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19d ago
inDrove out to Cherry Springs State Park in PA and the Milky Way looked fake, like a photo someone oversharpened
The parking lot thing never fully goes away once you have seen the real sky. What makes it worse is that your brain keeps the memory of how the Milky Way looked and then compares it to the washed out gray smear above your house every night. A buddy told me to just drive an hour out when I start getting that itch, and even that tiny bit of dark helps reset things for a while. The green glow is wild though, I read later that it is oxygen up high doing its thing and that is why cameras pick it up so easy when your eyes can barely catch it. @evant48 you are right that home never feels the same, but the trick is to chase that dark when you can instead of waiting for your yard to magically get better.
28d ago
inHot take: I budgeted for groceries every month but never once checked my bank app after 8pm
Man, I did the exact same thing and what finally worked was moving my food money to a separate card that I only load on Sunday. Once that card is empty, it's empty, and I can't just keep swiping because there's nothing left to swipe. The late night thing is real, it's not a second personality, it's just that willpower runs out by 9pm and your phone knows it. I also started keeping a frozen pizza and some snacks in the house so the craving has somewhere to go besides an app. Six orders in a week adds up fast, so just cutting the access did more for me than any budget spreadsheet ever did.
29d ago
inWatched a kid at the Chicago library struggle with Scratch for 45 minutes because nobody taught him loops
Teach the idea before the blocks, since "try again" never showed him what repeating even means.