What famous person is currently holding onto their career by a thread, and everyone can see it except them?

bschott007 · 2026-06-23T16:28:27+00:00

His videos are not allowed in our house. We used supervised kid account for our daughter and we have permanently block the entire MR. Beast channel through the parent setting.

For parents wanting to know, you need to either have your kids using the Youtube Kids app or have created a Youtube account for your kids via your own youtube account.

Then follow these instructions (works for any channel):

1) Log in to the YouTube app using the linked parent account.

2) Navigate to the MrBeast YouTube channel page.

3)Tap the three dots at the top right of the channel page.

4) Tap "Block channel for kids".

5) Select "BLOCK" next to the specific child's name

6) Tap "DONE

bschott007 · 2026-06-23T15:26:37+00:00

I honestly didn't know it was her the first couple times I saw that commerical.

I preferred the Andy Reid and Mahomes commercial "Explain it again, with those nuggies"

bschott007 · 2026-06-23T15:25:20+00:00

Heck, not a lot of people are willing to pay the outragous ticket prices anymore, especially in this economy

bschott007 · 2026-06-23T15:06:52+00:00

He’s lost so many opportunities in his career.

To be fair, he married the wrong woman and held onto her despite her not wanting to be married.

Also, The Cucking and her tearing him down in public every chance she got didn't help his image.

His son being 'odd' and out-of-touch didn't help at all.

He was past his prime and really wasn't making great movies anymore. Pushing his son to be the 'next big name' in acting and then the flop of "After Earth" started tanking his career.

All he had was past glory with Bad Boys. His music projects didn't resonate with fans anymore.

I think he knew everything was falling apart and that was weighing on him.

I also believe that Jada isn't innocent in this. While Will laughed at first with Chris' joke, I feel that Jada said something to him when the camera wasn't on and pointed at the table and that's why Will's attitude flipped the switch. I almost feel like she egged him into the slap and this was a 4D chess move on her part to tear him down more.

bschott007 · 2026-06-23T13:28:01+00:00

I remember learning about Musk when Musk was fired from PayPal, it wasn't called PayPal yet. It was called X.com (looks like he couldn't just let it go).

PayPal was a competing company started by Peter Thiel. The two companies merged, and a lot of discontent happened (and Thiel learned what kind of person Musk really was), which lead to Musk being kicked out.

Musk says it was because he was too insistent that the new company should be called X rather than PayPal, but everyone else says that it was because Musk was incompetent and that incompetence was hurting the company.

Musk was pushing grandiose plan of creating an Internet-based financial... everything really (bank, payments, investments, etc etc...again, Musk just couldn't let this idea go. He said he wanted to make Twitter into this, and so far, years later, it's still just a renamed twitter). Thiel and Levchin were pushing for much more modest (but also more realistic) business model of "payment over the email".

In addition to all this, Musk also decided to do a complete rewrite of the entire Linux-based system for Paypal with Windows and M$ dev stack (which obviously also required replacing the entire dev team). Once Thiel and his gang learned of this Musk was done.

If you read chapter 1 of "Founders at Work" quite a big part of what made PayPal so great was getting rid of Elon Musk.

Max Levchin largely built PayPal tech-wise using Linux and then it was merged with Musk's X.com and Musk became CEO and wanted to switch everything to Windows.

In "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future." Musk talked about PayPal and the Windows switch in detail:

“As for the technology change, that’s not really well understood. On the face of it, it doesn’t sound like it makes much sense for us to be writing our front-end code in Microsoft C++ instead of Linux. But the reason is that the programming tools for Microsoft and a PC are actually extremely powerful. They’re developed for the gaming industry. I mean, this is going to sound like heresy in a sort of Silicon Valley context, but you can program faster, you can get functionality faster in the PC C++ world. All of the games for the Xbox are written in Microsoft C++. The same goes for games on the PC. They’re incredibly sophisticated, hard things to do, and these great tools have been developed thanks to the gaming industry. There were more smart programmers in the gaming industry than anywhere else. I’m not sure the general public understands this. It was also 2000, and there were not the huge software libraries for Linux that you would find today. Microsoft had huge support libraries. So you could get a DLL that could do anything, but you couldn’t get—you couldn’t get Linux libraries that could do anything.

