Avatar
wymike
9e0662f73823bca4ad400e26c6f2ba2f6cf69d6b9d42383f2662c85846eee159

You got me but it’s way past my bedtime. Guess I’ll have to wait until the morning to find out what happens at 0.

1st sail in his own boat!

#sailing

I can’t stand the smell of coffee.

Not particularly a fan of tea either.

It takes more effort than you might think turning down hot drinks.

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

A lot of people look down on blue collar work, which I think is misguided. Especially for skilled blue collar work (and most type of work does benefit from skill/experience).

Basically, there’s a popular notion that it’s objectively better to be a CEO than a plumber, or an engineer than a barber, and that’s pretty off base. So it’s not that they criticize blue collar work in any overt way; it’s that they assume that that people in “lower” jobs would all want to be in “higher” roles if they had the choice. A technician would want to be an engineer. A janitor would want to be a CEO.

There are a lot of studies on job happiness and one of the most consistent correlations is that people are happier when they get more immediate feedback. Like if you cut people’s hair or fix mechanical issues or wire up electronic boxes, you often resolve things in minutes, hours, days, or weeks depending the specific task, and with progress along the way, so you get that quick feedback loop where you see the positive results of your work quickly and tangibly. Nothing lingers, unclear and vague.

And for those jobs, often when you’re outside of work hours, you’re truly out. You don’t have to think about it. You can fully devote your focus elsewhere. There’s not some major thing hanging over your head, other than sometimes financial stress or indirect things.

Now, obviously jobs with more complexity and compensation and scale give people other benefits. More material comfort and safety, more power to impact the world at scale, more public prestige, etc. and for some people that’s important for happiness, and for others it is not. And the cost is that it’s generally highly competitive, rarely if ever turns off, and usually comes with much slower and more vague feedback loops in terms of seeing or feeling whether your work is making things better or not.

There was a time in my life where wiring up electronic boxes was really satisfying. Each project had a practical purpose but then also was kind of an artform since I wanted it to look neat for aesthetic and maintainability purposes. I would work on these things like a bonsai enthusiast would sculpt bonsai. And then eventually I would design larger systems and have technicians wire them instead, but for some of the foundational starting points I’d still set up the initial core pieces to get it started right. I wasn’t thrilled when I realistically had to give that up when I moved into management for a while.

I have a housekeeper clean my house every couple weeks. She’s a true pro; she used to clean high-end hotels for years and now works for herself cleaning houses. When we travel, she can let herself in and clean our place, since we trust her.

She doesn’t speak much English, but her daughter does, and that daughter recently graduated college.

Notably, she consistently sings while she cleans. She could listen to music or podcasts but doesn’t. She just sings every time she cleans. I can tell she’s generally in a state of flow while cleaning. She’s good at what she does, and it’s kind of a meditative experience involving repetition but also experience to do it properly and efficiently and then a satisfying conclusion of leaving things better than how they were found. Turning chaos to order.

Last year she was hit by a truck while driving, and had to be out of work for a few months to recover. When she came back, we just back-paid her the normal rate for those few months as though she cleaned on schedule, so she wouldn’t have any income gap from us. Full pay despite a work gap. She was shocked when we did that. We weren’t sure her financial situation (I assume it’s pretty good actually based on her rate), but basically we just treated the situation as though she were salaried with benefits even though she works on a per-job basis. Because skilled, trustworthy, and happy people are hard to come by and worth helping and maintaining connections with.

If I were to guess, I honestly think she is a happier person than I am on a day to day basis. It’s not that I’m unhappy; it’s that I think whatever percentage I might be on the subjective mood scale, she is visibly higher. I experience a state of flow in my work, and my type of work gives me a more frequent state of flow than other work I could do, but I think her work gives her an even higher ratio of flow.

Anyway, my point is that optionality is important. While it’s true that some jobs suck and some jobs are awesome, and financial security matters a lot, for the most part it’s more about how suited you are for a particular type of work at a particular phase in your life. And you’re not defined by your work; it’s just one facet of who you are among several facets.

Find what gives you a good state of flow, pays your bills, lets you save a surplus, and lets you express yourself in one way or another.

