JohnP
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Friend of mine is 55 years old, married and doesn’t want modern strategy board games. His household income is roughly $63k/yearly and he's only one month behind on the rent. He has 4 figures saved for retirement, and visits Coney Island multiple times a year. I think people like this are going to regret not having modern strategy board games in their future. One day, when he’s old, all he will have to look back on is a decent credit rating and a healthy retirement fund. Instead of putting that money towards having modern strategy board games and building a closet full of cardboard and meeples, he’s choosing practicality. This just seems so wasteful and boring to me.
Watching Pauline justify this is almost impressive in a bleak sort of way. It takes real commitment to the lowest standards possible to try and make “convicted rapist” sound like a manageable HR detail.
I’ve worn a WHOOP every day for 3+ years. Bought a discounted 2-year membership because I’m a data nerd and I love this stuff. I’m still not sure I’ll renew when it’s up. Not because it’s a bad product. It taught me a lot early on. Alcohol tanks recovery. Sleep is everything. Easy days need to actually be easy. That was valuable. But once you learn those lessons you don’t need a monthly subscription to remind you. Garmin gives me the same data with no fee. The people I know who wore one loved it for 6 months then stopped. Not because they lost interest. Because the data stopped telling them anything new. $10.1B is a huge number. I just wonder how many members right now are in month 8 thinking the same thing I am.
🇳🇴 Norwegian prime minister says Trump repeatedly begs for the Nobel Peace Prize Norwegian prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre says that Donald Trump raises the same issue every time they meet. According to Støre, Donald Trump repeatedly complains, pleads, and demands to know why he has not been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Støre explains that he gives the same answer every time. The decision is made entirely by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which operates independently and without any involvement from the Norwegian government. It is, as Støre reportedly notes with thinly veiled frustration, a concept Trump appears fundamentally unable to grasp. Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1
Whoever's behind this phishing attack deserves an award
Yes…. Back when I was a student, I had Steve Jobs over for a fireside chat in my home. When I asked my childhood hero if he would sign my Apple Extended keyboard, he looked a little surprised to see Woz’s signature already there, and then he exclaimed: “This keyboard represents everything about Apple that I hate. It’s a battleship. Why does it have all these keys? Do you use this F1 key? No.” And with his car keys he pried it right off. Alan Deutschman reported the moment in his book, The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, culminating in Jobs' comment: “I’m changing the world, one keyboard at a time.” He also offered me an interview at NeXT that night, and I took it: flic.kr/p/atvnG7
Tonight, I watched the third installment of Rian Johnson’s Knives Out series, “Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man.”
No, you don't ask for a refund. You acknowledge that you willingly decided to fly on a plane with other people, and some of those other people may have babies that will cry. Then you learn an important lesson about bringing noise canceling headphones. If you don't want to risk listening to a crying baby, you can fly private. I promise you, the kids' parents are probably more stressed out about it than you.
Bill Ackman's character limit has been redistributed under socialism
