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I'm confused. You say that you're an ex-solicitor that is over 60 and served time for some "White Collar Stuff" as well as being convicted for money-laundering and you just got out of jail two years ago?

What exactly causes someone seemingly so successful to fall down so far? Greed? Drugs? Illness?

As far as the age situation goes, depending on how much over 60 you are...That could mean 80 and I wouldn't normally think that but well...but in any case if you are healthy you probably have another 10-15 good years ahead of you.

If you are currently working on completing a masters degree for interest sake, I assume this means you have a means of support in place and are not supporting any dependents.

I would think that looking into charitable organizations may be a good fit for someone with your past who is wanting to give back to society. I would not be looking for a career as I think unfortunately that ship has sailed and possibly sunken after crashing into the penitentiary's rocks.

Working or volunteering for a charity might make up for some of the "White Collar Stuff" in the grand scale of things (Especially if that "stuff" resulted in putting Widows and Orphans into the Poorhouse/Workhouse).

Make a list of what you want in a job rather than what you don't, then you can narrow down the search.

Now is a great time to find a job and I wouldn't limit your options to just "Tech" companies as there are plenty of other sectors that need technical people and offer a more balanced work environment due to the fact they are not solely "Tech" companies.

You can literally throw a dart at a list of sectors and find a tech job currently advertised.

If I had to make a choice from the plethora of jobs out there, I would look for something in the natural resource sector like large cap mining companies, these places still offer careers that lives can be planned around and the burn out rates are much lower.

*Edit*

Also you might not want to say your last statement to potential employers, I get your point about being OK for earning less in exchange for lower pressure but it comes across like you value your work less than that of others and an employer doesn't know any different!

Far better to make the argument that the work you do is so good that you expect a more accommodating work environment.

>>>we should just have an economy where performance is tied to how the oceans are doing

I'm pretty sure we do have that, unfortunately it seems to be a lagging indicator at this moment in time.

Please don't take this the wrong way but I think you might need to get out of the political media trap. I say this because of the way you are parroting left wing media talking points. I have been there and I have no doubt you are well educated on the all the twists and turns regarding the political landscape and may even be taking the righteous side of the argument.

The question is, what value does having that knowledge provide you? Personally I came to the realization that no matter how much I "Know" about the "Truth", it is a waste of time and effort on my part. If I had spent half the time I did following US politics and the slanted media reports from both sides on learning about the stock market and chart analysis, I would in a much better place. Political news and it's infectious outrage is an addictive and toxic product designed to suck otherwise intelligent and good people into consuming their product.

As far as the article subject I was referring to, the military has a very good track record for breaking down then remolding young ideologs into good soldiers that follow orders. Any "leftist" media reports from authors that probably will not and have not served claiming there is a threat to democracy from insidious cabals of right wing extremists are ridiculous at best and most likely political propaganda to feed the beast.

Congratulations?

I looked at your twitter and git but don't really understand what is there, but it seems you are doing the things needed to grow in such spaces.

Good luck! You have huge potential and I hope you achieve greatness in life!

Seems to me what you described is a cyclist passing on the inside or traveling in the wrong direction if there was time for the other driver to wave thanks! This would put the responsibility squarely on the cyclists shoulders. Chances are, if there was an exchange between the cyclist and the other car's driver, the car owners insurance will pay out unless you recorded their license plate number and notify your local authority as a witness, but it sounds to me like you believe the cyclist is the victim so IDK.

I was always taught to never wave or otherwise indicate to another driver to proceed but slowing down is fine, and never ever ever EVER act upon the invitation or waiving from a pedestrian to proceed(Such as a person waiting at a crosswalk that you stop for that waives you to go) as the person in the vehicle is always in charge of that situation. I know this was not your situation but feel it is relevant enough to mention.

In Canada there is an ETF with the stock symbol BITI, this is probably the safest way to short BTC.

It is important to keep in mind that any unleveraged short position can only see gains of double your investment, where as going long on an investment has no such limitation. in most cases it is far better to obtain an undervalued asset such as silver or gold currently are than to bet on an over valued asset correcting.

