Paul Dausman

Inveterately Curious.

[Szymanski @Szymansk_ii]

Next time you think of giving up, remember this photo of Elon in 2008.

[Paul Dausman @pdausman]

@FreddyLA7 A reminder to everyone on these threads. You can just do this. Drive around and see things and eat food. People forget sometimes you can just do this. :)

[Michael Morelli @morellifit]

GLP-1s were initially developed to manage type 2 diabetes, but are now showing profound anti-cancer signals across three studies and more than a million patients.

The evidence looks promising: (1/11)

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America, a stranger will rename you in a single breath, and you are simply expected to come when called.

I went to eat at a busy restaurant. A young man at the front asked for my name, to mark my place in line. I gave it the weight it has carried for eight hundred years.

"Nobunaga."

He smiled, nodded, and wrote it down with great confidence. Then he read it back to me, to be sure he had honored it correctly.

"Perfect. Banana, party of one."

Banana. He had heard my name, held it a moment, and returned to me something rounder and more cheerful. To refuse the name a host gives is to refuse his welcome. I bowed. I was Banana now.

Then he handed me a small black disc, said it would "light up and buzz" when my table was ready, and turned to the next guest as though he had not just placed a living thing in my hands.

I held it in both palms, the way one holds a small sleeping beast that may wake. I found a place to stand. I waited, ready.

It woke.

It screamed. It flashed red. It leapt and shook in my hands like a captured spirit demanding release. A lesser man would have dropped it. I did not. I gripped it, steady, looked into its blinking lights, and told it, in a low voice, that its time had come. Then I carried it back to the host with both hands, the way one returns a hawk to its master.

He took it without looking and shouted across the entire room.

"BANANA! Party of one, your table's ready!"

A hundred strangers turned. I rose. I crossed that floor as Banana, spine straight, chin level, a man answering to his name. A child pointed at me. I gave the child a small bow. He had recognized me.

All through the meal they kept me. "How's it tasting, Banana?" "More water, Banana?" The check, when it came, said Banana, and thanked me for visiting. By the end the whole staff knew me. They waved as I left. "Night, Banana!"

So tell me honestly.

For eight hundred years my clan answered to one name. Tonight I answered to a fruit, calmed a screaming relic in my bare hands, and ate among people who were glad I came.

When the little disc lights up, is the table truly mine, or am I only keeping it warm for the next Banana?

Because I have already decided to return on Friday, and to ask, very humbly, for the same disc.

[A. Mando @AMandoSch]

Being a lawyer is saying "I just need to get through this hearing/deposition/other appointment this week and then things will calm down" for forty years and before you know it you are 70 years old telling people that you have been practicing law for 40 years with no Bar Grievances filed, and finally your reward arrives in the form of a heart attack or a stroke out at your work desk and the state Bar finally takes an action on your status but it's just to mark you "deceased."

[Evan Dawson @evandawson]

One of the greatest videos on this here platform, ever

[Paul Dausman @pdausman]

@electronranger @bettersafetynet Either that or broadening the responsibilities of the product owner to sales and marketing. More autonomy.

[Paul Dausman @pdausman]

@USAfricaCommand @SeanParnellUSA Comedy gold when Trump gets to announce a guy named Abu died like a dog.

[Marie Isabella @MarieIsabellaB]

Most likely🤣😂

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Idea: An anonymous “vote to end meeting” button on Teams where if 50% of people press it, the meeting ends immediately.

[fudge @fuckpoasting]

asking your homies what you did when you blacked out last night

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Sometimes this world wears you out and leaves you cynical … and then you see a moment like this and realize there will always be more good than bad.

[kevconrad 🚀🐘 @kevconrad2]

Unbelievable. We have personal iPhone footage from an astronaut going around the far side of the Moon capturing the Earth setting behind it.

[Aron Fromm @aronfromm]

A little short I made about Norm.