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  1. Here is why you should open your #windows whenever you can. On the left, is 2:05 PM when I’ve had the windows closed all day, the #CO2 levels in the house are high, indicating poor #ventilation. Now swipe to the right image, the levels have dropped to a third after leaving the windows open for over 2 hours, indicating excellent ventilation. High CO2 levels indoors can cause various #health issues including #tiredness, #headaches, #eye #irritation, #dizziness and/or #difficulty #concentrating, so please check your levels inside your house. I borrowed this CO2 monitor as well as an #AQI monitor from my local #library

  2. A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

    Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.
     
    [Ὄγδοον, ὅσῳ χαλεπώτερα ἐπιφέρουσιν αἱ ὀργαὶ καὶ λῦπαι αἱ ἐπὶ τοῖς τοιούτοις, ἤπερ αὐτά ἐστιν ἐφ’ οἷς ὀργιζόμεθα καὶ λυπούμεθα.]

    Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
    Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 18 (11.18) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2295…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #marcusaureliusmeditations #aggravation #anger #consequences #cost #emotions #feelings #harm #impatience #irritation #judgment #pain #provocation #risk #selfharm #selfrighteousness #sorrow #stoicism #vexation

  3. A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

    Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.
     
    [Ὄγδοον, ὅσῳ χαλεπώτερα ἐπιφέρουσιν αἱ ὀργαὶ καὶ λῦπαι αἱ ἐπὶ τοῖς τοιούτοις, ἤπερ αὐτά ἐστιν ἐφ’ οἷς ὀργιζόμεθα καὶ λυπούμεθα.]

    Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
    Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 18 (11.18) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2295…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #marcusaureliusmeditations #aggravation #anger #consequences #cost #emotions #feelings #harm #impatience #irritation #judgment #pain #provocation #risk #selfharm #selfrighteousness #sorrow #stoicism #vexation

  4. A quotation from Montesquieu

    Study has always been for me the sovereign remedy against life’s unpleasantness, since I have never experienced any sorrow that an hour’s reading did not eliminate.
     
    [L’étude a été pour moi le souverain remède contre les dégoûts de la vie, n’ayant jamais eu de chagrin qu’une heure de lecture n’ait dissipé.]

    Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
    Pensées Diverses [Assorted Thoughts], # 213 (1720-1755) [tr. Clark (2012)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/70281/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #annoyance #anxiety #coping #distraction #irritation #reading #remedy #research #study #trouble #worry

  5. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, “Pope” (1781)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/johnson-samuel/26251…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #aggravation #evil #humancondition #irritation #misery #misfortune #repetition #unhappiness #vexation #weardown

  6. A quotation from Ambrose of Milan

       To avoid dissensions we should ever be on our guard, more especially with those who drive us to argue with them, with those who vex and irritate us, and who say things likely to excite us to anger. When we find ourselves in company with quarrelsome, eccentric individuals, people who openly and unblushingly say the most shocking things, difficult to put up with, we should take refuge in silence, and the wisest plan is not to reply to people whose behavior is so preposterous.
       Those who insult us and treat us contumeliously are anxious for a spiteful and sarcastic reply: the silence we then affect disheartens them, and they cannot avoid showing their vexation; they do all they can to provoke us and to elicit a reply, but the best way to baffle them is to say nothing, refuse to argue with them, and to leave them to chew the cud of their hasty anger. This method of bringing down their pride disarms them, and shows them plainly that we slight and despise them.
     
       [Sed etiam ille cavendus; est, qui videri potest, quicumque inritat, quicumque incitat, quicumque exasperat, quicumque incentiva luxuriae aut libidinis suggerit. Quando ergo aliquis nobis convitiatur, lacessit, ad violentiam provocat, ad iurgium vocat: tunc silentium exerceamus, tunc muti fieri non erubescamus. Peccator est enim qui nos provocat, qui iniuriam facit et nos similes sui fieri desiderat.
       Denique si taceas, si dissimules, solet dicere: Quid taces? Loquere, si audes; sed non audes, mutus es, elinguem te feci. Si ergo taceas, plus rumpitur; victum sese putat, inrisum, posthabitum atque inlusum.]

    Ambrose of Milan (339-397) Roman theologian, statesman, Christian prelate, saint, Doctor of the Church [Aurelius Ambrosius]
    De Officiis Ministrorum [On the Duties of the Clergy], Book 1, ch. 5, sec. 17-18 (AD 386)

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/ambrose-saint/32739/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #stambrose #anger #argument #calumny #disdain #dismiss #goad #ignore #insult #irritation #mute #provocation #quiet #scorn #silence #vexation

  7. @parlamentsrevue @tagesschau
    #Tagesschau
    Was??
    Herrscht #Chaos? Nein.
    #Irritation? Ja.
    Hat Hr. #Merz diese Situation mit verursacht? Ja.
    Und jetzt?
    Alles geht seinen Gang!
    Im #Grundgesetz wurde so ein Fall mitgedacht. Es geht also in geordneten Bahnen weiter.
    Ich finde: Ein Hoch auf das Grundgesetz 🥳
    Und ruhig bleiben.

