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   nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 11:53:58 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:
   If I died tomorrow, I'll have left nothing of significance apart from this instance and I don't like to log into fedi as much nowadays. And that's kind of a shame. I'm lacking initiative to do anything.
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 11:58:18 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     That's not saying I will die tomorrow obviously, I have too much time and I'll probably do something eventually. Just not any time soon I don't think.
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     fif (fif@femcel.online)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 12:01:41 JST fif

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     @nyanide 💔 oomfie you are the significance .. love yourself now!!!

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     Avatar of Chaos (mk2boogaloo@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 12:02:08 JST Avatar of Chaos

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     @nyanide move your server now!
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     :archlinux: (lewdthewides@hidamari.apartments)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 12:03:43 JST :archlinux:

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     @nyanide I'd offer words of encouragement, but I've been stuck in that rut myself more often than not. Motivation comes back randomly for a couple days, then I'll just do nothing for weeks
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 12:04:16 JST Rusty Crab

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     @nyanide try taking a laptop to a coffee shop and working on something. This is serious advice. I have terrible trouble working at home.
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 12:04:17 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an easy way to just magically gain initiative to do something for days on end. If I drink energy drinks I end up having my entire body shake for a while or I have the best sleep of my life at 2 in the afternoon. I'm just supposed to do something or maybe do tiny little things that eventually lead up to a bigger thing, I guess. And that makes me upset.
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 12:04:19 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     @MK2boogaloo Heh heh. That's something that'll happen later and it's a pretty easy process, mostly reminiscing on projects I want to work on/am working on right now.
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 12:04:58 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @RustyCrab @nyanide i kinda feel more productive at uni too, but it's sporadic
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 12:05:24 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     @RustyCrab An office would legitimately benefit me, this seems to be pretty common too, like having an entire different space that doesn't feel like home so you feel obliged to do something. Maybe I could start working from my basement or something.
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 12:05:29 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @nyanide pretty much the same for me. If I were to die I wouldn't even leave a ghost, I just live because I'm alive and well, gotta make do
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     tsoifan1997 (sysrq@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 12:07:51 JST tsoifan1997

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     @nyanide Just do the damn thing or I'll rip your nuts off.
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     Kerosene ~suya~ CEO of DarkFedi (kerosene@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 12:13:08 JST Kerosene ~suya~ CEO of DarkFedi

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     @sysrq @nyanide Uhh try something that isn't a typical fedi fetish next time.
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     Avatar of Chaos (mk2boogaloo@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 12:18:50 JST Avatar of Chaos

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     @RustyCrab @nyanide only fags enjoy that kind of thing.
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     tsoifan1997 (sysrq@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 12:19:24 JST tsoifan1997

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     @kerosene @nyanide I'll get the gang to munt your ancestors.
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     CEO of Monoeye Dating (ceo_of_monoeye_dating@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 12:19:56 JST CEO of Monoeye Dating

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     • Rusty Crab
     @nyanide @RustyCrab Coffee shops do a pretty good job of this IMO. If you grab a laptop you can get a lot of work done there.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 12:22:04 JST pistolero

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     @nyanide Maybe it's better to take a minute and play with things a little more. This is from Part IV of "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" and it is pretty good advice.
     
     > Then I had another thought: Physics disgusts me a little bit now, but I used to enjoy doing physics. Why did I enjoy it? I used to play with it. I used to do whatever I felt like doing -- it didn't have to do with whether it was important for the development of nuclear physics, but whether it was interesting and amusing for me to play with. When I was in high school, I'd see water running out of a faucet growing narrower, and wonder if I could figure out what determines that curve. I found it was rather easy to do. I didn't have to do it; it wasn't important for the future of science; somebody else had already done it. That didn't make any difference: I'd invent things and play with things for my own entertainment.
     > So I got this new attitude. Now that I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything, I've got this nice position at the university teaching classes which I rather enjoy, and just like I read the Arabian Nights for pleasure, I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever.
     > Within a week I was in the cafeteria and some guy, fooling around, throws a plate in the air. As the plate went up in the air I saw it wobble, and I noticed the red medallion of Cornell on the plate going around. It was pretty obvious to me that the medallion went around faster than the wobbling.
     > I had nothing to do, so I start to figure out the motion of the rotating plate. I discover that when the angle is very slight, the medallion rotates twice as fast as the wobble rate -- two to one. It came out of a complicated equation! Then I thought, "Is there some way I can see in a more fundamental way, by looking at the forces or the dynamics, why it's two to one?"
     > I don't remember how I did it, but I ultimately worked out what the motion of the mass particles is, and how all the accelerations balance to make it come out two to one.
     > I still remember going to Hans Bethe and saying, "Hey, Hans! I noticed something interesting. Here the plate goes around so, and the reason it's two to one is..." and I showed him the accelerations.
     > He says, "Feynman, that's pretty interesting, but what's the importance of it? Why are you doing it?"
     > "Hah!" I say. "There's no importance whatsoever. I'm just doing it for the fun of it." His reaction didn't discourage me; I had made up my mind I was going to enjoy physics and do whatever I liked.
     > I went on to work out equations of wobbles. Then I thought about how electron orbits start to move in relativity. Then there's the Dirac Equation in electrodynamics. And then quantum electrodynamics. And before I knew it (it was a very short time) I was "playing" -- working, really -- with the same old problem that I loved so much, that I had stopped working on when I went to Los Alamos: my thesis-type problems; all those old-fashioned, wonderful things.
     > It was effortless. It was easy to play with these things. It was like uncorking a bottle: Everything flowed out effortlessly. I almost tried to resist it! There was no importance to what I was doing, but ultimately there was. The diagrams and the whole business that I got the Nobel Prize for came from that piddling around with the wobbling plate.
     surely,_mr._feynman.html
     surely,_you-re_joking,_mr._feynman.pdf
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     CEO of Monoeye Dating (ceo_of_monoeye_dating@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 12:26:38 JST CEO of Monoeye Dating

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     @nyanide @RustyCrab I didn't read what Crabman said above before writing this so consider this me seconding his opinion
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 12:43:07 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     @fif ok. SeX dms then.
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     fif (fif@femcel.online)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 12:43:08 JST fif

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     @nyanide KIRBY WANNA WASTE TIME AND PLAY VIDY A

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     fif (fif@femcel.online)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 12:44:52 JST fif

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     @nyanide @RustyCrab this is true

     t. office slave

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     fif (fif@femcel.online)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 12:48:38 JST fif

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     @nyanide oh no people are gonna read thais reply wrong :darkness:

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