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I mean that's literally what it is from a psychological perspective. Your brain doesn't reward you for the mere act of finishing a task, so it's basically impossible to find motivation for it unless it ticks at least one box in your reward center.

I think it also very much depends on your tooling & how easy it feels to start writing unit tests.

When I work in a Java project for example I always write unit tests even for personal stuff, because the IDE integration is great and it's really quick to create a test class, run it and see granular results. I don't feel the same way about testing JavaScript because the tooling at least for me hasn't worked quite as well (though that could very well be my own fault, it's been a while since I looked into it). The more cumbersome setting up and running the tests is, the more tempting it becomes to just use the console or manually test parts instead.

isn't that OP?

They did mention bike lanes in the last dev diary video as a customization option IIRC. So you have base roads and can dedicate lanes to bus/bike/tram if you want.

Oh, in that case I guess Apple might region lock the feature, so switching is still a good call. Although in the grand scheme of things I think the legislation will still have a positive impact elsewhere and possibly motivate some US states to follow suit, like what California did after the GDPR.

If you are an EU resident you could just keep your iPhone and wait for the sideloading law to kick in, then you don't have to worry about that anymore either.

How do you propose someone makes sure they aren't around any people who might be setting off fireworks? Are all veterans automatically wealthy enough to be able to stay in the middle of nowhere for two weeks??

I'll take a look, thanks!

to stay informed but also grounded

Yes thank you! That's exactly what I mean.

I think even just a more grounded comment section would be enough for me. I only really look at comments to get different perspectives on what's happening, but I rarely find actual contextualized discussion, instead usually there's just highly upvoted fearmongering and making jokes about the world ending. It would be nice if there was a place where the top response is more like "here's what this means / here's what this doesn't mean".

I generally like to know what's going on in the world, it's just this particular topic where I struggle with how it's portrayed in media. It's also not been on my mind a lot recently but with today's news I just thought I would seek out some other perspective to put these new events into context. I've also gotten a lot better over time at not letting it get to me, but I guess in your mind I have to be completely unfazed by everything before I can come back online.

I will not stop occasionally checking the news as I do now, because I do not want to completely isolate myself and become politically apathetic. Nevermind that you are in no place to tell me how often I do and should read them.

I'm not sure why you immediately jumped to calling me a "junkie", but I suspect that if that is how you feel the need to respond to my message, you aren't in a very good place either. Maybe you should take your own advice and step away from the internet for a while.

At the risk of being ridiculed, as someone with decently severe anxiety, headlines around Russia tend to unsettle me quite a bit these days. Is there any community in the fediverse akin to r/UkraineAnxiety where particularly inflammatory or dramatic-sounding news headlines are put into context and relativized? Appreciate any pointers..

I think you are misunderstanding. The state already processes your data in some ways (e.g. when you fill out online forms), and they are limiting where that data can go from there. They aren't introducing new data processing done by the state.