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So this isn't an attack or anything, but that website makes me just click off. It is hard to see any real information about the keyboard, I couldn't even find a picture of the whole keyboard on the landing page to look at. I think the people who want a low profile minimal keyboard probably also just want simple website.

I stare at Activate Windows every day, along with my forced weather widget!

It drastically helps. Each little unit producing food is less food required to be made by a commercial farm. 1000 little farms might not be as efficient as one commercial farm, but it is still less impact and less run off environmentally.

Deleted all of these years ago besides Google for email. Never looked back, one of the best decisions I have ever made.

Starbucks Barista for Insurance, go America! Run my own online business selling high end labels to weddings and other venues.

I am pretty happy with my life balance. I have 3 kids, who are all wonderful. I love going to my 20 hour barista job socializing and talking to young people and encouraging them to follow their passions. The business is great too, growing like crazy and its fun to use my economics and tech background to actually drive business results for myself.

As an etsy seller. I don't really care about the rising fees, they send so many customers my way I am okay with that. What I do care about is that their report features don't work. I have reported so many shops just reselling commercial items that I am shopping for. Literally they don't even remove the branding, just straight up reselling a finished good that isn't vintage. So lame.

Kids are brutal. Sorry.

I totally agree. We used to have so much self time when we were children, playing in our rooms, out in the woods, out on the street looking at random things or just watching people. Now kids can easily be trapped into never ever being alone; what a nightmare. People around me think that I am absolutely crazy for not giving my 11 year old a cell phone, but I can't think of a single valid reason he really needs one right now.

As a parent I usually know the general where about of my kid like 99% of the time (or at least where to start looking), and if I don't know exactly where he is I know how to contact whoever he is with to find out. Of course this will change as he gets into middle/highschool.

I mean we grew up without phones and our parents+ grew up without phones. I think it will be fine. He knows both of our phone numbers so if he ever needed something he would probably just ask a stranger to borrow their phone to call his parents or something.

I might be the edge case here, but I really like that he has to think about what he is going to do, or where he is going to go with his friends; that he might have to somehow contact me so he has to plan ahead. This is what we did when we were kids, we would have to let our parents know ahead of time where they could find us. It is sort of a responsibility that has kind of faded away with everyone having phones.

So we are pretty similar. We don't use social media, either. We feel that it is silly to be like, don't get on this, if we are also on it. Our kids still have tv, switch, etc etc, but I make sure that I don't allow anything into the house that is inherently made to trick them into spending infinite time on, which is becoming harder and harder to do. For example, when we were kids, games had a beginning and then an end. That isn't always the case now, lots of games have infinite updates and more and more to do, so I am careful to explain that hey, you are playing this game a lot because it always has more task for you to do, are you enjoying just completing these virtual tasks everyday? Are you gaining anything from it, I understand you are relaxing from your day at school, but how long are you going to spend on this mindless thing? Then he will usually look at me and agree that he probably has been on too long and will end what he is doing and go find enjoyment elsewhere with something that isn't designed to be addictive and the perfect challenge dopamine hit.

I don't know, and I won't know until later I guess if it is a major mistake or not. He knows that if he wants to go to hang out with friends he can just get their parents number and I will call them and be like hey can our boys hang out, I will come get your kid etc.

The one thing I do know is that there isn't much good left in social media besides a few edge cases where its a resourceful group that hasn't moved off the platforms. I don't use social media anymore. We had to lead by example, so my wife and I both removed it from our lives. We are better off for sure without it.

It is an infinite time suck, and while that might be fine for adults who are grounded in their work life and need an outlet to just relax. Children have so much room to learn, explore and develop that it isn't a healthy eco-system for them to be on for hours and hours a day.

My son has access to all the other great things like tv, streaming, video games etc. I think going all one way or all the other is of course no good also. It is about a nice mix, right?

Yea. This is something I have thought about, but the wife and I have decided to just wait and see how the middle school years go. I imagine it is going to probably become amplified.

It is interesting to think about how we understand social things for our kids.

When I grew up the only social time I had was when I actually hung out with my friends. We didn't have internet until I was around 16ish. The only social aspect we had outside of school was actually hanging with friends or talking on the land line. It's amazing how it is expected now for kids to be able to communicate with their friends 24/7.

I'm not sure if this is good or bad. As a parent I want to be the main influencer in my kids life for a bit longer still I think. I sound so controlling but in reality my son has a ton of freedom and is really a responsible kid for his age.

