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Cake day: October 17th, 2023

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  • I don’t have one as dramatic as yours, but a month ot so ago, I was on the bus to the office, I had my Bose headphones on and was half asleep with closed eyes.

    The bus were stopped, and I suddenly noticed an acrid smell, like burning plastic.

    I opened my eyes and saw the interior or the bus filled with a haze of smoke.

    The doors were open and the last few other passengers were spontaneously evacuating.

    So I knew I had to leave and got out in 5 sec.





  • What it has become kind of implies some recent change from a historical version of Israel which wasn’t genocidal. There were some very early idealistic views of Zionism in the 1940s, but it has pretty much always been a fascistic ethnostate. Most people just haven’t been aware until recently.

    That is a perfectly fair point, I used the word “become” as I wasn’t completely sure on how the behavior developed or if it had been part of Israel from the start.

    I can also see the logic of the jewish perspective after the holocaust, as a people they were hunted and exterminated across Europe, and wanted a country of their own to feel safe and secure.

    However, that doesn’t give them the right to hunt and exterminate another people, which is where Israel lost the plot.














  • For me it was when I noticed that some of my photos had been affected by bitrot.

    Instarted building my NAS last year, and got caught up in the increased HDD cost, I need two more 8TB drives to get my 32TB Zraid2 going.

    I was going to use TrueNAS, but now that they have turned their back on opensource, I am not so sure anymore


  • You mean the national tests?

    Sure, we have those, they take place in your normal school at the same time all over the country.

    Ok, say a child is homeschooled for five years, and then fails a national test, that means that they have effectively lost a lot of their best time to learn, and they need to retake the subjects to catch up.

    Proper schooling allows for students with special needs to get extra help.

    I was one of those students, I was on the spectrum of having light autism, possibly some ADHD/ADD and similar stuff, I got an assistant teacher in school for several years, and even went to a smaller class specifically tailored towards students with my kind of mental issues, as I grew up I became more independent and learned to live with my difficulties, these days I don’t consider myself to have any real problems from my earlier diagnosis, and can even use them to my advantage.

    I got the help I needed, when I needed it, while attending mostly normal classes and getting socialize with fellow students.

    The socializing part was hugely important for my development, without that I would not have been able to go as far as I have.

    When I look at homeschooling, I see it as parents denying their children a proper education, often to force their own warped worldview onto their children, this obviously comes from someone who experienced a well functioning school, even if I was bullied at times.

    TL;DR: Testing only shows the result of time spent in education, it can’t catch students as they are about to fall through the cracks as a proper teacher can during lessons, this means that a homeschooled student that fails the test has lost a lot of opportunities to get extra help during their schooling.