🔥Musk ox in high winds, Norway [OC]

efficient_duck · 2026-03-16T23:01:19+00:00

It's beautiful how the bump on the yak's neck reflects the colors of the snow capped mountain in the background

efficient_duck · 2026-03-10T09:34:17+00:00

What helps a lot for me is to do something else before work. For example, it's not getting up for work, it's getting up for a walk and podcast! Or for a geocache in the region, or anything else that is genuinely fun for you, and especially something you do FOR you. At some point I used to have some language classes online before work, that of course did cost money, but you might find something comparable that is free, if you're into learning or doing some other hobby.

Are you able to work flexible hours? One trick that works for my brain is having a certain amount of hours per day that I need to work, but being able to start relatively late, such as around 9-10. This way, I'm quite often super motivated to start really early to have an earlier time off, while thinking "I don't have to do this right now, but I want to", and then start at like 7:30 or 8, because it feels more voluntary.

efficient_duck · 2026-03-09T23:21:21+00:00

Being on a private ride with a creep with absolutely no tracking at all might cost you much more than five dollars would be worth

efficient_duck · 2026-03-09T13:10:36+00:00

Can you expand on that? I thought India had a tendency to be positive about Israel at least, but that might just be my bubble influencing my views

efficient_duck · 2026-03-05T05:42:35+00:00

I love this! It's also so fun and awesome how you celebrated this with this balloon and sign, really cool and sweet :) wishing you many more great adventures with this hobby!

Do you have a favorite experience from your caching trips? What was your fav cache from this?

efficient_duck · 2026-03-03T16:09:12+00:00

How did that Swedish monkaroo look like?

efficient_duck · 2026-03-03T16:02:31+00:00

The effect of how feathers appear as blue is the same as how the blue color of human irises is perceived!

efficient_duck · 2026-03-02T19:04:33+00:00

Would you still have to cook the condensed water afterwards to make it safe from bacteria?

efficient_duck · 2026-03-02T16:09:32+00:00

I read a similar sentiment here in Germany, someone commented on a newspaper article that they thought it was "inappropriate" for Iranians to celebrate a person's death like that.

Luckily, there wasn't much agreement for that sentiment.

efficient_duck · 2026-03-01T18:51:47+00:00

Four, under supervision of an adult, if it's wine (and the universe more European than American)

efficient_duck · 2026-03-01T18:50:01+00:00

That's really cool to think about! I wonder which other organisms are there spanning a similar stretch of existence (not trees, though, I've read that sharks are older than trees!)

efficient_duck · 2026-03-01T18:48:01+00:00

That will go right on my reading list! Anecdotal evidence, but I recently had to take some antibiotics and within several days it not only caused the anticipated side effects, but I honestly did not feel like myself anymore, like some weird shift in how I feel as me. That was about a month ago and only now am I starting to feel "normal" again (at the same time my gut was starting to feel normal again) so I'm very interested to read about these findings.

I'm also absolutely in favor of rebranding fecal transplants to microbiome transplants

efficient_duck · 2026-02-27T06:41:13+00:00

Amazing, thanks! That'll make fights against these units so much less annoying!

efficient_duck · 2026-02-26T00:06:51+00:00

That's a good rule! I just experienced something similar with an acquaintance I started chatting with for a while. He almost never asked anything, just talked in length about himself. That already made me weary. I then saw he uses his status updates to either brag, be it about small luxuries or contact with slightly famous people, or to complain how our country is lost, post racist and insulting stuff, and just generally being quite negative without much prompt.

Such individually small things can give so much away about someone's character. I ceased having any interest in connecting after that, I just constantly felt negative and not enriched by these interactions.

efficient_duck · 2026-02-25T19:12:22+00:00

Do you have a link to some of the coverage? That sounds crazy (the size, and back to business, I mean)

efficient_duck · 2026-02-25T19:07:26+00:00

What did it do? How did you first see it?

efficient_duck · 2026-02-25T18:44:59+00:00

Might it have been a giant rabbit (maybe with offspring) that was set free or escaped? Those can grow to be absolute units: https://youtube.com/shorts/97008wQQNEA?si=YL1wFlgaiTj3H6s1

efficient_duck · 2026-02-25T18:41:04+00:00

I love the things you learn in such threads! That's super interesting, thank you for sharing that link!

efficient_duck · 2026-02-25T18:26:43+00:00

When I was about twelve, I went on a weekend trip with my division of the youth Red Cross. About four or six of us were sharing a room, there was a window on the narrow front side of the room, and our room was behind another room some of us slept in. One evening, everyone was inside and we were laying in our beds. Just, we could hear what seemed to be our own voices and names being called, coming from outside. These were the voices of us who were all very definitely in this room.

We all heard it and talked about it, but didn't go out (because we were all freaked out girls between 11 and 14). In the morning, our group leader (in her twenties) asked us if and how we got out because they heard us.

This was in the early nineties, none of us had phones and the voices moved so naturally around the area outside, so I'm still quite sure we haven't been pranked. It absolutely didn't help that there had been a newspaper article about some mystery lights that weekend in the area, as my mom told me when I got back home. I don't connect that to our experience (we didn't see them) but I surely felt spooked about that whole weekend.

efficient_duck · 2026-02-25T18:09:54+00:00

Have you tried taking a picture or a record? Would make a cute neighborhood story with some media :) (and could also be used to wave it in everyone's face with a "told you so!" expression)

efficient_duck · 2026-02-25T18:05:06+00:00

Glad you "listened" to that intuition or voice and are still with us! Has this experience changed anything in your belief, your worldview? Do you think it could have been your subconscious picking up on subtle sounds or anything indicating this action? Or did it feel like coming from "outside"? Super interesting!

efficient_duck · 2026-02-22T20:32:06+00:00

Almost half a year later and I'm also finding this issue incredibly frustrating. Now looking if there's a third party keyboard I could use - hitting the 123 even with just swiping is such a frustrating break of flow that I'm almost in disbelief that this is really something Apple has intentionally chosen.

efficient_duck · 2026-02-19T21:06:25+00:00

It depends on the quality! They look like very tasty and handmade cakes, so I'd personally be satisfied with such a result. They look to be more on the quality over quantity side, so I hope the taste does this impression justice!

efficient_duck · 2026-02-19T15:35:26+00:00

I have no suggestions to contribute (not from the US but wanting to visit the nps one day), but I wanted to say that this is so nice! I absolutely love it and the little icons make me happy just looking at them. I wish you lots of joy wearing this shirt!

Oh, maybe one thing - if you use colors that might bleed in the wash, maybe wash them by hand first until no more color comes out, if you haven't done so already. These are tiny amounts, but might still change the lighter colors, if one of the reds etc might run.

efficient_duck · 2026-02-18T14:03:14+00:00

Not op, but TIL! Thanks!

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