#patience — Public Fediverse posts

Fiona Apple — I know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBiR2SR8Okc

But all the time, all the time
I'll know, I'll know...

#FionaApple #IKnow #Ballad #Music #Patience #Understanding

#Thai #patience wears thin with #badtourists
"they want to give Thais a platform to air their #frustrations rather than target foreigners as a whole.. #socialmedia has seen growing # of reports of #confrontations btw Thai business owners & foreigners, some of whom hv been identified/described online as #tourists fr #Israel & #China.. widely circulated case involves an #Israeli man who allegedly offered a THB0.5m bounty on te owner of a petting zoo"
💡Takes a lot to rile 🇹🇭s
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thai-patience-wears-thin-as-backlash-against-bad-tourists-grows

"Often, entrepreneurs forget that they don't work for Milton Friedman."

#entrepreneur #intrepreneur #patience

https://seths.blog/2026/08/the-magic-of-a-two-year-waitlist/

The Forgotten Rational of Self-Checkout in Shops

A few days ago I saw someone say that they will never use self-checkout because they don’t want to do someone else’s job, and they want to be paid for the act, if they were to self-checkout. In New York, recently, there was talk of a ten percent discount for people who checkout by themselves, rather than use a cash register.

For me, the beauty of self-checkout is that the time you spend in food shops is finding the food and other things, and then within thirty seconds paying for everything without queuing. At Décathlon as well self-checkout works extremely well. You pick up some stuff, dump it in the “bin” and it recognises the RFID codes, and shows how much you owe. Within a few more seconds you’ve paid, and you can leave. The more you do it the more fluid the action becomes.

In contrast, in the bad old days we would go to the shops, and we would queue, and queue and queue. We’d wait for people to empty their trolley, the cashier to scan everything, and then wait for people to put everything back into the trolley. They would then pay with cash, or cheques, and then the next person would start the process.

The result, if you were a fast shopper is that you would spend more time at the cash register, waiting to pay, than shopping. It also meant that you needed a team of cashiers to sit for hours, and beg for a toilet break.

In contrast, today, with Passabene and/or RFID we go, we shop, we scan everything as we go, and then we get to the self-check-out, scan the code, wait, and then pay. If we need help we can ask for it, but if we don’t, then staff are free to do other tasks. They’re free to chat with friends, re-fill shelves and more.

For me, a key freedom that self-checkout gives to shop staff, is that they can walk around during the entire day, rather than sitting in a chair, at a desk. I use desk, rather than cash register to make a point.

If we spend the day sitting at a desk or editing suite we think that we’d love to be standing, in the real world, doing camera work, or something that involves not being trapped by a machine.

Self-checkout, although it changes the job landscape, improves the quality of life. People that might have spent ten years sitting at a cash register are now free to stand all day long, and talk with friends, rather than sit, bored, waiting for customers, especially on weekday mornings when the shops are quiet.

With self-checkout, especially with Passabene and similar systems, and with RFID tags we spend time shopping, but checking out takes seconds.

Self-checkout gives people, who want to socialise with those that work in shops more time to talk, between interruptions, than if everyone was queueing to have their trolleys emptied, scanned, told how much they owe, find the correct change, pay, and then finish filling their trolley. Shopping is now efficient.

And Finally, if you think you need a ten percent discount, or you need to be paid to do the “work”, it’s worth remembering that over time we’re saving hours, and our hourly worth quickly makes self-checkout good financial sense. We don’t lose five to ten minutes per shopping trip waiting to pay anymore. With the Migros self-checkout app we can pay as soon as we pick up the last item and walk out. That does feel tremendously weird.

Psychologically I like to scan the QR code, pay at the till, and then walk out. It feels too much like shoplifting when I don’t. To be clear, I pay via the phone app but psychologically I’m not used to this behaviour yet. I like for cashiers to see me pay.

Books train patience.
No books, short fuse.
#Reading #Patience #Focus

Slow and steady. #travel #patience #rest #bikepacking #wanderbeast https://youtube.com/shorts/VrUt5ayRxMc

Given that these meds are prescribed for OCD, this blister pack layout is just cruel.

