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[–] doingless 39 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Prepare for getting up early by staying up all night a couple of times in a row. Sleeping early will be easier and waking up early will seem natural.

I work crazy shifts in all hours and it's impossible to go backwards. Go forward.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So you recommend staying awake for 48+ hours just to adjust to waking up a few hours earlier? Sounds like a great way of getting a heart attack.

[–] doingless 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I should have been more specific and/or not assumed people wouldn't take me quite so literally. Just staying up until the following time you need to go to bed will do it. Or catch a power nap but don't let yourself have a good long sleep until you can do it at an appropriate time. Within a couple of days you'll be ready to sleep at the right time.

I have stayed up a little over 72 hours once, I do not recommend. I slept a little over 24 hours straight at the end of it. But I got an A- on that term paper.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This sorta worked for me in my teens and early twenties, but not anymore. Now I get so out of whack from just one night up that I'm unable to concentrate on anything at all and just sit and scroll random websites the whole day without actually taking anything in, then I fall asleep at 9pm and sleep till 2pm the next day and feel like absolute shit the next couple of days.

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[–] LaunchesKayaks 39 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Had to get surgery on October to fix a severely broken ankle. My sleep schedule was absolute dog shit for months because I would stay up all night watching weird vids to distract from the pain I was in. It was the worst.

[–] Dud 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Man I remember for like a month after my motorcycle accident I didn't so much as sleep as randomly pass out sitting up throughout the day. That was a nightmare of a sleep schedule. Especially waking up and having to get upright to go pee.

[–] LaunchesKayaks 5 points 10 months ago

I feel into so many microsleeps. It was the worst. Getting up to piss was also bad because I had a gigantic cast on.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Fun fact: Camping is a great way to reset your circadian rhythm.

[–] Anticorp 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't work in the winter if you're in the northern part of the world, since the sun doesn't come up until 9 am.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Or in even norther part of the world in summer where that bright bastard starts blasting at 4 in the morning.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

That's the part many who don't live here forget. Sure it's dark and gloomy, during winter. During summer it's light out almost constantly

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Or the Sun decides never to set or never raise at all.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Though it takes a couple days to comfortably sleep the night so gotta factor that in.

[–] HexesofVexes 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If your body clock leans towards staying up at night I have some very bad news - you're going to spend a lot of your life tired and drained!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Main reason that I work nights. If only society adopted my schedule, I'd have it made

[–] kameecoding 5 points 10 months ago

the good thing for me is that I am self-employed so I can do my work whenever, the issue is stuff like the doctos, like getting up at 6 am so you can have your blood drawn at 7 am and stuff like that is just fucked.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Hey, that's me.

[–] blackjam_alex 21 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] cafuneandchill 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

Well, the "Independent Fact Checkers" claim that South American gnomes don't exist... I think they're trying to cover something up. Anyone want to book tickets with me so that we can see for ourselves?

[–] Crack0n7uesday 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I made this mistake with that Australian guy did that two hour video where he went to South America to do a documentary about hidden land mine fields set up by drug cartels... All the land mines were built in the USA, it was fucked up. He went hard, like how come these drug cartels have US military land mines?

[–] Thrashy 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If I had to hazard a guess, I would say they were probably provided to a friendly military dictatorship and/or right wing paramilitary during the era of peak CIA fuckery in Latin America, and from there either were transferred to the cartels via good old fashioned corruption, or got lifted from military stores during the inevitable unrest that happened when said dictatorship collapsed.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

GNOME has forever ruined how I want to pronounce "gnome."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What?! They are said differently?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Guh-nome for the software. It's a play on how GNU is guh-noo, which is a play on the pronunciation of the animal called gnu to differentiate it. This is what happens when you let software developers name things. I would know, being a software developer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I never even noticed, because it's g-nome and g-noo in german xD Also took me a while to notice the K in Mortal Kombat

[–] toynbee 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] SkippingRelax 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Not a native speaker so I might not get the pronunciation 100% but.. is the gnome an animal?

[–] jerrythegenius 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not quite sure what you're meaning, but I don't know of any animal gnomes. The three gnomes I can think of are:

  • Gnome, a mythical creature from renaissance alchemy

  • garden gnome, a sort a garden ornament

  • GNOME, a unix desktop environment

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[–] AngryCommieKender 3 points 10 months ago

Wait, the animal isn't pronounced Guh-new? THE MUPPETS ARE LIARS AND THIEVES!!!!!!

https://youtu.be/cGVdCGxh1IY?si=TVZRAWjRxedgn7WA

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[–] werefreeatlast 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

According to Google news, if you leave gnomes in your garden you are probably signaling others that you are a swinger. So I went to my sister in laws Christmas party and they had gnomes. My wife said no. I mean she's hot. But my wife said no.

[–] Mamertine 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

First no plastic flamingos, then no pineapples, now no gnomes!

What's the world coming to?

I just want kitschy stuff in my yard without people trying to bang me!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Apparently you can't wear black rings or have tattoos of card suites either. Which is funny, considering black rings could also signify that you're asexual.

I don't think anybody knows.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I feel this in my sleepy eyelids

Why must life be so cruel, if we all had a super power to choose from, Id choose narcolepsy

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[–] CptEnder 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

But every now and then your sleep schedule becomes so messed up you come full circle and wake up at your normal time (definitely not me right now).

[–] Anticorp 9 points 10 months ago

Thanks for posting this! I thought I was alone in this struggle.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Gnomes, you say? There goes my night.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

You can't post this and not link to some of the best south American gnome sighting videos.

[–] Sir_Simon_Spamalot 5 points 10 months ago

Sorry, I'm more of an XFCE kind of person.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Goblin videos are great too.

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