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https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-jerusalem-march-gaza-6058a191644b6bde5366a40d7f736590
The headline is “Israeli crowds chant racist slogans, taunt Palestinians during Jerusalem march” and the problem is that these par…

Israeli crowds chant racist slogans, taunt Palestinians during Jerusalem march
Thousands of Jewish nationalists, some of them chanting “Death to Arabs” and other racist slogans, have paraded through the main Palestinian thoroughfare of Jerusalem’s Old City. The marchers on Thursday were overwhelmingly male Jewish Orthodox teens and young men, and the parade is meant to celebrate Israel’s capture of the Old City 56 years ago. The Palestinians see the annual event as a provocation. Two years ago, the parade helped fuel an 11-day war between Israel and Hamas militant…

safe voyages to chiyo kamekawa, bassist for japanese underground legends yura yura teikoku, who passed away this week. yura yura, who broke up in 2010, were kinda like the japanese equivalent of (& friends with) yo la tengo. i'm still exploring their vast, diverse discography, working backwards from 2007's "hollow me." so glad i got to see them on their late career US tours.

元ゆらゆら帝国のベーシスト亀川千代が54歳で死去
亀川千代が2024年4月7日に死去した。亀川千代が亡くなったことは本日4月9日、ギタリストの田畑満によって発表された。亀川の家族のコメントによると、以前から病気の療養中だったという。54歳だった。悲しい...

Daily Inspiration: "Shift your mindset from 'surviving' to 'thriving'" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Have you ever noticed many people thrive on the word survive?
They've just got to survive the day. Survive the change they are immersed in. Survive the project. Survive the recent events. Survive the golf round.
Why survive when you could thrive?
Years ago, I compiled a list of what I saw within those of my clients who were truly forward-oriented…

Daily Inspiration: Forward Thinking Organizations: “Shift your mindset from ‘surviving’ to ‘thriving’”

Snuff - #TerryPratchett
> But they were a cunning bunch, poets, and could sneak it up on you when your back was turned.
#OlisQuoteFile
#Poetry

Sometimes I look at current politicization of medical treatments and think about how many people (6-30%) regret things like knee surgery.
"Of the 348 patients who responded to a letter asking if they were satisfied or dissatisfied with their [total knee arthroplasty] surgery, 61 (18%) reported discontent."
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Patients’ experiences of discontentment one year after total knee arthroplasty- a qualitative study - BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
Background Total knee arthroplasty is a common procedure with generally good results. However, there are still patients who are dissatisfied without known explanation. Satisfaction and dissatisfaction have previously been captured by quantitative designs, but there is a lack of qualitative studies regarding these patients’ experiences. Qualitative knowledge might be useful in creating strategies to decrease the dissatisfaction rate. Methods Of the 348 patients who responded to a letter asking…

I was wrong. It IS possible to cycle up to #Grefsenkollen on a #HalfBike, where the average grade is 7% and it sometimes goes over 10% for short periods.
276m (906ft) of elevation gain from my apartment and afterwards I cycled on to work. 16km (10 miles) in total.

Google says Wear OS 5 will consume 20% less battery life and have more useful watch face complications; the Wear OS user base grew by 40% in the last year (Victoria Song/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24156161/wear-os-5-google-io-smartwatc…

Wear OS 5 will triple down on battery life
We got more details on the next version of Wear OS at Google I/O. In Wear OS 5, users will have more battery life and more watchface complications.

That thing where you're coming down with something and in bed early and about to turn out the light, when suddenly you get a call on the laptop and it's the keyboard player from a band you played in when you were 14, and a local singer of some note who has popped in to see him.
So you sing one of her old songs that you remember so well with her and then they go off to eat scones.
Sometimes life is strange and wonderful and you go to sleep with a smile on your face.
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Over and over again, I run into an article where I think "sure, I'd pay... 75 cents to read this article right now, but not another $5 auto renewing monthly charge."
I want journalists to get paid. The gutting of newsrooms is a tragedy. However, I don't want to subscribe to 25 newspapers & magazines just to read 1 to 3 articles each in a year. Let me buy an 80-article pack for $60, one-time charge. If I read a lot, I pay more.

Rabbi Moshe Leib said: There is no quality and there is no power of man that was created to no purpose. But to what end can the denial of God have been created? This too can be uplifted through deeds of charity. For if someone comes to you and asks your help, you shall not turn him off with pious words, saying: 'Have faith and take your troubles to God!' You shall act as if there were no God, as if there were only one person in all the world who could help this man--only yourself.&qu…