Maybe it's to check if they're actually helping at all?

#Medicine #OCD #Prescription #Patience #Patients

https://www.amonines.com/en/event/meaningful-living/

#PurposefulLiving
#Meaningfulliving
#TheEssenceOfMeditation
#Meditation
#Contemplation
#Reflection
#SoulJourney
#SelfInsight
#Essence
#SpiritualBeing
#MeditationJourney
#ConsciousLiving
#Mindfulness
#Gratitude
#Patience
#SafeSpace
#Growth

"If you say that the giant metal spider from Wild Wild West isn't going to be the future of anything due to its massive, unsustainable costs, or suggest that its inconsistencies make it unreliable in some way, you're told you're a doomer, a skeptic, a luddite and a rube."

#ai #progress #patience #emperorfashion

https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-slowing-down/

three summer’s heap of

three summer’s heap of 
patience and a cool leap of 
faith, twenty peaches 

in our new york city courtyard
in the middle of august 
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Faith

I 
sit here 
waiting
on a balcony 
suspended
above it 
all.

I 
came out 
here 
for some 
quiet 
time.

I 
accidentally 
locked the 
door 
so I 
cannot 
get back 
in.

But I 
have faith 
that someone 
will come
to let me 
back 
in.

And 
she 
does.

O 
for the 
same 
attitude 
of peaceful 
waiting 
with 
regards to 
the One 
who 
opens 
the doors 
in my 
life.

August 18, 2015

Glitch

flights are grounded
my wings are clipped
i need to wait a little
longer to start this trip

my future connection
could be in jeopardy
it might be a while
before we're set free

the whims of the divine
are all part of the plan
my life's trajectory is
not in my hands

so i will wait patiently
for the Control Tower's nod
and match my flight to the wind of an all-knowing God

August 15, 2015

Pacing forward. #travel #bikepacking #patience #progress #wanderbeast https://youtube.com/shorts/ifUE1UOUoCw

Pace

Often I find myself stuck
between the slow
and the fast,
fitting into neither,
stumbling,
never finding
a comfortable
pace.

I am impatient 
with those ahead of me, 
whose slow progress 
impedes my attempts 
to reach my destination.

I am angry at those 
pushing me from behind, 
so concerned with 
reaching their goal 
that I am just another 
obstacle in their way.

I must remember 
that at times I have 
been both.

It is the engine within, 
not the speed of those 
I encounter on the road, 
that drives me to anger 
and impatience.

O Divine Driver,
 Grant that I might have a
 more compassionate
 awareness on this
 journey.

August 2, 2015

Have you ever thought about honing patience as an honest personal virtue? If so, getting into growing plants from seed can help you to achieve that goal 😁💚

#Gardening #Patience #GrowFromSeed

Why Muscle Growth Requires Patience with the Same Program 🗓️

Muscle growth rewards the person who can stay consistent long enough for small improvements to accumulate.

You don’t need dramatic progress every week you need enough patience to keep building on what you did last week.

#musclegrowth #patience #consistency #progressiveoverload #onlinecoach

Gallery Solitaire is now fully playable in the browser (p5.js), no app install needed. A round takes about 2 minutes, but needs real thought — and after each game you see exactly how much better than random blind-clicking you actually played. Instant feedback on your own skill level. Free, open source. https://gallery.mapresso.com/play/ #solitaire #patience #indiegame #p5js

Koi Pond

Fins glide beneath glass

Surface breaks and scales scatter

Empty beak retreats

Words and images by Michael J. Hall

"Learning patience can be a difficult experience, but once conquered, you will find life is easier." ~Catherine Pulsifer

#Patience #CatherinePulsifer #LifeLessons #PersonalGrowth #InnerStrength #Mindfulness #SelfImprovement #Quotes #ShareInspireQuotes

What’s a skill you consider basic, that most people don’t actually know how to do?

