Ezz

If you don't act as if it's true, you can't convince me it is.

[Kevin Dahlstrom @Camp4]

Nobody on their deathbed says, “I should have spent more time in the office.”

At some point, you have to ask yourself:

What am I optimizing for?

Having spent 19 years in an office and 12 working from home, here’s the truth:

He’s probably right that if you’re solely optimizing for work productivity, commuting to an office every day is better.

By how much is highly debatable because a lot of wasted time and inefficiency happens in offices. It probably varies widely by person, but as a creative type, I find offices soul-crushing. I’m far less productive there.

If you’re like me and you aspire for more than just a great career, then working from home is the #2 unlock. (#1 is a stay-at-home spouse. If you have both, it’s a 10X multiplier.)

The life I want to live simply isn’t possible if I’m sitting in an office (or in traffic) most of the day. I’ll take a small productivity hit (and less money!) in exchange for:

1) Unhurried mornings.

2) Zero time sitting in traffic.

3) Little 5-minute interactions with the family throughout the day. (I call them “in-between moments” and they compound massively.)

4) Wearing shorts and a t-shirt.

5) Exercise and outdoor time when there’s a break in the action. (For me, it’s *part of* the work.)

6) Being able to eat healthy.

Final thought:

Be careful who you emulate… because you just might pull it off.

Before you take someone’s advice, make sure you inspect their *whole* life, not just their career. Ask yourself, “Is this what I want?”

P.S. There are seasons to life and there’s a season to put your head down and grind to get ahead. But seasons have an end—do it as a means to get to that end.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Starmer resigns - he has been a truly disgraceful Prime Minister.

I do not believe him to be a good man or a patriot.

He has deliberately and rapidly accelerated the destruction of our Britain, of our home.

History will not remember him kindly, nor should it.

I sat in Parliament, looking him in the eye, listening to him attempting to justify his decision to block a national inquiry into the mass rape of young British girls.

I will never forgive him. For that, and so much else.

What comes next, I do not know.

Whatever that is, Restore Britain will be ready to offer the British people a democratic route out - a better way, the only way.

But Starmer is gone.

And that is a good thing.

Enjoy it.

[Genki✨ @Genki_JPN]

Famitsu did a nationwide survey of the game people most want to see get a remake or remaster! (5,400 people)

1. Chrono Trigger
2. Xenogears
3. Pokémon Black and White
4. Final Fantasy VIII
5. Tales of the Abyss
6. Persona 2
7. Sakura Wars
8. Final Fantasy IX
9. Dragon Quest IX
10. Final Fantasy VI
11. Bloodborne
12. Persona 1
13. Tales of Eternia
14. Dragon Quest V
15. Shadow Hearts
16. Sengoku Basara

[Ezz @intropist]

@LReeshus @eugyppius1 One network here doesn’t even call them hydration breaks, but match breaks.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Okay, time to explain the Imperial system, the metric system, and why attempts to replace either with the other are all retarded.

They have two different purposes.

The metric system is designed around precise measurement of objects. Its goal is to make engineering and scientific calculations simple.

The Imperial system is designed around humans. Its goal is to make calculation unnecessary.

100 degrees is really hot. 0 degrees is really cold. Anything that starts with a 5 is cool, anything that starts with an 8 is warm. No computation.

6 feet is tall, 5 feet is short.

100 pounds is light, 200 pounds is substantial, 300 pounds is heavy.

A 1000 square foot house is small, a 2000 square foot house is medium, a 3000 square foot house is large.

1 mile is a short walk, 2 miles is a medium walk, after that it takes a while.

1 acre of land is a homestead, 10 acres is an estate, 100 acres and up is a ranch or a farm.

Do you see now why it is so strange and awkward to convert from miles to feet?

It's because converting from miles to feet is not something you're supposed to do in the first place. Yes, they are both measures of length, so they are technically convertible, and yes, on rare occasions, you might need to do that.

But feet are for measuring humans, and things built around humans, like doorways, and mattresses. Miles are for measuring travel distance.

You wouldn't measure the distance between Seattle and Portland in feet for the same reason you wouldn't measure the distance between Tokyo and Osaka in mattress-lengths.

It would be silly.

This is why Americans so fiercely resistant to any notion of "conversion" to the metric system. Because it makes no sense. We already use the metric system for what it's good for, which is doing physics and chemistry and whatnot.

But converting everyday measurements to the metric system would be less useful, generally inconvenient, and serve no purpose other than to make petty government bureaucrats happy that everything is now tidy, orderly, and worse, three qualities that bureaucrats love.

I thought about this carefully when I wrote my first science fiction novel. In the world of the 22nd century, extraterrestrial settlers ("Orbitals") use three systems of measurement.

They measure themselves in feet, inches, and pounds.

They measure the spacecraft and habitats they build in meters and centimeters, grams and kilograms.

And they measure space travel distances in light-seconds and light-minutes.

