WindowManager

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WindowManager

WindowManager

@window_manager

Retired tech executive with too much time on my hands. X interests include US politics, tech, finance, health, the 1980s, movies, social commentary…

USA Katılım Kasım 2022
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WindowManager@window_manager·
Window Manager is Japanese expression (madoguchi) for a manager with limited operational responsibilities and engagement. The term suggests a manager whose primary “duty” consists of gazing out of the office window, symbolizing a position that has become largely ceremonial, redundant, or sidelined.
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るんちゃん🦋
るんちゃん🦋@ENJU1123PIPI·
私はこのポストを日本語で書いてます🇯🇵 このポスト、日本以外の国の人に届いてますか？ 届いたらコメントくれたら嬉しいです！ 世界の壁を超えて、仲良くなりましょう🌏
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WindowManager@window_manager·
@WallStreetApes I got a Capital One card like 20 years ago, loved their customer service. About two years ago they changed to an India call center. Cancelled card.
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Wall Street Apes
Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes·
Americans have had enough of foreign call centers “I am getting sick and tired of contacting everybody's customer service and not being able to understand a single word that they have to say, because I don't even know if my issue just got resolved with Amazon because of it” “I would much rather contact somebody's customer service that has a screaming baby in the background. Dogs barking. ‘Girl, you gotta put me on hold 'cause you have to flip over your laundry’ — I know that there is multiple Facebook groups where everybody is trying to find legit stay at home jobs. So why can't we have 'em at home? American companies should be forced to have call centers in America, and hire Americans who speak English
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WindowManager@window_manager·
The other analogy is he is for people in financial kindergarten - avoid debt at all costs, live beneath your means. By the time you’re high school (debt is okay for a house and can build wealth if you have a healthy personal balance sheet) that kindergarten teacher seems simplistic and quaint but you wouldn’t be doing advanced reading and math without those simple foundations.
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Hank Oslo
Hank Oslo@xctlot·
Dave Ramsey is just self help for people that are temperamentally unfit to deal with long term credit arrangements, it's like walking into an AA meeting and asking whether you can have one beer after work. "I don't know, can you?"
Chris@chriswithans

Someone called into the Dave Ramsey show asking if he should take out a mortgage on a first-time home when he already has $1.2 million in liquid investments. Married guy with kids from Pittsburgh. Makes $70,000; wife makes $55,000 a year. Wife wants to stay home with the kids. Looking at a $350,000 to $380,000 home in Eastern Pennsylvania. Both Dave and John Delony were insistent on paying cash for the new home. Caller would have to pay capital gains taxes on the investment sales (they inherited about $500,000 and grew it to $1.2 million) and would maybe lose out on the mortgage interest deduction. Caller seemed to know this too but Ramsey and John were adamant that he pay cash for the home to avoid having a mortgage.

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WindowManager@window_manager·
@Rainmaker1973 Back in the 90s I seriously considered taking up smoking for office networking as several senior managers and VPs went outside to the smoking area and chatted with the other smokers hanging out there.
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Massimo
Massimo@Rainmaker1973·
When you have a bad day at work but you don't smoke.
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do it qunt
do it qunt@kenoirl·
I like watching shows where there's not a single good person
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WindowManager@window_manager·
The main issue is what to put into an IRA (pre tax) versus taxable savings. I put long term index funds - which tax when they’re sold - into an IRA, and bonds which throw off regular interest payments into a taxable account, and it should have been the opposite. I’ll see if I can do a write up to explain.
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Kurt Supe, CPA & Retirement Planner
Kurt Supe, CPA & Retirement Planner@KurtSupeCPA·
Met a guy recently. Just retired at 63. $2M saved. House paid off. Zero debt. Did everything right for 30 years. Claimed Social Security early. Started pulling $110,000 a year from his IRA. Nobody told him those two decisions would collide. 85% of his Social Security is now taxable. His bracket jumped. Tax bill his first year of retirement was bigger than when he had a paycheck. And in two years when he hits 65 and goes on Medicare, IRMAA kicks in and his premiums spike on top of it. His advisor never saw it coming. Who was supposed to catch that?
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WindowManager@window_manager·
@DieinPlace I put this on as background one day while working but had had to turn it off due to Willie’s constant screaming. However I would note that the opening musical number is great, and Willie looks fetching dressed up for the Raj dinner.
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Die In Place 🗽⚔🇺🇲🪂🪖
Die In Place 🗽⚔🇺🇲🪂🪖@DieinPlace·
So many people disliked Kate's character (Willie) and clearly Short Round stole the show. But I thought she was pretty great. She was a clear divergence from Marion, which I think was necessary. If Marion were present, Short Round becomes “the kid tagging along” and would be lost in the show. With Willie, Short Round becomes the competent foil who takes indy's character to a new and important parental dimension (as does Willie strangely).
DepressedBergman@DannyDrinksWine

