April showers
Bring mud and sometimes growth
I don’t really understand how to navigate Reddit, but I do often google things to specifically find Reddit reviews of things because reviews on ecommerce channels are… not good. So basically I agree with this. (also it links to this, which, yay I’ve found my conspiracy theory at last:
If I was real I’m pretty sure I’d be out there living each day to the fullest and experiencing everything I possibly could with every given moment of the relatively infinitesimal amount of time I’ll exist for instead of posting on the internet about nonsense.
Anyway. Happy maybe-spring! Here are some things I’ve read over the past, ehhhh 6 10 weeks since I started this draft:
“many employers want to hire people who are passionate about their work… not only because they think they'll be hard workers… but because "‘they expect that people who are passionate about their work will put in more work without demanding an increase in pay’." MmmmHmmmmmm.
the last few years have been very interesting for those of us sort of mildly fascinated by supply chain and logistics things. did you know about the abandoned cargo container Storage Wars-type buyers out there? related: did you ever wonder if you could buy a used (OK… salvaged… and “not airworthy”) private jet? I learned about this too late for my ~gift guide~, but it turns out, you can.
obviously I love everything about this
but I love this even more 😍😍😍
this two-sided Samsung was completely unusable but I loved it
the LG Rumor was a flawless communication tool
I can’t find my first phone in here, which I still think of fondly. I think it was manufactured by Qualcomm, but was not obviously branded in any way; shoutout to Sprint PCS circa 2000, and its offbeat network and device inventory. a web browser on a deep forest green feature phone, 22 years ago! that thing was great. I think I was using it well into the era of getting movie showtimes via SMS.
legitimately impressed by the actions of the well-known forward-thinking, progressive housing advocacy organization uhhhh Vail Mountain Resorts?
I’m not sure how I fell down the rabbit hole of mortgage explainers today but this is a good one. it uh, obviously has an opinion, just in case you were feeling very warm and fuzzy about your 30-year mortgage…?
“You find a lot of writers right now asking, essentially, why bet against Andreessen Horowitz? Which I understand! But my feeling is also: Why do I have to bet at all?! Why am I in this awful, ugly, unfun casino in the first place??” related: “a strong, well-protected brain consumes very little content, and it undertakes caution and restraint with what content it does consume”
also related, but from last year, but newly-relevant because of shocking(?) recent hack:
Doesn’t it feel like the dystopian future we deserve? Like in a decade everyone will make their living by steering colorful blob-like creatures around to acquire coins in a virtual world, but ownership of the colorful blob-like virtual creatures will be concentrated among a hereditary elite of people who, like, bought Dogecoin in 2014, and in order to scrape together enough to live on you will need to indenture yourself to a member of that elite, steering their blob-like virtual creatures around to earn coins for them and getting a few crumbs for yourself. And you’ll work 16-hour days in the Smooth Love Potions mines just to feed your children, but every once in a while in a rare free moment you will stop and ask yourself “wait why do our overlords want all these Smooth Love Potions anyway?”
learning is fun (from that list; this explanation of images representing primarily dead, rather than “flying”, butterflies is really interesting)
space is so cool and I would like a movie about the JWST design, launch, and resulting images
“There’s a kind of elitism that says it’s important to pretend that hard things come easy, and a disdain for people whose professional arcs carry the stench of effort.”
a not as long, not as dense, but far more personal bleak read. Do not under any circumstances read the comments!
ignore the subject because ugh and this is a nice heartwarming tale of tracking the excessive carbon emissions of billionaires who… care a lot about the environment (…??).
more fun: eight hours and thousands of viewers watching big jets land at Heathrow in strong winds 🛬
ahhhhh this whole thing ahhhh: “logs only displayed the fact that a Privileged User had logged on or off, “but not what actions they had taken whilst the Privileged User was logged in”. Therefore the actions they were taking when logged in were being neither recorded nor audited. All that could be seen is they were logged in.”