https://kottke.org/24/02/virtual-stickers-to-manage-replies-by
a virtual sticker that reads ‘Do not reply, I’m just complaining, not asking for help’
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Great idea!
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TECHNOLOGY: Great stickers for social media
Monday, February 19, 2024
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ECONOMICS: Changing CEO incentives to more align with the needs of society
Sunday, February 18, 2024https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2024/02/14/why-they-dont-care/
Why They Don’t Care
By Eric – February 14, 2024
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People ask why the CEOs of major automakers go along with what’s going on; can’t they see it’s killing their business?
Of course. They are not stupid people. But they are extremely wealthy people. So wealthy they don’t have to care – about anything. Certainly not whether the company they head goes under at some point in the future.
It won’t affect them, you see.
Consider GM’s Mary Barra as a case in point. She is paid around $29-30 million every year. It is difficult for the average middle class person who earns a “good living” to appreciate just how much money Barra is paid (I am careful to not say earns) in just one year.
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I have long thought that “executive compensation” focused on high salaries and stock options. This has lead to a conflict in “incentives”. The short term focus of corporate management and investment firms has been disaster for the economy, all the “little people”, pension funds, and investors. Corporate management has no incentive to manage for the long run.
It’s time for the Gooferment and the tax code to change the incentives.
I’ve always thought that “corporate management” should be paid is a modest “salary” (i.e., the average paid to individuals in their company), and any “excess” or “performance bonuses” in laddered tiers of non-transferable corporate bonds (with allowances for death and personal bankruptcy). Should their corporation goes “tits up” before those bonds mature, well then that’s just tough luck.
That will realign the incentives quickly.
To “encourage” quick adoption, excessive salary could have a special FU tax associated with it. I’d like it paid to the share owners, but that is getting down the road.
Maybe this would make those i the C-suite care!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: USPS mail delivery test — failed
Saturday, February 17, 2024We sent 11 packages with Air Tags through priority mail last month. Here’s where they went.
- In January, we boxed up 11 packages with Apple AirTags and shipped them to different locations in the Houston area. The packages were tracked in real time.
Author: Stephen Goin
Published: 11:49 PM EST February 4, 2024
Updated: 8:33 AM EST February 6, 2024
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Ultimately, only one package was delivered by the “expected” delivery date. In fact, it was early – arriving in just two days. The rest of the packages took up to five days to arrive.
Jan. 26 ……… one package delivered
Jan. 30 ……… three packages delivered
Jan. 31 ……… three packages delivered
Feb. 1 ………. four packages delivered
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Pretty sad but to be expected. I had a disappointing result with FedEx. So what can you use?
Prayer!
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INTERESTING: Making of men in the USA — espeicially in Gooferment Skrules
Friday, February 16, 2024FROM FREEREPUBLIC
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America’s Lost Boys and Me
2/11/2024, 10:32:44 AM · 14 of 14
ABN 505 to mo
There seems to be a dearth of men in teaching nowadays. When I was in High school most of the teachers were WWII vets with a sprinkling of woman in the arts and language’s. There was serious discipline administered and sometimes physical force was applied when needed. I don’t think woman are capable of handling young men and should not be in charge of them weather, in schools or military settings.
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Having been educated by WWII vets from grades 4 thru ~20, I tend to agree, Turning boys into men is probably not best done by women.
I guess that makes me a something or other.
But let us look at the results?
Pretty sad record.
And in Gooferment Skrules it’s uncontrolled chaos.
In my school days, that would have never been tolerate and met with overwhelming physical violence from the faculty. Even the few lay and women teachers were down right insane.
Dona Nobis Pacem
American has lost its way.
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TECHNOLOGY: Get eyeglass prescriptions on paper
Thursday, February 15, 2024Get eyeglass prescriptions on paper
My cousin is now in a nursing home and broke her glasses. The lens was lost. I which I had gotten that Rx on paper to get a replacement. Never thought of it. So thought I’d share it to help someone avoid my frustration. (I have my own prescriptions on a credit card type thing that I got from USAGLASSES mail order.). Just never thought of it for my old relatives. Argh!
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INSPIRATIONAL: Jackie, a bald eagle, demonstrated motherly dedication
Wednesday, February 14, 2024Bald eagle Jackie’s livestream is turned into weather apocalypse film as expecting mom braves California’s tropical storm-force winds, relentless rain and heavy snow shielding three small eggs
By Mackenzie Tatananni For Dailymail.Com
Published: 14:55 EST, 8 February 2024 | Updated: 19:05 EST, 8 February 2024
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Jackie, a bald eagle, shakes powder off her feathers as she settles into a snow heap overlooking a California valley.
Invisible to the eye, a cozy nest sits underneath, kept warm by her body heat.