Do you mean because you didn't understand like common things with kids because you had no tv? Or because you were raised like completely different?

I have a son who is 11. All of his friends have smart phones. He will have friends over to the house and the friends will sit there and stare at their phones. My son who doesn't have a phone will be like, hey can you get off tiktok so we can play or go outside? It is rather sad to see this, they are hanging out sharing videos they find on their feeds through their phones. One time my son said, hey get off your phone and lets go scooter around the neighborhood, the kid replied, hey I think I am going to go home. He wanted to surf his phone more than actually hang out with his friend.

I think I made a very good decision not to give my son a phone until he is driving. Instead of surfing tiktok all day, he learns music, does origami, plays outside, helps me with the garden and many other things that bring him a lot of joy. I obviously help him with whatever interest he has, and I think him seeing the way his friends handle social media has made him not really want a phone anymore. He doesn't even mention it to me like he did when all his friends first started getting one. He sees how addicted they are and how he doesn't even have those friends over anymore.

I think people over estimate the "pariah" thing. I grew up in a family of alcoholism, so I chose never to drink. At first people would ask me to drink with them at parties and such. Eventually they realized I never gave in, so when they were out buying alcohol, they would always buy me a pack of soda so when I came I would have something to drink with them. So if the friends are good, I don't think our kids will be pariahs. I think/hope that instead our kids will just find people who appreciate and understand their choices or the choices of their parents. If they don't, are they that good of friends after all? I think it is okay to have less friends, if the quality is higher.

This is how I feel. I love that they get the pest bugs. I don't mind them at all. I learn where their webs are by running into them one time and then going around them the next times.

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There are some other yellow spiders, but nothing really compares to this one. They don't make traditional webs. They make massive ugly janky looking webs from all different directions that span across a lot of different branches. I don't think they came to be until about 3 years ago. The UGA professor says that they believe they came from a freight truck traveling up I85 as they hatched off.

I was one of the first people to report them spreading back almost 4(edit) years ago. One day I was taking in groceries and I noticed a golden glimmer by my front door between 3 trees I have. I took a closer look and I realized it was a massive 6-10 foot web, that had 3-4 layers of web spread between the trees. Right smack in the center of it was this beautiful 3 inch spider that was amazing looking. Right below her was this tiny male spider that was barely 1/8 her size. I immediately looked her up and spotted an article about how they came to be and to report their sightings. I emailed the UGA professor about this and he was surprised to see they had already came this far in.

Almost 4(edit) years later, when you go outside on a misty morning during the summer, you look up into the trees as you drive home and it is literally nothing but glimmering Joro spider webs. Thousands of them.

Most of them now appear in my back yard as I removed those trees, but it was crazy to see peoples faces when they walked to my front door and realized what they were walking past and freaked out at a 3 inch spider about 5 foot away from them.

edit: when I looked up the UGA professor name I realized I emailed it back in September 2018! Crazy.

I don't understand a lot of the almost violent levels of dislike towards WHM. Sure Wim is a very odd person and is very excited about this thing that has helped him in his life and he is now profiting off it. Does that not describe almost all of us when we discover something great and then also make money off it?

I believe, and this could be wrong but I have read a good bit of his stuff; the "WHM helps such and such problem", is mostly based off his students who have came and said that they felt better after practicing cold and breath techniques. Wim never claims to be a scientist, in fact many times when someone asks him a direct question he says something along the lines of, "I don't know, that is up to the scientist to discover", I am just here to guide.

One of the comments below talked about how Wim's friend had cancer, and then he said WHM helped him with his cancer, but then he died from cancer. This is such a moot and pointless comment to make. Doctors every single day help people with cancer and they still die. Does that mean the effort to help was worthless?

Should one not attempt any safe methods that are mostly harmless and have some known benefits when facing a terminally ill sickness? No one dying of cancer is going to be harmed by holding their breath and taking a few cold showers, if anything it probably brings some relief to the constant pain that is chemo and cancer treatments (speaking from experience).

I had a biology professor that would put directions on his test, in the directions it would say, write the following word on page 3, bingo.

If you did it he gave like 10% bonus or something on the test. Very few people read the directions.

I don't think the goal is to isolate yourself from every thing, but if your able to minimize it more then it won't build up. It's like pouring grease down your kitchen sink. The less you do it the better off your pipes are. Sometimes you just gotta take what you can. Good luck and keep up the hard work.

