Matisyahu's Blog

Finished work at 8pm tonight, watched a few YouTube videos and then went for an 8km walk – I went for an 11.6km one last night, I was pretty sore so I needed some time to recover but I still feel the need to get out of the house and get some exercise. It’s always good to get some exercise and fresh air. I got home, had a small rest then jumped into the shower – the hot water soothes my muscles and allows me to relax before getting into my pjs ready for bed.

Bosch Legacy Season 3 has been released and although I’ve started watching episode one I am going to wait until my day off to enjoy it mainly because I don’t enjoy watch something if I am tired and my attention isn’t the best which results in me missing key parts of the narrative along with the fact that it is difficult to enjoy something when you’re tired. There are quite a few seasons that are coming back over the next year so I am looking forward to binge watching some good content.

I’m still looking at the possibility of taking time off during WWDC so I can relax and enjoy the WWDC sessions – I watch both the keynote and the State of the Platform Union which my preference for the latter rather than the former primarily because although it is a macro level overview of where Apple is taking their platforms. The discussion tends to be more oriented around the technical aspects rather than the keynote which talk more about the consumer facing features – I see a lot of heavy lifting regarding Webkit based on what they’ve been doing in the technical previews so I am hoping that we’re going to see a bigger push to get MV3 out the door (check out the Mozilla developer documentation which keeps track of how much of MV3 each browser support).

Just to end off this blog post, I’m kind of frustrated when people say “the rich need to pay their fair share” and inevitably someone will pop their head up to say “but they already do”. The problem is that they don’t – they may contribute as a percentage of the budget a large amount but what they get out of the system is a lot more than what they put into the system. That is the problem, they pay less into the system than what they get out of the system – they benefit from educated workers because it allows them to be more productive and thus create more value per hour of work or the fact that their business relies on a seamless supply chain that is kept running smoothly throughout the world thanks to the hegemonic power that the United States (and western allies) have in the world which ensures there are safe sea corridors for ships to transit through. That doesn’t even touch on the combination of soft power that is backed up by hard power that is exercised within the various post WWII institutions that were setup rules of trade. It is frustrating when you have people online display the toxic combination of ignorance and arrogance mixed together – convincing themselves that because they say something with confidence it automatically makes them correct.