Jackie has been guarding her three eggs from the elements ever since a powerful atmospheric river pummeled the region last week.
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Life is tough in the wild. Something we humans forget all to easily. Life is precious.
How did the eagles learn to survive?
Make me think hard thoughts.
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DISCOURAGING: Gooferment Skrules are a national disgrace
Tuesday, February 13, 2024School Where Just 4% of Students Are Proficient in Math and 12% in English Spent $250K on ‘Woke Kindergarten’ Program
Alice Wright, Daily Mail, February 4, 2024
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A Bay Area Elementary School has spent $250,000 on a ‘Woke Kindergarten’ program only to see its student’s literacy and numeracy rates plunge.
The ‘Woke Kindergarten’ program states its mission as an ‘abolitionist early learning ecosystem’ that trains teachers to uproot white supremacy, disrupt racism and oppression which are barriers to learning.
After spending the federal money on the program Glassbrook Elementary in Hayward saw numeracy among its 474 students fall to a new low of just 4 percent and literacy just 12 percent.
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Gooferment Skrules are to produce cannon fodder for the Army, willing morons for the factories, and useful idiots to vote for and be led by the elite.
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ConspiracyTheories: Was John Kennedy Jr. killed?
Monday, February 12, 2024POTUS John Kennedy: did his son John (John John) Kennedy Jr. who was ‘killed’ in a plane crash, did he tee us up on POPULATION control? depopulation agenda? SAGE HANA reminds us of Bill Gates’s 1997 interview with John Kennedy Jr. before he died;”Bill Gates’s 1997 Interview with RFK’s Dead Cousin John in George Magazine: “I fund population control…”Planned Parenthood Medical Director, Day Tapes
Dr. Paul Alexander
Feb 5, 2024
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I thought John Kennedy Jr. would have made a tremendous POTUS, I lean libertarian, right of center, social conservative yet no EFF in label but I would have voted for John-John.
Did they kill John-John? Was John Kennedy Jr. killed? I think a legitimate question. I actually think he was killed, deliberately. I do not discount that. I have no proof.
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OK let’s crank up the old Conspiracy Theories meter. “Political — 5. Possible”.
I remember that at the time his plane went down reading that he was being talked about as a rival of HRC for the NY Senate seat. Now anyone who gets in the Clinton’s way seems to be “suicided” rather quickly.
So it’s possible that this very convenient “accidental” pilot error could be more than it seems.
Will we ever know? Probably not.
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DISCOURAGING: Ex-Rabbi buys Pornub and is proud of it
Sunday, February 11, 2024https://www.independentsentinel.com/rabbi-buys-mindgeek-that-owns-pornhub-other-porn-sites/
Ex-Rabbi Co-founder of a private equity firm explains why he acquired Pornhub
By M Dowling – December 29, 2023
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So, it’s for money, the tools, and mainstreaming porn? Didn’t Sodom and Gomorrah happen because this stuff went mainstream?
Correction: Mr. Friedman is only a partial owner. The headline was changed to clarify. Also, he rejected the teachings as a rabbi.
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I’m sure his parents are very proud of him. Special “ring of hell” should be reserved for him.
Makes me sad to see such “news”.
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INTERESTING: All the world’s literature is slowly coming to the internet — possibly unapreciated
Saturday, February 10, 2024https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/agatha-christie/the-mystery-of-the-blue-train/text/single-page
The Mystery of the Blue Train
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The Mystery of the Blue Train revolves around a set of fabulous rubies, said to have been worn by Catherine the Great, now purchased by an American millionaire as a gift to his daughter. When she takes them with her on a luxury train to the Riviera, she is unaware that among her fellow passengers are her unfaithful husband, his not-so-secret mistress, a quiet Englishwoman who believes that nothing exciting ever happens to her—and the famous retired detective Hercule Poirot. And, possibly, a murderer.
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Standard E Books puts out a huge amount of “free” content.
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This ebook is thought to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. It may still be under copyright in other countries. If you’re not located in the United States, you must check your local laws to verify that this ebook is free of copyright restrictions in the country you’re located in before accessing, downloading, or using it.
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More than even a fat old white guy retired injineer can possibly consume. I remember reading the Hardy Boys in my youth and would save my supermarket tips to buy their latest adventure. Like my comic book collection, those were discarded when I went in the military. Another “casualty” of the Viet Nam war. My Charlie Chan’s, my Heinlein’s, and McDonald color series of Travis McGees. Sigh!
Wonder what they would be worth today?
Anyway, I am rereading some favorites as they come out of copyright.
And, of course, donate to the site. Small change but every bit helps. I can imagine growing up today and having the internet as a library of dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) without having to physically trade to the library to find that illusive book that never seems to be there.
Sigh!
I wonder if these resources are “pearls before swine” and completely not used by today’s barbarian culture.
Argh!
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