Yossi Mandel

The people on the streets of Minnesota blowing whistles are not pointless

Everyone nodding

Sending John Scalzi an email right now because a car burned by Scalzi (first edition) will be priceless

yeah i took one look at usenet and ran

much later during forums era I started seeing some of the good ones from people sharing them but was too late to get into it.

Making fun of the Ethpañoles is always correct and funny, I say in Venezuelan

I just followed this person so I can get this daily reminder directly

It's all from his followers! We don't even know who the original man was, or his doctrines. All we have doctrinally is Paul, the people writing down a century later, Councils etc.

AOL had socializing places called Communities, forums, discoverable, and they employed full time moderators to govern them.

Literally no one has gotten social internet right since then. 25 years ago.

Some people out here reading Black History Month as Block History Month...

After you're done reading this, read about the movie of it he crowdfunded to make and which the FBI made sure never made the theaters.

¡Ay caramba que perfección!

Wake up, Yidden, gritty Fiddler just dropped

Sort of how the Barney Fife old show "solved" the problem of racism by having no Black people on the show at all?

*Mamdani cooks and eats a billionaire medium rare on live stream*
"This could never work in any city other than New York"

The reason I have never skied or learned to, even though I was a shliach in Salt Lake City for 3 years, is that the first thing I had to do there was visit the family of a kid who was lying unconscious in the hospital after a ski accident.

If only he would put on a cape.

Then he could be the caped coiffed charisma combat crusader!

When I went to work at B&H Photo in midlevel management, I knew nothing about photography. When I left years later, I was a bit beyond amateur enthusiast and did my family's portraits nicely. Yes, I had advice from the pro photogs working there. It took TIME.

To everyone just now finding out Isaac Asimov was rather famously a sex pest: He's been gone 34 years now, you can handle this truth, I believe in you

40 years ago, I heard the college student son of the nice Brooklyn Jewish Democrat public school neighbors of my grandparents sing these lines to his parents. You would think...

someone's PR mind was definitely working overtime when they came up with that one

Early Years Vol 1 The Formative Years of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson.The product of an exhaustive, years-long, worldwide research project, Early Years tells the riveting story of the early life of the man w...

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The book published by Chabad, The Early Years, has the most recent research, both original and previous. It's more a book of documents than a history.

maybe it was even a condition of his visa? I haven't looked into the details.

It was more of an open house Bes Medrash. I believe R. Soloveitchik was there as well.

A lot of this is any direction is just going to be colored by our life experiences etc. But about Berlin, no, we knew he attended some classes but was studying in Rabbi Hildesheimer's Yeshivah.

I'm actually really sad about Peter Attia, as sad as about Neil Gaiman.

He was the one who taught me how to read science, to go to the journals, to sift through information, and ultimately to manage my health.

Had not paid attention to him in a long time, and of course will never do so again.

There's a funny Lubavitch sidenote to this!

For years, Lubavitchers would say that the Rebbe was a Sorbonne graduate. Turns out, he sat classes there, but graduated from an excellent Paris tech university as an elec engineer, which was then his Navy Yard job for rest of WW2.

True story: The Rebbe would dump a thick layer of salt on his fish, and he said it was out of gratitude, because he hid from the Nazis in a salt mine with his wife in Vichy France.

Salt saves lives.

Memoirs of Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson In a lucid and deeply personal style, the Rebbetzin drew on her rich memories of good times as well as her harrowing experiences, bringing to life the people and events that shaped her life.

Plus she kept a diary! All been published and available online

www.chabad.org/therebbe/art...

she wasn't traveling under the name Schneersohn, but true