Seriously man … my friends think it’s a joke but it drives me absolutely crazy. I’ve physically hurt people that wouldn’t stop aggroing me with it

I love Nintendo. I’ve bought every single one of their consoles. I am skipping the Switch 2 though.

I feel like giving someone a Switch 2 is a bit like a white elephant. I can’t say that I’m a fan of what’s happening lately. It’s a shame because the industry is where it is because of them. It’s a shame they can’t treat their customers a little better.

This Futurama joke makes more sense now: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qAur04gWg3s

Only if you can live with you’ve done to those poor birds.

whenever I see the reaction on the girls face I feel embarrassed but when I look at the guy’s face … I don’t know why I can’t help but laugh.

I worked at a company which did the gay pride logo switch.

I know it doesn’t mean much from people but the ones who pushed changing the logos were from our LGBT employees.

According to Bezos it doesn’t make a difference even if they did pay more taxes!

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

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 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.

Amour

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1602620/

If you’ve never seen Michael Hanake movies then it’s hard to describe. It’s not like horror like any of the others just getting us to confront things were uncomfortable with.

It’s an experience, it’s kinda horror but not really. Stars Antonio Banderas.

An airline pilot? That’s crazy isn’t it? Don’t they do calculations based on the curvature of the Earth and stuff?

I got into it with the director of my UK office at work because he didn’t believe in global warming.

I thought all of them knew it was happening now and have pivoted to it not being man-made or what’s the point in doing anything.

I still don’t know what mogging (sp?) is and I’m not sure I want to …

I’m an 80s kid but I skipped the old Twilight episodes … so I’m trying to darnest to catch up on them and I’m learning how awesome the ideas were even if the presentation is dated.

Just a random segue …

I sound naive but I didn’t realize that Rod Sterling wanted to tell stories about social issues – racism and stuff but the networks wouldn’t let him. If he wanted to tell a story about an alien or an invader then the networks would let it pass through. So it was a way for him to tell harder stories to the general public.

I think that’s a lot of sci-fi like Invasion of the Body Snatcher and such but I just never thought about it deeply enough.

There’s the treehouse of horror episode by the Simpsons where Bart is omnipotent and I knew it was based on something but I only recently learned it from: “It’s a Good Life” which is a book and a Twilight Zone episode. I only watched the parody up until this year and I just thought it was a fun concept. Then I watched the original and a breakdown and it was a take on totalitarian regimes.

Ah you’re right, he caucuses with them and stuff but he’s an independent, you’re right.

I would like to think that Bernie Sanders is one of those people.

Republicans have a propaganda network back then to fight against Obamacare (which isn’t even Medicare for all). It was really surprising how much the Republicans fought back given the zeitgeist was going the other way with Michael Moore and all that. The whole “death panel” stuff took the air out of the room and Republicans were going on non-stop about how it was the greatest injustice to all of America. It was wild.

Also, if you look at those that benefit from Obamacare and the fact that they’re losing it. They still hate that it’s associated at all with the Dems. It’s weird.