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Just because you can make air on another planet doesn’t mean you can live to breathe it.

If we can’t get life right here, our technical ability won’t mean much on another planet once human nature takes over.

I think the only thing we will prove with a Martian colony is that humans can go extinct on two planets instead of one.

Not a fulgurite. Not a selenite. Not even a dendrite. Probably just salt.

People will always lose their minds over simple mineral intrusions because the only rocks they’ve ever seen are just round.

Most of what people love about Carl Sagan is really just Ann Druyan showing through.

This story is so incomplete. I hope someone actually does a deep dive on this man’s life some day.

Related: https://twitter.com/mattrickard/status/1492548554426048514?s...

Not exactly a great attitude, but it’s how I came across the post.

Thanks! And yes, that's exactly what is happening.

Excellent pun and glad I could be of help. I have kids too and I work with many other children I tend to think of as my kids as well. They are always a joy and a balance. Good luck to you!

Personally, I find it in service and hard, physical work but I think anything that breaks you out of overthinking and just doing can work. Another good book along this line is Shopclass as Soulcraft. Totally different subject but also about finding a why.

If you get the full edition, there’s a complete discourse on Frankl’s method (designed for the layperson). That said, I found the actual story of his experience far more compelling and much easier to relate to… at least in a way of making any problems I might have seem meaningless by comparison.

I went this way a couple years back, but one partner is intractable.

Not in this case. As Jacques notes, there’s the legal barrier but there are also a few other unique factors.

Precisely and when one party has a business lawyer for a sibling it gets even more expensive.

One yes and the other no. It’s a rather complicated, self-inflicted situation. Cleaning up the mess would definitely raise the joy factor. I’ve been working for awhile to find a mutually acceptable solution but we are at an impasse. So, I can get a bigger bite of the apple but probably never get the whole thing.

Because I have a whole bunch of employees who still like to eat and a whole bunch of customers who love what we do. If I stop, all that stops too.

The state of my partnership might be crap, but the worst day I’ve ever had working for myself is still better than the best day I had working for someone else.

Mourning the loss of one’s youth is pretty typical. You lose a step. You didn’t do what you hoped you would do. You wasted your time. So forth and so on.

Don’t worry. It gets better. This is all part of the process of life.

My recommendation is that you read Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

I’m 52 here. I was a prolific programmer in my 20s. A go-go marketer in my 30s. For the last 10 years, I’ve run a business that I love with two partners who have taken advantage of me at every turn. The last two years neither has worked and yet they get paid.

Do I feel lost or depressed? Absolutely not.

I love life. I have an amazing family to whom I am utterly devoted. I volunteer for stuff. I do cool things every day. If I feel bored, I make things with my hands or engage in other creative pursuits. I focus on the moment and others more than anything else and all the rest just goes away.

How is this possible? I’ve filled my life with reasons to live.

In fact, I have so many now that there is no room for worry about what I have and haven’t done. And in doing so, I realize that none of that matters anyway.

My mom died at 52 after taking a header down a flight of stairs. My grandfather died at 56 after getting stabbed in the belly by my grandmother (she was psychotic).

Our naked existence is laughable. Everything can be lost in an instant.

Dive into the why and you can deal with any how.

The end of that chapter had me in tears.

I wonder how many of these items are being resold on Amazon and Walmart Marketplace.

At Day’s Close is a really great book. This article doesn’t do Ekrich’s work justice.

https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393329018

99% of the death certificates my friend has written in the last few months have been for unvaxxed people. More than 90% in their care are unvaxxed.

To be clear, the vaccine mandates for healthcare staff had little to no impact on actual care. Very few professionals were unvaxxed and even fewer left/were dismissed as a result of not vaxxing (i.e. they got vaxxed). The staffing is low because providers are leaving or have left the field due to horrid conditions. However, the real issue here is that the bed count didn’t go down just because there was no one to cover… Hospitals in many places are simply being inundated with patients (mostly unvaxxed).

That’s absolutely my point

I have a friend in southern Ohio who is an ICU doc. They’ve been dealing with +140% occupancy for the last few weeks. Staff shortages in their hospital are due to people leaving the field entirely (either worn out, tired of patient abuse, or actually dead). Vaccine mandates had almost zero impact.

Pound for pound they are about 1.5X stronger than humans due to the density of fast-twitch muscle fibers. This also makes them quicker and more nimble.

If they attack from behind they can easily knock down an adult human. They use this tactic to attack motorcycle delivery drivers quite often and steal food. They would have no trouble nabbing a child.

I thought the OP article was likely a rehash of an older article so googled his name.

The Forbes article and the PPP loan results were right next to each other. I read them both and thought the guy was pretty sketchy all in all.

As for stirring up controversy, this entire topic is controversial. It’s a post designed to trigger privacy rights people, and doing quite well by the looks of it.

Forbes had a better write up back in April when this story made the rounds: https://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2020/04/14/...

Also, Terry got a PPP loan for $20k for his one person soybean farm. Seems legit.

Big component of James Oatway’s style https://james-oatway.medium.com/

Cool but not exactly the earliest jewelry on earth… not by a long shot.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abi8620

Steve Jobs certainly never did anything because of money. The iPhone is just his gift to the masses.

Google is great if people know what they want, but for discovery? Not so much.

Can’t wait to see the articles about the crippling downstream effect of this change on small companies.