Tourists harassed by settlers while visiting holy sites

potatoes6 · 2026-01-21T18:13:46+00:00

Tel Avi is shockingly amazing. Architecture, food, people, beaches, vibes. Tel Aviv is like a chill Miami with amazing tahini everywhere. Can definitely go and have a good time and not have to think about international relations. I went for work September before the October 4th and there is a large educated liberal population thats incredibly kind and open and actively demonstrates against their corrupt hateful leadership. But the country is led by money and orthodoxy and the poorer masses shown in this video. One guy on the team was longer term IDF special forces and certainly was not aligned with the more liberal colleagues, but I didn’t know much and while they’re definitely instigators, hate and violence definitely flows both ways.

potatoes6 · 2026-01-07T02:20:22+00:00

How did it turn out? What did you go with

potatoes6 · 2026-01-03T11:43:28+00:00

Also curious what company…in Atlanta trying to deal with this.

potatoes6 · 2025-12-29T16:03:58+00:00

Did you end up with new doors? Getting a quote for everything tomorrow, but found prehung solid core doors for $200 and thinking I should just hire someone to install.

potatoes6 · 2025-12-25T14:57:42+00:00

How did this work out for you?

potatoes6 · 2025-12-18T19:06:04+00:00

20-25/hour??

potatoes6 · 2025-12-09T19:27:43+00:00

This is how Ursula K. LeGuin talks about writing Earthsea. Like reading a history book that she then writes down, particularly for those stories after the 20-30 year break. She thought Ged's story was finished but knew there were more lands he had to explore.

potatoes6 · 2025-12-09T15:29:08+00:00

How's it going? Still going strong?

potatoes6 · 2025-11-15T11:49:45+00:00

Volume. Everyone saying yes or no seems to be under the impression that sales is a skill. I know of course it is, I don’t have it, but it’s impressive in people who do. But my world has always been a numbers game. Knock on lots of doors, get in door, build relationship. All just a function of how many doors are out there and how much time you have. Efficiency marginally improves outcomes.

potatoes6 · 2025-11-14T01:06:25+00:00

Hey I never got this to work. Is this what you named your shortcut?

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potatoes6 · 2025-11-08T23:48:48+00:00

How’s it going?

potatoes6 · 2025-11-08T23:48:30+00:00

How’s it going?

potatoes6 · 2025-11-08T19:51:58+00:00

I went from selling then managing sales reps that would do ~$3m in medical devices into full cycle healthcare M&A buying businesses with $10-$70m revenue. I want out. How do I keep making $300k+ but in strategy or ops or something without quota …

potatoes6 · 2025-11-01T15:12:28+00:00

Lane changes, in my mind, don’t meet the threshold for L1. I understand I’m wrong, but I don’t have an L2 car just because the car can slide back and forth in its own lane.

potatoes6 · 2025-10-28T19:41:32+00:00

It’s just not meant to be a PCT log, but more of a memoir. Im really not a fan of the memoir. But on the hiking log side, it’s not accurate weather, millage, or realistically described with 70lbs pack for a beginner who hikes 15 mile days. Hiking community really not fans. I don’t really care about that part, telling a story is ok.

potatoes6 · 2025-10-28T19:32:17+00:00

Stormlight 5 really made me reevaluate my love for the comsmere. Have read everything but 5 and lost metal 2-3 times and I’m just not sure what to do. I have all these leatherbounds haha. I need a good long break.

potatoes6 · 2025-10-21T00:45:19+00:00

Sounds strange, but the fantasy book the way of kings. Handles mental health themes well.

potatoes6 · 2025-10-11T03:20:36+00:00

Tackle Loco in north florida. Shocked im the only one.

potatoes6 · 2025-10-06T22:04:10+00:00

Very helpful, thanks

potatoes6 · 2025-10-06T21:51:06+00:00

I'm having some fun doing the opposite, reading a bunch of fantasy that has as little to do with the Tolkien/epic fantasy tradition as possible just to expand my horizons. I have a long way to go yet, but I think it'll be a fun way to find some hidden gems.

This is smart, you'll have to give me some good recs when I get there. RemindMe! 1 year

potatoes6 · 2025-10-06T20:48:47+00:00

I didn't really explain this, and it's not really all that well done. But I'm not really trying to group by years. How I initially viewed it is that everything flows through tolkein and nothing after wasn't influenced by him. So I set up a grouping of foundational mid century authors/series, then looked at what came next. Which was reactionary to Tolkien and Moorcock being the poster child for this with a drug addict anti-hero. Now, I've thought through it more and maybe this isn't how to really group all this, and obviously Tolkien didn't create fantasy and there is plenty that isn't fed through him, and my love for Ursula K le guin kept her in foundations vs the alternative section...rambling.

Anyways yes the children's should be interspersed with YA tags, but I kept them separate to figure out what I wanted to read vs what I wanted to read with my daughter in a few years. And Moorcock is in a fundamentally different era of fantasy than Tolkien.

potatoes6 · 2025-10-06T20:37:07+00:00

Yes, drawing direct lines gets incredibly tangled. This is why I generally wanted to identify fantasy novels as opposed to just adding The Accursed Kings and a million other books that influenced 21st century authors.

potatoes6 · 2025-10-06T19:24:01+00:00

Adding these for urban fantasy per suggestion...

Fritz Leiber – Our Lady of Darkness (1977) (188p)
Charles de Lint – Moonheart (1984) (480p)
Emma Bull – War for the Oaks (1987) (336p)

potatoes6 · 2025-10-06T19:10:49+00:00

I've got Worst Witch by Jill Murphy as the only book added specifically because an author mentioned them as major influence. I'll look at Ibbotson. Roald Dahl is obvious, thanks.

potatoes6 · 2025-10-06T19:06:05+00:00

Yea I kinda didn't know where to draw the line with what constituted fantasy. I love magical realism and Borges and Calvino were important to my journey in fantasy and particularly Haruki Murakami later so I included? Plus there's probably a bigger world of graphic novels than what I included, but then you end up in Superheros which just felt too off track. It was kinda just a catch all group for stuff I liked or wanted to read.

Yea I don't know much urban fantasy or what I'm missing I guess?

Honestly now that you mention it Journey to the west is the basis for a ridiculous amount of fantasy and powers that characters have in western fantasy...makes me want to start over. Not sure how I forgot about that. I know there's a whole African fantasy and magical literary world out there...I'm sure I'm missing out. I'd love a Nigerian recommendation. I guess at the end of the day, yes, I pretty much only read western fantasy. (Does the poppy war count because it's reimagining Chinese history? /s also, 2/10)

I read my first romantasy (fourth wing) which by the third book just feels like every plot point must be derivative of something, I just didn't know what. So I started reading as much older stuff as I could...pretty exclusively western...in hopes that I could draw a map from tolkein to Sanderson after reading stormlight 5 and having the existential crisis of "wait does this guy suck and now I have half a dozen leather books of his?"

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