Corrie Ten Boom tells her story about saving an estimated 800 Jews, and being an important player in the Dutch underground trying to save as many people as possible during world war 2 in her book “The hiding place”. — “The hiding place” opens with a chapter about the 100th birthday party of the family watch shop that Corrie worked at and lived above. How is a shop’s birthday party relevant to the story of their life-saving defiance of the Nazis?

It clearly needs changing, but in a different way than they suggest. — Click here to jump the paywall: Jump. Currently, the sexual offences act 2003 says that: 1) A person (A) commits an offence if — a)he intentionally penetrates the vagina, anus or mouth of another person (B) with his penis, b)B does not consent to the penetration, and c)A does not…

The whole book is excellent! The biggest flaw is that some chapters have made themselves obsolete. — I started reading this because I heard that Bill Gates recommended it. Yep in the quote that’s on the front cover, although that’s not where I saw the recommendation. I found it to be an absolutely excellent book. I love the setup of explaining a way in which you could…

It’s come to my attention that many people are very good at following directions. This may be because they spent 13 years practicing that at school. As someone with a learning difference, schools’ lessons never quite sunk in as much for me. That includes all the things they were explicitly…

Or perhaps you already have it… — My son likes to create Superpowers with downsides. As in; you can bring someone back to life, but every time you do it takes 5 minutes off your life. Do you want the power? I normally do want the power. I mean if the downsides are too bad I can…

And you can get 100, or 3000 followers too. — (The typo in the title is intentional) It’s a pun, it works both ways, giving is better than getting, and if you give first, you will then get! (followers, but it works for other things too.) The Beginning I joined medium in January 2022. I had 84 followers before I wrote my…

“19 kids died in a school shooting today.” my husband said. “That’s fucked.” I replied shaking my head then I kept watching YouTube. — I heard some more details, they were elementary school kids, (with an age range of what that meant). My response was similar. I don’t like hearing about children dying. It’s painful. Of course I would prefer that they didn’t die, but if it’s outside my control, and I can’t do…

Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life by Jason Hans is a book full of life-saving skills and paranoia. — Jason Hans says he’s not paranoid, he’s operating in state yellow, (an alert and aware but not alarmed state (one of 4 (white-oblivious, yellow, orange-responding well to an emergency, red-panicked/in danger.) but he also says to call the police for things like someone ringing your doorbell. To be fair, he…