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this story is honestly hard to believe.

thousands of world war i veterans went to washington in 1932 because the great depression had left many of them broke, and they wanted the government to pay their promised war bonuses early.

instead, the army was eventually sent in to clear them out.

so you had american soldiers, under douglas macarthur, moving against american veterans who had already fought for the country. camps were burned, tear gas was used, and people were injured.

there is something especially ugly about asking people to risk their lives for a country, then treating them like a problem when they come back poor and desperate. imageimage

i’ve tried all kinds of meat in different cities and countries, including organ meats prepared in all kinds of ways.

but this summer, i had the best meat i’ve ever tasted in my life. image

apparently they made a movie about his life.

my personal take is that a phone without face id already feels like a downgrade.

i'm sure apple will refine the hardware and software over the next year or two and turn it into a much more polished device, but i have no interest in being an early tester.

i also don't feel like i need a foldable phone, so i'm not convinced i want such a radically different user experience in the first place.

expo invited me to contribute as a guest author on their blog and gave me the chance to write about udictio. here's the post: building a native-first social platform with expo

apple's big september event is happening today at apple park.

iphone 18 pro and pro max are basically the main event, but the interesting part is whether apple finally shows the long rumored foldable iphone.

new apple watches should be there too, along with final release dates for ios 27 and the rest of the new software.

basically one of those apple events where the regular iphone upgrades are expected, but everyone is waiting to see if they actually pull out the foldable.

"hard times create strong men. strong men create good times. good times create weak men. and weak men create hard times."

that quote pretty much captures social cycle theory in one sentence.

the idea is that societies rarely move in a straight line. they rise, stabilize, prosper, get comfortable, fracture, decline, and eventually rebuild into something new.

you can see versions of this throughout history. rome went from republic to empire to fragmentation. chinese dynasties repeatedly went through unification, prosperity, corruption, rebellion, and replacement. even modern societies seem to swing between periods of stability, crisis, reform, and backlash.

history obviously isn't this neat or predictable, but that's what makes the theory interesting. civilizations separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years somehow keep falling into strangely familiar patterns.

the gym’s way of asking how attached you are to breathing normally.

(see: electoral autocracy)

apple will now let you lease your next iphone, apple watch or mac instead of buying it apple.com

expo is a framework that makes deeply native app development feel surprisingly practical.

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lego.

since i haven't read the book, i'll comment on the show. first off, i'm a sucker for period dramas set in old istanbul, so it satisfied me on that front. the acting is quite good and the netflix production quality shows. coming back to the story, while the first half of the show is a pretty nice, enjoyable love story, the second half felt quite stifling and boring to me. honestly, in the second half i found myself thinking let's just get this over with.

also, on my first trip to turkey with my american wife, this museum was the first place we went.

we had a ton of them, box after box, when i was a kid, and my older brother would build magnificent things and not let me touch them, or i wouldn't dare touch them next to the stuff he'd made. as time went by, at 34, i started building with a gift from my dear wife and realized how much i love it. it's incredible therapy for me. image image image image