andrewrgross

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[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 4 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

What marketing strategy would you recommend?

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

This article is very badly written.

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 14 points 16 hours ago

This is so fucked up.

In a weird way, I kind of appreciate that these people are being honest and transparent. Israel has already annexed the land for decades, but now they're dropping the pretense.

I'm so upset about the murder of Adwah Hathaleen last week. He was supposed to soak at my synagogue in July, but when his plane landed in San Francisco he and his cousin had their visas striped. Over a hundred people showed up at the airport in protest. But after flying 10 hours and spending thousands of dollars of sponsorship, they were sent home. And now he's dead. It's really got me shook.

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 days ago

I set up a Nextcloud home server. It was moderately easy.

I wanted to stop using Google Drive and went looking for the most popular free, open source alternative. I found that not only is NextCloud popular for this, but you can set it up by burning a premade .iso disk image to an SD card and then starting it up on a Raspberry Pi. So that's what I did.

I still had to follow guides to set up remote access and security, but following the guides was pretty straight forward. I really recommend it!

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I stopped reading the NYTimes after I cancelled my subscription around 2019, but occasionally check it to see how close they're willing to walk to saying difficult truths. This article is a reminder why I left. It's pathetic watching them sheepishly murmur ugly facts and whisper when they should shout.

Within Israel, aid restriction is a loudly debated topic: on one hand are organizations, politicians, and pundits who argue that Israel should cut off all aid in order to exterminate every person in Gaza. And on the other are the "moderates" who argue that it is important to allow in a miniscule-but-non-zero amount of aid intended to achieve the same purpose while maintaining the farcical pretense that they aren't doing what they frequently admit they're doing. This is the range of mainstream discourse, and it is all out in the open.

They say the quiet part out loud on the floor of the kenesset every day. Does the NYTimes have some rule against reporting Netanyahu's own words if they're not spoken to an American audience? He and Smotrich and Ben-Gvir admit to committing starvation in Hebrew the same day Bibi will deny it in a speech in English.

Fuck the NYTimes.

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I was just wondering when this was coming out!

Are you doing anything around the launch around Oakland or SF? The cover looks great, btw.

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 week ago

First, I just want to highlight that when considering what is best for a kid, it's better to consider tradeoffs rather than whether something is "healthy or unhealthy". It's possible that it's unhealthy for your 12 year old to co-sleep with you, but it's also possible that it's unhealthy for them to suffer from a feeling of isolation. If so, it may be an appropriate trade-off.

Second, I agree with @Fletcher@lemmy.today. The important thing is to try and address underlying causes, and also make this kind of comfort a short-term practice if possible.

Does your kid have any regular contact with a school counselor that they trust? I think the key question is why they're doing this now. Is there anything recently that has caused additional stress that is hindering sleep? Could it be natural developmental processes impacting their sleep cycle? Would more physical activity in the afternoon help tire them out so they have an easier time falling asleep? Would a change in eating times or diet help? Would melatonin gummies help?

Also, I think this should be self-evident, but I find it worth saying: I think it's healthy to have these conversations with the kid. Tell them you're concerned that co-sleeping is not healthy, but want to make sure they're comfortable. Ask them if they know why they've been having more trouble sleeping lately. Involve them in the process of trying to figure out how to approach this so they learn approaches to mindfully examine and manage their own health.

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 week ago

I think you're over-parsing their language. A lot of people just naturally use gender neutral language on social media by habit.

Also, advice is often given generally. Although we're talking about a specific kid, the advice is directed towards any other parent reading the advice as well.

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This article assumes a lot of contextual familiarity on the part of the reader.

I pay attention to Israeli-Palestinian news pretty closely, and even I don't know what is going on between the Druze and the Bedoins. Really, the extent of my understanding is that these are both minority ethnic groups in Israel. Neither is treated well by the government or society, but they're also not generally targeted as harshly as Palestinians.

I don't know what beef there is between these groups, although I'm displeased to hear that people are abducting people.

OP, if you could provide greater context I'd be appreciative.

