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Why George Clooney Giving $1 Million to Friends is Insulting
yesterday i kept seeing this quote from george clooney on my twitter feed where he talks about giving 14 of his friends a million dollars along with the retweets of the quote were jokes that became played out within an hour or two thousands of people retweeted the quote saying things like i knew i should have hung out with george clooney that one time well yes most of us are living paycheck to paycheck a million bucks from a friend would be nice but it’s also quite possible that george clooney’s friends were highly insulted by the fact that he gave them money to put it into perspective we’re coming up on the holidays thanksgiving is next week and after that we have christmas for a moment let’s imagine that you go to your parents house for dinner or maybe you’re like me when i was growing up and you go to a friend’s house for thanksgiving dinner now imagine eating that delicious meal having some great conversation and making memories then you hand the person who made the meal fifty dollars how do you think that would go they’d probably be extremely insulted by your gesture like george clooney you’re trying to show your gratitude and you don’t think that words can do it so you do some math in your head and you figure that the meal was worth about 30 the service was great too so why not a big tip so you give the cook 50 this doesn’t go over well because of societal norms and i thought this would be interesting to discuss because i recently had to have this conversation with my son my son has been so good about saving money that he still has money from christmas from last year and his new year’s eve birthday since christmas and his birthday are coming up again he’s been spending more of his money because he knows that more is coming in with his money he’s bought a few new video games but he’s made some gestures that may come off as offensive recently he’s offered me money for doing my fatherly duties like going grocery shopping he even offered my girlfriend money when his headphones broke and she gave him her extra pair so i had to sit him down and explain norms and how this kind gesture may come off as offensive again while you and i would gladly take george clooney’s 1 million dollars i can’t help but wonder if his friends were offended i’m not sure which of his friends he gave money to but money is relative to your net worth if his friends are fellow millionaires or even billionaires george clooney giving a friend one million dollars would be like me giving a friend 100 for hanging out with me personally i’ve always questioned norms and i do think some of them are silly and completely irrational that’s why i absolutely love the book screw genomics why you shouldn’t buy presents for the holidays by joel waldfogel i love the holidays but more for the spirit and not the gift-giving how often do we get gifts that we never use how often do we give gifts that the person never uses and how often do we get a little upset when we spend our hard-earned money on something that the person doesn’t use i have a friend who is a mother and each christmas and birthday she spoils her son with gifts that kid has dozens of unopened gifts from the recent three to four years and i can’t help but think that money could have gone to some sort of charitable cause in his book screw genomics walt fogle looks at gift giving from the perspective of an economist sometimes economists can be cold and calculating like mr spock from star trek but that’s why i love them joel waldfogel realized a long time ago that there’s a strange stigma around giving money as gifts and to his credit that’s why i first heard the thought experiment about paying a friend for making you dinner as a professor wildfoggle has done experiments where he sees what the perceived value of gifts are and the results aren’t surprising at all on average most people value gifts they receive far less than what the person actually paid for the gift this is most common when the person receives a gift they didn’t want or need this happens because for most of us or at least us adults we buy the things we want during the year so there’s a low chance someone is going to get us something we actually want or need unless we ask for it specifically the other exception is if a person gets us something we wanted but didn’t want to spend our money on but how often does that happen during your typical gift exchanges this is also why the invention of gift cards was a genius idea giving a gift is more about the thought as a species that is constantly signaling to people giving a gift shows i was thinking about you and i listen to your wants and needs i know you so i purchase you something that proves that i care about you for us the signal is more powerful than the actual gift but most people would just want money because they can buy whatever they want the gift card gives the signal that you know what they like but they can spend the money on what they want i remember one christmas as a kid i finally told my parents just give me money that’s all i wanted i was into video games and building computers but i’d rather just handle the purchases myself but when they did what i asked it just didn’t feel like christmas now my son is almost 12 years old and he’s starting to ask just for money as well and i wonder if