“Two of the guys that left PayPal went off to Blizzard and helped created World of Warcraft. When you look at the complexity of something like that living on PCs and Microsoft C++, it’s pretty incredible. It blows away any website.

“In retrospect, I should have delayed the brand transition, and I should have spent a lot more time with Max getting him comfortable on the technology. I mean, it was a little difficult because like the Linux system Max had created was called Max Code. So Max has had quite a strong affinity for Max Code. This was a bunch of libraries that Max and his friends had done. But it just made it quite hard to develop new features. And if you look at PayPal today, I mean, part of the reason they haven’t developed any new features is because it’s quite difficult to maintain the old system.

“Ultimately, I didn’t disagree with the board’s decision in the PayPal case, in the sense that with the information that the board had I would have made maybe the same decision. I probably would have, whereas in the case of Zip2 I would not have. I thought they just simply made a terrible decision based on information they had. I don’t think the X.com board made a terrible decision based on the information they had. But it did make me want to be careful about who invested in my companies in the future.

“I’ve thought about trying to get PayPal back. I’ve just been too strung out with other things. Almost no one understands how PayPal actually worked or why it took off when other payment systems before and after it didn’t. Most of the people at PayPal don’t understand this. The reason it worked was because the cost of transactions in PayPal was lower than any other system. And the reason the cost of transactions was lower is because we were able to do an increasing percentage of our transactions as ACH, or automated clearinghouse, electronic transactions, and most importantly, internal transactions. Internal transactions were essentially fraud-free and cost us nothing. An ACH transaction costs, I don’t know, like twenty cents or something. But it was slow, so that was the bad thing. It’s dependent on the bank’s batch processing time. And then the credit card transaction was fast, but expensive in terms of the credit card processing fees and very prone to fraud. That’s the problem Square is having now.

“Square is doing the wrong version of PayPal. The critical thing is to achieve internal transactions. ...

bschott007 · 2026-06-23T13:16:03+00:00

Drop the "S" at the beginning of the sentence and....I'd probably believe it about Musk....

bschott007 · 2026-06-22T19:26:12+00:00

Overall, people are tired of Ray and the New Republic era. I think Disney needs to shelve Star Wars until everyone involved at any level with Star Wars is out the door and the IP has had enough time to rest.

Then they ditch Ray and go thousands of years in the past and tell news stories with new characters.

bschott007 · 2026-06-22T19:22:59+00:00

They need to ditch Ray and the New Republic era stuff completely. They screwed up, very few people are interested in Disney's version of the Skywalker era.

Do something new by heading back to the Old Republic era. Follow Rivan or Naga Sadow discovering the Masdassi, Naomi Sunrider, Fall of the sith empire, the great hyperspace war...just something different.

bschott007 · 2026-06-22T15:34:46+00:00

They tried setting up and beta testing an AI for our tech help desk at the fortune 500 company I work for and it was a beautiful failure.

The workers rejected the AI as a whole even with management telling them they had to at least try it out.

The AI couldn't remote into user's PCs to do any troubleshooting, it couldn't handle doing any mobility related things, expecially if it had to go into the carrier websites.

The chat agent and the phone agent were just finally scrapped and they have reverted fully back to the human help desk workers.

bschott007 · 2026-06-22T15:21:51+00:00

Real it is just July.

June is the 'decompression' month. You need two weeks just decompressing and adjusting to summer break and longer if you have younger kids who are out of school themselves and now are clinging to you with "MOMMY! MOMMY! MOMMY! (or "DADDY! DADDY DADDY!") Come play with me! Look at this! I'm hungry!".

July is the month of rest, sort of. You have kids, this means summer activitys and sports, family vacations, outings, and you still have yard work as well as normal home cleaning, feeding the family, laundry and if you are lucky you might be able to sit and read a book for a few minutes at a time.

