at 65 people should be sipping lemonade on a porch somewhere, instead they have to write pages begging people to treat them like human beings while working for minimum or less
Jay Leno says he hosted the Tonight Show for 22 years and never touched one paycheck from it
‘My rule since I got two jobs when I was a kid: I’d bank one and spend the other, so as the highest paid man in the late night I lived entirely off my weekend stand up gigs’
‘150-200 shows a year and banked every NBC check untouched, no financial advisor no manger taking cut no debt on the 180 car garage’
‘I always assume the TV thing could end tomorrow’
I don’t want to "download the app" to pay for parking. I don’t want to "create an account" to see a menu. I don’t want to "provide feedback" on a 30-second interaction. I just want to exist in the physical world without a digital leash.
someone once told me “emotional intelligence is the discipline of sitting with a feeling long enough to understand it before you hand it to someone else” and that honestly changed how i move.
Honestly I think the FTC and state attorneys general need to start suing companies for false advertising if they use AI photos for their food. That includes on Uber Eats and Door Dash
A jury in New York just convicted a man of stealing two Harlem brownstones with forged deeds, about $4.7 million worth of real estate. One of his victims, an elderly homeowner, spent years in a homeless shelter while he rented the building out as market-rate apartments. He's facing up to 25 years.