Think about it like this: There is an almost endless amount of stuff around us at any given moment that we could be aware of. If we factor in the things that are not actually there but we can still think about, then there are infinitely many things we could be paying attention to at any moment.

But we only have a finite amount of energy to do it. The more energy we use to think about one thing the less energy remains to think about everything else.

I wouldn’t say that we are ignoring things when we concentrate. Because to me when you ignore something you are actually aware of it but choose to ignore it. When you concentrate, you just don’t have enough energy left to be aware of other things.

I used to have this problem, too. Both when trying to fall asleep in the evening and after waking up in the middle of the night for any reason.

What really helps me is putting on an audiobook or podcast that I like but already know (this part is important because otherwise I will just listen to it for the rest of the night because I want to know what happens) and setting the volume to very low. I set the sleep timer to 15 minutes and most of the time I’m asleep way before it turns off.

I had to experiment a bit to find audiobooks that hit the sweet spot of being engaging enough to keep my mind from wandering but not so much that I can’t drift of to sleep but once I found a few, it’s been a real game changer.

I’m afraid I’m not following. The solution to what?

Edit: Sorry, I misread your comment.

Not only more readable than A and B but I would argue it’s also easier to remember who did what a few sentences or paragraphs earlier since Alice and Bob invoke slightly less generic mental images than A and B. For example one is a woman and the other one is a man, maybe even some person or character you know.

And now that I’m thinking about it, the different gender also makes it easier to keep track of who does what because different pronouns are used (at least in English and many other languages).

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I don’t think it’s rude or disrespectful to not want to see posts you don’t understand.

In theory there is an option in the settings where you can select languages (if you are using an app and can’t find it there, look with a browser). The thing is that (as I understand it) this language filter only works if a language is selected for a post. Since the language selection when creating a post is not implemented in all apps and many people don’t care, many posts are not tagged with a language and they will slip through the filter. You could deselect “Undefined” and only keep “English” but then you will probably miss a lot of English posts as well.

There was a trial against members of the NSU, a German extremist-right terrorist organisation, a few years ago and the lawyers representing them were named Sturm (storm), Heer (army) and Stahl (steel). In combination they sound like something a Nazi came up with to make them sound powerful and strong.

Yeah, idk what OP is talking about. I had a snowball fight with my brother and went sledging with my cousins a few weeks ago and in summer I regularly meet up with friends to go riding our bikes, swim in a lake or explore the woods.

I can’t believe that no one has mentioned the famous shower orange yet. On Reddit there is a whole subreddit dedicated to it.

A cold orange in the shower is perfect – it’s refreshing, it smells great and you don’t have to deal with the usual mess of eating an orange.

Once he had the answer, Arrhenius complained to his friends that he’d “wasted over a full year” doing tedious calculations by hand about “so trifling a matter” as hypothetical CO2 concentrations in far-off eras (quoted in Crawford, 1997).

Bin gerade hier nochmal drüber gestolpert und hab dein Update entdeckt. Freut mich zu lesen 💚

Das mit der schlimmen Zeit bis man es schafft auf Anrufen zu drücken fühl ich…

Blöd, dass es jetzt noch ein bisschen dauert, aber das schaffst du auch noch!

Die Bezeichnung “Dialogpost” find ich immer wieder unterhaltsam. Da findet ja nicht wirklich ein Dialog statt. Ich muss immer an dieses Meme denken, bei dem der besoffene Mann die Frau zulabert und die so aussieht als würde sie der Situation gerne entkommen, aber nicht weiß wie. Hinterher erzählt die Marketingabteilung der Mann wahrscheinlich von seinem gelungenen Annäherungsversuch, der aber einfach nur creepy und unangenehm ist.

Mir ist eine Antwort in Erinnerung geblieben, bei der psychotherapeutischen Beratungsstelle meines Studierendenwerks damals auf die Frage gegeben wurde, wer kommen kann/sollte: Wenn man mit dem Gedanken spielt, hinzugehen, dann ist man eine der Personen, die hingehen sollte.

Diese Beratungsstellen sind genau dazu da – einen aus diesem tiefsten Loch zu holen und zu helfen, einen Plan für die weitere Zukunft zu entwickeln. Bei mir hatte es sich damals um Glück mit ein paar Terminen. Aber wenn die Termine, die man da in Anspruch nehmen kann, nicht reichen, haben die ziemlich sicher auch Tipps und Ressourcen, wie man am besten weitere Unterstützung bekommt.

Ich verstehe die Prokrastination, habe auch sehr lange gebraucht, bis es hinbekommen habe, da anzurufen. Aber meine Empfehlung ist: Mach es!

Ja, meine Eltern haben sich tatsächlich auch immer sehr weiß verhalten, das macht es natürlich viel einfacher. Ihnen verdanke ich mein eigenes weißes Verhalten zu großen Teilen.

Da ich mich immer zierlich, weiblich und sehr hellhäutig verhalte, werde ich seltsamerweise nie kontrolliert. Im Gegenteil wurde ich schon mehrfach mit dem Auto angehalten, dann aber doch durchgewunken, als sie mein Verhalten besser beurteilen konnten. Vielleicht solltet ihr das einfach mal ausprobieren.

Die Polizei Berlin beteuert, polizeiliche Maßnahmen fußten „grundsätzlich nicht auf dem Aussehen, sondern auf dem Verhalten von Personen.“

Dass er als einziger in einer Gruppe von vier bis fünf Personen kontrolliert wurde, lag nicht daran, dass er schwarz ist, es lag an seinem Verhalten! Zum Beispiel hat sich seine Haut so unweiß verhalten.

I mean… she is also a lesbian woman who raises two sons with a woman from Sri Lanka, yet she is like “A far-right, racist party that favors ‘traditional families’ and has many members with questionable views on women and LGBTQ is where I feel at home.”

I don’t question her motivations anymore, I just assume they are based on hate and opportunism.

So your knowledge of Germany consists in large parts of some populist talking points and yet you jumped at the first opportunity to defend an extremely right-wing party and downplay their policies. That’s… a choice.

And skimmed right past the parts where it says they are also climate change deniers, pro-Russia, anti-Muslim, nationalistic, anti-LGBTQ, anti-feminist and this part

In early March 2021, most of Germany’s major media outlets reported that the Bundesverfassungsschutz had placed the whole AfD under surveillance as a “suspected extremist group”.

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Maybe you should scroll a bit slower next time.

The part either you or the sources you read are leaving out is that they are also anti-democratic and not just anti-Islamic terrorism but also anti-Islam. Or more precisely just generally racist.
You either read sources that fell for their bullshit downplaying self-description or you are actively trying to play down their harmful views yourself.