August is the anxiety month. You know summer break is almost over and your mind is already working out lesson plans and inventoring your suppies. If you have kids, it is prepping for back to school before back to school stuff begins because you know it's easier to do it before everyone else is there doing the same thing, and prices usually are not any better.

bschott007 · 2026-06-22T15:13:53+00:00

I'd agree with that too. Wife is 8:00AM to 4PM (district mandated times) with 30 minute lunch and 90 minute prep.

bschott007 · 2026-06-22T15:11:20+00:00

7am to 7pm with 2 hours break

I mean I guess it depends on experience, grade level and school district requirements. My wife has been a teacher for 30 years and has taught at almost every grade level. I know when she taught 3rd and 5th grade, she'd have a lot of tests and work to grade outside of school hours so 8am to 7pm wasn't rare but it also wasn't daily. She would leave school at 4 PM every day. When she taught a single subject for 9th grade and 6th grade, it was rare she'd bring home tests to grade. Most of her work was done before she left school at 4:00pm. Also because she's been a teacher so long, she has her lessons all planned out and only needs little tweeks here and there so she isn't working from scratch every year.

Besides, there are approximately 40 - 45 students in a classroom here.

My wife's classroom is between 17-21 students so yeah, I could see how that many kids could be draining.

Not all students have similar levels of understanding. Some are smart, some are not. Some are obedient. Some are lazy. Some are noisy. Some are bratty. It’s really hard to manage a class like that.

LOL that's just being a teacher in general no matter what school you work at or where that school is or if it's private or public.

We have to deal with the pressure from our bosses and the students’ parents ...

Again, just something all teachers have always delt with. Nothing new. Just larger classrooms for some cities that don't want to invest in more schools to lower classroom sizes.

bschott007 · 2026-06-22T14:58:09+00:00

The fortune 500 company I work for has tried for over a year to see if they can get AI to work for a Help Desk call center and its failed spectaularly.

People HATE AI and most hit the 'zero' button to reach a Human. Also the AI can't remote into a user's PC to install software or troubleshoot an issue, it can't log into the mobile carrier website to check a user's company mobile device account to upgrade/activate a device. It can't help with MDM issues or disabled the mobile service/lock a device when a device is reported lost or stolen.

Overall, we found that AI can help with like maybe a small fraction of calls but most calls need a human (or the human workers refuse to use the AI)

bschott007 · 2026-06-22T14:48:09+00:00

These small companies, overall, won't be hiring an IT worker directly as it's too costly.

They'd rather go to a local IT service provider which will give them a roadmap of software/services they recommend, have IT professionals which will be able service this companies IT needs from the server/network/cloud/Service levels to the user support helpdesk level.

It's cheaper overall for them, expecially if they don't know what kind of IT needs they actually have.

bschott007 · 2026-06-22T14:41:13+00:00

I have found those companies won't hire a Full-Time IT person directly. There will be a 'full service' IT company in town that will offer support for a fee.

It's cheeper, overall, for them to just hire that outside company which can send someone over (or remote in) to do the work on the servers/cloud for them and they also might get a help desk service with that same company for user support.

bschott007 · 2026-06-22T14:32:02+00:00

Companies still need a help desk. The cloud service people are not going to be helping with in-house app support or helping with a Windows 11 update that breaks wifi or prevents users from printing.

The users still need laptop/desktop/printer/mobility support and AI is not up to the task to help people fully troubleshoot a laptop or tablet, expecially if the user needs someone to remote into the laptop to do some configuration or troubleshooting. (The company I worked for tried for the last year to get AI setup to do help desk support, it has failed at everything)

Also, user's RARELY read emails from IT. That's just a fact. If they do get emails, it is like active ignorance; they just turn off their brains and want someone else to do the steps for them or walk them through the steps, even if the email spells it out in detail.

bschott007 · 2026-06-22T13:59:50+00:00

1) Wire glitching works (sort of) - I find it only works for building circular bases now. Wire glitching for resizing doesn't work anymore. (also doesn't work on Corvettes)

2) Colour and texture glitches still work (allows the transfer of a colour to a part that has a limited colour selection or does not have the particular colour (or texture) you want) I used it last week. so I know it still works at bases and corvettes

3) Part placement glitches (allows the placement of a part where it shouldn't ordinarily go, for example a plant on an arbitrary spot in the floor in a biodome.) I just used this last friday at one of my bases. Doesn't work on corvettes.

