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by scandinavegan 7y ago
MSG was heavily discussed in Sweden 10-15 years ago, especially the addition to potato chips. The Swedish National Food Agency said that it was safe to eat, but that some people may be hypersensitive. I read a couple of articles now, and it
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
I don't have an ADHD diagnosis, but I struggle with procrastination. Does it help you at all to have external recipients of your work, or does it not factor in at all in what gets done? It helps me if I tell someone else "I'l
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
With a counter full of dirty dishes, I tell myself that I'll just quickly fill the dishwasher with the easy stuff and start it. I'll leave the rest for later. But when I've started the dishwasher, there's usually only th
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
My trick to start emails is to add To and Cc last, when I'm happy with the email. If I add them first, I worry that I'll click send by mistake halfway through my draft (and a secondary worry is that the draft will be full of inapp
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
So cheat! If you use a physical calendar, you can mark those days with another symbol, like an arrow to show that the chain carries on. If you use an app, you can mark the day anyway, knowing that you had a legitimate reason to skip it. Thi
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
Also, coffee beans are not beans, but the pit (that usually comes in two parts) of the coffee fruit. It's the same with cocoa beans, but with 30-50 seeds per fruit.
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
I agree with everything you said. I have a couple of theories from a Swedish perspective. First, and the most vague, is the idea of competent children in Sweden. I read an article recently (in the Swedish newspaper DN[1]) that traced a line
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
I read the Hobbit to my daughter when she was 4 and to my son when he was 6, both closer to 5 and 7. I aimed for 10 pages a night of a pocket edition we have, which meant 25-30 nights or so. My daughter got really scared with the giant spid
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
> And the actual menus in that game were terrible... really hard to control and you'd give up and go looking for the controller. I have Ring Fit for the Nintendo Switch. You attach one controller to the physical ring that you can pu
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
I agree with your main point! I want to state that upfront so that you don't think I'm arguing about the current situation, apart from addressing specifics. You will have to add some time to flying scenario. You have to arrive ear
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
Nice puzzle game! It reminds me of Lines X for Nintendo Switch that I really enjoy. [1] For me, I would have preferred even less text than currently in the tutorial. If you look at the image on the first Lines X page I link below of the two
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
> We are a bit anti-authority, I think it is hard to deny this trait. We don't like being bossed around but that's not systematic or unavoidable: we just want to follow orders we respect. So in France, you almost never give ord
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
> Finally, make a trip to India and do meet your remote team members. I'm from Sweden, and a Swedish colleague met a team that visited from India. Half-way through the meeting she had to stop and ask why the Indian team were shaking
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
Growth and meaning in video games doesn't only have to be due to the storylines. There's also mastery, like playing Tetris and becoming better and better, or fighting Dark Souls bosses without taking damage. In the Dark Souls comm
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
Thank you for all the examples! I've read the book, but don't have all of it in active memory, so I appreciate your list as it helped me remember different parts. I have to look up the mold-eating part because I remember it as hil
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
I haven't read it in detail, and I don't know how difficult it is, but there's a free book on how to (among other things) automate Office applications with Python: https://automatetheboringstuff.com/ Chapter
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
> Allowing ourselves to fail (and learn and have fun) is a powerful thing. I agree completely, and it changed my life to realize this as an adult. I try to teach my kids that it's OK to enter practice mode when they do things that a
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
Bits of meat sticking to the vegan burger would be a big no-no for me and the vegans that I know! I'm not personally bothered by using the same tools to handle both meat and vegan options, as long as I can't taste it, if we'r
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
Pronouncing the sound is one thing, spelling it is another. Here's a (probably non-exhaustive) list of 65 different variants. The article in Swedish, but it should be possible to understand the list: https://sverigesradio.se
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
Short-term focus is why I fell in love with and still use Leo Babauta's GTD-related idea of MITs (Most Important Tasks). See links at bottom. Each morning I set 3 tasks (sometimes 4 or 5 if I absolutely have to and they're small)
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
How many eggs would each person get to eat per year using that production method? We surely wouldn't be able to keep boiling them, frying them, using them in most baked goods, and so on, because production would drop to a fraction of w
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
Apple did this in 2018 when two movies bought on iTunes were removed from a user. After contacting support the user was offered two vouchers for rental movies, which is obviously worth less. 1: https://www.forbes.com/sites&#
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
Another anime series that asks big questions is Serial Experiments Lain. It's about a young girl who gets into computers and learns about a parallel world of networked communication called the Wired. The Wired is like VR/AR/i
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
I've read articles that say that when they stress-test fighter pilots by having them do cognitive test while wearing headphones with different sounds, they usually mix in infants crying. It's one of the most distracting things for
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
That's an interesting thought! The Dark Souls series of video games are known to be hard, especially the bosses. Many people, myself included, have experienced being stuck on a boss and after 20 attempts they give up for the night. Nex
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
Could be, or I have an over-protective Firefox. I still have the same issue with the link.
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
I get a scary-looking warning in Firefox when I click that link. It says: "Someone could be trying to impersonate the site and you should not continue. Websites prove their identity via certificates. Firefox does not trust danielvaughn
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
No, you did good! He needs to learn how to handle this and you're right there guiding him. I have the same situation with my six-year old son and Rocket League loot boxes. He wants to spend all his limited money on them, I think he&#x2
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
In the first picture, is that from an actual Lego City set, or has someone added the revolver to the police officer from another set? The BrickLink page lists the revolver as part of a bunch of western and cavalry sets, that is, historical
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by scandinavegan 7y ago
I still don't see it. There are sci-fi guns like blasters, historical guns like flintlocks, and there are guns used in superhero sets, but nothing for Lego City or any other set that claims to represent real life.

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