Whatever underlying mental state you have running in the background will come to surface when you use psychedelics. Marijuana is a mild psychedelic. Many people seem to be under the impression we should live free from scary thoughts, dark thoughts, things that make us worry or anxious. This is all part of the human condition though and as long as these states are transitory and lead to positive change they're not "bad". Recognize there's a time and place for everything. If bringing these things to the surface helps you grow and deal with things in your life, even if it's scary, good. If not, then stop ingesting / smoking it. Really simple. People seem to want things to be good or bad when in fact the state of isness really just is. It's not good or bad. It just is. What you make of it, how you live your life is what matters. If you smoke weed and it helps your back pain, or if it helps you think about your feelings and deal with something you've been putting off, that can be "good". If you smoke it and have heart palpitations and freak out about taxes that can be "bad" but the weed hasn't changed, it's just brought something to the surface. Our minds are complicated. Especially now, in a culture where we're overloaded with information, entertainment, manufactured outrage, and expectations about what we should or shouldn't be, all compared to thousands of other things. How can anyone, smoking weed or not, expect to be sane or live a simple life that doesn't lead to mental health problems?
I got to see Falcon Dragon launch in Florida along the A1-A. People there credit SpaceX for single-handedly rekindling the lure and luster of space travel. They were sad when the shuttle program got shut down by NASA but now a whole new generation of space enthusiasts, optimists, and futurists get to see the awesome advances being made in the US. It's patriotic AF. The color, sparkle and glow of it was something I'll never forget. My only regret is I don't have any children to have shared it with. But there'll be more launches!
Gotta minimize the generational transfer of wealth as much as possible, and consolidate in groups of entrenched power as much as possible. It's fine that millennials graduated college in debt, into a recession, a decade after the dot-com bust, and a decade before the covid crash. Take a decade to recover, and as soon as middle-class momentum builds they get slapped and put back in their place again. All while China is 996'ing us into irrelevance and eating our lunch.
We have a choice to make about the work we want to contribute to. Our hands, our minds. What world do you want to live in? Is your work contributing to that in a meaningful way, such that when you're gone those that come after can continue the work because it's worth doing? We only have so much time on this earth.
If we don't get ahead of this we'll regulatory capture ourselves into oblivion and the enemy will win anyway. As long as state-sponsored-actors are indistinguishable from black-market criminals this will never escalate beyond the perpetual cat and mouse game. We simply have to be better, and we can't have oversight committees and regulatory boards managing it. Infosec is ripe for being revolutionized.
Sadly the specter of fentanyl, heroine and methamphetamine ODs, ruined lives and crime will over-shadow the goodness that is decriminalizing psychedelics. The drug-war states will simply say, "so what, everything's legal there and that place is a mess" and they won't be entirely wrong. If SF could shit-can Chessa Boudin and get rid of the Honduran fentanyl gangs terrorizing the City that'd be great.
Gov't is going to try and break the big ones up, and stop M&A's as anti-trust sentiment warms up. Startups will become much, much harder to benefit from. The cost of capital is going to go up and make it harder to fund-raise, and people will get much more judicious about what they invest in. If your company isn't tied to some other industry or sector of the economy and is a tech company, just consider if your business can survive on its own for the next 3 - 5 years.
I think it's a matter of keeping the hands aligned with forearm and not having pressure on the write joints themselves. I try to keep the palms of my hand (the same part you hit with in martial arts) on the "wrist rests" instead, and I've had zero issues for years. For me, the biggest problems I had came from using various mice and never finding a good one until I moved to a MacBook and learned the trackpad. Now I've literally adhered a magic trackpad 2 to the middle of a Kinesis Advantage 2 keyboard and I love it. It translates back and forth between using the laptop and a "docked" setup better than anything else I've tried over the years.
Just ordered a FalbaTech the other week. I am super excited. Have been using the MacBook pro keyboard for the past year and didn't have a proper desk setup until I moved to a bigger place just a few weeks ago. I had to bust out a Kinesis 2 that's been in a closet, and i gotta say, going back to a split setup wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. You learn it once and it can stick pretty well. Now for all the Emacs bindings :D
This is why full self driving coming from a company like Tesla matters. It's vertical integration with hardware, manufacturing, battery and chip production makes it so they don't need any of the OEM legacy auto companies. They are already building the best electric cars available. Nobody comes close. When FSD 9.x is released the zero-to-one moment happens and there'll be no going back. The other companies are going to do nothing but play catch-up and many will go bankrupt.
Definitely google some Tesla FSD beta videos and watch them. Waymo doubled down on a technology set and data methodology that is not scalable. Tesla is going to win in this space 100%
This is a huge red flag. Especially when Waymo's had no significant milestones and when the CEO is using language like 'spend time with friends and family'. That usually means they're being pushed out, or that he's made the realization it's not going to work out and is jumping ship.
Waymo is little more than a Jurassic Park jeep ride. Only works on the tracks. Take a Waymo vehicle anywhere their engineering staff hasn't spent countless hours driving around back and forth with those ridiculous spinning lidar sensors and roof rack full of who-knows-what and see what's left of their 'self driving'.
Tesla is 100% going to win in this space. And as Musk and Karpathy have said, the general solution will be in place and work nearly everywhere, but a long tail of edge scenarios will have to be ironed out over time. This is nascent, world changing technology solving hard problems.
As a M3 owner you get to see the feature set growing over time, but the zero-to-one moment is when that FSD is finally rolled out in 9.x
Waymo has to learn the exact space it's going to drive in ahead of time, and then have high resolution lidar maps generated to assist. It's currently limited to use in grid-like pre-mapped areas like Phoenix AZ. Tesla is building a general learning solution such that you can take the vehicle anywhere, and not have the requirement that the area be pre-mapped or 'learned' by Tesla beforehand. Tesla has orders of magnitude more data and mileage driven than Waymo could possibly ever imagine having. Waymo is not going to scale. CEO departures like this are a big red flag. Pin this comment. Google will shutter Waymo in less than five years.
I don't wanna be 'that guy' but the news of this on the same day of Tesla's Q1 p/d beat speaks volumes about who's winning in this space. Watch the FSD beta vids, especially the Weimo & Tesla comparison in Phoenix. It's clear who's going to dominate this space.
Evil doesn't have to have remorselessness or have awareness of it's evil to be evil. Ongwen is clearly traumatized. But, he is also the trauma. The spread of death and despair by his hand has to be adjudicated. Life in prison is the most morally just outcome for him, regardless of whatever reformations or personal developments he might make. Some things can't be undone and the consequences have to be lived with, forever. Like, he could become an international voice for reforming child soldiers, educating policy makers, and literally every good thing he could do with his experience. Yet, he should still be in prison. Forever.
2x IPO strike price in first day of trading after $613M recouped stock options after the layoffs. Stock consolidation and 180 day lock up period creates a big risk for when employees sell. Lots of them probably have tens of thousands of shares, exercised them very cheaply, and will want to offload them. I'm not going to touch this stock with a 10-foot pole. I do wish I could short this stock but options aren't available for it yet.