No, that's not meaningless, I've tracked my time and turned out I've spent much more time than I thought on one website that only made me angry, I've blocked it and saved myself hour a day and don't miss the website at all. So yeah, from my experience tracking can be very useful and meaningful.
efficiency is for machines
if your grinding when you have to, then it makes no difference what when where, and how much you put into unwinding
anger is good, if it's not disfunctional, and directed at actual bad things that effect you now, anger is your signal to, grind, right through the objectionable thing, if its remote like the web page, then any amount of effort is waste, and self harm
so grind, or luxurate in the knowledge that, whew!
no more grind power left just now
timing is for refining your thing, and streamlineing, but if you got no thing
grind
it's meaningless to optimise, treading water, especialy when there is a beach resort that you can see and hear
I would reverse the whole thing and say that if you were to time your very best moments of work, or creativity, you will find them to be shockingly brief, and remembering the specific conditions that led to those moments, is the thing to focus on and foster.
baring that
grind
Ukraine already surrendered chunk of its territory few years ago. You think this time it will be different and Russia won't try to take Ukraine again once it rebuilds its military potential?
No of course I don't. Russia will certainly try again. Ukraine is absolutely right to not want to do this! I'm just pointing out what Trump's motivation is.
The difference is that in the future (assuming the mineral deal goes through), there would be US citizens operating mineral franchises on Ukrainian territory. So if Russia harmed them in the future, we would be drawn into an actual war.
There were US citizens and businesses in Ukraine last time. Russia will just go around them like they did then. Having some US businesses will provide zero protection.
Assuming mining those minerals would actually make economic and strategic sense for US companies, considering significant long-term investments require stability. And that a significant US workforce would even be required for that. And that the US administration doesn't just make a bargain with Putin about leaving these mining operations alone while doing whatever the fuck else they want.
Could Ukraine maneuver around Trump by instead signing a minerals deal with UK+EU? Better to give the $600b (optimistically) to friendly allies. The problem is UK+EU does not have equivalent defense contractors. US gets what it wants as well, by disconnecting from the conflict.
> Name one American who would volunteer to fight because a Thai ship got attacked by Yemeni rebels while travelling through an Ethiopian straight to an Egyptian canal.
Apparently, the entire US Navy was okay with that volunteer assignment.
> Even Donald Trump now admits that stalling NATO expansion and not treating Russian security concerns with utter contempt could have prevented this.
Even person who panders to Putin repeat bullshit Russian propaganda? How surprising. The NATO expansion excuse is just ignorant talking point. Russian imperialism is the very reason why every neighbour of Russia (apart from the ones that are it's puppet states) want to be in NATO, not the other way around.
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