The New Coffee Room

I read your quote with a British accent in mind

It seems the "community notes" or other auto/up-vote summaries is the best way to keep free speech while letting the public correct misinformation. It's not perfect, but for example if you put out a lie on wikipedia, it usually is corrected, or if you add an incorrect fact to a reddit thread, it gets downvoted. So like, 90% of the time the truth bubbles to the top if there are enough people involved.

Some of you don't have young kids and it shows.

My morning routine is usually when my 5-year old scurries in at 6am (he's been getting up between 5-6am since he was 1), so he and I head down as I make coffee, I turn on a fish show for him (he loves fishing shows), then I turn on my work computer. From there any idea of a routine is laughable... but I wouldn't change it, time is flying and I can't believe my 2nd-born (the 5 year old) will be in Kindergarten in a few months.

Anyway back to the idea... habit stacking makes sense. And the advice from the 103 year old... totally, I mean I would retire in a heartbeat if I could but I have so many other passions I'd love to pursue (non-fiction writing, travel, golf, reading classics I skipped in school) so my mind would stay busy. For the 2nd one (don't carry hatred) abso-fucking-lutely. I was just teaching my kids yesterday while driving about becoming a brain ninja... aka if someone does something bad to you, you'll "win" if you don't let it make you upset and react. Like if someone cuts you off in traffic, or is mean to you, immediately put it out of your head and don't let it get to you. My wife actually gets annoyed at how quickly (like in 1-2 seconds) I'll put an annoyance behind me. Like the other day she spilled a 250-count ibuprofen bottle and it scattered all over the kitchen floor. She couldn't believe I wasn't bothered by it as we picked all of the tablets up... I told her "why get mad? the only option right now is to just clean it up and move on."

Has anyone figured out why gravity works yet? I should probably google, but too lazy.

Yeah what a nightmare for him. I didn’t watch the video above but the comments imply it covers his perspective, sadly.

Bring back the NFTs

Thank you for bumping my previous post.

These are the stories I think of when I hear my kid complaining because a drop of milk spilled outside of their cereal bowl.

"...concluded that the crew had failed to notice that the cabin pressurization system was set to "manual" during takeoff checks. A ground engineer had set it to "manual" to conduct testing before the flight, but had most likely forgotten to restore it to "auto" afterward..."

Yikes.

Sadly it seems so many accidents are because of one "simple" oversight.

BTW here's a youtube video about it:

THATS HIM

The good news is that if there is life, for example in the nearest galaxy (keep in mind there are trillions of galaxies, but if we take our closest neighbor, Andromeda), if they have a really powerful telescope and are looking at Earth right now, they'll see saber tooth tigers and other animals living 2.5 million years ago. So feel free to flip them the bird.

@jon-nyc said:

We had a poster in the early days of WTF (or was it here?) that faked his own death and claimed it was a bit from a brown recluse that did him in.

Didn't we have someone in the Old Coffee Room that actually did die from a bite he got while gardening? Are we talking about the same person, I vaguely recall my reference being a real thing. I'm sure if you say the name I'll say THATS HIM.

For the millionth time... he gets away with stuff that would tank other presidents. Like every week there is a once-in-a-decade Watergate level scandal that doesn't even make headline news.

In this case... imagine a West Wing episode where the President decides to spend a billion dollars on a gold ballroom while many in the country are hurting economically. It would be political suicide.

Almost makes me want to shift all my accounts into super low risk mode. Let the recession crash, then buy back in.

But time in the market beats timing the market..........

All that video and drama over a little dock?

Can we get rid of executive orders already? Or substantially reduce the ability to use it and bypass the legislative branch?

@jon-nyc said:

It must suck being a career FBI agent who takes his job seriously to be used to prop up the egos of small men. These guys probably can't wait to turn page on these clowns.

Yup. There was a good podcast about folks in the director's orbit, and how a few quit after getting tired of the photo ops and social media updates, instead of focusing on the mission. As one of them said, and I'll paraphrase, you were asked to do things on a daily basis (such as investigate someone who yelled nasty things at a protest) that would be easy answer of "what not to do" on boring corporate style annual ethics/regulation training exams at the FBI.

We know he has the bankruptcy skills like his dad. For example, Titan Atlas Manufacturing.

I know a couple of years ago he was going on many talk shows and it seemed he was testing his Presidential style. I could see it. I suppose I could see anything now. How exhausting.

Beautiful houses (except the brutalist). I grew up in a very modest rambler. Really not sure how our family of 7 lived in it... I think maybe 1,100 SF when I look it up now, somehow with 5 bedrooms. We had a car port (no garage), and didn't have central AC until I was a teenager.

It's funny... as a kid, your house, your yard/street, it's your whole world. You don't know what you're missing in the least bit. You learn to know ever piece of bark on your front yard tree, each place where ant hills will appear, it's magical as a kid to live a life that was comfortable oh so small in retrospect. You know, I don't recall the house being hot without central A/C... but I do remember the summer nights with the hum of the ceiling fans putting me to sleep.

Is that AI or real?