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Movies were never about meritocracy, but somehow every now and then through competition or the stars aligning, something good came out of it.

The formula was changed, forcefully. It's very openly not about 'good' anymore, since that would be oppressive, racist and sexist. 'good' is also expensive.

Enjoy the culture that was. We will never reach the same heights. It will all die off now, deservedly. The people responsible will blame the originators of 'good', turning their shame of the comparison not into growth, as mentally well people would, but digging their heels in even further, as they have always done since, oh, let's say 1867.

> Killing them feels much more like payback

I'm sure many find that it didn't feel like it at all, because of my argumentation. Payback will always be incomplete. It can never be paid in full.

Even if you kill someone over and over again (some Sci-Fi comes to mind), the perp always took the first step and elevated his role in society unjustly.

You can never 'match' the crime. Even if you go justicing around 'an eye for an eye' style, the perp will always have taken the initiative. You can never get that back. Everything you do is just a reaction.

That is what makes crime so heinous.

So your focus should be prevention at any cost first and foremost, then justice as prevention (= rehabilitation) as well. Murdering a murderer is pretty solid prevention though, I give you that.

I knew this was coming, but those ads are not the feeling based, narcissism invoking ads of today.

Neurotic journalists who don't build anything ever, much less sell it.

"OMG, this still runs on COBOL? haha"

Yes.

It is an ad. It worked. Don't expect a car advertisement to teach you how an engine actually works.

This is Lisa Bronner of Dr. Bronners which I used as a starting point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItLCBz6JdQI

There is also a girl who hasn't used any plastic for years and makes everything herself including beauty products:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuABgFsv5pw

Lots on Youtube in general. Again, I do it because I needed to, I don't want to preach or shame.

My parents consciously moved away from the city and big roads to have their kids.

Which I reversed in my infinite 20 something wisdom.

If you ever experience a skin condition that seemingly won't go away and is surprisingly painful, you'll get hip to the scam that are cleaning products quite quickly.

They can all be made at home, with 3 or 4 ingredients. The supplies will last a lifetime and you don't produce any non recyclable plastic bottles (another scam!).

>Due to ageism I am sure I don't fit the culture of a startup or relate to 20 somethings.

Whatever you believe, your brain, like a sentry, will find confirmation for. Be careful with that.

Thats why I invite them to a live bridge building session over zoom!

People lie.

Drug addicts claim to spent 1000s a day on their habit. They don't, but it makes their loss and frowned upon habit seem less so, "I'd be a rich, upstanding citizen if it weren't for this one thing!", with perhaps the added causality chain of -> "this isn't a big hurdle to overcome" and -> "I can stop whenever I want to".

Same with work. Working is likely a negative experience for a lot of people, so anything that frames it to be less so, is memed. "Well this was exhausting, but I was so productive! I worked like what 80? 90? hours this week?", when in reality much of that time was typing long winded comments like this one.

The real magic of the "4 hour workweek" and similar books isn't finding the one idea that makes it possible, but to make working enjoyable. That seems to happen automatically with a shorter workweek (Kelloggs, Microsoft Japan) but you can get there with a regular job and being honest about productivity and I say that as somebody who thought it was impossible with a 40 hour workweek. I now do that and have a lot of energy to spare in the evenings.

The banner is moving (thus moving the whole text below it) and loads after ~a sec. I don't give money to people who intentionally try really hard to annoy me.

Japanese people take in 1000 kcal less than their American peers.[1] Daily!

That is, pardon the pun, huge. It would be nice to get some more recent data and to adjust for height.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_food_ener...

Notice how your mood changed by just thinking differently. This can be done with anything. Its not the event(e) that makes us feel, its the callback(us).

How do you get to focus in the afternoon? I can focus in the morning until maybe 3, then there's no juice left.

So I do the opposite and block until then. It often has the benefit of clearing up whatever the people who were swiss cheesing my calendar "urgently"/"executively" needed to talk about.

You would like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Insurrection

Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach, administrate.

In areas of the USA with the average temperatures of Finland there isn't much (any?) homelessness either.

Biggest hurdle is finding stuff outside of Amazon. People are used to it and Google results are gamed from every possible angle. Even searching for [item] made in [country] yielded nothing for me, because the SEO gap is too huge.

Turns out attracting massive traffic and then acting as a platform works all too well.

So 1. make another platform specifically for off Amazon stuff or 2. specialize for SEO for small companies.

The consolidation of the Web into FAANG needs to end.

>Yet, the Bob from software can write a sloppy spec and Alice from hardware can not care about the spec being sloppy.

Ehhh, you have not been long in industry, have you? :)

And that's why you get everything in writing and doubly signed off from all parties involved. Even telling people directly, to their face, with witnesses, does not work. Checklists for the departments does however.

It's throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Look into Albert Ellis and "long term hedonism".

Thank you, that was where I remembered that sentence from.. Great book!

Make it much easier on yourself: Micro fuck you money. 6 months of living expenses saved up, ready to go in an emergency or to say fuck you. Even if you were to get assistance from the state where you live, you want to be able to say fuck you to the state as well.

Along with being able to minimize the lifestyle your probably accustomed to when getting a decent wage (this is another hurdle even if you have micro fuck you money), mondays will never feel dreadful again.

You're constructing a giant mountain to climb if you require a side hustle or actual fuck you money (1 mio.+). 99,999% of people will not achieve that, look at how much people save for retirement. Micro fuck you money is very achievable though.

Just your phone is enough.

As is this very website.

Any screen really.

I declare you to be a fascist and ban you.

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Good point. But the company was doing quite well before the pandemic, no?

You can ridicule fads, but I think it's interesting. I know people will pay a reasonable price for a product they might not even need, but an unreasonable price? How the hell does that happen?

Put smart people together and don't manage them.

No.

Pick up the can, citizen.

Keep in mind this can also be used as hero theatre which happened in the orange revolution if I remember correctly, also an alleged poisoning and still, 15 years later, very murky. Both sides can lie.

As per John Le Carré's Moscow rules: 1. Assume nothing.