Middle-Eastern Orthodox Christians celebrate a festival called Eid il-Burbara (Saint Barbra's festival) on the 4th of December, which has lots of similarities to Halloween and trick-or-treating but has been celebrated a lot longer than Halloween [0]
I wonder if this tradition influenced Halloween in any way
Note: my family are Orthodox Christians from Jordan, but we celebrate this festival slightly differently than what is described in [0], but I know predominantly some Christian towns celebrate it as the article describes even today
And his manner of speaking is an inspiration for the iconic voice of SHODAN from System Shock, though SHODAN removes all the comedy and dials up the terror to 11
> To me, a good cover letter is about being actually motivated to apply to a specific job and then simply explaining why.
Money. I want money. That's the reason I am applying to your job offer. I found a job offer that meets my skillset and I applied to it because I want an income.
But this isn't what you expect me to write, is it? You want something more, so I'm going to bullshit you so I can get the job that will allow me to get money
Have you tried doing it over a long period of time? I found that my mood and general well-being only started to improve a week after consistently sleeping 8 hours. The effect wasn't instant, and in fact, when I sleep 8 hours after a few days of only sleeping a few hours, I notice that I wake up feeling horrible and very tired
I recently started sleeping more and the changes in my life have been unbelievable
I am
- procrastinating less
- having less headaches
- coming up with more creative solutions at work
- being more attentive and present in social interactions
- ACTUALLY FEELING HAPPY AGAIN
I don't know how much of this is placebo, but ever since the corona lockdown started here in Germany, my sleep has been completely messed up.
For the last two years, I felt like a zombie, like I was kinda living my life but not really there.
I came to a point where I said to myself "I can't remember the last time I was actually happy or enjoyed anything".
So I've been trying to take better care of my health and fitness overall, and sleeping better is one of the thibgs I started doing
I don't mind de-anonymizing as much as my ID getting leaked and having my identity stolen because some social media service doesn't follow proper security practices
Facebook has already been found to be storing passwords in plaintext [0]
How can you trust them, or any other social media for that matter?
Even if they do everything right, you are increasing the chance of giving your id to s service is that will get hacked by just giving it to more services
Even though I played many games in the 2000s, I actually never played Runescape, even though it sounds like something teenage me would have absolutely loved. I feel like I really missed out on a part of many people's childhoods
One of my favourite albums of all time ("Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls" by Coven, released 1969) was very recently taken off of streaming platforms
I don't know the reason it was removed but it was like a I was pinched and realised how little control I have over my favourite music.
The album is still on YouTube but I don't know for how long.
I bought the vinyl, even though i currently don't have a record player but plan to get one
I have to start preserving DRM free or physical copies of media I like. I always knew there was a risk of stuff being removed but always put off thinking about it for convenience, but not anymore
Idk how secure this is, but my iPhone is protected with Face ID and a 16-character long password with a mix of upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols.
The password itself was generated randomly and I managed to memorise it (it took a while).
I wonder if this tradition influenced Halloween in any way
Note: my family are Orthodox Christians from Jordan, but we celebrate this festival slightly differently than what is described in [0], but I know predominantly some Christian towns celebrate it as the article describes even today
0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_il-Burbara