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Cake day: February 8th, 2024

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  • My usual coping mechanism for unpleasant things is to imagine an alternate/future way. So I feel less fatalistic. Laundry is just the most intractable problem. Every 1-4 weeks for years n years I am contemplating it. All it’s gotten me is a better understanding of the problems.

    The closest to a workaround I’ve found so far is having the largest supply of underwear and socks you can afford/store as they are otherwise the limiting factor in how far you can go between trips. A union organizer taught me that. But it doesn’t address any of the actual problems.


  • There are no public trashcans in Tokyo and mostly throughout Japan as well. This is a result of the Tokyo bombings in the mid-90s, which resulted in a ban on public trash bins. This obviously forces you to have to carry your trash with you to the next available trash bin, which you likely will find at your destination, be it work or a store.

    Places in the UK got rid of garbage cans because of IRA bombings or whatever. So it became normalized to just drop the trash everywhere. In the nice places they have people constantly walking around picking it up. And in other places, they don’t.


    What I really want to know the revolutionary solution to is laundry. We can’t all have our own washing machine but communal facilities are soooooo annoying. I tried handwashing by some methods I found online but they did not work at all.


  • This article about stealing organs for transplant concludes by introducing an insinuation of grave robbing or desecration

    On 18 January, the Times of Israel reported that the Israeli army confirmed reports that its soldiers dug up graves in a Gaza cemetery, claiming its soldiers were trying to “confirm that the bodies of hostages were not buried there.”

    Do Israeli soldiers want organs that have been moldering in the ground? For what? Or they just love destroying the bodies of Palestinians? Digging up a grave doesn’t sound like my idea of recreation tbh. But If so it sort of disputes the prior paragraphs where bodies were missing organs and they were presumed to be taken for transplant. Maybe they were just doing it for fun. … ?

    It seems weird to introduce a completely new topic, one with such emotional salience, right at the end. I’m not familiar with this website or any of the sources it cites other than Times of Israel, and not very. Is it believable?