  8. A quotation from Joubert

    It is always our inabilities that irritate us.
     
    [Ce sont toujours nos impuissances qui nous irritent.]

    Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
    Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 5 “Des Passions et des Affections de l’Âme [On the Soul], ¶ 29 (1850 ed.) [tr. Calvert (1866)]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/joubert-joseph/76115…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bother #impotence #inability #incapacity #incompetence #ineptitude #irk #irritation #weakness #worry

  9. Jag blir så trött på att felsöka element. Vattenburen värme är jättebra, när det fungerar. Inte lika bra när man inte vet varför det inte blir varmt. Luftade element. Kollade termostater. Framledningstemperaturen på max (jajaja jag vet ... men för att kolla om det alls blir ljummet i de kalla elementen), har kollat så det är nog med vatten i elementen och rätt tryck ... Får nog bita i det sura äpplet och ringa en firma som kan sånt här. #vvs #värme #irritation

  10. Jag blir så trött på att felsöka element. Vattenburen värme är jättebra, när det fungerar. Inte lika bra när man inte vet varför det inte blir varmt. Luftade element. Kollade termostater. Framledningstemperaturen på max (jajaja jag vet ... men för att kolla om det alls blir ljummet i de kalla elementen), har kollat så det är nog med vatten i elementen och rätt tryck ... Får nog bita i det sura äpplet och ringa en firma som kan sånt här. #vvs #värme #irritation

  11. It has been one of those days. Everything that has happened today has rubbed me the wrong way. Well… maybe not everything, but most things. Why? Is it because the Bruins were shut out last night? It could be. Is it because the fucking Yankees are in the World Series? It might be.

    Here’s hoping the drive home will be a turning point. Granted I will have to stop for gas before I get home, but I am finally going to finish my JRR Tolkien deep dive/audio book re-read. Well… I listened to the Silmarilian (boy, was that rough) and about 15 minutes into tonight’s commute I will complete The Lord of the rings (much better, except for all the singing… ouch). Up next in my Audible queue is Stephen King’s new short story collection. That should be a nice palette cleanser after all the Middle Earth fantasy. I guess I should read The Hobbit too, for completeness, and anything else that Tolkien may have published that I have never read. Naw, let’s get into some King for a while.

    Once I get home the plan is to make a quick dinner for me and the love of my life. Burgers (fried on the stove) and fries (fried in the air fryer). Then we’ll sit down in the living room and enjoy a quiet night together making fun of our clinically insane cats. As per usual.

    Here’s hoping for a fun, quiet night tonight and a less stressful work day tomorrow.

    https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/10/23/irritation/

    #annoyed #audible #audiobooks #dinnerPlans #eveningPlans #irritating #irritation #LordOfTheRings #silmarilion #stephenKing #stressedOut #stressful #stressfulDay #toDoList #tolkien

  12. It has been one of those days. Everything that has happened today has rubbed me the wrong way. Well… maybe not everything, but most things. Why? Is it because the Bruins were shut out last night? It could be. Is it because the fucking Yankees are in the World Series? It might be.

    Here’s hoping the drive home will be a turning point. Granted I will have to stop for gas before I get home, but I am finally going to finish my JRR Tolkien deep dive/audio book re-read. Well… I listened to the Silmarilian (boy, was that rough) and about 15 minutes into tonight’s commute I will complete The Lord of the rings (much better, except for all the singing… ouch). Up next in my Audible queue is Stephen King’s new short story collection. That should be a nice palette cleanser after all the Middle Earth fantasy. I guess I should read The Hobbit too, for completeness, and anything else that Tolkien may have published that I have never read. Naw, let’s get into some King for a while.

    Once I get home the plan is to make a quick dinner for me and the love of my life. Burgers (fried on the stove) and fries (fried in the air fryer). Then we’ll sit down in the living room and enjoy a quiet night together making fun of our clinically insane cats. As per usual.

    Here’s hoping for a fun, quiet night tonight and a less stressful work day tomorrow.

    https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/10/23/irritation/

    #annoyed #audible #audiobooks #dinnerPlans #eveningPlans #irritating #irritation #LordOfTheRings #silmarilion #stephenKing #stressedOut #stressful #stressfulDay #toDoList #tolkien

  13. I can't be the only person alive that gets irritated by the colour/intensity of electric lights, right?

    My kids and husband love turning on the sharp overhead lights in the living room, and watching tv or chatting in that glaring, blinding hellscape. They think its funny that I always walk into the room and go around and turn on all the cosy lamps then turn off the glaring bulb-demon on the ceiling, just to achieve the ultimate hygge.

    I have tried to explain to them just how stressed some light can make me, but they think I'm being unnecessarily dramatic.

