- I sat down with my mom and we looked through my baby book. She talked about me without realizing that I was sitting next to her. Dementia is a curse I would never hope inflicted on anyone. At the end, she remembered and said she tried to be a good mom. I broke down and told her she was the best mom.
- Wealth distribution in the United States (righto.com)
Forbes recently published the Forbes 400 List for 2024, listing the 400 richest people in the United States. This inspired me to make a histogram to show the distribution of wealth in the United States. It turns out that if you put Elon Musk on the graph, almost the entire US population is crammed into a vertical bar, one pixel wide. Each pixel is $500 million wide, illustrating that $500 million essentially rounds to zero from the perspective of the wealthiest Americans.