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  1. hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2019 03:47:59 EDT hosh hosh
    An article in Haaretz about etymology got me looking into chickpeas. There are apparently about 90 varieties of this legume. It's known that from ancient times it was used around the middle east, Turkey and eastern Europe. In Jericho it existed before the age of pottery, but it's thought that the plant may have come from Turkey. In India the local variety, known as chana dhal, looks similar in size and colour to yellow split peas (dhal meaning "halved"from Sanskrit is any split legume. However, that's the Desi chana dhal. Indians also knew the Kabuli (i.e. Afghan) variety that was a bit larger, and finally from the west, the modern large variety arrived, and I have seen this also sold as chana dhal in shops. In India, chana dhal is an ingredient in many dishes, including Mysore pak - which is a sweet sold alongside burfi and ladoo and halwa in many sweet shops.

    Around the world chickpeas have a variety of uses. In the Middle East it's cooked and mashed to make Humus and is the main ingredient in Felafel. It turns out the original Hebrew word was "afon", which seems to derive from its shape. "Afon" means a little nose, and apparently references the small knob on the bean. Afon was dropped in modern Hebrew in preference to the Arabic word "humus", and today the only similar Hebrew word to "Afon" is "afuna" which means a green pea. Humus, however, may have come from the Aramaic word for the chickpea, which was "himtza" or "hemetz". "homtza" in modern Hebrew means "acid". Apparently if chickpeas are harvested by hand, the action causes chemical burns to the skin.

    Source: https://www.vikshepa.com/chickpeas/
    In conversation Sunday, 17-Mar-2019 03:47:59 EDT from vikshepa.com permalink

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    1. chickpeas
      By hosh from Vikshepa Blog
      chickpeas
  2. hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2019 17:02:27 EDT hosh hosh
    It's so wet out, it seems I can't walk around at night without killing snails, poor things.

    Source: https://www.vikshepa.com/4648-2/
    In conversation Saturday, 16-Mar-2019 17:02:27 EDT from vikshepa.com permalink

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    1. By hosh from Vikshepa Blog
  3. hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2019 07:22:26 EDT hosh hosh
    nice to find a mirror of her twitter feed on Mastodon (https://botsin.space/@gretathunberg)
    In conversation Saturday, 16-Mar-2019 07:22:26 EDT from hub.vikshepa.com permalink

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    1. Greta Thunberg (@gretathunberg@botsin.space)
      from botsin.space
      485 Toots, 21 Following, 190 Followers · Twitter to Mastodon Bridge Trööting the Tweets
  4. hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2019 05:07:11 EDT hosh hosh
    @Waitman Gobble Happy birthday! ¸.•¨•♫♪ - …
    In conversation Friday, 15-Mar-2019 05:07:11 EDT from hub.vikshepa.com permalink
  5. hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2019 05:01:32 EDT hosh hosh
    Flushed out in a mess of blood and goo, gasping for air and screaming for mercy... at least it hasn't gotten worse.
    In conversation Friday, 15-Mar-2019 05:01:32 EDT from hub.vikshepa.com permalink
  6. hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2019 03:59:13 EDT hosh hosh
    "As a Palestinian citizen of Israel, I am subject to insidious discrimination that is enshrined by law – and no major party sees it as an issue"
    Source: The Guardian

    #israel

    Source: https://www.vikshepa.com/netanyahu-is-right-israel-is-a-nation-with-no-interest-in-equality/
    In conversation Wednesday, 13-Mar-2019 03:59:13 EDT from vikshepa.com permalink

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    1. "Netanyahu is right: Israel is a nation with no interest in equality"
      By hosh from Vikshepa Blog
      “Netanyahu is right: Israel is a nation with no interest in equality”
  7. hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2019 04:19:28 EDT hosh hosh
    in reply to
    @solariiknight 737 MAX is the one. The 787 is their "Dreamliner" - a bigger plane and according to Wikipedia hasn't been involved in any serious crashes so far, fortunately, because there would be more casualties.
    In conversation Tuesday, 12-Mar-2019 04:19:28 EDT from hub.vikshepa.com permalink
  8. hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2019 12:32:46 EDT hosh hosh
    This article was too long for me, but this morning I was reading through the guidelines of the BDS movement for academic and cultural boycott of Israel (see https://bdsmovement.net/pacbi/cultural-boycott-guidelines ) which is also a matter of urgent contemporary concern, vis a vis the position of bystanders - Israeli or international. Whereas the law (in democratic countries) assumes that we are "innocent unless proven guilty", the BDS campaign assumes that Israeli institutions, and perhaps also individuals, are basically "guilty unless proven innocent". In order to be considered "unboycottable" an institution must publicly acknowledge the comprehensive "inalienable rights of the Palestinian people as enshrined in international law" and not engage in discriminatory practices, etc. In a situation in which Israelis are clearly enjoying the fruits of the occupation, even if they do not agree with the occupation, this is probably a correct approach. As citizens, of Israel or the world, we are guilty of complicity with evils unless we speak out and take action against them. It's interesting and important that for an Israeli institution to be considered "unboycottable" the BDS movement does not insist that it must agree with the strategy of the BDS movement, but only that it publicly acknowledges the rights of the Palestinian people.
    In conversation Sunday, 10-Mar-2019 12:32:46 EDT from hub.vikshepa.com permalink

