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.

I feel like I’m one of the few people that never really minded the paper straws.

The Sun Life chip bags that were super loud was funny to me though.

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.

I think it was the Roast of Kevin Hart where those bitch-ass comedians (especially Tony Hinchcliffe) that made George Floyd jokes.

Comedians said, “well, we laughed at Charlie Kirk jokes so we should be cool with George Floyd jokes.”

Charlie Kirk is a shock jock saying and doing provocative shit in his day-to-day spreading hate. Whether he deserved to die is one thing but he was in the public sphere in a hateful and controversial context. George Floyd was just some random dude – living his day-to-day and was murdered. He didn’t want to enter any public sphere. Tony is also a right-wing piece of shit so it’s not like he’s being tongue-in-cheek about his jokes. He openly hates George Floyd.

MAGA or right-wingers also went through George’s past and claimed his drugs is what killed him and then openly mocked him after his death by putting knees on each other’s necks lightly and shared photos of it online.

He was just a fucking man trying to live.

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 …

What about if you had to train your overseas replacement?

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.

Oh, she played the old lady in the “My Old Lady” episode in Scrubs – Mrs Tanner. I really liked that episode.

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.

okay, to be fair … when the vote was coming up … I didn’t even know why we were voting about it. I looked up what remain and leave were about and I was like … well I don’t see advantage here to leave, so I voted to remain.

Then I came back to Canada to see my family. I told all my EU coworkers that this will never pass before I left. I then had to message them on Slack telling them I was so wrong …

I remember telling my SF coworkers that they better get out to vote because we joked about Brexit and Trump is running and you don’t want to make a similar mistake.

I’m from the UK. I remember when it happened. I think so many people underestimated how stupid and lost people felt and decided that this was a good action to use.

Childhood friend of mine said something like, my dad had his own house, granddad had his own house … these immigrants come and live two families to a house … I don’t want that for my kid.

I was like, I get it … but this doesn’t solve the problem you’re looking for … he needed more Gary’s Economics than Nigel Farage.

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 remember in highschool, a bunch of kids complained to our homeroom teacher and the teacher said: “it doesn’t matter, the same students who show up on time will be here on time and the late ones will be late”. I didn’t say it but I thought to myself, that doesn’t have anything to do with efficiency though …

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.