it’s going to feel less like christmas for him too if i just give him the money that he asks for at the end of the day i agree with joel walfogel’s way of thinking in scrooge of gnomics we should realize when we’re following norms that are irrational but we should also show the people we care about that we love them so while my son is getting money for christmas since he asked for it my girlfriend is getting some things so she knows that i pay attention so although some of george clooney’s friends may have been insulted by his cash gift i’ll join in on the played out joke by saying that i wish george clooney would insult me too all right everybody i hope you enjoyed this quick little video essay this is a topic that i’ve always found interesting and i found the opportunity to discuss it with all of you beautiful people all of my fellow critical thinkers out there uh when i saw this george clooney story popping up like one of his friends were like insulted by that you know what i mean um but anyways on a more serious note the holidays are coming up and it’s 2020 it is a very weird year and i am extremely extremely fortunate that i have a job that um that didn’t have any issues this year due to the pandemic i have a job where i can easily work from home the industry that i’m in you know people still need our services and stuff like that but i know a lot of people are struggling financially and i know a lot of people are going to be depressed and things like that around the holidays but remember like i was saying these holidays are more about the signal rather than the actual gift and in some cases like something i didn’t mention in this video was sometimes the the value of the gift shows the person how much we care right so when we get an expensive gift oh my god they care about me so much but sometimes we get insulted if they give us a cheap gift right and i bring that up because this year you know we should be giving people like handmade gifts right something just to show that signal that we care but what if people get offended by it like if if we enjoy a more expensive gift because it shows the person that they care more and if a cheap gift says that they care less isn’t that kind of putting a monetary value on people which is messed up in and of itself you know what i mean like that’s kind of weird you know so um if you guys want me to do some videos around like societal norms especially around the holidays um i know this holiday season is gonna be rough for a lot of people because of the pandemic like i had to cancel plans for the holidays uh just because the covet numbers are spiking and things like that um but if you want me to do some more mental health related type topics from a critical thinking aspect uh just let me know down in the comments below let me know how you’re handling this holiday season if you have any tips or advice you want to share with the community go for it all right but if you’re interested in this topic like i highly recommend that book screw genomics it’s linked down in the description below it’s a really interesting enlightening book and you’re like this makes sense all right but anyways that’s all i got for this video if you like this video please give it a thumbs up if you’re new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and a huge huge thank you to everybody who supports the channel over on patreon as well as everybody who supports the channel by getting the books that i linked down in the affiliate uh in the description those are affiliate links so a little bit comes back and supports the channel and my intense reading habit all right thanks again for watching i’ll see you next time .
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Infusing Technology with Pedagogy: An Academic Library’s Partnership with IT and Academic Affairs
Cliff Lynch: Welcome everybody. And we’ll be getting started in about 90 seconds or so. Cliff Lynch: Thanks for joining us, we’ll be getting started in about a minute. Cliff Lynch: Glad you could join us, we’ll be starting in about 30 seconds. Cliff Lynch: Alright, it’s time to get started. I think I’m. Welcome. I’m Cliff Lynch. I’m the director of the Coalition for network information and you’re here with us for one of the project briefing sessions on the second day of week two of the CNI Cliff Lynch: Virtual member meeting.
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NRC and the National Materials Program
Today there has been broad acceptance in all levels of the NRC of the importance of partnership with the agreement states. It wasn’t until a joint NRC Agreement State Working Group was established in 2000 to address the impacts of the increasing number for agreement states that the NMP had an initial framework. Implementation of this working groups recommendations resulted in process changes and expansion of existing programs.
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Fall Technology Innovation Forum Day Two - Webcast
Welcome to day two of the 2020 Fall Technology Innovation Forum. I’m Bill Alison, Berkeley CTO and your host as we showcase the Berkeley Technology Innovation Program. You can re-watch individual talks or the entire webcast from the first day at cto.berkeley.edu/innovation. We will also make today’s content available after the event as well. Berkeley is known as the home of innovation and for pushing the frontiers of knowledge.
