After reading Primo Levi's "The Drowned and the Saved", I went on a binge of his earlier works: "If This Is a Man", "The Truce", "If not now, when?". All great, but I keep coming back to "The Drowned and the Saved"; it's hard to put my finger on it, but it's a book that provides more meaning about life than anything I've ever read.
Readit Newsnowandlater commented on Ask HN: What did you read in 2025? · Posted by u/kwar13
This seems to suggest carrying with a chambered round. Is this prudent without an external threat? They can drop the thing, or some kind of impact can yield a “design problem”. Can’t they just chamber when there’s a need?
Firearms should never discharge unless the trigger has been pulled. It's an absolute bare minimum requirement. But you should always assume it will go off in the direction it's being pointed, even if you haven't pulled the trigger.
nowandlater commented on Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March axios.com/2025/04/04/fore... · Posted by u/timvdalen
I feel like I'm spinning, hitting the spiral of the drain where civilization is to inevitably pass through, gone. The many who suffered and continue to suffer from iniquities of the human race carry the tonnage of likewise experiences, know a truth that is so impossible to know:
"It was useless to close one's eyes or turn one's back to it because it was all around, in every direction, all the way to the horizon. It was not possible for us nor did we want to become islands; the just among us, neither more nor less numerous than in any other human group, felt remorse, shame, and pain for the misdeeds that others and not they had committed, and in which they felt involved, because they sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be cleansed; it would prove that man, the human species - we, in short - had the potential to construct an infinite enormity of pain, and that pain is the only force created from nothing, without cost and without effort. It is enough not to see, not to listen, not to act."
- Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved
nowandlater commented on "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order whitehouse.gov/presidenti... · Posted by u/martialg
If the Supreme Court and Congress has no enforcement power, though, what recourse is there?
sic semper tyrannis
Have you found somewhere else to get it?
I get the lowest dose and then break them up. Not precise, but if you get a 2-2.5 mg pill, it's pretty ok.
nowandlater commented on Show HN: Wd-40, a static webserver with automatic hot-reloads github.com/baalimago/wd-4... · Posted by u/baalimago
What’s a good lubricant for metal on metal (aluminum in specific)?
Tri-flow. Also good as a penetrating oil, and smells like bananas.
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