IGotThroughIt

Australasia resulting in bushfires

Ah yes, the same fires started by loony arsonists to promote climate change hysteria.

Love the man. May he RIP. He contributed greatly in debunking climate alarmism. One of the few scientists who were brave enough to go against the annoying PC culture around this issue. Good man. He did great work.

The valley is not actually working. People are spending all their time being woke. Where will the innovation come from?

I don't think this topic can be discussed without people getting touchy. Best avoided in my opinion.

You don't seem too impressed by those that make the choice to live off the grid...

We'll see.

Seems like Travis knew just when to get out. Sinking ship?

Ha ha. I love Brendan. Saying it like it is. No-frills.

Wouldn't have happened if they hadn't forced Brendan Eich out. Just saying. I know as a patron I trust him and followed him over to brave especially for its privacy offering. Removing founders is hardly ever a good idea.

they don't step away when they are not being productive

I agree that taking breaks is definitely a good thing. The brain can only handle so much after all.

Man, I'm so sorry you went through this with your brother.

It's better to lay off the booze completely or until one can gain control - if that's even possible for you. I find that it makes a bad situation worse.

For anyone going through this, my experience and general advice is as follows:

You need to feel the pain that you're going through instead of masking it with alcohol. Pain lets you know something's gone awry and that you need to address it asap.

I don't know if anyone has any literary references that alcohol enhances anxiety and depression - because I'd like to see it - but it was my experience.

Gotcha!

I had searched for the sarcasm in previous comments in our thread to no avail!

Makes total sense to have a worker well rested and happy (40 hours does that sufficiently well). Your submission works if it is a task such as programming. A programmer can finish their week's tasks in 3 days or less and you'd be fine with that. That's not most programmers though.

Moreover, I have had other businesses where the time you pay for as an employer totally matters if you're to get an ROI.

If I need you for 8 hours a day and there's an amount we've agreed on as compensation, then that's exactly what I need.

It doesn't really work if for instance it is a restaurant and you need to have waiters, dishwashers and cooks round the clock as patrons visit your establishment.

If they'd rather work fewer hours and get less money, who am I to argue? I'm just saying they'll be poorer for it and contrary to what you posited, they won't be too happy about it either.

I've been a laborer too so I'm not arguing against laborers' rights. Labor and capital are symbiotic; one without the other would not function as efficiently as they do now.

We're doing okay with what we have is all I'm saying. Perpetually being in a state of revolution doesn't help anyone especially when things are going great. 40 hours seems fair to me; 24 hours doesn't.

I'm hard pressed to believe work would get completed in such a short time. We'd all be poorer for it.

If you've run a business you'd know that the hours demanded by a boss are far less than those required to be successful as an enterprise owner. I've been in both worlds and it isn't easier because you own the business.

It's all work at the end of the day and it is not easy. It's hard but we get to choose the direction our life takes while weighing the costs, benefits and risks involved.

This is exactly my point. I honestly don't know how anything would ever get done with this kind of attitude. I'm not saying that we should overwork our labor force but what we have now seems fairly optimal.

Do you honestly believe that he meant it in a literal sense? You as well as I know that he meant it would be better to emphasize on short term plans as opposed to long term plans. It is simply a question of time preference and I'm simply saying that he would therefore not be best placed to make plans for our grandchildren. He'd be inclined optimize for the present as opposed to the future especially when we're resource constrained as we often are.

It's exactly what I do, but I suspect that the spirit of this 6 hour initiative isn't necessarily in line with what you're alluding to but rather the idea that working less hours is better for all of us. Correct me if I'm wrong about this.

I work for myself as a mobile and wed dev so I have my clients who pay my bills and several apps I'm working on in parallel.

He also said that in the long run we are all dead so I'm not sure I'd trust him to have the best interests of our 'grandchildren' at heart.

I'm possibly going to go against the grain here but I'll speak my truth...6 hours honestly feels like too little time and isn't necessarily something to celebrate.

If I only worked for 6 hours and 4 days I'd lose my mind. I've tried it and I didn't like it one bit. May be that's just me but I enjoy my work so much I wish there were 25 hours.

I feel like this contentious issue has had a net negative effect on his life and that he should just sell the damn place and move on.

It's been years and there's so much else to do!

identify locals and neighbors with common interests. auto-matching maybe?

Tinder for friendly neighbors /s

Jokes aside, it does sound good though. I wouldn't mind getting my hands dirty for a few hours on the weekend. As far as mobile apps go, my only competence is in react native. If interested let me know how I can get in touch.

Being offline is the new "Yoga"

This! But my take is it will be out of sheer necessity.

Killing all my social media presence for the last 3 years or so has been more cathartic than anything else I tried in order to acquire perfect peace. That, plus completely cutting out alcohol. I have near zero anxiety since embarking on this and I highly recommend it.

Dems have shot themselves in the foot with this one. This whole process lacks credibility and voters will punish them as they did in the UK. Politicians need to start being in touch with what voters want.

Right now a lot of time is being wasted on nonsense whereas it could have been used for more productive endeavors. What a charade. What a sham.

Startups rarely die in mid keystroke. So keep typing!

My most important takeaway.

Wow. So not good.

I think they're considered to be isolated services. You can have a gmail account without having a youtube account.

I use brave but some brave allowed ads seep through. I have no issue with ads; I just don't like tracking and insane JavaScript pop ups taking over the browser without the user invoking a deliberate action.

That's just it; you can never placate people who want to expropriate everything (or close to everything) from others. It's just never enough.

Attempts to tax people at 70% in France (even if it was marginal tax) went south very quickly. Incentive matters a lot because good work is really really hard.

Funny enough Gates seemed alluded to this on some interview I watched a while back.