I can (mostly intentionally) zonk out pretty quickly in most sitting or laying positions. Clear calm mind helps me. I might use 1 of 2 exercises. The first I started using is for when my mind is too active from the day and thoughts just keep popping up, each time one does, I imagine putting it in a cardboard box, closing it up and tossing it away. The second one I use more when my body is physically tired, but I’m not mentally sleepy, I imagine I’m laying down at the trunk of an impossibly tall tree, looking at a single leaf near the edge that I can just barely make out, then imagine I’m rapidly floating up where I can see the trunk rapidly moving “down” behind my head, but the leaf just only so very barely seems to get any closer, and just keep that up until I fall asleep.

Every mattress store ever.

I doubt you’ll find anything for this bespoke purpose built as a utility online, so if you want it you’ll need to make it (or I guess hire someone).

Python is fairly approachable to learn, the 2nd best time to plant a tree is today. Personally, I’d recommend installing Anaconda and using a Jupyter Notebook. For this process, you’d need to learn about:

1. “pip” to install any libraries/packages you need.

2. Importing packages

3. Working with strings

4. Getting a list of all files (maybe only those of certain types) in a given directory.

5. For loops

6. some way to read each file type (pandas can handle txt, not sure about the others but you should be able to literally just Google “Python import <filetype>” to find a package. Import them as strings and concatenate a huge list of them in a for loop.

7. Pandas dataframes, Parsing strings into new columns, including into distinct lists of strings. The complexity here varies a lot based on what you specifically want to get out of the process.

8. Exporting dataframe rows to files (better imho if you did it as tabs in a workbook, but it is trickier) in a for loop.

Don’t overwrite objects as you go and keep different logical chunks in their own cells. That’ll make it easier to troubleshoot. Just Google any errors you don’t immediately understand, you’ll find lots of advice online.

Don’t have whatever you make delete any of your original files.

Depending on your feelings about AI, you could probably get one to make something that’ll work after a few tries and troubleshooting by giving it error messages, but aside from the ethical problems, you’d never really know if it got it right, even if it seemed to work, so I would recommend against it.

Python should be able to handle this for you with 100% accuracy at removing duplicated sentences (and headers), with added complexity you could have it even make result files based on unique emails you corresponded with, and it can handle all the various file types and even nested folders if that’s involved.

Probably could do this in 50-100 lines of code depending on complexity. Runtime should be minutes at most.

Learning python to do this would probably take a couple to a few hours if you have any familiarity with coding, bit more if you don’t.

Could even make it easier, cheaper and avoid the ecological disaster as well

Just shoot them

If you feel like what they’re doing is impacting your ability to do your assigned responsibilities, tell your manager. If you feel like they are going to bad mouth you to your manager, you can CYA and give your manager a heads-up. If you’re feeling personally harassed, that goes to HR, evidence is helpful. Otherwise, just continue to enforce your boundaries, you don’t need to explain the why to anyone not on your direct team or management chain, simple answers are fine: “Sorry, I can’t help with that.”, “I’m waiting for my next patient to assist”, “I’m taking my pause now and will be back in 30.”

You’re in a union, talk to your union rep, bring documentation of the incidents and see what they think and if they can help. If they agree and help, great.

If they can’t help, then anytime anyone outside your management chain asks you to do something, you can say something to the effect of I’d love to help, can you just ask my manager for permission to prioritize your task over their normal priorities for me. If your manager/management chain asks you to do something, make sure you tell them what won’t get done properly or timely if you comply with their task “If I do XYZ tasks, then I won’t have time to finish ABC priority today”, if they’re ok it, then you document it and suck it up.

The keys here are: always act as if you’re willing and happy to help, you only do work authorized by the people who can give you work, the people who give you work are the bad guys if they say no and they become aware of all the extra requests of your time, don’t overload your trying to carry your own work and someone else’s, document as much as possible in case someone in your management chain has an issue with you not having done something that a manager agreed to.

That’s what’s worked for me in the corporate world at least, not sure what your environment is, so YMMV.

