Define “work”, do they actually zap you, vibrate, beep? Absolutely! Oh, did mean if you ask it to do something it will do it reliably and when you asked it to? Nope!
I used one for a bit as a silent alarm to take medication in the middle of the night and not wake up my wife. Did that alarm ever consistently go off? Nope! The app you use to interact with it is hot garbage and feels like it was contracted out to get it to “it technically works” and just kept getting crap piled on.
I don’t know what other jew’s Jewish education looked like and what they took away from it, but clearly I somehow got a completely different message from all of it.
When I was told “Never again” it meant never again for anybody. Like we should be the first ones to decry against any genocide anywhere because it was done against us.
So seeing what the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians is so grotesque to me. They don’t speak for me and yet they do these horrible things supposedly in my name.
The irony was that I did buy most of the Hasbara up until I went on Birthright (this is a fully paid trip that diaspora Jews can go to Israel to build the connection with it). When I was there my own tour guide (the person paid to propagandize us) said that they want the fighting to stop, they want to stop everyone from having their children to die pointlessly. Literally after that the spell broke. It became so easy to see the Hasbara and how it is causing problems.
Like you want the fighting to end then make it so. Stop terrorizing the Palestinians and stop the apartheid, let them reside on the land they have lived in for centuries and coexist. You only make them your enemy by grinding them beneath your boot. The land Israel is made from doesn’t belong to one people, it has a rich history where all of them have descended from. Israel isn’t just for the Jewish people, Muslims, Christians, and others also have claims to that land (fucking hell it’s the same deity for the first three and you’re all kinda just blending shit together anyways).
I feel like I didn’t have some magical education that taught me differently, I guess I just took what they meant at their word and applied the concepts to the modern world (like we were fucking taught to do). For a people who pride themselves on being educated it feels like people memorized a lot of stuff and didn’t actually process it or question it (again like you’re fucking supposed to).
Sorry for the rant but seeing people who are fairly left leaning (US standards) become bloodthirsty ghouls the moment Palestinians are brought up like a fucking light switch has been really bothering me. I feel like I’m somehow in the wrong because everyone else has gone literally insane.
When we take our dogs to my parents once they realize where we are they get all excited and start staring out the windshield as if to say “Go faster!”
Once we get there we open the car door and they run inside (because they know they’re gonna get a treat)
My parents spoil both of them and get all the treats they want and my mom will make stuff like beef or chicken to add to their kibble as a topper.
How they’re not a billion pounds each each time they leave I’ll never know
Evidence:
That big bed my parents specifically got for our greyhound because he’s so big and likes to stretch out, but his old bones don’t really let him lay on hard floor anymore