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Old Man: We have 2 people dead in DC. We have 50,000 dead in Gaza. And, how many children starved to death last night? In 1956, Israel invaded Sinai. They invaded Gaza. The United States president at the time, Dwight Eisenhower, put his foot down and he told the French and the British get the heck out of the Suez Canal, and he told Israel to get the heck out of Sinai and out of Gaza. Now, where would we be today if we had a president that could have said that 2 years ago?

Reporter 1: Can you describe again the Elias personality that you met?

Old Man: Quiet and friendly. Quiet and friendly. Yeah. Yeah.

Reporter 2: What's your age if you don't mind?

Old Man: 71. Yeah. I'm the guy with all the with all the signs in the window.

Reporter 1: What do you hope happens next?

Old Man: Ceasefire. No more deaths. No more deaths in DC. No more deaths in Gaza.

Reporter 1: What about with your neighbor?

Old Man: I don't know.

Reporter 3: If you could say something to him right now, what would you want to communicate to him? What would you have said, if you like you said earlier, could talk to him?

Old Man: I would have repeated, what I've already said, "Guns and bombs are not going to end this genocide."

https://xcancel.com/falasteen47/status/1925646565366022303#m

I know RSS bots in the threadiverse are somewhat controversial, but I found this instance that is RSS feeds only. (I think there are others?)

Here is the text of Introduction to rss.ponder.cat the pinned post with links to all current feeds, which isn't available on hb because it was posted before anyone here subscribed to !meta@rss.ponder.cat. This way the links resolve properly within hb.

Not a well formulated proposal, just an idea:

It might be interesting to create RSS-based communities, for example a sibling to /c/podcasts that subs itself to a bunch of podcast RSS feeds, then the user can browse recent episodes of shows recommended by the community.

Or a /c/news sibling, same as above.

Other potential RSS feeds: reddits, youtubes, peertubes, share your notification inbox publicly--- endless really.

It gets better. By that I mean worse. The school admins starting lying and saying it was shut down due to copyright issues.

The statement began:

After Friday night’s performance of The Crucible, we received several complaints as to an unauthorized change in the script of the play. Upon investigation, we learned that the performance did not reflect the original script. These alterations were not approved by the licensing company or administration. The performance contract for The Crucible does not allow modifications without prior written approval. Failing to follow the proper licensing approval process for additions led to a breach in our contract with the play’s publisher. The infraction resulted in an automatic termination of the licensing agreement. The second performance of The Crucible could not occur because we were no longer covered by a copyright agreement.

Suddenly, the demonic and disgusting content had been magically transformed into a copyright violation. Three students stated that no words of the text had been changed in any way. The only possible material in the production that might have given the licensor pause was that the production began with a wordless scene of the young women of Salem dancing in the woods at night, enacting what is described by dialogue in the text.

[It's] an interpretive choice that was unlikely to have been in violation of the license since it altered not the text, the spirit nor the intention of the show. Would it have been advisable to have checked with the licensor? Yes. Was it flagrantly out of bounds? I think not.

I enjoyed the first 1/3rd the article which is to that point. But in the last 2/3rd the writer goes on and on and on and on trying to find definitive proof that the school admins are lying. Why bother? They're lying.

I lost my canvasing job because I could not convince people directly complicit in genocide living extremely wealthy lives to donate $20 a month to feed the children their government is bombing.

I want to give up. I am about to run out of rent and bill money, all my savings and meager inheritance from my dead grandmother is gone. I gave almost all of it away, then I lost my job.

I don't know what to do now, my mind wanders to adventurism.

Putin lives across the hall like Kramer

I was at the produce aisle in the supermarket buying potatoes when an old man pulled up to one of the digital scales with a shopping cart laden with the cheapest processed meatballs you can get. He then proceeded to weigh every single container, either to make sure they contained the promised 360 grams or hoping some of the boxes had extra meatballs in them

Link

I think it’s a good statement, short and to the point. The replies are absolute poison though, hasbara bots really honing in on them. Feds will try and make something stick but it doesn’t sound like he was even a member.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel_Grynszpan

this was a trigger for kristallnacht btw

We had a lunch lecture where this environmental scientist gave a talk about critical materials and how big of a problem our reliance on these are. He links the whole thing up with politics pretty well, explaining how various political actors are involved and benefit from this or that.

At some point, he even mentions how in the netherlands, policy doesn't get passed without a buy-in from industry. It means quite a lot, cause this guy is government hired in recommending policies.

Then he contradicts himself in the next paragraph by saying that this is the curse of democracy that people make stupid decisions.

I ask this guy about the contradiction. How you simultaneously harp about profits over needs, the evils of consultancy firms, and the inability of the Dutch government to do anything but pursue corporate interests, while also talking about the problems of "democracy"?

