going to punish them just for consistency and political gain and do it right in front of us? Right in front of us? Is that really happening?

And so here's the thought process I go through. I think, well I've got to do something about this. But then the very next story I read I think, well I've got to do something about that too. There are too many things to do stuff about. They've basically overwhelmed me with outrage. So I have so many outrages. I'm like, you know, I should weigh in and make sure that these border patrol people — because they're employees of the United States, right? So in a way public employees are sort of my responsibility, aren't they? In an extended way I pay taxes, the taxes go to them. They're working for the public. I'm the public. I mean I feel like it's a two-way obligation, right? They're keeping us safe. Don't I have the same obligation to them to keep them safe?

So I read this story, I'm like it's their job to keep me safe. They're not safe themselves. I should run down there and keep them safe. It's just a reciprocal instinct kind of thing. But then who has the time? And I think, well other people got problems too, and maybe I could solve a problem that's closer to home. And you talk yourself out of it.

And it could be that if you looked into it you'd find out there's more to it than you know, and then you spend all your time trying to fix this outrage only to find out that a few of the border patrol that they're talking about actually did something wrong. And then you've wasted all your outrage on something you just didn't have the full context to. So it's easy to talk yourself out of working against any of these outrages because maybe they're not even true.

What is the worst thing about having a job with coworkers? It's the coworkers. It's the meetings, because then there are more coworkers there at the same time. The only thing worse, the worst thing at work, is interacting with other people, right? All of the unpleasantness at work is interacting with your boss or interacting with your coworkers. Generally the customers are fine. You can usually have a good day with customers. You help them, they're happy about it, it's all good. But all the unpleasant stuff has to do with meetings and just running into people.

So now we found a way to make meetings even worse. Apparently the hybrid, the so-called hybrid meetings where some people are on video and some people are in the room, it turns into a whole second-class citizen thing if you're on video. And it's a terrible look and you have to look at these little postage-stamp people in the crowd.

But there are a few technologies apparently that are going to fix that. One of them is automatic camera focusing on whoever's talking so that whoever's talking could be bigger on the screen. That would be good. That already exists. It's a little expensive. And then apparently the Meta model where you put on the goggles and you go talk. According to one article I read — who I wish I could remember the author — said that the goggles were annoying so it's not quite ready for prime time, but that the sensation of it was being in person even though it was avatars at a tabl