huh
after 19-Q4, i was only managing to work like 25 hr/week for most quarters too (except 20-Q4 and 21-Q1)
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so each time i cook something and keep 1/2 or 2/3 of it for eating later, i put it in the electric rice pot. i usually have 2 dishes (sometimes 3) stored in the pot. it keeps it hot-warm for days. i never really wash it, as i keep cycling between the old dishes and new adds.
every once in a while i manage to eat everything in it, and there’s a significant amount of meat juice and whatever water the veggies squeezed out while they were being kept hot in the pot at the bottom of the rice pot
I then just add a bit more water and cook rice with the juice mix
it comes out nice and salty and with meat smells
like this for example
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So I just reviewed AoT Chapter 139 (last chapter) and the summaries of the last manga arc leading up to Ch139. If we are to assume the author intended to create a right-wing subtext into the manga and try to find themes in there, here are some creative readings I can think of. Not everything will fit, as I might be misinterpreting and also some elements will be purely fictional creations to keep the manga itself entertaining/interesting.
== probably spoilers below ==
- Eldians being exploited by Marley: Asia being colonized by European powers in 19th century. (Maybe specifically the U.S.; also could be read as the ABCD Trade Bloc against Japan – America Britain Netherlands (and I would take out China from the original bloc, as it doesn’t fit the narrative, and add France maybe)
- Other nations outside of Marley that are competing with/at war with Marley: other European powers that didn’t get to colonize Asia but that are competing/at war with the above ones. So could be like Russian Empire, Germany, Italy, etc. Anime dialogues show that Marley was at war with most countries in the past, won them decisively, and was now in a lot of cease-fires and on some military clashes with some nations. So this could be the U.S./Britain winning WW1 and being not in active clash with Germany in the 30’s.
- Eldians’ Titan power: Asia’s natural resources or maybe the “inner power of the spirit/mind” like something unique to the “Orient” that the West cannot understand
- Marley using Eldian Titans to wage war with other countries: Britain, US, Netherlands using Asia’s natural resources to wage war with other European powers
- Eldians living in Paradis: Japan
- the story of how Eldians committed an ancient sin and were expelled to Paradis: beats me, maybe it’s a “Eldians in Marley have been brainwashed by Marley about this fake ancient sin! There is no ancient sin! Just like Japan did nothing wrong in WW2!” argument
- Eldians in Paradis forgetting their Titan power: maybe pre-Meiji/modernization Japan or a Japan that doesn’t realize its true inner potential as a world power
- Eren Jaeger intending to destroy Marley to save Japan/free all Eldians: WW2 Japan’s military command going on a crusade against the West+U.S. to free Asia from Western colonialism
- The Power of the Rumbling: maybe a right wing fantasy about how WW2 Japan was actually powerful enough to win WW2
- Mikasa killing Eren: maybe a right wing revisionism claiming that it was actually the people of Japan rebuking the military and deciding to not win WW2 that ended the war, and not Japan actually losing the war?
- Eren’s founding Titan power brainwashing people/making people block some memories: during WW2 the people of Japan were just being brainwashed by the military command – it’s not their fault
- The “While Eren’s methods were brutal, it was still for a greater good” subtext: “Imperial Japan’s military command did bad things but it was for a greater good: to free Asia”
- In Ch129, Eldians who fought against Eren coming back to the island: maybe some right wing fantasy about how Asians misunderstand WW2 Japan and hate it but some of them are coming to their senses and starting to recognize the intent for greater good. (Well, there is an actual debate in academic circles that “Japan’s imperial occupation actually set the industrial foundation for each country’s post-war development”. That debate does exist within South Korea – although it’s highly political and lopsided towards the “that’s nonsense” side)
This scene in Ch129 catches my eye because the characters are emphatically saying “to appeal for peace… we must tell them (the Japanese people who think Japan was at fault during WW2) the truth of that story, which unfolded before our very eyes” - Why did Japan appear as a country in the story, as something completley unrelated to Eldians?: So that people can’t criticize AoT as glorifying WW2 Japan since “Japan is a separate country inside the story! see?”
- That weird Eldian mass euthanasia mini-arc that apparently fizzles out: hmm so the Euthanasia Plan was that to end the cycle of violence, Zeke wanted to use the power of the Founding Titan to force every Eldian in the world to stop reproducing – this would mean that over a slow span of 80+ years, Eldians would each die out of natural death and at the end Eldians would cease to exist on earth. That would mean no more Titans, and world peace. But Eren only pretended to agree with the plan.. and last minute (Chatper 122?) betrays the plan, moving ahead with the world destruction. So when I think of this in the context of the aging crisis in Japan – people are getting older, people are not having babies, and population is expected to shrink – maybe right wingers are setting up a Left Straw Man so that they can criticize/mock the aging crisis from a right wing perspective. “You lefties who think Japan did wrong in WW2, are you trying to atone for the sins by not having babies? Bullshit! Make babies and Make Japan Great Again!”
