Matisyahu's Blog

I woke up at 9:30 am this morning but the weather was looking lousy so I decided to potter around the house – started the day with a cup of coffee and caught up on some news. This is the start of my second week sticking to my 9:30 am wake up schedule and hopefully by the end of this week it’ll become easier. I’m also journal the food eaten each day along with the Kjs so that I can keep track of how things are progressing and so far I’m pretty happy.

On Monday and Tuesday I did some grocery shopping and found ‘Tasti Rise low carb protein bar’ and it is cheaper than the big name brand protein bars, low in calories as well as having a good amount of protein. The problem in the past is that the protein bars are normally around $5 per bar but I can get a five pack for $6 which works out at around $1.20 per so even if I have two at a time to match the weight of the more expensive bars it still ends up being half the price.

Google released an update to Chrome which bumped the version from 151.0.7922.138 to 151.0.7922.170 (link) with 15 security bugs fixed. What was rather unusual was how quickly uBlock Origin Lite 2026.818.1458 was released – within a few hours of the announcement on the github project home page the update was already approved by Google. Have they begun to automate the process now? hired more people to do the reviews of extensions? whatever the case maybe I’m happy that the update was made available in a prompt fashion.

I was watching a video and it is alway amusing hearing the number of people on the let who romanticise failure – that we live in a cruel world and that their genius wasn’t recognised, their unwillingness to compromise some how validates their moral superiority to those on the left who actually want to get things done. It reminds me of a speech by Michael Parenti regarding those who spend copious amounts of time demonising the Soviet Union while ignoring the achievements because it doesn’t conform to some sort of idealised way in they think things ought to be done.

This is the reason why I can’t help but get the feeling that we have far too many on the left who really don’t want to win political power because winning political power means that your ideas are put to the test where as if you’re always on the losing side you can always play the ‘if only’ card about a theoretical time line where your ideas are put into practice. The other problem is that the moment you get into power is the fact that you have to deal with the messy realty of governing – that your idealised understanding of the world is confronted with the reality that life is messy, chaotic, that things don’t go according to your grand plan because there are factors outside of your control that you could not have planned for.

This is the reason why I have very little time for many online leftists – the sort of people who pearl clutch and said they wouldn’t vote for Kamala Harris because she wasn’t everything they hoped and dreamed for. The question I want to know is where are these people now? the same people who couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Hillary Clinton which set in motion a conservative majority on the supreme court and the stripping away of reproductive rights for women. The same people who couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Kamal Harris because she wasn’t pro-Palestinian enough so as a result Trump wins a second term who then released ICE agents on the streets, further militarising of the police, the enabling of Benjamin Netanyahu, starting the war in Iran, the unwinding of progress regarding civil rights etc.

Do such political vandals ever take responsibility for how their selfish decision has caused untold hurt for so many people? of course not, because they get to sit in the corner with a smug look on their face while saying to themselves that they’re morally superior because they never compromised their values even though compromising would result in harm reduction for the many people who are now hurting under the Trump regime. If you believe your one pet project trumps everything other consideration then it tells me that you’re privileged enough that your life doesn’t change no matter who is in charge, that you have the luxary of being able to fixate on that one thing at the expense of everything else.