He just tells me "we are a democracy that's why the Dutch government listens to industry". Well not exactly that, but at least that's the message I get when he talks about all the corporate controlled parties winning the elections and how that's what the people chose.

Dude is this close to realising that the definition of liberal democracy is "legitimised rule by corporations" .

Of course, the lecture ends with a book recommendation for a book about the collapse of human civilisation. And a recommendation to go vote and participate in political parties.

Unlimited death upon elections.

Picture via https://onlinebicyclemuseum.co.uk/1930s-lever-driven-bicycle/ and it has a nice story to it if you care for it. The last quote is very dudes rock. Also this has iron tyres on wooden wheels.

This is a singlespeed. Much like there is more than one way to skin a cat, there is more than one way to convert leg movement into rotational force to go well far on two triangles. Like you could just plonk some levers on the rear and use those to convert some leg motion into going forward via wheel. This, by description, would have had freewheels of some sort, but conceptually you could make this even more low tech as a fixie, one lever fixed at the top, one at the rear of the wheel, off you go.

Prepare to learn nutritional science, buddy

S’pht on that thing.

Onigiri (お握り or 御握り), also known as omusubi (お結び) or nigirimeshi (握り飯), is a Japanese rice ball made from white rice. It is usually formed into triangular or cylindrical shapes, and wrapped in nori (seaweed). Onigiri traditionally have sour or salty fillings such as umeboshi (pickled Chinese plum), salted salmon, katsuobushi (smoked and fermented bonito), kombu, tarako or mentaiko (pollock roe), or takanazuke (pickled Japanese giant red mustard greens). Because it is easily portable and eaten by hand, onigiri has been used as portable food or bento from ancient times to the present day. Originally, it was used as a way to use and store left-over rice, but it later became a regular meal. Many Japanese convenience stores and supermarkets stock onigiri with various fillings and flavors. It has become so mainstream that it is even served in izakayas and sit-down restaurants. There are even specialized shops which only sell onigiri to take out. Due to the popularity of this trend in Japan, onigiri has become a popular staple in Japanese restaurants worldwide.

Onigiri is not a form of sushi and should not be confused with the type of sushi called nigirizushi or simply nigiri. Onigiri is made with plain rice (sometimes lightly salted), while sushi is made of rice with vinegar, sugar and salt. Onigiri makes rice portable and easy to eat as well as preserving it, while sushi originated as a way of preserving fish.

History

Prehistoric

On November 12, 1987, lumps of carbonized grains of rice, thought to be riceballs, were excavated from a building belonging to the Yayoi period (2000 years ago) in the Sugitani Chanobatake Ruins in Ishikawa Prefecture. The carbonized rice had traces which revealed that it was formed by human hands, thus it was initially documented as "the oldest onigiri." In subsequent research, it was thought to be steamed and grilled, rather than boiled like today's rice, similar to another dish called chimaki. Since then, it has been academically called the "chimaki-shaped carbonized rice lumps (チマキ状炭化米塊)".

Pre-Modern

Before the use of chopsticks became widespread, in the Nara period, rice was often rolled into a small ball so that it could be easily picked up. In the Heian period, rice was made into small rectangular shapes known as tonjiki so that they could be piled onto a plate and easily eaten. At that time, onigiri were called tonjiki and often consumed at outdoor picnic lunches

Modern

In the 1980s, a machine to make triangular onigiri was invented. Rather than rolling the filling inside, the flavoring was put into a hole in the onigiri and the hole was hidden by nori. Since the onigiri made by this machine came with nori already applied to the rice ball, over time the nori became moist and sticky, clinging to the rice.

A packaging improvement allowed the nori to be stored separately from the rice. Before eating, the diner could open the packet of nori and wrap the onigiri. The use of a hole for filling the onigiri made new flavors of onigiri easier to produce as this cooking process did not require changes from ingredient to ingredient. Modern mechanically wrapped onigiri are specially folded so that the plastic wrapping is between the nori and rice to act as a moisture barrier. When the packaging is pulled open at both ends, the nori and rice come into contact and are eaten together. This packaging is commonly found for both triangular onigiri and rolls (細巻き).

Rice and shapes

Usually, onigiri is made with boiled white rice, though it is sometimes made with different varieties of cooked rice, such as:

-Okowa or kowa-meshi: glutinous rice cooked or steamed with vegetables

-Sekihan: rice cooked with red azuki beans

-Maze-gohan: rice cooked with various preferred ingredients

-Fried rice

-Brown rice

The rice may be seasoned with salt, sesame, furikake, dried shiso flakes, and so on.

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