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iamdisillusioned @lemmy.world
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Anyone know a good sleep bluetooth audio sleeping wearable?
  • I bought them recently and returned them after one night. The battery didn't last even 2 hours and they kept disconnecting from my phone and turning off, but you can't just turn them back on, you have to take them out of your ear and put them into the case to turn them back on. So many design flaws IMO.

  • Today's mystery: Do I have a cold, or did I socialize too much this week?
  • For the last week, I've been the sickest I've ever been. Covid tests came back negative and as far as I know I haven't had covid before, but I am miserable with all the symptoms you listed and I didn't socializing at all.

  • Fern Brady's book "Strong Female Character"
  • I loved that she narrated the audio book, her accent is fantastic! I enjoyed her memoir. I don't really remember how it ended, so maybe that part could have been tightened up. I mean, she is still so young, I wouldn't expect her to have worked out a big overarching moral for her story yet. I hope she writes another as her career progresses.

  • What's a recent personal accomplishment of yours that you are proud of and why are you proud of it?
  • Not sure if it's really an accomplishment but I got out of a burnout that started in January. I've been in and out of burnout before but this time I set some personal boundaries and requested and received some accommodations from work. Now I feel better set up to maintain work-life balance.

  • What has your experience been with a credit union?
  • Fair enough but if you have the means, NFCU has almost no cost. I get something small but like .4% interest on my checking account. Their credit card has no annual fee and I average $800 a year in cash back benefits from it. Other than buying paper checks, I've not paid them one penny for any services, a way better deal than I was getting at BofA.

  • Hey m'guys!
  • It's tough. I know some very small communities that are entirely positive but they aren't very interesting because there isn't much contribution. I also tend to withdraw but after 10+ years of isolation, it has effected my mental health. I am trying to reenter communities and find friends and I'm trying to be more tolerant of things that I find annoying. Here's an example of why, I've been with my husband for 20 years and he seemed perfect at first but over the years his ADHD has gotten worse and now he has some annoying tendancies. Those things cause him a great deal of stress, and if I let them cause me stress then we'd both be miserable and maybe even divorced. I am working to accept and appreciate his struggles and see the differences as a place where I can share and help and provide for him. I hope its making me grow as a person and I hope it will help me better tolerate others and not focus so much on what I don't like or don't agree with. It's a challenge and seems to go against my nature, but I finally got tired of my nature. Not saying you should do something that doesn't feel right, but lately I've learned that my tendency for perfectionism may be creating more harm than good.

    That said, feel free to take a break and step back and spend that time looking for another community. There's so many places to spend our energy.

  • Survey: Almost 50% of Americans Consider Themselves ‘Broke’
  • That's very noble of you, but in our capitalist systems, those who provide the most needed and valuable services are often paid the least. You may feel that telling someone to get better educated and moving somewhere cheaper will solve their problem, but then someone else will fill their past role. Our most expensive cities will always need janitors, line cooks, laborers, shelf stockers and many other roles that will never pay much. We can't all be coders making 6 figures working remotely from bumbfuck nowhere. This doesn't even take into account disabled people who can't provide much or any value in the eyes of our system. You basically want to tell people to bootstrap, just in a gentler way.

  • Survey: Almost 50% of Americans Consider Themselves ‘Broke’
  • No one makes that much money through work, it is through investments. Remove social security tax limits and beef up our nationalized retirement systems then tax investments to death. I don't care if people are disincentivised from investing in businesses that don't make any money. I know I'll ruffle some feathers with this but I truly believe all space travel investments should be redirected to something that can make an immediate difference for those already on the planet, like healthcare or services for those effected by climate change.