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141 pointsmaebert55 comments

This reminds me of a video I found very funny ("You Deserve a Better You": basically: be successful by moving goalposts closer, and we can help): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ9CegGtYLw

And similar ones I much enjoyed in the past, from while I was hunting up that old URL (all "studio c" comedy):

Naturally (a contest of who is more "natural"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lraDNDuFNj8

The most organic vlog: mindfulness tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gxl06S1WZg&list=PLGVpxD1Hlm...

The perfect gym for resolution breakers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jc5QCnMwQE&list=PLGVpxD1Hlm...

thanks it was hillarious

The original people behind Studio C created a show called Freelancers, I believe it's on Youtube. It's much like the original series, but with more continuity.

It is on youtube, but they are called "JK Studios", with part of their work called Freelancers.

I don't know... I'm afraid if I install this I'm going to get "Don't check the news today" and fail a dozen times over, and then I'm the guy who couldn't even manage to complete the least dangerous to-do list.

I like the concept, I'd like to try this, but I don't have an iPhone. Do you plan on creating a web/Android version?

Absolutely! I'll just let the iOS users find all the bugs first ;)

This man/woman knows how to market.

> man/woman

"person" would work.

That’s making sure bold assumptions. Beep boop.

Possibly sentient individual and/or collective intelligence.

What about just saying "entity"?

Implies a distinct and independent existence. We could be the Borg.

Existence is illusory.

"maebert knows how to market" should cover all bases without making any assumptions about the details of what "maebert" is.

Less than “man/woman”

If you're sentient, you're a person.

It's not quite as alliterative.

As simple as it is, it seems like a good candidate for a progressive web app. Then everyone can have it.

Close all browser tabs? Are you some kind of madman? That would take me a week.

Edit: 1. I should add that closing all browser tabs would present a serious problem for me. Since I keep (many many) specification documents open for extended periods of time while I am working.

2. Searching "least" in the app store results with suggested search for this item.

Sir, it sounds to me like you could use a tab manager extension. May I recommend https://tabler.one

It’s only for Chrome, is there a Firefox alternative?

OneTab is pretty decent and I think it's in a similar vein: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/onetab/

Many thanks!

> You are about to close 28 windows with 305 tabs. Are you sure you want to continue?

And this is a low number for me . . . I think I might have a problem.

You just might. But who am I to judge. I leave all three browsers pinned to my task bar. I typically have about 3-5 windows for each. And there's always that one window that has 80 tabs open.

I do use "The Great Suspender" though to save some memory.

The page won't load for me, and I'm not sure if that's the joke.

I like this a lot more than I probably should. It's quirky, fun, and possibly useful.

I read the Terms of Service thinking it would be equally amusing. It wasn’t.

> Unlike literally all other to-do lists, you can't even add your own tasks. Not for cheap, anyway.

Does that mean the tasks are chosen at random from, say, a database of common everyday tasks?

Exactly, assuming "feel OK about not flossing" and "Check off a task you don't feel like doing today" are common day tasks.

I love the design of everything (web page, app screenshots, copy). I'm going to take notes for my own app. :)

Merely having this website in the foreground uses up almost 10% of my CPU. Also, it has a horizontal scrollbar (at least in Firefox). The idea is funny, though.

What if... it could use 100% of your computers brain power?

That's cool and all but what about web app or Android?

In the making! I'll just let the iOS users find all the bugs first ;)

Ohh... I get it, because Apple, and bugs like apples, where as with Android they wouldn't really have anything to eat, just electronics, metal and wires... Very smart, very smart indeed!

You solved the case again, Mulder.

This is funny to me. I needed that laugh.

I wonder if there's something to it? Being able to complete tasks does feel good especially 6 out of 6.

As with my previous undeniable smash hit The Most Dangerous Writing App, I think that while the app is preposterously antithetical, there's a real value in it.

In short, I believe we care about too. much. stuff. all. the. time. Ironically, giving less fucks makes us happier if we know how to distribute them well. This app is trying to do exactly that.

> Don't think about Trump

15 years ago, I watched/read the news a lot. I stopped about 10 years ago. It was one of the best things I ever did.

