Devout member of this church my entire life. 2 years ago during covid I finally read most of the history of Joseph Smith. Found out it’s a fraud and left.

For having Jesus Christ in its name, I have a hard time believing Jesus is running the board of this corporation and is suggesting billions be spent in investments instead of billions feeding, clothing, housing, and providing healthcare for those in need.

And don’t tell me about their humanitarian efforts. A fraction of their wealth is used on such endeavors.

End of the day, all their leadership cares about is wanting the whole world to volunteer their free time to the local congregation, pay tithing, and do temple ceremonies. Next time you meet a Mormon, ask them to clearly draw a line to what they do in the temple regularly and why that’s what Jesus wants them to do. You’ll see them hit the cognitive dissonance wall.

Twitter Spaces! You can find anyone to talk about anything.

I agree. It’s a privilege to be able to make a living without the internet.

I know what you are getting at, but just want to point out there are still plenty of offline jobs out there which are very much not privileged. For example, the independent recycler rummaging through your bin at night is likely all offline but they're not "privileged" by any means. From their perspective, those making money online are very privleged.

Different topic. It is a privilege to make a living without using asynchronous communication.

The class you describe is just as attuned to texting and collaborating with others using smartphones.

Male. 35 years old. Married. Single income. 4 kids. Bought a fixer upper house last year. Zero saved. I don’t think I’ll be able to retire till I’m 85.

All houses are fixers uppers unless they're expensive 'just built' new construction with appropriate costs.

Shipping container?

I would love to know how Czech culture influenced the novel.

My impression is that central Europe (which I apologize for lumping together) has a pretty long-running tradition of literary absurdism and surrealism. They're works that are more allegorical than "scientific" or "futuristic," even though they might be responding to (or "riffing on") actual early sci-fi of the techno-futurism variety.

As some examples, besides his R.U.R., Capek (Czech) also wrote The War with the Newts. It's an animal fairy tale that predates George Orwell's animal fairy tale by a decade.

Franz Kafka, obviously, was born in Prague and spent his life in central Europe.

Witold Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke (1937) is a Polish analogue from the same decade. Bruno Schulz's short story anthology The Street of Crocodiles is another one.

After World War 2, you have people like Stanislaw Lem (Polish) writing a lot of farcical science fiction and Jan Svankmajer (Czech) making a lot of grotesque, farcical stop-motion animation.

Adjacently, on the Russian side you have SF-flavored satire like Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog, and on the French side you have stuff like L'Écume des jours.

I'd say that Czech creators are uniquely creative in their absurdist flavors.

Sadly I hear about this for first time myself. The word hvězdoplavba is somehow know and used, mostly in poetic context. I don't think it had any particular affect on the society tho. I'll go check some second hand bookstores for this gem.

Edit: after reading bit more about this, the author was kind of inspired by another Czech author Karel Čapek, whose works did and keeps influencing people (also coined the word Robot for "mechanical worker" (that's enough bragging for today)

First time hearing about this book.

Twitter Spaces will replace podcasts.

I'm assuming this is a bit you're using to promote your new comedy podcast.

Will Twitter even be around in 6 months?

If they don't attract back the advertisers they lost they are likely a goner.

Alex Hormozi

It’s difficult to work a part-time and a full :(

Bullet Journal.

That was going to be another suggestion I could have added to my earlier comment, though I though I'd already included enough to be confusing ;-)

The advantages of bullet-journaling ("BuJo") are that it is flexible and adapts your personal needs. This is unlike most fixed-form journals.

I'd STRONGLY caution new-adopters to put an emphasis on utility over aesthetics. If you search bullet journaling on the Web, or particularly at YouTube, you'll find many cases of people getting hugely artistically creative with their journals. If that's truly your jam, then ... well, OK, I guess. But as a productivity tool, the principle emphasis in my view should be on, well, productivity.

My journals are utilitarian and not especially artistic. I do put time and thought into their organisation, but I'm not creating art-pieces.

The heart of my journals are 1) the index pages, 2) the end-references (I'll put what would otherwise be spreads and frequently-referenced information there), and 3) the actual journal pages and internal spreads themselves.

My preferences are a simple ruled or dotted journal, which I fill with the sections noted above. I do go through and number each page as I begin a new journal. That's a bit of meditative practice and discipline which IMO pays off.

And, for someone who does struggle (and is struggling) with organisation, the most valuable property of a bullet journal is that it's there for you to resume using even after you've abandoned it for days, weeks, months, or even years. With a pre-printed dated journal, you'll lose vast sections of unfilled dates. With a pre-printed structured journal, you fight with the page layout when it fails to fit your needs.

Great system if you can make it work, but speaking from experience the physical medium of pen and paper was too limiting for me. I found I had the most ideas/todos to note down when I didn't have my journal around me, at places like the gym.