Let them eat Christmas cake [The Economist]
A Nobel Prize Winner on Rethinking Poverty (and Business) [HBR]
How the PlayStation’s DualShock shaped modern controllers [The Verge]
What Trump has actually done in his first 3 years [Vox]
AWS launches Braket, its quantum computing service [Techcrunch]
Why we should be far more afraid of climate tipping points [MIT Tech Review]
Microsoft is rolling out something called ‘Project Cortex’ to take on rivals like Slack and Google [Business Insider]
Typhoon Kammuri slams into Phillippines, forcing thousands to flee [BBC News]
US Congress commits to act on climate crisis, despite Donald Trump [The Guardian]
How Inequality Is Driving American Cities Apart [NY Times]

Hi there! It’s December! Therefore, be good, or Santa Claus won’t bring you presents.

I am extremely grateful that people heeded the warnings from Caltrans during Thanksgiving Break. Remember the importance of a Designated Driver, and drive safely, especially when it’s raining or snowing. Remember, the holidays are great, but only if we return home in one piece. Always wear that damn seatbelt, whether it is for a short or a long drive. It is imperative. Also, it’s not just don’t drink and drive, it’s also don’t smoke or do drugs while driving. It is of extreme importance. Your reaction time completely changes if you are not sober. Sometimes CHP will come to your school, and show you on the road how driving is like with beer goggles. As you will experience, it is extremely dangerous. That’s why If you drive drunk, you’re putting yourself at risk, and those around you. Not to mention, people who love you will be very sad.

I just finished “The Irishman.” I’m not a big fan of gangster movies like Obama (I prefer Sicario), but I want to thank Martin Scorsese for finally shedding a light on the Jewish Mafia. You see, sometimes soon after 9/11, the “Mafia Operating Super System AD-vertising or (MOSSAD v2) was implemented. They made a lot of money. It was very scary, and it took intelligence agencies more than decades to shed a light on the topic, and expose the evil that they were. The Military-Industrial-Complex made lots and lots of money. A lot of people in the Intelligence Community were completely mortified. It’s because war is big business. If there was Peace, there would be no business. This is why on tv, you see people trying to discredit candidates like Bernie Sanders. He wants to reunite our country, he wants to bring peace to our wars. If you saw the movie Vice, you know how George W. Bush’s VP Dick Cheney influenced him to get into Iraq. Bernie voted against Iraq. Remember the movie Green Zone with Matt Damon. He went in looking for WMDs, he kept asking “where the fuck are the WMDs?” His superiors told him, nobody cares. He was so mad. It’s very much like Catch-22, available on Hulu.

I’ve been watching the Netflix Documentary about 13 Novembre 2015. Tears came onto my eyes, and reminded me when I was in Church crying and completely devastated. How dare terrorists attack France. How dare they. There are a few times in my life I was extremely upset, this one was one of them. You might think French soldiers are a bunch of sissies who wear short shorts on base, but trust me, after 13 Novembre 2015, we do not fuck around.

I read that Former Secretary of State John Kerry has a new book about his days while working. I’m also thankful about his new initiative on Climate Change.

I’m not a huge religious person (I prefer Zen Buddhism), but I want to thank the Pope for going to Japan and talking about Nuclear Deterrence. I know people love going to the movies about Pearl Harbor, but in Japan, they remember the Atomic Bombs, and there are not happy campers.

Don’t be demoralized about your retail job these holidays. Many of us had to do it for years before working in the corporate or government world. Get your education, and then you won’t have to flip burgers forever.

The Weeknd has new music! His new album will be very good I’m sure, he sounds pretty pissed off, it reminds me of me at 33. Hopefully, he has more love songs than sad songs.

I hear there’s a new documentary on YouTube about the Ford GT, I can’t wait to watch it!

There was news about a Tron reboot! It’s going to be awesome!

Lately, I’m watching “My Name is Earl.”

Until Next Time!