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HmM in retrospect the filming of the short blurb on Tuesday forced almost the entire core table team to wait in line for their turn to film for 30 minutes and some to read the script. Had i foreseen it, I would have brought a copy for the script for each person.
It was a free chance for way more eyes to look at the script and potential feedback.
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the shady guys who called me twice offering “a doctor who can visit you at home for a free health checkup” sent me mail, and they never mentioned their company name in the calls, making it appear as they are a HealthNet program, but here’s the company name: SignifyHealth
It seems it’s trying to be a Postmates for doctors/nurses? https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Signify-Health-RVW29308014.htm
the thing that makes me suspicious of their “free health checkups” is because they don’t clarify what’s their profit motivation. they are not charging me (hopefully), and probably not the government either. Apparently they charge my insurance – in that case how on earth would the insurance company be happy to “partner with them” to create these expenses?
HealthNet’s website does not mention Signify anywhere. I think they are lying about the company’s affiliation to HealthNet. They are just leeching off the insurance industry.
or maybe HealthNet wants to sell patient medical information to the commercial sector but are somehow leashed by HIPAA so instead of trying to do this through the existing network of primacy care doctors they commission this to a third party that poses as a “tech company” and then they can legally circumvent regulations
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I am taking this HBO Max cancelled customer survey, and the survey is a trip. There are like so many choices and some of them slightly overlap. I wonder if this is indicative of major performance problems within HBO Max and this is one of their last ditch attempts before shutting down the service. The survey site itself looks half-baked too. I also had no idea that HBO Max was HBO+something else.
This was Question #5 or something.
You indicated that programming content was a factor in your decision to cancel HBO Max. Which of the following were your primary content-related reasons for canceling HBO Max?
Again, while you may select more than one option, try to pick the one(s) that were most important to your decision to cancel.The selection of movies wasn’t large enough
I watched most or all of the other (non-HBO) content I wanted to watch, then canceled
I only want the HBO programs so don’t need the other content
The HBO original programming didn’t interest me
There wasn’t enough programming that is culturally-relevant to me
There wasn’t enough content from the other brands (e.g. TNT, TBS, Adult Swim, CNN, DC Universe) that I liked
The Max original programming didn’t interest me
Not enough new programming added regularly
Not enough variety
I watched most or all of the HBO content I wanted to watch, then canceled
I had to wait too long in between seasons of the shows I watch
The original programming I’m most interested in hasn’t launched yet
A show I was watching ended its current season (please specify:)
I only wanted to watch 1-2 specific series
Other streaming services have more content that I want to watch
Not enough content overall
Not enough content for the whole family
Not enough programming I’m interested in
I was disappointed I couldn’t binge watch the entire season of the newest shows
The movies didn’t interest me
There wasn’t enough Spanish-language content
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i’m gonna try getting re-checked by the ENT doctor and see if they still recommend a nasal duct surgery to fix a crooked shape that could improve sleep breathing
in summer 2019 my ENT recommended the operation
I waited until end of 2019 to find the time (since they said that I would have bleeding inside the nose and generally be miserable for two weeks)
then end of 2019 they said that my surgery approval expired
and I switched my primary doctor with a new job
my new primary doctor recommended against the surgery -> currently herebeen using a CPAP machine since 2017
as my condition worsened over 2020 and 2021, I got a bunch of pillows to help me sleep sideways. that’s not going too well.. sideways sleeping position is extremely taxing for my neck and shoulders, i rarely manage to fall asleep. maybe i’m doing it wrong
I also got some pillows and structure to sometimes sleep belly down. that’s.. a bit better, although I still need to figure out a good neck/chest height support balance
i also began exercising and going to the gym since 2018, as they said that apnea can start with obesity
so far i went from 240 pounds in 2016 to 205 pounds nowi have this (possibly irrational) fear of sleeping and then waking up with both nasal and mouth breathing ducts completely obstructed, unable to breathe in nor out (which I remember once happened when I was like 10 years old).. or something less severe, like having mucus deep inside the nasal duct..
that’s why when i sometimes wake up at 3am and notice nasal duct feels obstructed, and can’t manage to rinse it out, i get scared of falling back asleep and end up staying wake through the rest of the day.
this has been happening somewhat often last month, and took a toll on my daytime productivity
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The new COVID-19 variant first identified in India, the Delta variant, which now makes up 6% of all covid infections in the U.S., has still some unknowns but depending on how the variant characteristics turn out, could cause yet another major wave, maybe in Fall/Winter 2021, especially in unvaxed regions, and possibly be vaccine resistant (still under research)
Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 453
1/ I know everybody’s sick of playing 3-dimensional Covid chess. Sorry, but the Delta variant forces us back to the chess board. Ergo, this 🧵.
If you’re fully vaxxed, I wouldn’t be too worried, especially if you’re in a highly vaxxed region.— Bob Wachter (@Bob_Wachter) June 13, 2021
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Cafe Mak invested in some expensive Wi-Fi routers
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i went to a couple coffeeshops for the past two days but other than the fact that there’s people there (which is nice), my home is much better for everything – seats, drinks, temperature, and the choice of working in the bedroom without distractions or on the work desk.
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