@oren

Normal teenagers are scrolling Instagram and watching TikTok, meanwhile I’m planning roadtrips through Algeria

Just to clarify, I didn’t mean I want to talk to someone about anything specific right now. I just meant that in general, I wish I had someone like this.

I wish I just had someone to tell everything to without judging me. I have a lot of really good friends but I can’t actually tell them 90% of what I’m thinking. I can’t tell y’all about irl stuff or my dreams because you’re not Christians and you wouldn’t understand, but I can’t tell anyone irl about anything online, technical, or philosophical, because they’ll judge me massively and they won’t understand. I don’t even want to post this, because I feel like y’all will judge me. I just want 1 person who I can tell everything to without filtering. Being an introvert is great and I love it, but sometimes it’s just so lonely to not be able to tell people something.

I get distracted on YouTube shorts all the time so I want to block it but I don’t want to block all of YouTube because I don’t get distracted by normal videos. Anyone know a way to block just the /shorts/* path? On Mac of course

What do y’all think of my idea for a governmental system?

• Executive branch is a council of 9 or 11 members who are elected for a 9 or 11 year term (however many members there are). The elections are staggered so someone new is elected to this council every year, but since members are there for so long, there remains a lot of stability (so you can’t just have someone like Trump win 1 election and blow everything up). There is a main leader of this council (the president) and a vice president, who must be from a different party than the president.

• The Executive council has quite a bit more power than the President in the US, but any overreach is countered by a strong judiciary and institutions.

• The legislative branch is similar to the current U.S. Congress, except the House has less power and the Senate has more. The Senate requires a larger majority vote to get into (60% maybe) and you must be a member of the House before you can get into the Senate.

This fixes some of the major problems of liberal democracy, mainly partisan gridlock and extreme radicals taking an oversized share of power. It also should accelerate economic growth and stability, which democracy does not usually bring to developing countries. Also, this government has gold-backed currency, 0% inflation, and a balanced budget as core principles in the constitution.

My uncle lives in Jerusalem so he’s pretty affected by the recent developments in Israel. If Iran attacks he and his family will be in a lot of danger. If you will, please keep him (and everyone else in Israel, Gaza and Iran) in your prayers.

By far the hardest part of making the iOS app is dealing with the profiles and certificates needed, especially because my dad’s account is the actual developer account but mine is the one on my laptop. It’s super hard to juggle.

Week 15/52

• 2. I ran 26 miles this week

• 4. We’re almost there. I’ve been grinding on school and it’s been crazy. You’ll see next week.

• 5. Sorry about no updates to the app. I’m trying to send one out right now. We’ll see.

Zauntee has quickly become my favorite artist, besides making the most hype songs he’s also a great guy and role model

I didn’t realize how much milk I drink until I looked at the calories. My usual glass holds >2 cups (~0.5 l) and I drink at least 3 glasses a day, usually more. And this is whole milk, which has 150 calories per cup, so I’m getting almost 1000 calories per day just off of milk.

I’ve never broken any bones though, so that’s good

Week 14/52

• 2: I ran only 11 miles this week due to being sick.

I didn’t really do much this week, sorry

I went there yesterday and it was pretty cool, I saw a wild turkey which I’ve never seen before. It’s also really crazy that there’s just so much wild space right there, it’s surrounded by neighborhoods and a highway. There’s also the old golf cart trail which seems like it just goes randomly through the woods (the course has been shut down so long that the greens are just forest now, so the trail seems random). The sad part is they’re trying to develop it into houses, which would destroy all the nature.

This is super anticlimactic but I didn’t even go there yesterday because there was someone there

I’m gonna try to explore an old abandoned golf course that is like right by my house. I’ll tell you how it went tomorrow

Scratch forumers watching as their community, built up over like 7 years, disintegrates in 48 hours from an April Fools joke: