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An avocado toast store has opened in Ebisu.

Tokyo: “Do you think this means we should stop building housing? ... Nah that would just be silly. Homes and avocado toast for everyone!”
Ebisu is one of the beating hearts of salarymandom and, if you’re willing to walk 10 minutes, you can get a starter apartment for about $600 a month and a family sized one for about $1k.
(“Salarymandom has a heart?” Yeah, one social issue per tweet storm limit, sorry.)
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I’m often surprised when reading about startups that critics move to envisioning a world where the startup has won so totally that there is no alternative to their model, which is not what the victory case looks like.
Thought prompted by (paraphrase) “Who will cross-subsidize the education of non-renumerative-occupation-of-interest after Lambda School is educating every professional in capitalism?”
And as much as I share enthusiasm for living in that hypothetical universe good golly there is a heck of a lot of work between the status quo and the first 1% of that outcome.
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Using a Chromebook for the first time and reflecting that given how much of my workday is in Google applications and other generic web apps this might be a perfectly adequate main computer if one isn’t doing development (on which I have no read on it).
I always thought “You’ll pry MS Office from my cold dead hands” but these days 98% of what I use it for is handled by Google Docs. (It helps that almost all docs I care about are internal and began life in Google Docs.)
Also Google seems to have discovered a revolutionary technology called a “keyboard” where you mechanically actuate a switch and it results in a character of input to your machine.

Apple should steal that.
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One of the least heralded and most important technological advances of the last 20 years is a battle getting fought one piece of paper at a time to replace workflows with web applications. It’s slow, boring, and enormously impactful.
It’s surprising how much you can get done these days *without* needing to call anyone, line up, or make a visit to an office to figure out the correct form to file something.
Random example for you: the IRS hires 10k people every year to type numbers from returns into the computer. This is a decrease from earlier, since e-filed returns don’t need to be redundantly retyped.
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One of the best things you can do in this new year is to sit down every weekend and automate/tune up one single thing about your personal finances, whether that's an autopay for your utilities or for the first time ever looking at your company's 401k distributions for you.
Did you know that if your company has a retirement plan for you, that you can change how they've allocated it in terms of investments? Go look into it and spend even 15 minutes looking at how your money has been invested. Even if it's just a few dollars.
I winced away from the idea of looking at money for so long. I had/have/absolutely will have forever some monster student loans. Didn't come from wealthy folk, so I didn't understand anything about it and was in general scared of it.
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One could say that yes, this appears to be a surface-level irony.

I have an issue with this criticism, however (and I receive it a fair amount). It does not take into account any issue of power structure, which I will now address:
I am an independent content creator. I am not affiliated with any entities which would provide me any sort of budget to cover production costs or basic necessities (a corporation, a think tank, etc.)

I also live in the United States.
I say this to assert my personal situation, although creators in other situations, say bands signed to labels, are in situations in which t-shirt sales are required to fund them as human beings who eat food. They see pennies for the music made on their labor.

For ME, though:
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Manafort's cooperation agreement does not include matters involving the Trump campaign.
Podesta’s misdeeds have been referred to New York prosecutors, by Mueller.
“Various employees of Companies A and B understood that they were receiving direction from MANAFORT and President Yanukovych, not the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine.”

#TOAST 🥂
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Everyone would like to climb up the food chain.
To climb the social status ladder or become richer. That is human nature.

People hang out with people who offer value, or at least - don't subtract value.
In other words - As long as you don't lower my status, we'll hang out.
High-status people don't hang with low-status people, at least not on a regular basis.
Hanging out with low-status people LOWERS their status. That is how it works.

If you look at things objectively - 1 winner friend is preferred over 100 loser friends.
In high school, I was around losers, but we weren't at the bottom so we weren't completely ignored by The Top.
The Top were the cool guys and they had women around them. Hanging out with The Top was everyone's objective.

One of the losers, Dan, got his driving license. He's rich
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(1) My Top Ten Aretha Franklin hits.

No politics tonight. Only soul.🕶️🌟

(2) At the age of 10 I was introduced to the Queen of Soul through this scene in the classic 1980 movie The Blues Brothers.

If for some reason you haven't seen this movie, you know what to do.

#Think

(3) Then I found out Aretha Franklin sang R.E.S.P.E.C.T. in 1967. One of her biggest hits.

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(1) Pedophilia in Hollywood is not new.

In an amazing book, "Selected by Extraterrestrials," by the late Bill Thompkins, shared a story of pedophilia happening in Hollywood in the 1950s.

High school-aged kids were having sex with 1st graders, and older.

Teacher's assistants...
(2)... were also having sex with kids of all school grades.

Teachers, too.

Pedophilia in Hollywood is multi-generational.

Grown ups abused, in turn, abused.

Father ~ son ~ grandson, etc.

Some of today's Hollywood kids are 4th generation in the Hollywood Pedo Culture ("HPC").
(3) The HPC was encouraged by, supported by and cultivated by the culture of #Democrats, #Marxists, #Progressives, #Socialists, #Globalists, etc.

They did unthinkable crimes with #children.

REALLY UNTHINKABLE, but if we are to #STOP this problem you HAVE to think about this.
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