Each system has its own natural scale.

The sole exception to this is when Marcus doses himself with drugs for high-g resistance, Miranda objects that he has taken too much, and Marcus responds by stating his mass... in kilograms.

Why?

Because they're talking about drug doses, a engineering measurement. Drugs are dosed in milligrams per kilogram.

So, yes, the Imperial system makes perfect sense when you understand what it's for, and no, we ain't changing.

And, as a general rule, when an entire civilization of smart people does something for centuries, and it makes no sense to you, they're probably not being silly.

It's more likely there's something you don't know.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

The Feminists sure are quiet about 250,000 UK girls being raped by Pakistani men.

Weird!

[Jamie Bambrick @j_bambrick]

Here are eight essential quotes from @RupertLowe10's Rape Gang Inquiry.

1) This was a nationwide, not merely local, phenomenon.

"...that this was never a series of isolated local failures. It was a coordinated, nationwide pattern of organised child sexual exploitation that repeated in town after town, city after city, from the far north to the south coast."

2) The scale was enormous, more than anyone dared to think.

"The scale of the crimes committed is staggering. It has been previously established that, at the very least, 250,000 young white girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion, and lifelong trauma. The true number is probably higher."

3) As has been reported, the vast majority of perpetrators were Pakistani Muslims.

" In court records and official inquiries, around 87% of those convicted in these group-based child sexual exploitation (‘CSE’) cases bore distinctively Muslim names... Dr. Taj Hargey, an imam with the Oxford Islamic Congregation, believes the true proportion of gang members who are Muslims to be around 95%."

4) Vulnerable girls were targeted using a consistent method.

"Organised networks of perpetrators built coordinated operations that transported victims between locations, supplied them with drugs and alcohol, recorded abuse for distribution and blackmail, and passed girls between multiple adult men."

5) The police, and other institutions, knew what was happening and ignored it.

"Police forces ignored repeated reports, criminalised victims instead of perpetrators, destroyed evidence, and allowed known rapists to walk free on bail. Social care services undermined protective parents, placed children in trafficking hubs inside children’s homes, closed cases despite clear indicators of exploitation, and retaliated against whistleblowers. The NHS recorded genital injuries, multiple sexually transmitted infections in children as young as 13, pregnancies caused by rape, and suicide attempts, yet discharged victims back to their abusers without safeguarding referrals or trauma care. Schools observed older men collecting girls at the gates, heard disclosures of rape on school premises, and responded by excluding victims rather than protecting them."

6) Those in these institutions did so because they were afraid of being called 'racist'.

"Political correctness, fear of accusations of racism, and fear of losing electoral support from certain demographics have taken precedence over the protection of British children."

7) Parts of the foster and orphan care system became exploitation hotspots.

"Children’s homes became trafficking hubs where staff failed to stop older men collecting girls at night. Local authorities often returned children to unsafe homes and placements despite repeated disclosures of grooming... Social care across England systematically enabled organised grooming and the rape of children. Children’s services, local authorities, foster carers, children’s homes, and independent units repeatedly returned vulnerable children to known risk."

8) Multiple offenders explicitly linked their treatment of these girls with their own religious and cultural beliefs, and the girls' white ethnicity.

"They were taken to houses, flats, restaurants, and hotels where they were raped repeatedly by groups of men, tortured, filmed for blackmail, and told they were “white trash” or “kuffar” who merited punishment."

There must be comeuppance for this, and it must involve the death penalty.

[DHH @dhh]

What a vile publication.

[Dissident West @dissidentwest]

We can either end birthright citizenship or lose the country forever.

Those are the options.

[DHH @dhh]

May Europe one day wake up and start striving for this level of capitalistic homerun. Dump the degrowth nonsense, celebrate progress, and once again reach for the stars.

[America @america]

America is the greatest country in the world and it’s not even close 🇺🇸

[Dr Manhattva @Manhattva]

Confirmed:

Tom Cruise is a patriot.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Saving LA - Phase III

[Ezz @intropist]

@GHOSTDATA_ Yeah it’s insane. I built a top end pc before everything went nuts and it’s been a terrific decision. Every single part is like 2x-5x more than I paid now.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

A Government that's more concerned about Elon Musk than murderous third world migrants attempting to behead us in the street.

The Labour Party is a disgrace.

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

The vibes are insane. Driving through the great state of Louisiana on our way to New Orleans. It’s crazy how diverse this country is, every day the scenery looks different.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

.@elonmusk should respond to Labour MPs blaming him for civil unrest by removing the feature to disable replies.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Millions must go.

[Callum @AkkadSecretary]

Must be nice to have a homeland to flee too

[Austen Allred @Austen]

Absolutely blows my mind that people still look at the most obvious engineering challenges ever and assume no one at SpaceX is solving for that.

They’re running the biggest satellite constellations in existence, launched from reusable rockets.

They know what a fkn vacuum is.