That being said, with the current state of BTC and the upcoming death cross, and the general liquidity of BTC... I personally will be buying some BITI(Approximately 2K CAD worth in fact) when the markets open in ~2 hours from now.

I plan on exiting my BITI position this Friday when I believe the market will have shaken out a few more Hodl'rs and there will be upward pressure from buyers again. I will go out on a limb and predict a 32K BTC value on Friday's open but in any case I will provide an update on this thread if allowed to how this worked out for me.

**Update**

I purchased 128 shares @ 15.72 CAD which had an exchange fee of $0.44 CAD this totals 2012.60 CAD, up or down I will share the sell value and costs on Friday!

I guess the engagement metrics are still up for stories like these, otherwise I can't imagine any reason other than state sponsored propaganda that can explain why news outlets are still whipping this dead horse.

IMO Domestic extremism will remain a likely threat but will be a drop in the bucket compared to the extreme poverty and natural disasters on deck for the coming years.

It won't be right or left ideologies that drive domestic terror but a sense of hopelessness and irrelevance of the previous well off youth that soon will find themselves destitute.

So many young people have already given up and made the decision to not return to work, the Fed is signaling interest rate rises and food production has been on the decline for several years. I believe there are only two outcomes that can result from such a situation... Either a global depression or war...or both.

When millions of young people decide not to work for whatever reason, be it justified or not, historically their value in society is diminished and has resulted in many being pressed into war through malnourishment or mandate.

This is such a load of crap.

I will agree with the argument that a greater tone range is required to present a greater diversity of skin tones but to imply that somehow the limits of a new technology has an intentional or unintentional bias on behalf of "Whitey" is just dumb.

The video throws up a few examples of good and bad photos and then makes the claim that they are proof that film was racist. I wonder if there are any good photos of red herrings?

The truth is photography used to require a great deal of skill in order to produce a quality image regardless of skin color and the examples given with mixed races, where one group appears "In a better light" than the other is more of an example of a bad photographer than a bad film product.

Is it probable that certain light meters had default "Ideal" values and the people reading them were biased towards lighter skins? Of course but to claim that color film somehow hurt people with dark skin is just ridiculous. There were plenty of images where the lighting was incorrect and the white people looked washed out like vampires or phantoms too, this video just chose to omit them to make a false and divisive argument.

Yes film companies like Kodak chose to market certain film products towards dark skinned people in the 70s but that is not proof of a racist product but rather a company targeting a demographic with rising purchasing power. In fact a better argument could be made that marketing towards specific demographics under the guise of inclusivity is manipulative and predatory.

I think in some ways because we live in an age of extremely low priced and high quality digital cameras, people forget the amount of work that was required to produce a quality photograph when color film first came out.

Edit* The Video also begins by mentioning the Shirley cards used in the developing of film, developing of film required just as much if not more skill than taking the picture. Again I believe the understanding of the amount of time and care required to produce a quality photograph back then is not understood by many people these days.

Interesting experiments, I believe the video got the purpose of the cornstarch wrong however and by conducting the experiment in a slightly different way may produce a better end product.

When refining materials such as metals the cornstarch's main purpose is to provide a medium to collect the excess oxygen driven off the materials from heating through the burning of the starch which from my understanding tends to more readily bind with oxygen and prevent it from binding with the target materials. Likewise the borate is used to produce a glass like top layer to prevent atmospheric oxygen from entering the mold during the melting process. I believe a higher temperature is required and that makes the paper TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, however a less homogenized mixture with stratified layers of borax above and silicon carbide below while constrained within a canister or cone mold and firing at the higher temperature of 1000C as the video creator claims he did experiment with in the end, would produce a much better result .

It may even be possible to envelope the object in an inert gas when firing and eliminate the borax all together.

Link to the Paper discussed? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21870764.2019.17...

ugg, unfortunately you are right I guess. I don't think a company should be forced to provide service or goods to anyone and has the right to refuse. I do however think they should also accept the social and economic consequences to come from making these decisions. Including as a consequence, the making people aware of the decisions and statements they make that result in the exclusion of a particular demographic.

