From Google Translate:

Our suffering in Gaza was to travel as if we were not human beings. After I returned to Gaza, my health improved until this war happened. After two months, my treatment and most of the medicines in Gaza were cut off. To this day, there is a huge shortage of medicines. During the war and the lack of treatment, the damned disease came back to me. This was one of the reasons I went to Egypt and we paid everything we had to travel there. Yes, we were exploited in a dirty way, but there was no other solution. When we came to Egypt, we did not know that life here had become difficult and extremely expensive. Although I was sick, I worked so that I could provide for my treatment. I worked 11 hours for only $2, which was not enough, but there was no other solution. After a short period, I left work because my health condition became difficult and my head was broken because of it. For this reason, I did a cover-up and our house in Gaza was also destroyed and we lost everything. Since the beginning of the war, my friend Muhammad was telling me to do a cover-up, but I refused because throughout my life I had never thought of asking anyone. I felt broken hearted when I did it. I support you, but there is no other solution. Your donations can help me go to Germany to receive final treatment. There, this was my story and my suffering, and most of the suffering of the Palestinian people in Gaza. I want to thank you for your support and assistance.

I have a theory that the reason Darn Tough socks offers lifetime replacements is because the owner has a foot fetish and just wants to collect people’s dirty socks.

Maybe this is a similar scheme

Clickspring has an amazing series where he builds a replica of this using techniques from the era. He makes the drill, vise, files, etc from raw materials, its really interesting.

In the process he actually discovered a key detail about what it’s purpose was and helped write a paper about it.

There’s a really good podcast episode that dives into how photography rarely captures reality as it exists, but instead is the expression of the photographer. I came away from it with a greater appreciation of the art of photography, and also a more nuanced view on these kinds of staged photographs.

This photo was staged, but is it not expressing real feelings about the great depression? I get why people get angry when they feel like photographs lie, but I think the right response is the realize that all photographs lie to some extent. The photographer is showing you what they want you to see, framed and focused how they want it, chosen from dozens of similar shots to express the reality that they chose.

I wish I had more time to better explain myself, but I’ll drop the podcast link in case anyone wants to listen.

https://radiolab.org/podcast/308563-truth-cannonballs

It might have hissed before I got outside, but I didn’t hear it. It tried to run away from the direction I was coming from and got stuck in the corner between a fence and my garage.

I used to think that move was a silly adaptation until I saw it in person. I think opossums are absolute cuties, but this one was pretty freaky looking, I get why it works now.

My indoor cat escaped one time(he’s fine) so I set food out and aimed a cheap ip camera at it hoping to see him. One night I saw something on it, and when I got out there I had cornered an opossum. It was frozen completely still with it teeth bared and froth in its mouth. It was pretty freaky looking.

Every time someone says this, they should get the opportunity to become more resistant to public flogging

It’s probably never going to exist anyway. They made these 2 prototypes, but even Elon is saying they won’t start manufacturing until 2026. He also prefaced it by saying he has a tendency to overpromise on dates, so they’ve probably not even started working on it.

Cumtown was on a list of leftists podcasts I saw before I’d ever heard of it. I got some clips of it in my YouTube feed and it was all racial jokes and jokes where the punchline is someone is gay.

There were people going crazy for this in that unveiling clip I saw posted here. One dude yelled, “Fuck yeah” and another was going, “What is that?!?”, like he was personally meeting Jesus. Made me sick.

As much as I’d like to see big tech die, and bazinga billionaires to lose money, I’m afraid of what a market crash would do to regular people. Lots of pension funds and retirement savings are tied up in the stock market.

The very rich always find a way to come out of market turmoil with a larger share of the wealth, even if the total wealth is smaller. That’ll be another opportunity to do layoffs to “discipline the labor market” and jack up prices, and the working class will once again pay the price for the hubris of the rich.

I think the broader tech market can escape the AI crash if it abandons or significantly scales back on its investments in this garbage. If they continue on the road they’re on, I can see a tech stock crash on par with the dotcom bubble popping in the early 2000s.

If the tech stocks crash like they did back then, it will cause a lot more damage to the whole economy, though. Tech companies are seen as a whole lot less speculative than they were back then, a lot more “safe” investment money is tied up in companies like Amazon and Google.

Unfortunately, I think these companies are pretty incompetent and desperate to get back that exponential growth. I think it’s more likely than not that they’ll try to ride AI off the cliff.

Insurance as a private industry is so stupid. They extract profits to protect people from catastrophic losses, but then when something catastrophic happens, the government has to step in to save the industry. We’ve seen it with the risk pools that states have had to create to keep health insurers from pulling out of rural areas, with last resort programs for home insurance and flood insurance, the AIG bailout, and the built in bailouts of Obamacare.

Why do they get to collect the profits if they don’t cover the risks?

This removes Copilot and telemetry, I don’t remember if it has the option to remove onedrive, though.

I think it’s significant that pizzagate(and then Qanon) suddenly appeared once the connections between Trump and Epstein became clear. Trump went from being associated with Epstein because he’s a sex criminal to being a white hat pedophile who was only friends with Epstein to take down the deep state.

I had to stop watching those channels, they go way overboard with it. They also do a terrible job of censoring the words in a way that still makes it understandable. They only need to mute the audio for a tiny part of the words to make it past the demonetization filter, but those channels cut the entire word with the video. It’s makes it incomprehensible.

Dumping some personal mental health thoughts, CW: depression

I just realized my label printer intentionally wastes tape. The print head is farther from the exit than it needs to be, so the beginning and end of every label has to have several centimeters of blank space.

E-readers with physical buttons still exist, but the companies price gouge for the privilege, since they’re only on the top end models. I’d take the old style with only buttons if they still made them. E-Ink shows fingerprints worse than LCD’s so it’s kinda dumb to have a touch screens.

Going apple picking this week. It’s gotten so expensive, though. It costs significantly more than buying them in the store. I guess it’s because it’s more of a tourist activity than a way to buy apples. Still, I like having some hot cider and seeing the fall sights with my partner