The wether was pretty lousy today so I still went for a walk (even after the long one I had on Monday) but only a small one, around 6km, I was tempted to go the full 8km but the drizzle was starting to get worse so I didn’t want to be in a situation like last time where I came home absolutely drenched from top to bottom along with shoes that took 2-3 days to properly dry even with them being near the dehumidifier to speed up the process.
uBlock Origin Lite is adding custom declarative net request rules with the latest release (as of writing this blog it hasn’t appeared in the Chrome extension store but it is available in the Edge extension store) – hopefully that’ll mean that it’ll be possible to keep it up today in between the releases that are formally pushed to the extensions store. I’m hoping that element zapper will result in those elements that you zap get added to the custom declarative net request rules so then it is possible to adjust further if need be.
The first would be ‘The Home We Build Together: Recreating Society’ by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks which talks about how as a multi cultural society, a society where we have become fractured, we have become atomised with the rise of hyper individualism, the loss of institutions that would bring together people from different walks of life such as unions, religious institutions, friendly societies etc. and what can be done to recreate society without the temption we see today of looking back to a romanticised past where was a dominant culture and large numbers of people who were outside of that dominant culture which resulted in marginalisation of minority groups, people deprived of their rights etc.
The second is the book “A Time to Kill’ by John Grisham which I wrote a book report on when I was high school – I loved the book because I tend to prefer reading non-fiction work but this (like Tom Clancy books) doesn’t require one to suspend disbelief because the narrative feels as though it could actually happen in the real life. It was a heart breaking narrative and you really empathised with the father who took revenge and the nail biting court case that followed.
The third is the book “Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics” with contributions by multiple authors which talk about the secularisation and desecularisation occuring simultaneously – where the reversal of secularisation is occurring it isn’t a reemergence of moderate or mainstream branches but extreme fundamentalist versions of a given religion. We also see the rise of religious affiliation not necessarily being a confession of faith but rather indicating political alligence in much the same way a survey was done not too long ago where half of evangelicals in the US don’t believe Jesus is fully man and fully God (the whole idea of Jesus being fully man and fully god that was established in 451AD at the Council of Chalcedon) where evangelical isn’t a confession of faith but denoting ones political affiliation.
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