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omg he even checked my x rays and gave me an mri referral without having to wait two weeks for another appointment
ph-
gonna finally see a doctor today about my arm muscle/ligament/tendon/joint problem that's been preventing me from going to the gym for the past four months
my expectations for this are that he's gonna tell me there's no surgery to fix this (which i'm not sure i'd want anyway) and that i should just keep going to physiotherapy and stop pestering him with questions
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@SamIO i really wanna say ""attractiveness, health, and utility" so as to circle back to the beginning; but while mildly amusing, i'm not actually sure it's true? or maybe i just don't want it to be true
@else my parents cars have usb ports for carplay or whatever it's called and it almost never works properly
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@SamIO actually i agree with my friend though; these would be terrible goals if they were my goals. but i recognize that these are emotional needs, and that i feel better when they're met.
i do set some goals that are intended to help with those needs over the long term -- but not all of my goals
the point my friend was making was mostly about the attractiveness one, that i'd keep chasing it, never feel satisfied, then watch as my body starts to disintegrate slowly over decades starting at like middle age or sth. and i completely agree and 100% believe that's gonna happen to me 👍👍👍👍 but i also see it as inevitable so i don't feel like there's much i could do. can i change my emotional needs? is that a thing people do?
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a friend said these are terrible goals; and i said that they're not goals, they're needs
programming, date/time/timezones
my least favorite type of date/time/timezone data in this current project i'm working on would probably be "unix timestamp but in local time"
getting those to parse correctly in my code is always an adventure, and the best part! is that:
1. the gtfs-rt standard calls for utc unix timestamps, which are pretty much the industry standard
2. the government document explaining the data source doesn't specify and just kinda implies to follow the gtfs-rt standard
3. when i tried following the standard the data was wrong (because they actually use local time unix timestamps!!!)
4. troubleshooting it and realizing what they did took ages because i had to be certain that the problem isn't whatever python/js library i tried using
xkcd
remembered this classic because i've been doing date/time/timezone related programming for the past couple hours
i'm a weird lil dogo and this is where i sadpost