What do you swear by?

Brand, thing, behavior, method, advice, mantra, etc.

I swear by Blackwing pencils.

Also, the ‘two minute rule’, which has really improved my life: “if it takes two minutes or less to do, just do it now; if it takes longer, schedule it.” I’ve got untreated attention issues and it’s very easy for me to notice something needing done, and overlook or procrastinate it because it seems inconvenient in the moment. Having a totally painless rule that forces me to acknowledge that thing I should pick up, that trash bag I should change, etc, or, to at least put on my calendar anything I mustn’t forget in the long run has been great for me.

zorrothefox2001,
@zorrothefox2001@lemmy.world avatar

Chain wallet. Might be uncool depending on your fit but you’ll never lose it. I was skeptical until I got one.

ErwinLottemann,

Yeah

zorrothefox2001,
@zorrothefox2001@lemmy.world avatar

Lol this is definitely before my time, is this a goof or was it ever that deep to people?

ErwinLottemann,

No, it was a prody band, but the music was good! 🤣

Dekudibusei,

My motto: if you do what you did, you get what you got.

It mostly serves to remind me (and my public, voluntarily or otherwise) that if you are unhappy with something and want it to change for the better, you’ll have to change parameters (i.e. your approach) or you will just get the same result.

staceybassoon,
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Good shoes and a good mattress. Those things can really have a profound impact on quality of life.

Lemminary,

I discovered the mythical and magical power of a great mattress. One day I’ll be able to afford one, once I grow a spare kidney.

featured,

Sugar alternatives like allulose and monkfruit have been making my life so much better recently. A little more pricey than sugar, but so much better for you and allows me to keep enjoying a sweet cup of tea in the morning without any of the downsides

LUHG_HANI,
@LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world avatar

Honey in tea is the bomb.

99nights,

A good home cooked meal.

trimmerfrost,

I have got a laundry list of quotes made by me. Let me put up some:

  • You have to dream even before you start doing something
  • Overbearing parenting is child abuse
  • Do you want a lovely, smart, well-achieved, conversationally witty wife or not? If yes, first of all, go work on yourself
  • The world’s not a fair place. So what are you going to do about it?
  • Everything is learnable
HobbitFoot,

If someone can’t explain how something works, they either don’t know how it works out don’t want you to know how it works.

Things can be complicated and have nuance, but there should be a general basic theory.

emptyother,
@emptyother@lemmy.world avatar

I tend to explain stuff to myself to figure out if I think I got it. Sometimes I try explaining stuff on reddit and hope anyone corrects me if I’m wrong. Works great imho.

theshatterstone54,

The thing is, sometimes you just can’t find the right words to explain it in a simple way. It happens to me all the time.

HobbitFoot,

I usually forgive not knowing the right vocabulary as long as it is close enough.

CloverSi,

Finding vocabulary at all can be a challenge in and of itself. If I get too lost for words I sometimes can’t find any - it’s not that I don’t know how things work, I don’t know how to say it.

notun,

Usually right next to the thing that caused me to cuss.

Pyrrhichios,

I too like fancy pencils. Mitsubishi’s range are my faves.

AstronautOnEverest,
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I just bought a dozen pencils from the Hi-Uni range and I’m super excited to try them out. I’ve heard so many good things about them from fellow pencil enthusiasts.

Wirlocke,

On a light note, I’m a slut for Bethesda, atleast I skipped Fallout 76 but I’m gonna preorder Starfield. I was 11 when Skyrim came out and it’s very near and dear to me and I love some aspects of Fallout 4. ESO was also not bad and I play Elder Scrolls Legends. I’m seeing this through to the end bois ✌️.

On a serious note, I swear by never drinking alone or without someone I trust as much as my partner. Nothing bad happened to me but I have several negative experiences with drinking in my family. And technically my dad died riding a motorcycle drunk, but I don’t think being sober would have saved him from that specific incident.

I just never ever want to be anything close to an alcoholic. I feel like I would get addicted if it was more convenient and didn’t taste bad. Fear of addiction is also why I’m wary of gambling.

jmer,

Is Legends still worth playing? I stopped after they announced there were going to be no new updates. Seems like with no new cards being added it’s only a matter of time before the most consistent/best/unbeatable deck comes is devised.

Wirlocke,

I’ve been enjoying it, there’s still consistent players and a good variety of decks I’ve fought.

Though you will learn to groan when you see an Oblivion Gate, Midnight Burial, or Paarthurnax.

My personal gripe is that there are so many ways to destroy/silence creatures and not many full proof counters. I’ll have several turns of placing something down, it gets destroyed, repeat.

But I always play ranked and at the moment have an equipment based deck, and a deck built around creatures that deal damage. Hardly meta but with each I win about half the time and slowly climb the ranks.

jmer,

Appreciate the feedback. Maybe I’ll pick it up again. I managed to grind my way to Legend rank before giving up.

pastermil,

Laptop: post-classic Thinkpads, especially the series 30

Multitool: Leatherman

Soap: Dr. Bronner

jelloeater85,
@jelloeater85@lemmy.world avatar

ThinkPads are OG AF

SayJess,

Zebra F-301 Pink Barrel / Black Ink 0.7mm

I had been using the regular F-301 pen since my early twenties. A year ago, I found a seller on Amazon that was selling the pink barrel / black ink F-301’s for what works out to be $2.10 a piece. My pens tend to go missing from time to time at work, so I bought a bunch.

Worth it.

someguy3,

Batman

badnew,

As far a clothing goes, FIGS Supersoft underscrubs. Having worn plain black T-shirts my whole life and working in healthcare it’s nice being able to wear clothes that make me feel comfortable and kind of not at work, if that makes any sense. Really soft and don’t seem to lose colour! New Balance 574 have always served me well!

RGB3x3,

Kind of expensive (and apparently shilled by people on TikTok and Instagram), but I’ve been loving the Fabletics brand. Their payment format is super weird, but they gave like 70% off everything the first time I signed up, so I got a bunch of stuff for cheap and cancelled.

It’s all really comfortable and really well-made.

Squids,

I see your blackwings and I raise you my mechanical contestant - the uniball kuru toga. The rotating lead gimmick actually works pretty well and the elite has just such a nice weight to it because the barrel is this nice knurled metal thing (I think the advance upgrade is also metal, but I don’t have that one to compare)

Speaking of uniball, while I’m normally a fountain pen adherent, my go to non-fountain pen is the uniball eye. Such a surprisingly nice pen for the price, and while it’s not exactly the same, because it’s a liquid ink roller ball it’s still much nicer to write with because you don’t have to apply pressure to make it write.

theDodosConundrum,

Oh I’ve been curious about mechanical pencils with rotating lead! The rotation mechanism activates whenever you lift the tip up off the page right? Do you think it would still benefit folks who mostly write in cursive?

Squids,

It behaves closer to a regular mechanical pencil for cursive, but there is some difference. Ngl I use mine for maths and numbers and diagrammes so I don’t run into that issue a lot

BEZORP,

They're neat (I've only tried Uni's), though imho I prefer the manual control of a regular mech/pencil when writing in cursive, because then I can choose when to rotate the lead (ie by rotating the entire pencils).

If you're used to writing with pencils you don't even think about it anymore. It's as natural as dotting an i.

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