    I'm not, though. Harsh lighting sucks and is gratingly irritating to me!

    Low, warm lamp light forever!

    #light #irritation #life

  14. I can't be the only person alive that gets irritated by the colour/intensity of electric lights, right?

    My kids and husband love turning on the sharp overhead lights in the living room, and watching tv or chatting in that glaring, blinding hellscape. They think its funny that I always walk into the room and go around and turn on all the cosy lamps then turn off the glaring bulb-demon on the ceiling, just to achieve the ultimate hygge.

    I have tried to explain to them just how stressed some light can make me, but they think I'm being unnecessarily dramatic.

    I'm not, though. Harsh lighting sucks and is gratingly irritating to me!

    Low, warm lamp light forever!

    #light #irritation #life

  15. A quotation from Montesquieu, Baron de:

    «
    Study has always been for me the sovereign remedy against life’s unpleasantness, since I have never experienced any sorrow that an hour’s reading did not eliminate.
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/montesquieu/70281/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #anxiety #coping #irritation #reading #remedy #research #study #trouble #worry

  16. I was born to live #naked.

    Anything touching my skin or the scant hair on it becomes an irritant that makes me #itch, as if being poked by fine needles. Even parts of my #skin not continually being touched by clothing itch. Even after a shower! I think the #irritation is always there, but it accumulates to a scream - an itch - intermittently. I must #scratch an itch somewhere dozens of times a day, especially my back about a half dozen times... with the business end of a small garden rake.

  17. As my timeline is overflowing again with supposedly #artist statements on how they fear #AI would supersede them.
    Do you really value your own work that low? Is it so
    #generic that an AI could replace you anytime? If that truly and actually is the case, probably #arts aren't the right thing for you ​:trollface:​

    But seriously, people that
    #fearmonger over AI replacing artists seem to neither understand how AI works, nor creative processes.
    What we call AI has nothing to do with
    #creativity, let alone intelligence or smartness. It just "knows" how certain colours and colour combinations are preferred, how certain word combinations get more positive or more negative feedback etc. Because some person or algorithm put those values in its database. Basically anything that can be evaluated by number values of sorts. It does not understand how and why, it only "knows", because it's trained for that.

    Actual creative processes on the other hand aren't really about the result itself. They're literally about the process, about putting your
    #emotions into your work, for the better or worse, thinking about and feeling what you want to express, not about what may be pleasing to others, that's just a convenient byproduct more often than not.
    And there'll always be people that are able to distinguish between a piece of art with blood, sweat, and tears of the creator and something that is generated for the sole purpose of pleasing people. I personally don't mind the latter being created by a machine and I'll also happily consume it if it triggers the right things for me, but that is what at best probably could be classified as
    #craftsmanship, the implementation of rules and techniques, not #art.

    One very widely accepted definition of art is
    #irritation, the (more or less) deliberate violation of #conventions and #rules while conforming to others. A machine - per definition - cannot do that. It has to be made a rule to break a specific rule, which leads the whole concept of rule-breaking ad absurdum, PLUS it skips the whole creative process.
    The one thing AI
    can take away from artists is a(n easy) way to generate #funds for making art. This indeed is something that should IMO be up for debate on a broad basis as I don't see any easy or immediate solution to that but it likely has to be addressed by society as a whole.

    TL;DR: A machine cannot create or replace art. These claims are just nonsense.

  18. @tweiss @hipsterl0s @bibliothekarin Die museale Kraft der B. ist stark in jedem*jedi ... ... was ihr beschreibt mit euern Ansagen ist die didaktische Kraft oder 'Macht der #Irritation'. Vielleicht fehlt zuweilen noch die in unseren Häusern!?

  19. @tweiss @hipsterl0s @bibliothekarin Die museale Kraft der B. ist stark in jedem*jedi ... ... was ihr beschreibt mit euern Ansagen ist die didaktische Kraft oder 'Macht der #Irritation'. Vielleicht fehlt zuweilen noch die in unseren Häusern!?

  20. A quotation from Jung, Carl:

    «
    Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/jung-carl/39693/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #irritation #meme #others #perspective #selfawareness #selfunderstanding

  21. #Einkauf
    #Irritation

    Ich war heute in einem kleinen Supermarkt. Im Kassenbereich, bei der Impulsware gab es diese Kaugummis.

  22. Hej! Behöver hjälp!! Jag sitter på windows på jobbet och har en irriterande inställning som jag inte vet var kan ändra den. Varje gång jag hämtar en pdf fil så öppnas den i Adobe automatiskt. Laddar jag mao ner många filer så öppnas adobe varje gång!!!!!!!!

    Hur ändrar jag det?
    #adobe #inställning #irritation

  23. CW: Kvetch

    new to me problem, cannot remove the rubber lens cap (on the camera side) of a lens I haven't used in a few years. I've even tried a vise grip (with a cloth on the lens). Jeezus

    #photography #lens #lomo #irritation