Heavy Stuff

Naomi Klein on following her ‘doppelganger’ down the conspiracy rabbit hole – and why millions of people have entered an alternative political reality; Journalism fails miserably at explaining what is really happening to America (if you only have time to read ONE thing, this should be it.) How to Treat Right-Wing Violence in the U.S. …

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Insanity

Week after week, I’m picking up the same stupid advertising bundle from our driveway (or the gutter, depending on where it lands after it gets tossed out of the driver-side window from an old white van that swerves left and right on our road at 4 a.m.) — to then separate the plastic wrapper from …

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Burning Gas

Our water heater is was a natural gas burning model with a 50 gallon tank (~190 liters). It was already there when we bought this house, eight years ago, and when it recently failed it wasn’t unexpected, but still caught us a bit by surprise.

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Broken Voicemail on iPhone and the error 1035

When I updated from an iPhone 12 Pro to an iPhone 14 Pro* a few months ago, something apparently went wrong and the connection (aka “Visual Voicemail”) to the voice mailbox with the carrier broke. One of my contacts asked whether I had received their voicemail — I hadn’t and surprise, when I manually dialed in to the voicemail, I had 17 new messages. That sucked, because there were obviously some important messages among them.

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