaches @ peaches @lemm.ee Posts 3Comments 153Joined 2 mo. ago
I think only in Germany, at least for now. Maybe they change their mind with the current Amazon boycotts.
My biggest usage and pain is YouTube, I wish there would be some really good alternative (PeerTube, I know, but it is very unpopulated at the moment with what I am interested in). Gmail - working to find the solution that is best for me, I want to use my own domain, but I am not decided if to go with mailbox.org or somebody else…
Still have iPhone and iPad, but I will not buy a new one once these 2 don’t work anymore.
Windows at work, cannot decide there. But privately, I ordered my Slimbook with Linux, so bye bye Windows. We will probably also change our workstation to Linux soon. And I plan to install Linux Mint on my mother’s laptop too, see how she can work with it.
Messenger, I mostly use Telegram and Signal. WhatsApp just for a specific group, but I don’t really use it.
Oh yes, I own 2 Cherry keyboards, good stuff.
Yeah, I used to love to browse their giant paper catalogue…
I don’t have an alarm anymore, thanks to the pandemic and home office. What a game changed. If I do have to set one up for important events, my smart alarm from my watch wakes me up in light sleep phase. Even with a noisy phone watch, my body does not feel like getting asleep again. I suppose, if you fall right back asleep, you did not sleep enough. Try to go to bed earlier and if you wake up a lot at night, try to identify why? Is your blood sugar falling too much, are there noises, are you stressed during the day? A good night sleep should be uninterrupted, consistent regarding the going to bed time, and should make you feel refreshed in the morning.
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I personally hate to stay in a normal hotel. I like to have a kitchen to cook my own meals with fresh produce. Now, in some countries, I do often eat out because they have delicious food, like Spain, France, Italy, Greece… I also don’t like in the hotels that it is loud! Either from people talking loud on the corridor, cleaning ladies or gentlemen shouting at each other at 7 am, or the damn air conditioning systems they have. You can also can’t make the room completely dark, as I like it. We sometimes find an aparthotel, which is fine.
I do agree that AirBnb sucks because they make cities more expensive for the locals, but we generally do not go to the big cities, we rather stay in the countryside and make a day trip if we want to see a big city. I think a good option is how they do it in France with their small gîtes, where they rent a mini apartment in their courtyard. I stayed in several like these and it was lovely. And the owner did not bother us. They make it a bit private. I this is a good option that would not affect the housing market, since they would probably not rent it long term, having it so close to their home.
Whatever I find on Radio Garden app.
Although I love Chinese food and would love to visit some of their fabulous nature spots, this is the reason I never would: their regime. And I am sure they have lovely people, I even have some lovely Chinese colleagues. It’s a shame they have to live under authoritarian regime that is fooling them with a capitalist face.
The same goes to US. I will never visit the country while it is under an authoritarian regime, as they currently are.
I know that in some cultures, life is not valued as much as it is in mine, and they can turn a blind eye to inhuman conditions some are forced into, but I choose to boycott those regimes as much as I possibly can. Hopefully more will do so with time.
Sounds very menacing
Meanwhile IKEA destroys the forests in other countries https://youtu.be/MdwLhmwRPt8
Can you cover it with makeup? Heavy makeup.
I am glad it is not the smell :) As I said, maybe you are too intense for the general public. That is a matter of the society you are living in. Every society has different personal space areas. For example there is a huge difference between the personal space of a German and a Spaniard. One has to observe these things and try to adapt to them if acceptance is the priority. Try analysing how the people around you interact and compare it with how you do. You can also try to let new people come to you and just be smiling( but not looking intensely to them) and show you are open to conversation.
Regarding the dating apps, that is a different monster. I would not put so much thought into it. I am a very social person and easily make friends, but on dating apps I mostly found creeps and the dynamic was always strange and a lot of ghosting happened. I don’t know how it is nowadays, but I am sure it did not improve.
Try to find a club based on your hobbies. Maybe you like to hike, find a hiking club or group. Or maybe you are a gamer, go to gamer shops and have some interaction there. You will eventually find your tribe. Sometimes we are just too different from the ones in our immediate circle, and people don’t want different. Good luck and much happiness! You will figure it out and you will find your people.
Blondie in China - an Australian food vlogger in China. Boy do I crave some Chinese spicy food now.
A few times in winter. Love to sit outside when it is cold in warm bubbly water. And then some wet sauna and then a cold shower and repeat.