From my 10 minutes spent on it, Interactive Brokers seems like the way I’d go for a long-term ETF style EU investment broker, and I’d run from Trade Republic based on a few negative experiences I just read about.

While they have an app, I see references to a desktop tool, as well as online, so I think that’d resolve your phone issue. Might be worth a look.

Saw a couple mentions to using their Irish entity, likely to do with tax benefits, not sure, should look into that more too.

I’m going to flip this a bit, do you only feel bad for just the “people who get pregnant who the anti abortion people affect”? Or do you actually feel bad for all the “people who the anti abortion people affect”, like doctors, those trying to use IVF, widowers or even the unwanted children, for example?

Rather than trying to use a more accurately specific term, I think using a more general term is likely easier and is probably more accurate.

Wendy’s is falling off a quality cliff unfortunately, while also driving up prices. Used to go there a lot, haven’t been in a while.

Gifts are from us, to parents/grandparents individually, everyone else as a couple if possible, else single.

Sesame Street is great for exposure to a variety of types of people and some cultures. PBS in general is pretty good for that.

Bluey is fun for parents and kids, though it can give kids some high expectations from their parents.

Numberblocks is a good math concepts/counting show.

Storybots is a good learning about the world kind of show.

Paw Patrol has some life lesson kinds of things, but has more action/adventure stuff.

Aged like 21, working in a gas station convenience store register, man walks in, seems homeless and wasted, asked me to call 911 for him, says they’ll know him. Obviously not covered in the manual, but I figure that if someone asks you to call, you call.

I call, talking to the operator trying to explain… The dude just goes down like a sack of potatoes, whacks the top of his head on the counter, knocks over a couple of displays, and starts twitching on the floor. The operator got ALOT more compliant, EMTs picked the guy up (he was a frequent flier), he had a like 3in bump on his forehead that looked like a horn.

I cleaned up the store, trashed the food he damaged, bleached all the other stuff. Weird day.

CPAP, comes with a cell chip in it to relay data for the Dr to monitor/access. Cell chip stops working after 5 years.

Edit: Realized this could use more clarity. The cell plan for the chip expires after 5 years and cannot be renewed, meaning the entirely functional machine needs to be replaced or the Dr can’t properly monitor necessary vitals.

I’ve come to view tolerance not as a default position, but rather as a contract which people are defaulted into, if you’re breaking it by refusing to be bound by it, you’re no longer protected by it either.

It depends on what you mean by viewpoint.

If they’re disagreeing about objective reality, 0/10. If we can’t agree on an objective level, there’s no point.

If they’re disagreeing about following the social contract of tolerance, -10/10. They break the contract, they aren’t covered by it, they should be removed with prejudice.

If they’re disagreeing about the value of certain concepts, solutions or programs, 3/10? I’d talk to someone about something for a little while, I might give them a reference, but it’s not my job to educate them.

Of course just talking to people, I’m like a 5/10 in general…

Jar Jar Binks in The Phantom Menace was originally planned to be a covert Sith Master. He force jumps, he uses mind control, and he “accidentally” sabotages them. But the negative reaction to him was so strong, Lucas reworked the last 2 scripts of the prequels and is why Count Dooku basically comes out of nowhere.

• Do you use youtube mainly? Daily, but secondary to Twitch
• Do you care about clickbait? Nope
• Did clickbait make you stop seeing some creator? Clickbait that are lies damage my opinion of a creator, clickbait that’s honest is irrelevant
• Did you use youtube but clickbait (among other things) made you to stop using it’s platform? Still use YT
• Do you think clickbait is the major of the YouTube’s problems? Nope, discoverability, live streaming, and comments are all bigger imo
• Do you see something good in clickbait among the bad things? Like, which ones? Only negative is when it is intentionally deceptive.
• Could we see clickbait as a necessary evil? It is as necessary as all advertising is, if it’s honest, fine, if not, then no.

In a car, outside a Panera, after hours.

Most of the best advice I’ve heard on this topic have been on Adam Savage’s Tested YouTube, he does a lot of Q&A’s and people ask about pursuing their passion and freelance work, I’d recommend you watch some of the more popular ones.