I always considered "gamey" to be a flavor instead of a texture, but as I think about it I appreciate expecting wild animal meat to be tougher than farmed meat. Thanks for broadening my mind!
I'm sorry to hear you're dealing with this. When I was suffering from low energy levels and brain fog, these are the things that helped me. I don't know anything about your situation other than what you've written above, so apologies if you're already doing these things.
- I was overweight, so I started eating a healthier diet and exercising. I also tried cutting out some common food allergens and found that a couple of them were causing some consistent brain-fog issues.
- I started to ease off working quite as hard as I had been. For example, keeping my work time to while I was at work, padding in a little extra time in project timelines for some extra breathing room, and taking a lunch break just for myself. While at lunch I would read, or take a Coursera class ,go for a walk, or something else to get myself into a better mood.
- YMMV, but I did not find it helpful (from a mental health POV) to try to force accountability on the things I wanted to do by telling friends or family about them - that just increased my levels of stress.
I'm very sorry to hear that. A similar situation happened to a close family member. They needed to spend some time focusing on themselves for a while to get past it, and they're in a great place now.
It’s so bad they should be outlawed. The fact that YouTube doesn’t give you a way to disable them is so dirty. I wonder how their PMs sleep at night. The greed to monetize at the expense of user health has made me lose trust with them.
I think the Fed are focused on stabilizing prices, not getting them to go down. Deflation is an entirely different beast than inflation and the Fed certainly does not want to deal with that.
My company's culture is to have cameras on in all meetings other than company-wide events where you're not presenting (if you are presenting, you're expected to have it on).
Personally I prefer it as it helps me make more of a connection with the person/people I'm speaking with, and keeps me more engaged.
I dont agree that "culture" is defined to include having cameras on (or off for that matter). The general concept of "working" involves not staring at somebodys face (unless youre editing pictures?) - but coding; not needed. In a meeting where the idea is to present either data (sharing screen) I would also say very not needed. Somebody mentioned needed 1:1's - and I also disagree, it is a want. I've had plenty of 1:1's over the ol cell phone, same effect; video not needed. I typically base small daily meetings based on who is asking questions, and engaging in said issues. And even if engagement is forced (IE calling on somebody to get their attention) video is not needed, I do not need to see them. Somebody's face is not the topic of discussion - maybe for onlyfans but not currently where I am at.
No. Not even semantically correct. If he didn't want to do something and the other party in the negotiation used the legal system to make him do it he was forced by someone else to do it.
Anyway, it's beside the point. Elon OWNS twitter. Do you all understand what ownership means? Like how you own a phone? If he wants to smash his new toy into the ground and break it that's his prerogative. Employees need to stop deluding themselves that any part of a business belongs to them because they were part of the process in creating it. The salary you are paid is the price for control of everything you contribute to a company.
If you hate that idea, much like I do myself, you should start your own business.
He got himself into the situation where he was required to buy Twitter because he signed a binding contract - that's how binding contracts work, and not understanding that the contract was binding is why he now owns Twitter.
In the end, he bought Twitter without being forced to, because he probably saw he was going to lose in court if he kept up with trying to get out of his binding agreement.
This is why a person needs to understand the contracts they sign. If you don't have an out, you can't change your mind. If you can just change your mind to get out of a binding contract, then it's not a binding contract.
Separately, I'm not making any comments about Twitter employees and their claims against the business, that's a completely separate topic.
This is a very tabula rasa approach to personal responsibility. He was compelled by enforcement of a prior binding agreement that he entered into freely. More than freely. That he proposed and originated!
This isn't how it works. He wanted to buy Twitter and in a typically impulsive Musk fashion, he signed a contract and waived due diligence. Once you sign a contract you can't just back out of it and act like it's not your fault when they force you to abide by your word.
And he does own Twitter, yes. Everyone is just laughing at him spending billions of dollars to destroy something due to a problem he created. It just also sucks for the people involved being hurt by a billionaires tantrum.
I agree about the ownership side. If I was an employee I'd have started job hunting the moment he started making comments about buying.
The employees do have power, they could refuse to work en-masse and he can find out how hard or easy it is to hire a completely new crew. But I'm guessing there's too much internal strife and disagreement for that to happen.
Plus I have to agree with his assessment - there's not that much to twitter really, it's hardly a massively complicated and sprawling software product. They have too many people. Some of those complaining about being let go have... titles that don't make that much sense for the kind of businsess twitter is. I hate seeing people lose their job. Companies should be a bit more circumspect in their hiring.
> If he didn't want to do something and the other party in the negotiation used the legal system to make him do it he was forced by someone else to do it.
Who do you think signed the contract in the first place?
He was only "forced" by the courts once he tried to go back on his contract. Nobody forced him to buy twitter.
> If he didn't want to do something and the other party in the negotiation used the legal system to make him do it he was forced by someone else to do it.
The complication here is that his offer was so outlandishly high that he essentially tied Twitter management's hands. If they had not sued him, they would almost certainly be subject to litigation from their own shareholders, because not doing everything to sell at this price would have amounted to corporate mismanagement (In practice, top management gets a lot of leeway from the courts when it comes to maximizing shareholder value, but I can't imagine leaving a 30%+ markup over the current stock price on the table would have passed muster).
I don’t think it needs to selectively amplify just one voice, it just needs to quiet down the background noise.
For reference I had a friend whose hearing aids were doing this 15-20 years ago. He was able to have a conversation just fine in a crowded bar, whereas I couldn’t hear a thing over the din of background conversation.
As a matter of fact there is no need whatever to get italian (or any other EU country) citizenship, if you are a citizen of any country in the EU you only need to register to the local authority as resident (after 3 months of staying).
If you really want the italian citizenship, you can ask for it after 4 years of (registered) residency in Italy.
