Look into ESOPs. Publix has one of the larger ones. Basically, at the end of the year they add around 8% of your gross wages to your retirement account in the form of company stock. Once you have a fair amount in there, you feel a bit more connected to the success of the company. It’s a good idea for both employee retention and employee performance. For some reason, it’s not a popular thing to do, and even Publix has limited it from what it once was.

Meanwhile, I got written up for using more than 4 days in a year

I grew up with the calendar as shown here. Like bookends on a shelf. The week “ends”.

My wife’s work insists weeks start on Mondays. This allows them to schedule her differently and not get overtime according to their scheduling.

Mine does the same, but insists the week starts on Saturdays.

I don’t know why the world cannot decide a proper schema for this.

Than vs then is important here

Not that I disagree but, have you seen how low effort all of this has been for them? It wasn’t some sort of complicated pizza code like maga thought Democrats were doing, it was literally just emails like “when is the wildest party on your island?”

Naw I like this move. Obama ended “thanks Obama” with his own use of it, since no one would ever top that. Maybe Kamala can end 6-7 in her own way.

And they miss obvious things too. How did Sears, a company that became famous and hide by offering magazines to show the cost of their goods to everyone before that was a thing, lose to an online bookstore? How did a video rental place (Blockbuster) not see the obvious benefit of mailing DVDs and then later internet streaming and get beat by a no name company like netflix?

Probably exactly as you say. It would have cost a year or two of missed quarterly earnings as they entered new markets, so they missed the opportunities entirely.

I did buy a super expensive dimmable tunable led strip from Yuji LEDs. It was expensive even before the tariff situation, so really bad now probably. But the LED was top notch. I followed a guide someone had posted to reddit to make a SAD lamp, and used ESP Home to make it so it made a sunrise effect starting all the way as far yellow as it went and ending at the brightest point. It is just a strip with 2 different temperature LEDs on it and it combines them with directions from ESPHome (oh I had to get a controller for the ESPHome connection. It’s just a “dumb” strip that you have to control the voltage to change).

Since programming it was rough for me, I had some fun experiences where it would just randomly go from super dim to full bright while I was sleeping and hoping for a gentle wake up from a nap. My half asleep brain really thought someone had opened the curtain to the sunny outside. I started thinking of my project as “sunlight in a can”.

Anyways I happily shipped that expensive project off to my brother who suffers from SAD and he never used it even once.

Oh if it’s Blaze pizza or similar that’s a huge win haha. I go there and load up the toppings too.

I think this is the bulb I bought. I want to redo the lighting in my house and I was considering putting these tiny bulbs in the ceiling. It’s pretty bright though, so I was worried it would be annoying to look up at. You are using it now, does that seem accurate?

I am going to be redoing the lighting in a house I just bought. I went down the rabbit hole of learning about all the options. It’s hard to find but it is possible to find dimmable, tunable LEDs with a high cri and have matter support so I could use them with Home Assistant. I haven’t actually purchased any though so I can’t report my experience.

For one example, it’s likely relatively easy to determine with 95% accuracy if you are pregnant or trying to get pregnant. Would you want your job to know that before you have federal protection for your job? They might let you go before having to deal with the FMLA headache, even if you are a potential father who might also take time off and be protected. Also, though current Obamacare rules disallow preexisting conditions, that could always change. Would you want something like your search history raising your premiums? “Oh I see you likely experience migraines, that puts you in a higher risk category for X. Your premium will be higher.” Same for job applications “oh, [sees you might get migraines which are FMLA protected], we decided to go with another candidate”

My Christian mom didn’t let us watch Harry Potter because our church said it was evil. I guess it’s not for Christians either, though I think that has changed and it’s fine now.

It shouldn’t be more expensive than takeout. You have to do everything from scratch for it to be cheap though. Flour, yeast, olive oil, canned tomatoes/spices, and a block of mozzarella to shred yourself. Wait for a good sale on the mozzarella.

It’s not super duper cheap but even dominoes is getting expensive these days, and making it yourself should be healthier too.

Isn’t that strange though? Catholics trace themselves back to the disciples (though I think Roman and Orthodox both claim this), yet the new ones that split somewhat recently claim they are the real ones.

I think states will still band together a bit. New england would probably stick together. California, Oregon, and Washington. All of the south, including Florida now, would stick together too.

Haha that might actually be great. No US athletes going to the Olympics because we are too busy trying to sort ourselves out at home is actually a good message.

My prediction of his testimony of Epstein Island: “I saw, but I didn’t partake.”

It requires WiFi to download updates. Mine isn’t working to connect through my wifi so there is a pending update that wants to download but can’t. I Probably won’t be looking too hard into that issue now.

Summer skiing coming soon to the US?