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I mean one day we’re complaining about how corporations have shipped manufacturing jobs overseas, and the next day we’re complaining that the government is preventing someone from doing same. Make up your fucking minds.

I don’t see any gate here though. Knowledge remains available through old fashioned means.

Ah so it was the rizz. All I could say for sure was that it was not Steve.

‘serious’ default look

This is definitely not wrong.

Also his father steered him into philanthropy.

But he did make the turn and has followed up and lived it. I think it’s perfectly fine to give the man some credit.

He certainly stole intellectual property and made substandard software to build his fortune, but when I compare this to someone like Andrew Carnegie these look like pretty minor crimes.

Of all the billionaires to worry about, Mark Cuban is way down the list. If we put him under a microscope, we can find things to complain about, but there are so many other better places to direct our wary eye.

I’ve met a number of people in life who seem to have been raised in nearly perfect circumstances: intelligent, loving parents who gave them the right about of support and structure.

They’re not idiots but they aren’t afraid to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. You might think they must get taken advantage of left and right, but most of these people are also pretty privileged so not traveling in very dangerous circles.

I’ve watched them give someone WAY more trust than I think is wise. Sometimes I turn out to be the idiot and realize they were making a good investment all along.

And in those cases where I turn out to be right, they just realize “oh, this is a bad person,” and they pivot away and move on with their lives.

It’s hard to build friendships, relationships, and even things like business partnerships without trust, and these people have a lot of that to give. Sometimes they even inspire people to be better by giving that trust. In the end I think most of them have pretty full lives with a rich tapestry of people in them.

It really makes you think twice about whether it really is the safest and wisest course of action to be so highly critical and suspicious. Is that really what leads to safety and wellness for us? I think no. And it’s not even meant to - it’s just a way to try to avoid the absolute worst outcomes. And only people who’ve had a taste of that “worst” think like this. It truly is very damaging for them and that’s the saddest part: whatever abuse or wrongdoing they suffered limits them forever.

Aren’t you going to tell us how you slipped past her radar?

Not judging quickly is harder than most of us realize. Our brains are built to judge quickly. We aren’t scientific and logical by nature, slowly building evidence until we reach a conclusion. Our brains are shortcut machines and will leap straight to what they think is the likeliest answer. And throughout evolution this served us well because big brains are very resource intensive so they literally can’t brute force everything. Intuition and shortcuts are the name of the game, and judgments just have to be “good enough” not complete, accurate, and fair.

The reality is that most of us are not perfect and someone highly suspicious can always hold us under a microscope and find flaws, which may be taken as evidence of malfeasance.

About 1% of the people I meet seem to immediately dislike me and interpret everything I do in some negative way. Most of the time I don’t even know about it because I’m not doing anything overt which they will confront me about. But they harbor a secret hatred until finally some mutual friend tells me about it. “That guy really hates your guts - I don’t know why.”

I’ve just accepted that this is a thing that happens. Something in their first impression strikes them wrong and every single thing to follow that is stained by it. There’s room for interpretation in all things.

I wouldn’t say I’m very good looking but I think I’ve been lucky with where I landed on the attractiveness spectrum. And this helps with most people’s impressions. But for some, it’s an immediate strike. You can say any little thing and because they perceive you as a “pretty boy” they will perceive you as arrogant / full of yourself, speaking with too much confidence and not even saying anything that brilliant. Others who don’t have this weird lens will just nod at what you say and this person will think “look how he’s fooled them all!”

It all depends on whether you’re looking at the person in a positive way, neutral way, or negative way. Go looking for things to hate and you will find them.

So basically years ago Newsom gave you a momentary vibe which matches the way Trump has actually spent two presidencies.

Now let’s all talk about how much we hate Newsom.

Yeah I just saw my doctor yesterday and they said that cardio is great but if I want to feel my energy level improve I need to do strength training. So that’s another factor to put on the list. Fortunately they said that 10 minutes would be enough, because 30 mins cardio, 30 mins strength, and ideally 30 mins flexibility like you mentioned would be awesome but ain’t nobody got time for all that.

I had no special goal for exercise other than to reduce “all cause mortality” and my internet research steered me toward 30 minutes of moderate cardio. But I have also heard that strength/cardio are interrelated.

It is easier to limit excess calories than to burn them with exercise, for sure.

But I do the recommended 30 minutes of “moderate exercise” and I see 200 calories, so it is maybe not entirely as dismal as this?

Being the first mover doesn’t guarantee shit and never has.

Turning waste heat into electricity is a very old goal but it really does come up against problems with entropy fast. Basically if you have a LOT of heat in one place you can boil a great deal of water and make electricity. If you have a lot of heat spread over a wide area there’s no good way to “herd” it together enough to boil water in appreciable amounts.

before asking others how to think

Well, I’m back to telling you to go fuck yourself. Shame.

I couldn’t even get to the paywall - their cookie consent dialog was halfway off the screen and I couldn’t click “reject”

If you want to take a look at yourself and profit from this exchange, here’s how.

Consider that there are two types of people in this world.

Some people get excited when someone asks about a topic they know: they’re happy to show off their knowledge and help someone who’s interested in what they know.

And then there are people who look down on others for asking, and think that everyone should soldier out of ignorance all on their own by googling and going to the library. No asking others! These people self appoint as gatekeepers of the entire community’s time.

You were #2 here. Why? Stop talking about what frustrates you in other people and ask why you couldn’t be the first kind of person.

You remind me of a guy I once knew. I asked if I could borrow his cable crimper over the weekend and he thought about it, sighed, and said no -because the only reason he owned one is that no one was around to loan him theirs. So he was going to do me a favor and make me buy my own.

It was such an unnecessary, grim, douche bag little speech he gave me. He was a bitter fuck and he decided to pay his bitterness forward. I now own a cable crimper which I haven’t touched in 20 years.

Don’t be that guy.