Money

I unwittingly had shares in a company that made fentanyl before the crisis hit. I had the shares for something else they produced; didn’t know the company made fentanyl. The CEO and top managers were arrested and convicted because of some perversely unlawful activity. The stock became worthless and I was severely burnt. It felt a bit off that the millionaires at the top apparently got to keep their own money as they went to prison. They were naturally shielded from the company structure. My stock was worth zero and I recovered nothing from the bankruptcy. Lost every penny.

I thought perhaps fair enough. The risk was mine as a shareholder. Risk is what we sign up for when playing in the stock market.

Yet Facebook shareholders are suing Zuck personally on the basis of a civil offense, not criminal, for deliberately violating the privacy policy? FB is nowhere near bankrupt. Did it even take a notable long-term hit from the Cambridge Analytica scandal?

From a utilitarian standpoint, FB shareholders are scum for supporting that shitty company (neglecting holders of mutual funds and other managed funds where they lack awareness and control). OTOH, Zuck himself is the biggest piece of shit. It’s bad-on-bad, and Zuck losing his ass is justice.

But then I have to wonder, if Zuck loses the corporate shield that protects his personal money over a violating a contract, why do shareholders of a drug company not get the same privilege when it acts criminally?

I guess a reminder to spend them if you have them, or encourage friends to do so... otherwise this is free money for corporations to continue to reap investing gains on

Stumbled upon this concept of focusing on managing your energy instead of time; the idea is you could have all the time in the world to do certain things, but without energy to do things you might not end up doing them; and on the other side of the spectrum, if you have a lot of energy you might be able to get a lot done in a short period of time.

Has anyone experimented with trying to make the best use of when they have lots of energy, and to prioritize rest when you have little energy?

Have you found things that keep your "energy" up? (I guess it seems like both a psychological and physical concept, but I disavow association with a "new age" concept of "energy")

cross-posted from: https://hilariouschaos.com/post/135951

So there have been some attempts to reduce the amount of "waste" generated today under the heading of "ZeroWaste" aspirations; for example of making plans to use up whatever foods you have before they go bad and to be aware of shelf lives of items, of trying to reuse things instead of throw them out, and so on.

In computing, maybe some of us look for ways to "debloat" programs to use less computing resources.

I think these kinds of projects have a broad appeal as they have both environmental and economic benefits.

However I've also noticed that it seems "waste" is often necessary for doing a lot of things, and I think the attempt to avoid all waste may have, at least for me, gotten in the way of doing things at times.

For example, the sculptor must take a block of marble and cut all kinds of "wasted" pieces of marble from it, to make a sculpture. And then if the piece didn't even work out, then then the whole block would be "wasted". I think I've been trying to come to terms with all this apparent and possible "waste" and to be able to consciously choose to "waste responsibly" (?) maybe in order to do certain things.

Has anyone experienced this kind of feeling of not wanting to "waste" and come to terms with navigating it?

Any thoughts on "anticonsumption" in general (or reducing consumption of material goods)?

Literally just stumbled upon this site so I have no idea if it's any good, has anyone seen this or found some useful info on it?

How this works: An organization tries to contact a citizen to pick up a certain money, and they don't within a certain time period, so since it's legally not their money they hand it over to "unclaimed property" departments in each state (could be a paycheck, stock dividends, money left over in an account, etc.)

How to possibly find monies or how I did it: find your state website on https://unclaimed.org/search/

My state allows free searches, I thought I heard some people say they had to pay or something?

Look up people by last name (can be your last name, can look up friends and family and tell them, etc.)

If you find someone you know, let them know

I don't know how they file, I guess just follow instructions on site

then I assume they'll mail you a check?

My name did not come up but a few family members did, another acquaintance's daughter had a whole unclaimed paycheck, other people found some monies they didn't know about

I find this to be a pretty wholesome non-political libertarian exercise, it's literally finding people's money that the government should probably be forwarding them anyway

could be an excuse to talk to random people you may know of as well, who doesn't like reclaiming "free money" that's theirs?

Good luck and let us know if you find anything

via Hacker News

do you think this is just due to jobs in general having bad conditions, due to AI, due to something specific with programming? I'm guessing it's a combination of all those things...

Lots of woke businesses to replace with non-woke ones, like didn't DailyWire try to launch a "family friendly" media streaming service in competition to Disney?

Bentkey is a subscription video service for children's programming by The Daily Wire

Another thing is I frequently see even free events that use Zoom, Google Docs, or some other "cancerous bloated" technology. Could offer the exact same thing except with some "freer" better alternative (like a Matrix chat instead of a "Slack chat" or whatever?)