A stranger secretly lived in my home
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A stranger secretly lived in my home
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#2Weirdly wholesome story, despite the dark undercurrent. Those of a certain faith may argue the stranger was an angel.
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#3This read like it could have been a chapter out of a Stephen King novel, until the stranger saved the puppy:
> I got a puppy. While she was being toilet-trained, I kept her in the bathroom. One day, when I was out, the apartment flooded. I came home to find the puppy in the sink. She was tiny. I didn’t know how she could have got up there unless someone had put her there to save her.
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#4If you have nothing better to do, many of the "Experience" series in The Guardian are a fun read: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/experience
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#5Wasn't there a similar story in Japan? Also multiple stories of people secretly living in office building and warehouses. Gotta make do, I guess.
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#6Wasn't there a similar story in Japan? Also multiple stories of people secretly living in office building and warehouses. Gotta make do, I guess.
The critically acclaimed South Korean movie "Parasite" has a story like that.
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#7This read like it could have been a chapter out of a Stephen King novel, until the stranger saved the puppy: > I got a puppy. While she was being toilet-trained, I kept her in the bathroom. One day, when I was out, the apartment flooded. I came home to find the puppy in the sink. She was tiny. I didn’t know how she could have got up there unless someone had put her there to save her.
I visited SanFran a couple of years ago, and this reminded me of a homeless guy, in his late 60s I imagine, that I saw at a fast food chain.
So I was I think at in-and-out, and a homeless guy was going through the garbage bin to find food. When I came over to dump my stuff in the bin, he was immediately considerate and stepped aside so I could dump the covers and napkins, whilst making sibilant sounds and keeping his gaze down in a strangely submissive manner. And then the staff came over and tried to make him leave the place. I recall he said no actual word but put a mild challenge with more sibilant sounds but eventually left. And I remember thinking, well, he smelled and I tried to avoid physical contact, but was there really a need to make him leave, and take away what small dignity the world had assigned him? Clearly mentally off, I don't know, but trying to survive in the way that he can. But I find myself thinking again what I thought then -- there, but for the grace of god go I
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#8Wasn't there a similar story in Japan? Also multiple stories of people secretly living in office building and warehouses. Gotta make do, I guess.
At one company I worked for, a new hire started living on a floor under construction in the building. He thought no one knew, but we all did. Stayed up there for months since management was afraid of confronting him about it for some reason. He did do good work, I guess.
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#9This story was covered in a more riveting way on a podcast I once heard, but I can’t remember the name of it.
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#10Motion - Never leave home without it
* https://motion-project.github.io/
Several options I use are:
1. Simply upload images/vids to server, cloud etc.
2. Write images to external drive in mounted safe, if offline.
I've a script to initiate it with nohup, then activate physlock. This helps protect the data.
A fantastic and less caveman implementation is described by this HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24587745
No Amazon politics[1] and minimal data vulnerability.