I do this through a local website that will post important updates. I am also involved in my community through my son's karate and my church. I get any important information through those avenues which are much easier to control than a feed on facebook.

It took some time and effort. We started with TV about a year ago. I was talking to my wife and I mentioned how today I watched some news and some shows and after I finished I couldn't remember what I had watched but that I was in a negative mood. I told her I was going to turn off the TV and save the money per year. She said okay, and I did. For a few weeks I would sit down to watch shows etc, and then realized I couldn't. I started doing more important things and deep working more often.

Eventually, I said hey, we should do this with our son. So we did, he had the same problem, took about 2 months before he started drawing, building, tinkering. After getting all this free time back I decided to cut off all notifications on my phone except phone calls and text messages.

It was hard giving up my Instagram account, which I had grown to over 500 followers for my pottery side work, but even though I wasn't much of an Instagram person, I still would find myself checking it randomly when I was bored. Each thing I cut off helped with the next thing. Once I got all this stuff cut off, I realized that the important things I wanted to know about in the world I could just directly check their website once a week and be good to go. So I usually start my Monday off with my deep work in the morning, then I read things that are important to me.

What is amazing is when you cut it all off, how much you still think about it. You reach for your phone then realize you uninstalled all addictive apps. It has been a long time now, and sometimes when I wake up in the middle of the night, I still reach for my phone before realizing the only thing on my phone is my email and I only get email from personal people as I have unsubscribed from everything that isn't positively influencing my life. This includes marketing stuff because they are just really good at making me want things that I don't need.

I know I sound absolutely crazy, but this AskHN question really sparked my interest. I tell people all the time who ask me why I am so happy, positive, etc, and I tell them, "I eat a lot of fruits and vegetables, I do some sort of exercise daily(mostly gardening right now), and I am not on any social media, negative news, and I have no TV." People will look at you like your absolutely nuts, but let them, I feel 1000x better than I have ever felt in my entire life. If you want a place to start, just take your phone, uninstall anything that you feel you need to check that doesn't:

1. Make you money

2. Brighten your day 100% of the time when you open it

3. Isn't a huge time suck for no mental or physical gain

Once you do this, DON'T go back. Surround yourself with things you love, eat good food, exercise and spend time in the sunlight. Any politics you feel strongly about, find their website and check it when you start your week or end your week.

Last of all, you can do it!

The best thing I can tell you is to just shrug off the bad news they tell you. My father is notorious for this. Everything is the end of world situation with him. I just say okay, okay and he gets the point, I am not interested in it. It is hard to get people to understand that you really don't care about all the garbage in the world. There are things worth caring about and there are things you can do about the garbage. Change doesn't start with complaining to random strangers, it starts with voting and making people aware by giving them the key to start changing the problem. I am no expert on this and I really don't vote enough, but over the years I have made people around me aware that I am not interested in negative information unless it directly can be changed by something I can do.

I don't read hacker news much. Thankfully I have a friend who reads it and sends me all the best articles! Thanks Jesse.

Turn off the TV. Turn off all social media. Turn off any negative influences. Eat as healthy as you possibly can. Exercise, yoga, tai chi, or anything that gets you moving. Enjoy the benefits of all the time you thought you didn't have while having really good mental power because of your healthy diet and exercise. Live a good life.

Exactly this, this is one of the very reasons I have not invested in bitcoin. Anything relating to a technology and banks that hasn't been stamp of approved is a risk. I luckily got the news before it happened and withdrew all my money from neteller and poker sites before they went down, however I had friends that had a lot of money locked up for months.

My fridge went out several years ago. It was one that we got when we bought our house from the previous homeowners. We made an agreement when we put in a bid. When it went out I was like man, we are going to have to pay to have this repaired. I called some companies and the estimations were in the $500-600 range. Being in a hard time I decided to just tinker, for the first time in my life. About 4 hours later of research and testing I determined I just needed a fuse. I went to a shop about 30 minutes away and bought a fuse for $5. Put it in and saved the fridge, and thank goodness for the dry ice tip that saved all my food in the freezer.

Tinkering is now my go-to for anything that breaks. I hope that it rubs off on my son as I think I missed out on life not knowing how to tinker as much as I should have. It is really refreshing to fix something that is important to you.

I can't wait for Amazon Healthcare. I don't fly much, but I feel your woes. Last time I did I swore I wouldn't do it again unless it was the only way to get there.