Can confirm. Have worked at all levels of the industry that I am in and was always happiest when delivering directly to customers even though the salary was significantly lower. Unfortunately it was so low that in order to stay in the industry and be able to raise a family I had no choice but to move into ever more senior roles.

Such is life.

What’s with ‘husr’ and ‘hue’? Saw this somewhere else and dismissed it as a typo

Replying to Avatar Zeb 摆烂

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqncrx9aecyw72ft2qpcnvdu469ak0d8ttn4prs0exvty9s3hwu9vsldexps

Fair enough.. I saw the below picture were there was this huge mist over the coast of Spain, it makes sense they are heading north.

Guess the enjoy kicking the uk while it's down.

They wouldn’t even notice, it permanently cloudy anyway 😂

Great, thanks. I enjoyed this interaction. You made some excellent, well reasoned points.

Who said anything about lying?

My point was that there is no financial incentive IMO.

I just can’t see any logic in the theory.

What do they say? Follow the money.

1) spend a lot on developing, testing and deploying this contrail technology. This would have to include their own fleet of planes or paying off airline companies + presumably some amount of lobbying to get regulators and government to look the other way. That’s a significant outlay.

2) continue to deploy for an unknown amount of time until farmers yields become so low they decide to sell their farms.

Falling yields would presumably lead to food shortages and rising food prices.

We’re already seeing populations declining because of the cost of living so it stands to reason that food shortages and increased prices would exacerbate this.

How long have contrails been talked about, 5 years? Food prices have gone up during that time but not because of falling yields. So that’s 5 years of expenses on this either 0 return and no proof of concept.

Farmers would probably need 3 bad years in a row to call it quits so even if it starts working now that’s still another 3 years of expenses.

3) buy farms at cheap prices and start to farm them directly.

So let’s be generous and say it’s a decade from 1st dollar spent to 1st farm purchased.

Then what? Buy all the farms, control the food supply, jack up prices so you can turn a profit running the farms and make a return on the decade + of investment.

But people are already struggling because of increased prices. Increasing food prices more is going to contribute to populations continuing to fall. Lower population = less food sold = less money for the evil corporations.

I’m not trying to pick a fight. I am asking for anyone to lay out a logical reason as to why companies would want to do this because I can’t see what the financial incentive is and ‘power’ is not typically what incentivises companies to make massive investments of extremely long periods of time.

I’m not arguing if the vaccines were safe or not, simply on the science of how they work so Biologists please correct me if I’m wrong.

RNA doesn’t change your DNA its function is to tell the cell organelles what to do.

The m stands for messenger.

In the mRNA ‘vaccines’ the mRNA gives all cell organelles the same set if instructions.

This bypasses the need to have the immune system meet the virus and create its own anti bodies (which is how a ‘traditional’ vaccine or actually catching the ‘disease’ works). With mRNA you jump straight to the ‘vaccine’ telling your body “make this”.

What I am trying to say is that the mechanism by which an immune response is created is fundamentally different in an mRNA vaccine compared to a traditional style vaccine and so it’s factually inaccurate to say that everyone who received a vaccine was injected with mRNA unless the vaccine companies who produced ‘traditional’ vaccines lied about what was in them and no-one bothered to check.

And that’s the group approved conspiracy theory is it?

I suppose if you squint hard enough and forget about the fact that Bayer and Monsanto are public traded companies which fiduciary duties to their share holders you could maybe see that almost making sense.

But Monsanto Bayer already make a killing just selling stuff to farmers who then take all the risk of crop failures etc and work very hard to make almost no profit. Why would Monsanto and Bayer want to take on that extra risk and extra work for absolutely minimal profits? There is no financial incentive there for them.

And Bill Gates is involved why?

Please elaborate.

What are they trying to achieve?

How do they benefit?

Seems like a collusion of that magnitude would be hard to keep under wraps.

Going to take my boy sailing in his 1st Optimist.

In what way is Spain being targeted. Would you have me believe that the people perpetrating this ‘conspiracy’ understand how to make clouds but not how pressure systems affect those clouds? The ‘contrails’ shown in the picture never make landfall over Spain, they move north towards the British isles

Replying to Avatar ₿en Wehrman

Would be interested to read that research, do you have a link?