California’s Law About Labeling Possible Cancer Risk Is Good In Theory. It just seems a little bias at times. How are you going to label one of the most popular drinks in the world as a possible cancer risk, and not every single processed food items on the shelf of a grocery store? Chips, cancerous,…
Month: March 2018
Blowing It Scenario #59-Watching Other People Play And Stream Video Games Online.
Blowing It By Wasting Time Watching Another Waste There Time. I recently came across an article about a gentlemen who makes $500,000 a month streaming himself playing video games on the platform twitch. The fact that such a platform exist where people just play video games and upload the videos of them playing is a…
Blowing It Scenario #58-The Affleck Batman.
Quality Actor, Solid Director, Decent Story Line. So why do I start these Affleck Batman Movies and fall so disinterested so quickly? Everything about Batman and Superman together should scream excitement and thrilling action. Yet I constantly find myself falling asleep during these films. I just watched Justice League for the first time last night…
Blowing It Scenario #57-Shorting Stocks.
Betting against growth. Tesla’s stock recently plunged because of an accident with one of it’s vehicles. Making those that shorted Tesla’s stock $1.8 billion over night. The action of shorting a stock isn’t necessarily blowing it in my eyes. It’s part of the market and it makes people a lot of money. Just go back…
Blowing It Scenario #56-Giving Another All Your Power.
A Failure Of The Heart. My uncle recently dispelled some powerful knowledge to me. Knowledge he once received from a therapist. That therapist said, “the person who wants a relationship the least, holds all the power.” What a profoundly truthful statement that is, sad but true. We often think if we give another our all,…
Blowing It Scenario #55-Complete Reliance On Others.
We Have Lost Our Way, We Have Lost Self Reliance. This day in age we rely on others for practically everything. It is this coddled era that we have excessive amounts learned helplessness. We have someone else drive our cars, make our food, buy our groceries, fix our cars, fix our homes, the list goes…
Blowing It Scenario #54-The Con That Allows Full Access To Our Personal Lives.
Why Must We Scarfice Our Intimate Moments For The Right To Use Websites. I get personal data is somehow as good as gold these days. Sure it may be free to use your favorite app or website but what is the true cost? I’m not sure any study has been made or can be made….
Blowing It Scenario #53-Sometimes Happiness and Success Are On Opposite Ends Of The Road.
There’s Also Moments In Time When They Are Not Exclusive. And when that happens, bask in it’s glow. For you are one of the lucky ones. My wife left me yesterday and I feel it might be cathartic to write about it. I did everything I could to try to make her happy. Sometimes at…
Blowing It Scenario #52-The Massive Failure Of Parents With Multiple Hate Filled Children
At What Point Do You Arrest The Parents For Crimes Against Humanity That Their Children Carry Out? I wish there was such a point, their is not. Look, sometime parents just draw the short straw and end up with a nightmare of a child through no fault of their own. Then their are other times…
Blowing It Scenario #51-The Fraud And Failure Of Theranos.
How Is A Company That Has Never Produced a Viable Product, Or Ever Turned a Profit Worth 9 Billion? I often wonder how companies are valued at all. It seems this fraud is an often occurrence in the financial markets and with so called unicorns. How can a company go from nothing to billions in…