I did laugh at this meme, then but I came in here to make sure there was a warning.

Doing this is an awful way to spend a month in the hospital, get permanently disgusted, and possibly die.

And that’s based on one employee who joined after stock gains going to the press and not any actual evidence or standby from the company

You guys are sleeping and don’t have chronic insomnia?

That has happened to me.

I’m currently running what was a team of three that all got fired and I got told to take over the whole thing alone.

I like to thread the needle between “useful verification of identity” and “not a horrifying invasion of privacy that puts everyone in our society at risk”

Reading these kinds of things will just result in is creating horrible identification laws like having to scan your face each time you want to watch porn.

Meta doing dividends to me says that’s where they are.

If they can’t get growth, they need to pay investors directly, or else the house of cards collapses.

And if I could short Google to 30% current value in 10 years I would, with AI they’re Yahoo and despite their best efforts aren’t even getting close to openAI, midjourney, or other AI companies, and they’re not able release the products they keep demoing to the general market.

I don’t know, last year I worked for a private firm that offered me a shitload of stock options then diluted them after I started.

You’re fucked unless you’re the boss.

“I mark them Urgent A, urgent B, urgent C… urgent D you don’t even really have to worry about”

https://youtu.be/UqGe9TOmnyE?si=Uk1TVNr9H2E4gcWQ

I’m sorry to hear you got fired. Falling behind tickets is a failure of management not staff. If there’s too much work then you’re not scheduling enough workers

The more you learn about numbers, the more arbitrary you realize they are.

Careful, the tech CEOs will think this is a festival and coopt everything good about it.

Since Covid I think the tech CEOs only talk to other tech CEOs, VCs demanding their payout, and their EAs.

The CEO bubble was so cleaning visible with NFTs and now AI.

I got into tech partially because you can scale a product much further and much cheaper than conventional industries. I was able to create and sell two small tech products/companies I made by myself, and that’s how I got into the industry.

I think in tech you can vastly cut jobs while keeping the product alive, but it’s impossible to grow a product without a solid team who knows the product deeply. These current cuts save money now and companies aren’t seeing the downside, but long term opportunities will become harder and harder to actually reach.

Having too many layers of hierarchy is bad because you can’t coordinate teams and move. Having too few means your staff will need to acquire tech debt and you’ll start seeing failures nobody understands.

This is short term gain for shareholders, long-term pain as companies will see lower growth and have to resort to more squeezing of existing customers.

Work in tech, I’m so fucking overworked lately that it’s massively cut down my productivity.

I can’t keep jumping from short deadline high priority to short deadline high priority and still do the baseline work needed to be efficient. So what ends up happening is I’m doing way more throw away work now than I ever have.

If I had more staff on my team we could balance the work out and get stable foundations to work from, but that doesn’t let leadership pretend we’re all better off now than a year ago and that the institutional failings of the org are all solved because they expertly threw the right people in the trash via randomly firing people.

For any depth D the tip experiences D^2/2 times the wear, so that’s natural.

The Bible isn’t vague on this one https://www.openbible.info/topics/usury

Very clear:

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him.

Whoever multiplies his wealth by interest and profit gathers it for him who is generous to the poor.

Lends at interest, and takes profit; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon himself.

“You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest.

In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.

Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you.

You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them, “You are exacting interest, each from his brother.” And I held a great assembly against them

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

This one gives mixed signals:

You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.

Wendy’s had a recruitment campaign “a job at Wendy’s serves me right” and I could not think of a job there as anything other than a punishment for something

They’re nice dogs but I would never ever bring one into this world or super people who do.

I have family that foster dogs, they’ve had so many frenchies with severe back issues, or breathing issues, to the point the dog can’t do things like run around and enjoy themselves.

I just think we shouldn’t breed them anymore. They’re too good for the life we’re force them into for it own vanity.

Actual footage from the seminar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zx4ZeGjP3s

Your parents didn’t give you blinding stew?

It’s not that bad. It doesn’t hurt, it’s scary at first but you adapt. It never made me want to get revenge on my parents, and I haven’t jaywalked since. I actually got it twice when I got suspended from school but the second time was baloney.

Cereal grains, like oats, prepared as a porridge are a stew. Cereal and milk is soup.