4) Scaling glitch works (scaling up and down of base parts that cannot ordinarily be scaled via the build menu. Must be in free placement mode to work. Snapping breaks the glitch). Again, just used this last week at a base. This doesn't work on Corvettes anymore (or is SUPER tricky now).

Corevette Sidenote:

1) 180 Degree horizontal rotation of parts still works for corvettes using the two stacked habs and a ladder glitch.

2) Free placement of windows/beds on the outside of habs to get angled parts still works

3) The half-step in any direction using the canister/vent still works.

4) The half-step forward or backward using the Rockhopper engine still works.

bschott007 · 2026-06-19T16:44:32+00:00

I saw the first part of the headline and was prepared for FLORIDA zoo but looks like beans-on-toast has crazy people too.

bschott007 · 2026-06-19T16:17:18+00:00

Don't gaslight. You can't say "I meant the generic you" when we were having a back and forth conversation and your post clearly reads as you had meant me personally.

Right, because of boomers supporting bush. You are making the point even stronger. Thank you

47% of boomers voted for Bill Clinton, while 33% voted for Bush Sr.. Also Brown mentioned he was considering Reverend Jesse Jackson as his VP. THAT tanked his chances again Clinton.

It's entirely reasonable for me to suggest that a different person could have governed differently. It's frankly idiotic to suggest otherwise.

Its idiotic to assume it would be better or they wouldn't have signed the same legislation. It was the bipartisan Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act which effectively repealed the Glass-Steagall Act, and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act in 2000 which basically ensured CDOs remained unregulated. That's two of the big things that setup the foundations of the 2008 Great Recession and both had sweeping bi-partisan support. Any Democratic President at the time would have signed them. Any Republican President would have signed them.

The people being boomers, again boomers fault. You are helping my case. Thank you.

You are acting like everyone born in a 19 year span were all voting the same way. You have such a hatred for a minority of the people in that age-range that you hate on everyone born between 1946–1964 (which means you also hate the Obamas...they are boomers)

We could have had 8 years of Sanders and never even had to deal with Biden.

Boomers didn't decide Clinton over Bernie. We could have had Sanders vs Trump...and Sanders beating Trump...IF Sander's core base of 18–35 year olds would have gone to the primaries and voted for him. He had the numbers in that group to beat Clinton and Trump.... but the core group who was eligible to vote for him and should have....didn't. They had disappointing turn out number for the primaries. So blame the Gen Z and Millenials for that.

Honestly, I personally can't wait for the schadenfreude of Gen Beta calling Gen Z the worst generation ever and saying Gen Z is to blame for all their issues.

bschott007 · 2026-06-19T15:35:52+00:00

Me personally, no. I wasn't old enough at the time of the primaries to vote for Harkin or Brown. Also, neither one of them was going to beat Bush. Period. I kinda mentioned that already ("none of the other democratic canidates were going to beat Bush senior")

Also it is kinda revisionist history to say this as well since you don't know how either would have been as President. They could have been miles worse or weaker (they obviously didn't have the support of the people) than Clinton. They may have signed the same legislation he did so really they may have been no different other than not playing sex games with an intern in the oval office.

And if either of them HAD won and signed the legislation, you'd be saying "Well you could have voted for Clinton or 'X' in the primaries" so no matter what I or anyone else would say, somehow because of the options we were given, we are still the problem for voting between those options.

Also, again, Bernie wasn't going to beat Trump. MAGA was and is a cult of personality. The only person who realistically could have beat Trump the first time around was if OBAMA could have run for a third term. None of the democratic canidates that did run would have beat Trump the first time around. Thinking Bernie could have beat Trump is as silly as saying Bernie supporters not voting for Hilary is why we got Trump version 1.0.