No matter who is in office, the news coming out of Washington D.C. will always be depressing. Someone or some group you despise will always be there bashing people you like. The people you like will never get the attention you think they deserve, their good ideas will be squandered, etc. Just turn it off.

</unsolicited-advice> :-)

I concur. Plus you hear about anything that affects you eventually anyway.

Funny, I found much more joy in life when I started reading the news more. Not a compulsive amount, but staying up to date. 1hr tops a day

Others bashing people you like is always inevitable

But, I like to read it from the perspective of not where CURRENT public positions lie, but where they are going. Not a point on the graph, but the vector of how it is changing

I found it has made me empathize much more with those who I normally would not. Understanding current events discussing their position, but going deeper to find that "root cause" of why they hold that

Regardless of where you lie politically, everyone wants the same things in life. It transcends politics and different world cultures. We disagree HOW we get there, but normally we all agree on what are baseline values. We want to live in a world that is fair, we want the highest quality of life for all capable to everyone's abilities (ignoring initial allocation of resources to get there), safety, a sense of community and security. I may be missing some points, but I bonded getting to that root cause with many

That may be true in much of the world, but here in the USA we just had an election where 70 million people voted for the guy who for the last four years has been quite outspoken and clear about NOT wanting quality of life “for all”.

Hence why I put "ignoring the initial allocation of resources" in brackets to that point

It seems people on that side want "america first". Throw all political shenanigans used to try to implement that and party leaders outside of the window; that idea is not absurd

I'm sure if we found a macguffin that instantly catapulted us into a true post-scaricty economy, lots of that rhetoric would subside. Over a few generations

I’m really not sure that’s true. Given a choice between “I get $10, they get nothing” and “I get $20, they get $20”, “conservatives” often choose the former.

> We want to live in a world that is fair, we want the highest quality of life for all capable to everyone's abilities (ignoring initial allocation of resources to get there), safety, a sense of community and security. I may be missing some points, but I bonded getting to that root cause with many

I like the idea, and I used to believe in it (or maybe "intentionally believe" in it).

But over the last few years I have seen so many people write casually about how other people should suffer (from poverty) or even die (from lack of medicine, or starvation) because they don't have citizenship or whatever. As if non-citizens "deserve" what happens to them. They mostly don't say it explicitly, but it is undeniably an obvious consequence of the policies they advocate.

And the schadenfreude. When stories come up about those things actually happening to people, I see comments in favour, cheering on the suffering. Sometimes a lot of comments.

As a result, I'm pretty sure a lot of people really don't wish for a world that is fair to everyone else.

> Regardless of where you lie politically, everyone wants the same things in life.

This is clearly false, and a very dangerous assumption to make. A lot of current turmoil in Europe stems precisely from this assumption. And even if it were true, the modalities would differ enough from different groups for conflicts to emerge.

I worked in the news industry for about 5 years, and, once I left the 24/7 cycle, I sort of instinctively understood the half-life of information and began to stop paying attention to the news. I was later pleasantly surprised to see this concept formalized in a few places, notably from Morgan Housel[1], Nassim Taleb[2] and Samuel Arbesman[3]. These men’s writing really crystallized what I had learned from experience but didn’t have a framework to explain.

It is of course a privilege to ignore the news completely. I don’t advocate totally unplugging. But once you better understand the material value of information, you can make better decisions about what to consume.

[1]http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/expiring-vs-lt-knowled...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life_of_knowledge

Aaron Swartz's blog post 'I hate the news' is a classic of this genre

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

I'm in an autocratic nation right now, and I just realized how much relaxed it is reading the news (not that I support autocracy in any way). It honestly stymies me how much bandwidth political discussions have taken over the years on the news spectrum in most democratic nations, regardless of development status. On the contrary, news in open autocracies seem to be more of the local type, focused on hyper local issues. And then there are the poser democracies such as Russia, Egypt or China, where news is highly nationalized dogshit, focused on how their enemies are bad, we are good and our government is the greatest.

> It was one of the best things I ever did.

Could be problematic if large numbers of people did this.

Oh wait...

I like the idea but why can I only draw horizontally?

Because I don't want your to-do list to look like the Starbucks signature pad that makes everyone's signature look like they're a 3 year old kinetically challenged imbecile. You're welcome!

Good job! Kinda funny!

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