I was overthinking today so thanks for the brainy question,👇👇

https://kddotpage.wordpress.com/2026/06/18/if-you-could-instantly-master-any-skill-what-would-it-be-and-why/

https://kddotpage.wordpress.com/2026/06/18/investing-physically-mentally-intellectually-and-spiritually-and-all-the-good-lys%f0%9f%a4%a3/

https://kddotpage.wordpress.com/2026/06/09/what-are-the-most-important-things-needed-to-live-a-good-life/

https://kddotpage.wordpress.com/2026/03/24/whats-a-secret-skill-or-ability-you-have-or-wish-you-had/

https://kddotpage.wordpress.com/2024/11/14/living-with-spasticity-has-taught-me/

Bon apetit!

Playing strategic. #patience #travel #motivation #selfcare #wanderbeast https://youtube.com/shorts/bJy-X_qguXM

Patience isn't waiting without action. It's working every day while trusting the results will come.
#Patience #Consistency #Success

It’s in the Blood

In 1539, a fugitive former-priest-turned-Anabaptist, in his seminal work “The Foundation,” penned the following words:

“Christ is our fortress; patience our weapon of defense; the Word of God our sword. …Iron and metal spears and swords we leave to those who, alas, regard human blood and swine’s blood of well-nigh equal value.”

So said Menno Simons, principal leader of the Protestant sect which then became known as the Mennonites.

More than 500 years later, his words still resound with a mighty truth.

At the risk of sounding morbid, it has to do with blood.

While Menno specifically refers to the difference between human blood and that of an animal, his larger point is the “value” we place on the blood of another.

My point is quite simple.

Killing will not end through education, conflict resolution, or disarmament, though all of these are important and can help. Killing will end only when there is a fundamental shift in the mind and heart of those who kill.

For how can you kill someone if you believe that their blood is just as valuable as your own?

Let’s call it – for lack of a better term – bloodism.

The other – their humanity, life, blood – is somehow less than I, and therefore, their humanity, life, blood, is not as valuable as my own. It becomes quite easy then to justify killing the other, ie. spilling his/her blood.

The directors of death throughout history from every nation, tribe and religion have understood and disseminated this concept quite well. A person (and those like him/her) is described as having the wrong beliefs, the wrong skin color, the wrong gender, the wrong age, the wrong station in life, the wrong land, the wrong possessions, the wrong clothing, the wrong language —- the wrong blood. These others are not as valued as you are, the leaders of the macabre scream, though they couch their speech in terms such as vigilance, freedom, history, security, and truth.

Then the killing begins.

The Nazis did it to the Jews. Israelis do it to the Palestinians. Hutus did it to the Tutsis. Shiite do it to the Sunni. Palestinians do it to the Israelis. Sunni do it to the Shiite. Muslims do it to the Christians. Christians do it to the Muslims. This country does it to that country. That neighborhood does it to this neighborhood. This race does it to that race. That religion does it to this religion.

And any one of a million other combinations.

STOP!

Do not allow your mind and heart to be filled with bloodism.

We are made in the image of God.

ALL of us.

And that divine DNA resides in the very marrow of our bones and flows through our veins.

It’s in the blood.

July 28, 2014

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨: #WebGPU #tutorial unleashes #a deluge of incomprehensible #jargon, perfect for those with #infinite #patience and zero social life 🤯. Thrill to the excitement of "arcball camera" and "depth testing" as you question your life choices. But hey, at least you'll learn to #draw a triangle! 🎨🎉
https://shi-yan.github.io/webgpuunleashed/ #Arcball #Camera #Depth #Testing #Triangle #HackerNews #ngated

The Silver Strand

returning 
to the car 
i see
a silver strand 
intent on 
capturing me
 
i was gone 
but a moment 
yet the spider 
did spin
from the mirror 
across the window 
to lure 
me in
 
it seems 
this small one 
dreams of 
bigger prey
so too I 
if to my path 
I stay

this bit 
of web 
is a 
flimsy thing
but if 
I cast 
it not
i snare 
nothing

July 2, 2016