Month: May 2021

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57236489

If the world stands by while dictators kidnap and murder people in other nations, soon we will all live in terror under dictatorships.

I remember as a kid spending endless hours practicing shooting a basketball into a hoop. The adults in my life placed a high importance on this skill, and ignored practical skills like building a fence  or providing customer service for the most part. I did not enjoy throwing a ball in a basket, but I trusted the adults around to me to direct my learning in the right direction.… read more “Sports Vs Jobs for Kids”

Don’t watch it. So painful.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/23/world/europe/ryanair-belarus.html

Putin pawn, the dictator of Belarus, forces down a EU flight on RyanAir in order to kidnap a 26 year old journalist. This is the definition of terrorism.

Putin’s close ally, Fox News, refuses to run the story though it is a front page headline on every regular news site.

https://every.to/napkin-math/you-probably-shouldn-t-work-at-a-startup-9387b632-345c-4a22-bac0-3cb92f0eecf1##

This is the most accurate description of VC and PE backed companies for employees I have seen.

Single guy activity, no guy with kids would ever consider this.

He died doing it.

https://www.propublica.org/article/ppp-farms

https://www.meetkevin.com/

I generally like this guy’s platform he’s running on.

Most wealthy corporations like Apple use tax dodging schemes based on patents. Apple transfers it’s intellectual property to another company in a low tax country like the Cayman Islands, then pays huge fees to that company as expenses. This results in a tax loss in the high tax country and a big profit in the no tax country.… read more “Get Rid of Patents to Reduce Tax Dodging”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-13/colonial-pipeline-paid-hackers-nearly-5-million-in-ransom?srnd=premium

This ransom payment just incentivizes thousands of more extortion attempts.