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There's something that happens to your brain when you get lots of money it seems.

Sam Bankman-Fried the disgraced crypto entrepreneur was an effective altruist with a few of his coworkers and their goal was helping people. I was reading up on them and it was initially about feeding people and earning money to give to others. When they started getting more and more money they were like: "what if there's a zombie outbreak?" Obviously, we're really smart and society needs people like us to survive so we should be spending money on private islands and having our own country to make sure we can keep humanity going or some shit. It was weird.

Despite what anything thinks about Bill Burr now ... I think he had a really good point about these "end of the world" catastrophes -- I simply don't want to be alive for any of them. I don't wanna be scrounging around the remnants of humanity with a dying ecosystem and dwindling human race.

I like it when John Oliver was talking about how shit Ivanka is and said something like, "it looks like the apple doesn't fall far from the orange"

oh thank goodness ...

I'm so tired of eating at Harvey's ... and Mary Brown's is too far!

I haven't used Amazon in such a long time but I figured they would have made it better with LLMs and stuff.

I think it was the Roast of Kevin Hart where those bitch-ass comedians (especially Tony Hinchcliffe) that made George Floyd jokes.

Comedians said, "well, we laughed at Charlie Kirk jokes so we should be cool with George Floyd jokes."

Charlie Kirk is a shock jock saying and doing provocative shit in his day-to-day spreading hate. Whether he deserved to die is one thing but he was in the public sphere in a hateful and controversial context. George Floyd was just some random dude -- living his day-to-day and was murdered. He didn't want to enter any public sphere. Tony is also a right-wing piece of shit so it's not like he's being tongue-in-cheek about his jokes. He openly hates George Floyd.

MAGA or right-wingers also went through George's past and claimed his drugs is what killed him and then openly mocked him after his death by putting knees on each other's necks lightly and shared photos of it online.

He was just a fucking man trying to live.

what's funny is that I built that into my routine and I try to have conversations during family get-togethers

My parents seem to have broken that routine when smartphones came about will check their phone at the dinner table ... my brother just has Reddit out all the time and scrolls if he feels the slightest bit bored. His kids are watching YouTube on the TV but they like talking ... but he doesn't feel the need to engage. His wife doesn't seem to be all that engaged. Could be either due to him being on his phone all the time or doesn't have much to say ...

You're not talking to shareholders. You're talking to the next generation. Why would they be happy about being replaced....

What about if you had to train your overseas replacement?

You know how much Blippi, Wiggles, Brain rot Minecraft/Roblox, Ryan's World I had to go through before we finally watched some Bluey?

Oh my goodness, Bluey is actually good too, it's wild.

Especially given that it's easier to fix this planet than to terraform the Moon or Mars.

Just imagine a to-do list board.

You have items in the to-do column, in progress column and then finished column.

I think it was originated in Japan and was popularised in manufacturing but then gained even more adoption in the software world.

It's a very simple concept and seems unnecessary but it can help at times and can hack your brain a bit to get work done. Many people combine it with the Pomodoro technique where you block off uninterrupted work for 25 minutes or so and then giving yourself a 5 or 10 minute break to check emails or phone and then going back.

When I was unemployed and wanted to skill up. I did a weekly targeted kanban board. I put things like read a 2 chapters, go for a walk, watch a video ... apply for a job, and I'd would reset and review it at the end of the week.