Not exactly what you’re asking for, but it felt really small world to me.

I saw Anthony Bourdain on TV review a Bánh Mì restaurant in Vietnam and told myself I would eat there someday. Went to Vietnam, pretty much the first time I traveled ever. Went to the Banh Mí place. It was at night, there was a very long queue to get in, I waited in line and ordered. At the counter and on the walls, multiple snippets of newspapers and pictures of Bourdain with the staff and chefs. I sat down with my food, and as I started eating, I received a notification on my cellphone from my local news network at the other side of the world : Bourdain just killed himself.

It felt very surreal. I was looking at all these pictures with the feeling I knew something all these people didn’t yet.

Oh I complety agree with everything you said, I’m just fascinated by the disparity in ability between people about this.

Acquiescing while reading this, having never contributed to a project of any size and thinking I’m hot shit for having climbed to 4 kyu in Python on Codewars.

Yeah some people must have different levels of face blindness or something, this is all uncanny valley for some other people.

Doing things right the first time is certainly a tip I’ll keep in mind. They probably would do a better job than me though, they are retirees having pretty much only cleaning and gardening as hobbies. And I’m not the best at both. Compared to my friends, I clean a lot, but compared to my close family, we’re not in the same leagues. They are “dusting-the-fire-alarm” people.

You know what, didn’t really think about this. I thought if I had to have professional help, it’d have to be a regular thing and it’s not in my budget, but I’ll look for that kind of service. I won’t be able to tell my folks about it, but they won’t know!

Yeah, thanks for that. I feel like I have a pretty high standard of cleanliness, after all I grew up with my parents, who are very nitpicky about it, but I never tell anyone I’m visiting that there is any problem with their own cleaning. Everyone has a life and their own responsibilities. I just wanted to see where the bar was for people.

Wow okay, must have been a really big house lol

Yeah, pretty much the same boat. Honestly I don’t really want to invite them anymore because of it, but I can’t shut my parents off. Maybe I could groom the cats ahead of holiday season lol.

I’d be curious about the grouping you do. I usually do the tidying before the rest what do you mean with cleaning at the same time?

Lol yeah, I only have two but wow is it hard to get every hair. I have a very dark couch in the basement, the textile on it makes it impossible to remove hair, I tried with sticky rollers and the red brush without success.

? I don’t understand your comment, but thanks anyway.

I get that. What is difficult for me is that I am the person in my family living closest to everyone. Plus, my parents, who are getting older, don’t want to host anymore. I therefore became the de facto host without wanting to be one. But my family have such a high standard of cleaning that I find it difficult to have them over. For example, yesterday, they teased me about the fact that my bedside table was messy, in my own bedroom. I’m tired.

This one cuts deep. We live in a carnist world for now and it permeates almost everything without people really noticing.

I love the implication that they found a cure for their own invention

I think they really meant no crying tears, because we had the bottle with French on it and it said “pas de larmes” :

They’re not together anymore, wonder why lol

Except for all the American Armed Forces stuff

I’m in the same boat. I subscribed to the lowest tier of his Patreon to stop feeling guilty : https://www.patreon.com/projectfarm

Do you have any need to backup things on a mobile phone? What do you use if so? I’m trying to make everything simpler and I already use rsync on my desktop.