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Does uploading slow down downloading? I thought the two processes were totally decoupled. How does this work?

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is only a proven if you park your bike drained.

If you use this for topping off, it's a great system.

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Gaza has collapsed. It is beset by famine and starvation. Widespread unavailability of fuel is exacerbating the collapse of infrastructure and systems essential to preserve life. Gaza is in large parts no longer habitable.

I'm so sick of articles saying it's on "the edge of collapse" or "teetering on famine" or "soon to be uninhabitable".

It happened. It's a killing field. All life in Gaza is now persisting in spite of efforts to extinguish it. Nursing mothers cannot produce milk. The elderly die for lack of basic 20th century medicines. No food can grow and what water there is is tainted and unsafe to drink. Hospitals are barely more thanpiles of rubble at which the doctors who've not yet been assassinated tearfully go to provide insufficient care to the dying on sites that were once known as houses of modern medicine.

We are watching a ruthless genocide and no humanitarian need can be fulfilled without ending the brutal blockade intended to kill all living on this land. And this is not a "looming" or "imminent" risk, it's reality.

 

I want to emphasize that although this article is written in a manner that shows sympathy to the perpetrators of a genocide, I thought it was a valuable look into the ways that the genocide in Gaza is completely tearing apart the social fabric of Israeli society.

“Some people go into this with a deep sense of mission — of serving their team, their country, of doing something bigger than themselves,” she said. “But over time, that can blur into something else. It can make it easier to dehumanize the other side. I believe there has to be a space between committing war crimes and being killed. I pray we’re still in that space.”

[Ron Howard voice:] They were not.

 

My brother pointed out to me that in last week's episode of his podcast, Ezra Klein namechecked solarpunk in a blink-and-you-miss it mention:

“One common argument I heard on the left - Lina Khan made this point actually in our pages - was that this proved our whole paradigm of AI development was wrong. That we were seeing that we did not need all this compute, we did not need these giant companies, that this was showing a way towards a decentralized, almost solarpunk version of AI development, and in a sense the American system and imagination had been captured by, like, these three big companies.”

The context isn't as interesting as the quote. He was talking about different approaches to developing strong AI. It's only interesting because he used the term "solarpunk" in such a casual manner in a discussion that wasn't about solarpunk or even fiction. It reveals that it's in his vocabulary, and that he's ingesting this in his media diet. For those who don't know Klein, he's a very popular writer and journalist whose politics roughly resemble a quieter version of Elizabeth Warren's.

After hearing this, the thought occurred to me that what I'm witnessing is an idea spreading from a fringe group into a mainstream concept. Eventually, if it gets big enough with mainstream progressive liberals like Klein, I bet it'll one day get discovered and made into a boogieman on the right.

I wonder how long that will take? When is the first time I'll hear a clip of like, I dunno, Ben Shapiro shouting, 'Have you heard about this new thing they call SOLARPUNK???!? It's crazy! It's like... imagine a cyberpunk dystopia: but they want THAT with like, vines and TRANS PEOPLE everywhere! Some ruthless Soviet dictatorship but without even the cool cars or wonderful corporate innovation! It's just TRAINS and GARDENS instead! Ulgh!! [eyes bugging out for the thumbnail image]'

That might be interesting. I think that this idea has a viral quality, so perhaps I can look forward to that in 2025 or 2026. What do you folks think?

 
 
 
 

My mom was complaining that the city has limits on how many leaves that they'll pick up, and she's got bags and bags of leaves stuffed into black garbage bags. This seems like a problem that should have some kind of backyard solution.

I've done a cursory search, and see that leaves are very compostable. They can also apparently be turned into "mold", though I don't fully understand what this means.

But I also see that there is a lot of variety in compost bins, and they're quite expensive. So I'm wondering: what's the best strategy for making leaves go away? She's not specifically interested in the product of the leaves, she just wants to find somewhere to put them after she rakes them up. Any ideas?

 
 

Not givin' up

 
 
 

A lone figure at a party reflects that the rest of the revelers don't know that "xylophones" with metal bars are actually glockenspiels.

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