I don’t know you, so I don’t know why people might avoid you, but I was thinking of something slightly related while on the train yesterday. I have a very strong sense of smell, so bad odours are very off putting for me, even mine when I sweat, or fry something…stuff like that. So yesterday I was sitting in the train, and someone came in at some point and sat right behind me. I did not see that person, but I smelled him!!! It was stinking of cigarettes as if he was an ashtray. I had to move, because it was making me want to throw up. I al not exaggerating.
But I do know, not everyone has this sense of smell, some might be oblivious of their own smell. I had a colleague in high school that was extremely stinky. He was not a bad guy I guess, but I did not talk too often with him because I was avoiding coming too close because of the smell.
So I was thinking yesterday, wouldn’t it be helpful to have some sort of independent person give an honest and not mean opinion, on what is “wrong” with us in terms of what is off putting to the others. Some people are I am sire genuinely good people, but maybe they have an odour problem that they don’t know about, and maybe can be fixed. Or maybe they are trying to much and too fast to be a friend for someone and the others feel like their space is invaded too quickly. Not everyone has skills to read non verbal messages.
But how do you give feedback to the people that are off putting for you if they don’t ask for that feedback? It would be rude and probably poorly received. I am a quite direct person, and even I would not tell people they literally stink, because it might me it is just an I problem.
Do you have close friends or family that you could ask for kind advice? Or maybe try a neutral person, like a psychologist. Although that one would not see you in your interactions. Maybe you could analyse and record in your memory details of the interactions and have someone review those details. As I said, could even be something like you are too fast in getting close or person to the others, and they have another pace.
Yeah, people are ignorant, that’s what it is. And they like to lie to themselves. I don’t like war, I don’t like conflict, even in my personal life, I rather live in peace and quiet. But step over my boundaries and you will be sorry. And second time you will probably avoid that.
I lean more to the left, generally, but I think nowadays, the left takes things to the extreme. It is one thing to purposely attack someone, it is another to not be able to defend yourself against attacks of any kind. When those people are against spending on defence and arms, they are just ignorant. Why do you think police exist? Because some people just don’t have the morality to abide by the rules we all set.
Do your work as a politician to ensure domestic safety and that there is no corruption in government to use those weapons for personal gains. Then the far right will not be so effective with their propaganda. They feed on fear and discontent. Make your citizens feel safe and have decent lives, and they will vote you.
Oh, great! Hope you find a good one if that’s what you wish, and if not, hope you enjoy the joys of being single. Never settle for anyone that does not elevate your life. Friendships are also relationships, and if they are with the right people, they can bring affection and love, which most of us need in order to thrive.
Lots of people working as headless chickens, as always… The strange thing I can rant about is, that we have a strange colleague since forever, and she takes turns with whom to have conflicts with. I am pretty sure she has severe OCD, she opens doors only with tissue papers, she uses all the paper from the kitchens and bathrooms, she floods the toilets with so much paper, she uses all the soap, stuff like that. I don’t know how OCD works, because she is not especially a very clean person, it is somehow selective what she cleans. She sometimes comes with the same trousers day after day in the office.
If somebody brings cake or candy for the whole office, she takes all of it if the plates get to be unsupervised. She has an obsession with food. I saw one day on her desk a bag with at least 15 bread buns. They did not last long. She sometimes eats raw onion in the kitchen, imagine how that stinks. She farts in the office from what I heard. I don’t sit next to her, so I cannot confirm that, luckily.
Latest issue she developed is that she does not like light to come into the office, so there are conflicts with a colleague, because the others do not want to work in a bunker. There are a lot of tensions right now about this. She lies and acts like a victim with the managers. It is not the first conflict she has and that she is lying. And she is not a good developer, although she thinks she is superior to the others and treats people shit, she is a bully, especially with other women. Who knows what kind of trauma she lived in her life. Sometimes I am sorry for her, because she makes her life miserable. But she does make our life harder also, then I am not sorry for her anymore. She tried to bully me too, but I have zero tolerance for that behavior and I treated her harshly and she got the message. She avoids me now if possible.
It‘s shitty to have such a person in the office, everyone else is getting along very well. She clearly needs help, but nobody does anything. A few years ago, I left a self help book about OCD on her desk. Looks like it did not help.
We both snore sometimes. If one of us has a cold or allergy, either of us sleeps in the living room. My husband used to snore A LOT and very loud. I asked him to see a doctor and he got surgery, air was not really flowing through his nose since birth. The snoring got soooo much softer. We also added an air filter in the bedroom.