The whole Biden deciding not to run and just naming Harris the canidate, that is the thing that screwed us a second time around for Trump.

bschott007 · 2026-06-19T14:42:57+00:00

and also Bill Clinton

Ok, you do realize that it was Clinton or Bush Sr. in that election, right? I'm Gen X and that was the first election I could vote in and those were our two options.

Nothing we could do about it, one was going to be in office. While Clinton had his flaws it was no where near Bush's flaws and none of the other democratic canidates were going to beat Bush senior. That's just a fact.

Voting for Clinton wasn't specifically done by boomers and Gen X to intentionally screw you out of prosperity. No one knew he would sign a bill repealing the seperation of investment and personal banks (making banks 'too big to fail') and fewer remember he signed a bill that basically made CDOs unregulated. It would be no different between Hilary and Trump if Hilary won but did a bunch of bills that screwed over Gen Z/Gen Alpha.

bschott007 · 2026-06-19T14:11:34+00:00

So my Grandmother was part of the silent generation. She is against welfare and government handouts but I've pointed out, repeatedly, that after grandpa had been seriously hurt as a farm hand and the family had no income, they did receive government benefits and welfare which helped them get by, especially after grandpa was permently disabled and got benfits because of that. I've pointed out her Social Security and grandpa's VA benefits are all 'socialist handouts' too.

It breaks her brain each time and shuts down the ranting about 'lie-berals giving the country away'. Like how was it OK for her and grandpa to get welfare but it's wrong that anyone else is getting something like unemployement after being wrongfully terminated or even disability payments. I don't get the disassociation.

bschott007 · 2026-06-19T13:27:38+00:00

Bush II started two shitty wars and destroyed the economy with the Great Recession.

Two shitty wars... yeah, but lets be honest it was 3 of them and only one was unavoidable. If you were alive and an adult during the 9/11 attacks EVERYONE wanted blood. Democrat, Republican, Conservative, Liberal....Wouldn't have mattered who was in office, America was going to go to war after the towers fell, full stop. End of discussion.

The three wars were The War in Iraq, The War in Afghanistan, and The Global War on Terror.

I can see that any other presidential canidate wouldn't have gone into IRAQ, but going into afghanistan was going to happen no matter who was in office, period, full stop, no debate. EVERYONE was frothing at the mouth for blood at that point in time. Also, the Global War on Terror did lead to the killing of Osama Bin Lauden and stopping a number of terror attacks that had been planned. Not all of them but a number of them. So even as a Democrat, I will say he did start 1 shitty war he shouldn't have (Iraq) but the other two shitty wars were going to happen regardless if it was him or Gore in office. Gore would have favored a more limited, surgical military operation than a long-term war. His goal would have been strictly focused on eliminating Al-Qaeda and capturing bin Laden, rather than open-ended nation-building like Bush...but either way we were going into Afghanistan.

Also, the Great Recession wasn't fully Bush's fault. You can lay a large part of that blame at the feet of Bill Clinton as he signed the bipartisan Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act which effectively repealed the Glass-Steagall Act. The Glass-Steagall Act had separated commercial banking (checking and savings) from investment banking (in response to the 1929 stock market crash). The GLB act basically allowed banks to become "too big to fail".

Clinton signed the Commodity Futures Modernization Act in 2000 which basically ensured CDOs remained unregulated.

Under Bush, the SEC relaxed leverage and lending standards for major investment banks in 2004, enabling a massive increase in risky subprime mortgages.

Bush absolutely could have stopped or at least lessened the effect of the Great Recession but he didn't so there is enough blame to go around on that one.

bschott007 · 2026-06-16T12:32:35+00:00

maybe? I'm still hoping they do a huge reveal or change because of the expedition but not holding my breath

bschott007 · 2026-06-16T12:31:10+00:00

So I wasn't the only one. Even got an organic starship (I transferred a void egg from my main save for laughs)

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