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Facebook in 2013 acquired a tool called Onavo. The acquisition generated little buzz, as it wasn’t a flashy consumer product. It was a wonky-sounding thing called a virtual private network, or VPN, which was made by Israeli engineers to
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“I was basically trucking along as a functional drunk who knew he had a problem but hoped nothing truly terrible would happen.”
― Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.
― Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.
“אדם עם מערכת ביוכימית עגמומית יישאר די מדוכא גם אם הוא יגדל במשפחה אוהבת, יזכה בפיס, וייהנה מבריאות מפליגה. אפילו אם אותו אדם יזכה ב־50 מיליון שקל, יגלה באותו יום את התרופה לסרטן ולאיידס, בין לבין ימצא את נוסחת הקסם שתשכין שלום בין ישראלים לפלסטינים, ויתאחד מחדש עם ילדו האהוב שאבד לפני שנים ושכולם היו בטוחים שמת — הוא עדיין לא יוכל להיות מאושר מעבר ל"רמת אושר 7". המוח שלו פשוט לא בנוי להיות יותר מאושר, יקרה מה שיקרה.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“I think it's important to explain that major depression is not even peripherally related to "sadness". Depression is the absence of emotion. I never cried during my darkest periods of depression. Crying would have been A HOLIDAY. It would have been FUCKING CHRISTMAS. A fight or a feeling of anger would have been AN EASTER EGG HUNT AT DISNEYLAND. I am vocal about my depression now because it was so fucking Satanically awful that I view it as one my life's primary missions to help other people understand and overcome it.
Depression kills people because in the normal weather patterns of human emotion over a day or a week or a decade, actual unipolar major depressive disorder doesn't appear. It's like The Nothing in The NeverEnding Story. It eats your anger, your sadness, your happiness, your testicle and/or ovaries.”
― Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.
Depression kills people because in the normal weather patterns of human emotion over a day or a week or a decade, actual unipolar major depressive disorder doesn't appear. It's like The Nothing in The NeverEnding Story. It eats your anger, your sadness, your happiness, your testicle and/or ovaries.”
― Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.
“לא נשאר כלום מחולצות הפולו הצהובות והוורודות של רלף לורן שרפי כל כך אהב ללבוש כאות להשתלבות המוחלטת שלו בבורגנות האירופית, כי לא קוברים אנשים בחולצות פולו, אלא בחליפות שחורות שתואמות את מצב הרוח המשוער של המוות”
― הישראלי הנצחי
― הישראלי הנצחי
“Too dumb to succeed, too honest to cheat.”
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