Steven Spielberg explains why he didn't like 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' (1984) & why he felt he was fated to make the movie: “I wasn’t happy with 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' (1984) at all. It was too dark, too subterranean, & much too horrific. I thought it out-poltered 'Poltergeist' (1982). There’s not an ounce of my own personal feeling in 'Temple of Doom'. I look back and I say, ‘Well, the greatest thing that I got out of that movie was I met Kate Capshaw. We were married years later that to me was the reason I was fated to make 'Temple of Doom'.” ("Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: An Oral History", Paul Bullock, Medium, 2017)

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WindowManager@window_manager·
@HeatherL75610 @CigsMake My thought exactly - he did it right after coming up with the “Executive Private Account” for Liberty Savings.
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Cigarette Nostalgia
Cigarette Nostalgia@CigsMake·
A 1970s Delta Air Lines ad seemingly geared toward businessmen with multiple ‘lives’ in different cities.
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cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic·
What actor will you always associate with *that one role* no matter how many others they do?
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Time Capsule Tales
Time Capsule Tales@timecaptales·
Orson Welles shares an interesting story about Winston Churchill in this classic 1970 interview with Dick Cavett
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WindowManager@window_manager·
The other way to think about it is the English system is to human scale: an inch is about the size from your finger tip to first knuckle, a foot about the length of a human foot, a yard the length from your nose to your fully outstretched arm, and about one pace. In English liquid measure, the units can be halved and halved again, useful for cooking. Metric being decimal cannot do this, and where in your bird is a centimeter? The other helpful accident is when driving on a highway in a car, you are going about a mile a minute, so a glance at a road sign that a city is 60 miles away is just about an hour away.
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ちるへる@chirno_helmet·
アメリカ人達から真面目な答えもアメリカンジョークも来て面白い ・40年前にメートル法を導入しようとしたけど広まらなかった ・日常が全てヤードポンド法だから特に困らない ・ヨーロッパの言うことに従うのは癪だから導入しない ・ヤードポンド法がアメリカ人としての意地と誇りになっている ・アメリカ独立時にフランス王室からメートル原器が寄贈されたけど、積んだ船がイギリスの海賊船に沈められた ・メートル法はゲイ
ちるへる@chirno_helmet

アメリカ人へ Xにいる日本人の多くがアメリカに好意的なのはわかってもらえたと思う。 ただ、俺を含めたそういった日本人全員がアメリカに対してどうしても許せないことがある。 ヤードポンド法という悪しき単位だ。なぜ世界標準であるメートル法を頑なに拒み続けるんだ。

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WindowManager@window_manager·
This is a rage bait post, but of course there is a high speed rail being built to Vegas on *private* funding. If it makes sense , private business steps in. Liberals prefer boondoggle projects that fleece taxpayers while lining the pockets of their cronies, and never getting completed. brightlinewest.com/overview/proje…
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WindowManager@window_manager·
My formal education focused on American and Brit lit, so I was well read in those areas by 20, but never Russian lit, which I think is more introspective and requires more life experience to appreciate. So I really enjoyed Dostoyevsky and other Russian writers as an adult, don’t think I would have earlier in life.
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John Carney
John Carney@carney·
Kids really dig the Odyssey and girls, at least, love Pride and Prejudice. But, yes, these are books that get BETTER when you read them later in life. Which is why you should read them with your kids.
milton@miltonappl3

Normalize saying the humanities is relatively indecipherable before thirty. An 18 year old reading it should consider himself bringing bricks out to a field one by one to build a house so that someday he might move into it. If you want a young man's game try mathematics.

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WindowManager@window_manager·
@skweeds @TheCinesthetic The Usual Suspects is my favorite movie, and I’m not personally insulted when people say they don’t like it.
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cinesthetic.
cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic·
If you’ve ever walked out of a movie theater because the film was so bad, which one was it?
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WindowManager@window_manager·
@TheCinesthetic Didn’t realize this would be polarizing. Looks like you either really like it, or you don’t, right down the middle.
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WindowManager@window_manager·
@TheCinesthetic Buddy wanted to see it on guys night out. We walked out 45 mins in and went to a bar.
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WindowManager@window_manager·
Sigh. My high school was not watching it live. The principal came on and announced what happened minutes later. The library and a few teachers then put tvs out with the news so stridents could see developments as it was reported so not ‘live’ but within 15 minutes of the actual event. I think many people would call this ‘live’, so this is nit picking.
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Dave W Plummer
Dave W Plummer@davepl1968·
99.9% of people who "experienced" the Challenger disaster saw it on replay and now remember it as live. Almost NO ONE was watching. Everyone thinks they were. It's a fascinating collective false memory.
Jeremy London@SirJeremyLondon

Anyone who experienced the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, like I did, is probably a bit hesitant to get too excited about the Artemis II launch today. I truly hope our children don’t have to experience such tragedy. May the Universe welcome them and return them safely home 🙏

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@ENJU1123PIPI @WallStreetApes @Rainmaker1973 @kenoirl @KurtSupeCPA @DieinPlace @HeatherL75610 @CigsMake