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    1. PACBI Guidelines for the International Cultural Boycott of Israel
      from BDS Movement
      The full guidelines for the cultural boycott of Israel
  9. hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2019 12:04:26 EDT hosh hosh
    in reply to
    Aral is doing some very interesting things (though my head always starts hurting when I try to understand them), as in... "traditional best practice for the Centralised Web still holds that if your site doesn’t work without JavaScript, it is broken. For the Peer Web, we invert that rule: On the Peer Web, if your always on node works without JavaScript, it is centralised (and thus broken)." https://ar.al/2019/02/13/on-the-general-architecture-of-the-peer-web/
    In conversation Sunday, 10-Mar-2019 12:04:26 EDT from hub.vikshepa.com permalink

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    1. File without filename could not get a thumbnail source.
      On the General Architecture of the Peer Web (and the placement of the PC 2.0 era within the timeline of general computing and the greater socioeconomic context)
      There have been three eras of general computing… the fourth remains to be written. A highly-compressed overview of the history of general computing The first era of general computing was the mainframe era and it was centralised. The second, the personal computing (PC 1.0) era, was decentralised. The third is the Web era (let’s call it Mainframe 2.0). And it is, once again, centralised. Today, we find ourselves at the end of the Mainframe 2.
  10. hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2019 10:33:46 EDT hosh hosh
    My everyday desktop computer is one that I originally bought as a media-pc in 2011. It has an Intel DG43RK board, a Pentium dual core processor and 6 GB RAM. Despite these low specs it works beautifully under MX 18 (a Debian Gnu-linux distro) and handles everything I need to do. I don't do software development, gaming or other chores that require heavy lifting, but I sit here for many hours a day doing all kinds of other things. Last week I tried to get another couple of gigabytes of RAM, to bring the machine up to its maximum 8 gigabytes, but was disappointed to discover it doesn't handle modern DDR3 dimms (though they fit). Never mind, I got a reimbursement. Now I've ordered a new DIMM which is supposed to work with this motherboard on eBay.

    Actually the only need I felt for more RAM was to work with Google Drive, which has become increasingly resource hungry, but which I need for the office. It's a bit of a false need, I know.

    Source: https://www.vikshepa.com/ddr3-dimm-for-my-computer/
    In conversation Sunday, 10-Mar-2019 10:33:46 EDT from vikshepa.com permalink

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    1. DDR3 Dimm for my computer
      By hosh from Vikshepa Blog
      DDR3 Dimm for my computer
  11. hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2019 09:54:44 EDT hosh hosh
    in reply to
    Yes, it was for environmental reasons that I meant we should be taking ground transportation. But I think the railways are fairly safe too, no? I know you have been having some serious crashes lately in India, but I think they are probably still safe enough not to be considered dangerous. It's just that rail travel is so slow in India. In the news today is a new Chinese maglev train that will travel at 320 km/h. Such a train would cover the distance between Delhi to Chennai in maybe 6 hours. (https://www.distancecalculator.net/from-chennai-to-new-delhi). That would be something!
    In conversation Sunday, 10-Mar-2019 09:54:44 EDT from hub.vikshepa.com permalink
  12. hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2019 08:19:28 EDT hosh hosh
    A couple of quick thoughts:
    • People in the midst of a conflict usually speak about achieving peace, as if it were a destination, like going from point A to point B. But I understood some time ago that this is not the case. Peace is a state of equilibrium that, once reached, is always in danger of slipping. It is probably an equally difficult job to maintain peace as to reach it from a state of war, so that future wars, whose seeds are already germinating, seem almost inevitable.
    • Young people do not have the privilege (or the misfortune) of remembering the horrors caused by previous conflict, so every new generation has been eager to start the ball rolling again. Therefore the importance of education.
    In conversation Sunday, 10-Mar-2019 08:19:28 EDT from hub.vikshepa.com permalink
  13. hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2019 07:57:30 EDT hosh hosh
    Very sad. The plane was going from Addis to Nairobi. I have flown Ethiopian to India and have no complaints about their service. Their last serious crash was in 2010 and this was a brand new plane. But it reminds me again that whenever possible we should be taking direct flights (safer, saner and better for the environment) and traveling by ground transportation when that's possible.

    Source: https://www.vikshepa.com/no-survivors-from-todays-air-crash/
    In conversation Sunday, 10-Mar-2019 07:57:30 EDT from vikshepa.com permalink

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    1. No survivors from today's air crash
      By hosh from Vikshepa Blog
      No survivors from today’s air crash
  14. hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2019 11:24:16 EST hosh hosh
    in reply to
    Air traffic control won't let them all come at once.
    In conversation Saturday, 09-Mar-2019 11:24:16 EST from hub.vikshepa.com permalink
  15. hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2019 07:35:28 EST hosh hosh
    Hello Europe, Jerusalem calling. Storks sighted on the way up to you. (Geese heard too)

    In conversation Saturday, 09-Mar-2019 07:35:28 EST from hub.vikshepa.com permalink
  16. hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2019 12:54:05 EST hosh hosh
    in reply to
    @h.ear.t this is on your phone, right? On my phone I'm using FF Klar - but I'm such a non-phone person that it doesn't happen very often.
    In conversation Friday, 08-Mar-2019 12:54:05 EST from hub.vikshepa.com permalink
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