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Air Jordan Spring 2021 Sneaker Release Update
so jordan brand just released information on 11 different shoes that are set to release in spring of 2021 so today we’re gonna go over the shoes i’m gonna give you guys my opinions about them what i think about them now and then obviously we’ll see what they look like later but let’s go ahead and get into the video welcome back to the channel what’s up with you guys how you doing how you been if you did not know by now my name is dj and this is the dna show now if you haven’t already make sure you hit the subscribe button hit the bell notification for every time i upload a new video that way you can know and don’t forget to hit the like button because that helps algorithm oh so much so we got a lot of shoes to go over so i don’t need to talk too much let’s go ahead and get into it with sneaker number one we have the air jordan 13 retro starfish me personally i’m not a fan of orange colorway shoes in the first place it’s very rare that i actually really really like a orange shoe so i don’t know if it’s just because the organ ducks versus oregon beavers type thing or whatever it may be but for some reason i’m not a big fan of orange shoes and with this on this model honestly it’s just not for me similar to the lucky green air jordan 13 i thought it was a fake version of a ray island pe and i feel like this could potentially be kind of one of those fake versions as well now if they put a organ beaver’s logo on it again ah you know what i’m saying maybe because it’s a pe and i would want to get it because i’m from oregon but i still wouldn’t even like it so overall i’m just gonna say it’s a pass for me and i would only probably get these just to make a review for you guys next up is the air jordan 9 retro this looks like the citrus nines that came out from back in the day was that like early i think that was like 2010 or something like that i used to have those from way way back in the day and uh these kind of look very similar to those kind of like a shadow citrus version of that sneaker i can’t appreciate this one just because of that one and it’s pretty simple it’s not too much with that you know crazy like the orange on the last one i think these are a solid shoe personally probably wouldn’t cop this sneaker but i could see why a lot of people would like these and it’s definitely easy to wear next up we have another air jordan 9 in a women’s colorway this one right here is like maybe like an easter nine or something like that i’m not exactly sure but for me personally it’s not really a go for me i don’t really see any i don’t know it’s just like i don’t know if it’s the color blocking or whatever if this is what men’s or women’s colorway probably wouldn’t have liked it and if this was like a special release or something like that i still wouldn’t like it so yeah this personally just again not for me one thing that i can say that i love about sneakers is just because the sneaker may not be for me you can love it you can have your own opinion you can purchase the shoe i’m not the one buying your shoes and you’re not the one behind my shoes and that’s the best thing about it i’m just giving you guys my opinion and my two cents on what i think about the sneakers next up is a very interesting one this one i think i’m already on the fence about it and i feel like i’m kind of leaning towards not liking this one as well and this is the air jordan 5 i don’t know exactly what the colorway is supposed to be for the name of it but it kinda looks like a metallic five but they switched a lot of the materials on the upper you kind of got like a shaggy kind of suede or something like that and then you got a mesh on the upper on the toe and the side and around the tongue and everything so for me i like classic old school vibes and this is giving like almost that old school vibe with the metallic but then they’re switching it up with all these materials some type of like alternate or something i’m not exactly sure so could potentially be a cop but not exactly sure i’m gonna have to wait until i see when these come out and actually get them a hand and see them but i probably would only want to buy this shoe at a discount if i were to buy it next up is the air jordan 5 stealth now this one right here bruh they were so close i thought they were gonna release the stealth fives from back in the day just re-retro at the same exact colors but they gave us like an alternate version they switch things up they move colors around and i would say out of all the shoes that i’ve listed so far these ones would be the most coppable for me uh it’s just so tough like these are my school colors i used to have the stealth fives back in the day and rocked them all the time back in high school and bruh i just i really enjoyed that shoe so if they were to retro that exact same model man i would have been so happy so i don’t know if it’s just simply because i had the old pair making me kind of you know feel differently about this pair but i’m open to these and i’m willing to definitely check these out maybe try to get these in a size 13 and see if i really want to keep them or not okay next up is a very very interesting one and i honestly think it’s already a cop for me simply because it’s similar to a college series pack it’s like a broke man pe but at the same time i feel like i might actually like these because of the all baby blue on the upper when it comes to the jordan 4.
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Viagem durante a pandemia dicas e truques
Rossana and I traveled during the pandemic, everything was quiet and we felt safe Follow tips on how to travel in the pandemic, and don’t forget to like this video, subscribe to the channel and click on Tinker Bell to receive notifications of new videos we post Leaving from Alpharetta, it took over 24 hours to reach our destination: Goiânia, capital of the State of Goiás, in the Midwest of Brazil.
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Every BREAKUP Ever 💔 iCarly
So, as I was saying– - You guys ever been in Fresno? - Shut up! - What? I was just– - Shut up, shut up, shut up! - What’s your deal? My deal is you haven’t let me finish one sentence all night and I can’t take it anymore! - It’s like you won’t even– - What you’re trying to say? Get out of here! If he’s looking for me, I should get back downstairs.
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Cons of living in Dubai.
Hey guys, welcome to Oksy Vlogs. If this is your first time here and you would like to know more about life in Dubai don’t forget to hit subscribe button and the notification icon so you will not miss anything. (upbeat music) Dubai is an amazing city but as we know, every city has some cons of living, so in this video I will review them. (upbeat music) So what are the cons of living in Dubai?
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Tantrum or Autistic Meltdown - How You Can Spot the Difference
Hi everybody. Have you ever wondered the difference between an autistic meltdown and a tantrum? This week we’re going to dive in deeply to this topic. Come on. Let’s go. So first meltdowns and tantrums can look alike, especially at first glance, but knowing the difference between a meltdown and a tantrum can help you to respond appropriately to the situation - by showing compassion and support to someone who is struggling.
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The Body of Christ’s Immune System 🗡 Catholic, defend Your Church ✔ Fighting our church´s enemies 🤜🏻
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