I am trying to be more positive and feel it is important to remember every comment on a forum is also not an invitation to an argument.

Well I did not demand their attention so I suppose that is a different thing, in fact I did attempt to engage them with questions but after a few "Huh What?" when they look up from their phones, then a one word answer and back to their phones...I just ate my meal in silence.

I agree no one wants to listen to someone drone on and on, or brag about themselves but that is not what was going on in this specific case.

The truth is it was only a lunch and now that I know how going to lunch with these guys works, I just wont bother inviting them again. I just needed to vent a bit I suppose, and you are correct it would be rude to make my opinion of their conduct known to them and would have come across as a demand for their attention.

>>> The other party also has to make an effort not to be boring, and that effort is rarely made either.

Would you please elaborate what you mean by this?

I am familiar with how conversations work or at least how they used to...

This looking at your phone and tuning out of a conversation seems to be somethin new and lacking as you said, manners.

Yeah I think that might be the one, it has been a while since I watched it.

The story's headline is "Indian comedian jailed for joke he didn't even tell"...so it matters to the people reading the story, otherwise it is not a very good story.

if it is not important, then why include it in the headline?

This is very true, it reminds me of when Chip Wilson said LuLuLemon yoga pants are not meant for fat girls!

https://dietsinreview.com/diet_column/11/no-fat-girls-allowe...

So what was the joke? At the bare minimum a description of the joke seems like a crucial part to this story.

This seems to be very close to the number of Traffic Fatalities for 2021. From the way the news media reports on gun violence, I thought that the number of gun deaths was much higher than vehicle related deaths.

https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

I agree with most everything you have said but wonder if it is just the internet or everywhere these days.

I recently went through a McDonalds drive thru for the first time in a very long time and felt a longing for the old menu boards that had items and prices clearly listed instead of these TV screens with all the items and prices scattered about like a teenage girls dream collage.

I walked into a new BestBuy store picked up an item and could not find where to pay, apparently checkouts and queues for customers no longer make sense to their business model. I had three people walk past me before one finally asked if I needed help, I said "yes I would like to buy this" they told me they were going on break but directed me over to what looked like a 1980s nightclub coat check counter, where I waited another 10 minutes before leaving the item on the counter and walking out.

The busses no longer accept cash in my city, you need to buy a prepaid card from a transit hub or from one of their partner retailers. So I need to get a ride to the store to get a bus pass?!?

Everyone knows about self checkouts at grocery stores but now with online shopping services, it is like running through a gauntlet with gig workers blasting their way up and down the isles with no patients for us analog shoppers that don't know exactly where our items are located on the shelves.

At the risk of sounding even more like a crotchety old man, people in public these days spend most of their time with their heads down looking at their phones. I took a couple friends out for lunch and was unable to have a meaningful conversation as they felt whatever was on their phones was more interesting than conversing with the sucker buying them lunch.

There was a movie where a guy got out of prison after a lengthy sentence and his words seem to ring more true to me each and every day: "The world got itself in a damn hurry and it seems there is no place now for a feeble old man like me"

*Regarding Your comment about 2FA I recently purchased a hard to find item from a website that only accepted ShopPay, they required 2FA through my phone which was fine but now every time I load a checkout page that does accept other methods, ShopPay hammers out another text message and has managed to become my default method of payment, it now takes me extra effort to change my payment method back to what I want.

Absolutely nothing, the article I read was about the pain and suffering a tourist experiences when they order extra spicy hot chicken. I think that if you enjoy the spice and feel no discomfort then the spices are at the correct level for you.

