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ButterflyEffect  ·  10 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 29, 2025

think im going to periodically pop a good news sub thread into pubskis moving forward. those were some really nice comments from yall last week!

going ice climbing montana for the weekend. definitely nervous for the flight after the reagan thing yesterday even though i know that was a very very different situation.

ButterflyEffect  ·  10 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 29, 2025

Welcome back! What kind of volunteering have you been doing?

I’m going to have to reread that post by AF.

ButterflyEffect  ·  18 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 22nd, 2025

awesome! probably the best way to get a job right now…

ButterflyEffect  ·  18 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 22nd, 2025

that sounds like great news!!!

ButterflyEffect  ·  18 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 22nd, 2025

good news: my bonus pays out this friday

ButterflyEffect  ·  18 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 22nd, 2025

this is now a good news sub thread of pubski

ButterflyEffect  ·  18 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Can prebunking outpace fake news?

the Instagram thing is even worse, a lot of people are now following POTUS without having made the chance to. allegedly it’s a “glitch” impacting “random” users, and some of these people haven’t been unable to unfollow POTUS.

ButterflyEffect  ·  27 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Confessions of an College Application Reader

wow, how the heck did you come across this very old post?? i mean, going back to 2013-ish!

my views certainly have developed since then, reading back on it…

ButterflyEffect  ·  30 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 8, 2025

Yeah it’s exactly the context of the stuff like this that I’m interested in:

    The General laughs and points out that they'd fought two wars with the Chinese since then and the Chinese were their biggest trading partner.

One of the hard parts about this is you can’t very well ask a Vietnamese person “hey, what books should I read” because you’ll largely get a blank look back. Because, you know, it’s what they lived!

I’ll have to checkout the bookshops around the Wing Luke Museum and the rest of Little Saigon. Will send you some photos of titles if anything stands out!

ButterflyEffect  ·  31 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 8, 2025

I think all three? I’ve recently been reading a bit about Vo Nguyen Giáp, the Sino-Vietnamese war, and have had The Sympathizer and a few other books on my to-read list.

I think what I’m interested in is the cultural and political context of Vietnam during the 20th century, preferably not from just a Vietnamese War context. Been trying to wrap my head around how this people were in war and conflict for so much of that century both with themselves and with others.

This seems like a very complex, very way-too-large-of-a-scope way of coming at this, so apologies if this is not a useful reply. I’m working it out.

ButterflyEffect  ·  32 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 8, 2025

spent 90 minutes today with the partners family, listening to their first and second hand stories of how they escaped Vietnam starting about a month prior to the fall of Saigon leading to getting on a boat out of Saigon at 3am the morning of surrender, through escaping to the Philippines, Guam, and eventually, the United States.

Deeply, deeply sobering and humbling shit.

Anyone have any nonfiction book recommendations related to Vietnam?

ButterflyEffect  ·  44 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 27, 2024

Yeah I was noticing some of that re: December too. Was wondering if it could be bonus / vesting / etc. related timing around here.

ButterflyEffect  ·  48 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 27, 2024

ive been looking very casually at duplexes and triplexes recently and the odds and ends on market and definitely feel like im missing something. in the < $1.5 million range in seattle, on redfin, there’s:

- twenty four homes listed total

of which

- five homes listed less than 30 days

of the remaining nineteen

- eighteen have been listed for more than 90 days

- ten have been listed for more than 180 days

im assuming something is pretty fucked with the houses, zoning, or they’re just way, way overpriced for what they are (i have no idea what im doing)

ButterflyEffect  ·  55 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 27, 2024

lol ive been thinking about the pelosi tracker and autopilot thing! im in schwab, fidelity, and some cds with goldman (oops)…so that could be a nice way tie everything together

yeah somehow a friend bought a new build in madrona area where their first floor is zoned for mixed use? so shit i could go make snowboards over there, too? fun fact, they had to sue the builder for not laying the water bill before they closed on the place

ButterflyEffect  ·  55 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 27, 2024

queuing this up for the next commute to and from the office! thanks for sharing, never heard of that podcast.

ButterflyEffect  ·  55 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 590th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately"

working through 2024 recaps / end of year list but mostly digging that the living members of soundgarden reunited with shaina shephard for a set this past weekend

pretty cool!

ButterflyEffect  ·  72 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 27, 2024

    In fact, one of the trees that fell sat there so long that the neighbor told the guys I bought the house from that he'd put a lien against it if they didn't do something about it prior to sale.

that's a fuck around and find out move, that is hilarious. not the tree falling part, but...

good to hear! wasn't sure how bad it got further north. eastside got in a pretty bad state, had some friends without power for a week, minus the one who ended up using his tesla to power certain things in his apartment.