I’m guessing drones. This was from an article in September, before the recent conflict, talking about the constant noise of drones flying overhead is an ever present source of fear and anxiety in Gaza.
Some excerpts:
“Unmanned surveillance aircraft have become an integral part of Israel’s 15-year-old blockade of the impoverished enclave, and 2.3 million Palestinians endure their incessant hum.”
“Gaza teenager Bissam says she has trouble sleeping and concentrating as the buzzing sound of Israeli military drones above the crowded Palestinian enclave drives her to distraction.”
“Sometimes I have to put the pillow on my head so I don’t hear its buzz,” she said, adding that the drone noise gives her headaches."
"He told AFP that “the buzzing of the drones and the intermittent raids of the F16 (warplanes) have become an integral part of our lives”
Drones were actually my first thought, but I couldn't believe that it would be constant like that. I flicked through a few different livestreams before finding the good/reliable one I linked and it was in all of them, all the time.
Really crazy. Thank you for linking the article!
Edited to add - wow that article made me strangely sad. It's not so bad compared to everything else that is happening there, but somehow it just added an extra layer of sadness.
Right? It’s something you usually wouldn’t think of compared to the bombs and stuff, but it really would be terrible, living under that constant noise. It’s like some accidental mental torture.
i wonder if it’d be easier to use with some sort of gear assembly and then a foot pedal or something - that one handed rotational method looks really tiring
Did you not think of the possibility of making one?
The dude has bricks, charcoal, twine and all sorts of things that he’s made that don’t “grow on trees”. I don’t think the idea of carving a gear from wood or even trying to cast one in ceramics is an impossible idea.
Probably less tiring than the alternative method with pulling the strings. With the new setup you could build a little platform over the blower so you could sit on top of it and save yourself from extending your arm so much.
The biggest problem with this setup is making the blades as close as possible to the walls to reduce drag and eddys.
Omegle is a platform that can be used so many strange ways. The fake leave when they show up in the next “feed” trick, the periodic titties, overregular dicks, and stars like this and the dooo, truly make it an interesting project.
I can’t use anything but Linux professionally. My MacBook exists solely for SSH with X forwarding and running a Windows VM for that one piece of fucking vendor software that only exists for Windows. (But we already wrote a replacement for part of that)
A bag of rice, soy sauce, sugar, some cabbage and some chicken will make you more and better food than any fast food restaurant.
When I was struggling, I made meals, mostly from the microwave. Make Chinese food in bulk homie. Freeze some of it in packs so you don’t have to eat the same meals every meal.
Going to a fast food restaurant is not saving you money, even before McDonald’s raised their prices.
50% of your daily sodium intake and really expensive pee does not sound all that smart to me. Not saying it is untenable, just not really all that healthy. To make it healthy you would have to get the most expensive noodles, Whey protein powder, and something other than a multivitamin as most of the content of those are water soluble which means that the excessive amounts you are ingesting are not retained by your body. If you were to cut it in half and take them half a day apart you would get more mileage out of it.
The multivitamin is a replacement for vegetable. I could try replacing it with one of those veggie shakes but they’re expensive. Maybe I grind 100g of mixed veggies and slam that.
This is so far from healthy. You gonna blow yourncolon not eating fiber. Vitamins are not a replacment for vegetables. They are an augmentation at best
I do something similar, but minus the powder. I blend kale, garlic, spinach and pesto and blended in a blender and then mix it with some Chinese noodles. Then I freeze it into blocks and put it in the freezer. I microwave it for 2 minutes and it’s a meal.
The issue is that it wasn’t about saving money, it was about saving time without destroying your finances. Not that I am one, but I can empathize with a single parent working two part-time jobs for 12 hours/day, both at minimum wage, being exhausted and knowing she has kids to feed at home but absolutely 0 energy or effort left to prepare a meal. Pulling through a fast food place and picking up some burgers or maybe a happy meal to see the smile on his/her kid’s face when they see the bag/box after a long day missing them. Prioritizing spending what little energy and time s/he has left on actually spending time with the kid.
Please remember that there are different kinds of poor. Single-poor or college-poor are very different than single-parent poor or 2-income-family-but-still-worried-about-paying-rent poor.
I want to emphasize that you can make food fairly quickly with the microwave with little to no effort. Not saying it’s not going to be mentally difficult to do.
Cooked rice is small packets that microwaves stay for months. So does teriyaki chicken in small packets. This meal is what I started out with and then started graduating to more advanced meals. Even advanced meals are microwaveable.
Making bulk mac and cheese from scratch using shredded cheese and salt in macaroni literally takes 15 minutes and you can microwave after being frozen.
I involved my kids in making meals. It’s part of our family building activity.
Being broke sucks. I know. I was also there. But Chinese food is sooooo freaking easy to make and freeze.
At one point I had 2 microwaves, with the 2nd one being donated from a friend.
DM me for these recipes. Mac and cheese can be made within 15 minutes. Teriyaki chicken could be made within 20 minutes if you skip the chicken marinating. Each time I make a meal that meal can last for a week with two mouths to feed. Eventually there freezer would have up to 5 to 6 different meals at a time that we cycle through
Oh, I don’t need them personally. I work from home and make enough that my wife doesn’t have to (barely, but she has health issues that make normal employment impossible, especially with the changes to ADA in recent years). We are able to cook meals just fine. I was merely coming to the defense of those who were not able to defend themselves and pointing out some logical, logistical, and epistemological errors/falacies in your argument.
All that said, thanks for the offers though and I hope someone who is struggling takes you up on it.
I make chicken sandwiches and fish sandwiches better than they do with their shredded iceberg garbage. How about kimchi, Tartar, Strachan, pickles on a fish sandwich. And bbq sauce with sautéed mushrooms and onions on fried chicken sandwiches.
Don’t even get me started on taco bell. I ordered food for me and my GF, it was $29. I was so fucking shocked, I literally said “nevermind”, dipped out of the drive-through, and we went and sat down at an authentic Mexican restaurant and had 2 drinks for 35 bucks.
These chains are smoking fucking crack. The people paying it are even dumber.
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