I don't want to turn this into an argument about consuming chicken but I feel I must share my point of view regarding this matter. I am fortunate enough to have enough space to raise a personal flock of chickens and on occasion I am required to end their lives. This is absolutely not something that I take pleasure in but feel that I have provided a good life without pain and anxiety to my animals and although they do suffer a brief moment of anxiety and possibly pain, I have taken the responsibility of raising my own meat including the dispatching of their short lives in a humane way. I am personally against factory farms for their affect on the environment and in my opinion production of a lower quality meat but feel that my animals have one bad moment on my farm and a far better than average life otherwise, unlike what occurs in large factory chicken houses and processing plants. I respect life in all it's forms and believe there is a place where the consumption of animals and their welfare can coexist.

Consider the humanity of euthanizing a pet, to argue killing is diametrically opposed to an animals welfare is a false statement.

Probably the best example of a good balance is the legendary Sushi chefs who use the blowfish as an ingredient to allow enough poison to achieve the desired effect but not so much as to make the customer gravely ill.

Another example might be what seems to be occurring with the opioid endemic.

Please research shock and endorphin release and reconsider your argument.

I understand that many people enjoy the sensations related to eating highly spiced foods but as the article mention this can result in hours of digestive discomfort and sometimes there is a 3 day price to pay for indulging in such activity when expelling what was consumed.

I feel there is a reasonable argument that pleasure through pain is a self destructive activity along the lines of "cutting" or auto erotic self asphyxiation.

Glorifying such things is in my opinion has a negative outcome.

I think there is a definite enhancement to foods that spices provide but there is a big difference between enough spice to break a sweat and having a numbness on your pallet for example and feeling like you are going to die.

Like I said I like spicy food but not to extreme that my stomach is upset for hours after eating it and finding myself suffering on the back end for 3 days after eating it.

At some point it is just self abuse and should not be seen as a sign of strength or masculinity but rather stupidity along the lines of eating Tide pods or doing the cinnamon challenge solely for the entertainment of others watching you suffer.

This is such a happy story but I'm so cynical there is a little voice in the back of my head saying "Oh sure a social worker found an abandoned baby..."

It is a nice story though and a breath of fresh air with so much bad news these days.

Thanks for linking the paper, I was wondering if Microsoft had bought up a bunch of physicists and had them working in some sort of "Lex Luthorish" lab in the bowels of a Redmond office building.

I see now that the authors are in fact institutional scholars that I am guessing Microsoft provided philanthropic funding to?

It will be interesting to see if the James Webb telescope can shed some light (Figuratively) on this subject.

I am unsure of the original source but is has been said that "If You want something done ask a busy person." Some say it was Benjamin Franklin.

I think there is truth in this statement and believe that asking my next door neighbor that has built two sheds in their back yard to help me with a job would work out far better than asking my next door neighbor on the other side that is always lounging on their deck with a drink in their hand.

Are these physicists working with or for Microsoft?

To the best of my primitive mind, am I correct in understanding their theory is the laws of physics in the universe are permanently changing over time, and because we are within this universe of constantly changing laws, we do not have the perspective to observe these changes or recreate them in a mathematical model?

Gold is looks promising for 2022/2023 and depending which country your in, you can avoid VAT. The good and bad with holding physical gold is it is both safe and dangerous to hold because it is very liquid and can be sold quickly without many questions. I would probably allocate 15%-20% of Your 100K and pick up 10 1 ounce coins (Probably go with Britannias or Philharmonics for Europe), which would take up less space than a D Cell battery and be easy to hide. You probably wont get rich from them but gold makes a great security blanket or seed to get back into the real-estate market when you choose to do so.

Sorry, it is an Eastern European thing I suppose and is intended as a show of respect. I missed a number of years of basic English theory due to attending language immersion schools where the foundational elements of English grammar that should have been taught to me in my formative years, were quickly brushed over if taught at all.

I am also terrible at punctuation and have a terrible time remembering which side to put the "$" when referring to money. As far as capitalizing pronouns, it is a bad habit that I have and something I unconsciously do. It has never been pointed out before and I'm not sure if I should thank "you" or not as your comment comes off a bit like an ad hominem attack. I am actively making an effort to be more positive so I will assume your intentions were good and instead say.

Thank you or Thank You? How about just Thanks for pointing it out!