# New research reveals scars of Gambia’s witch hunts, carried out by former President Yahya Jammeh. Victims were subject to beatings, rape, forcible consumption of a noxious liquid, and forced to strip naked in front of strangers and bathe in a herbal liquid. Most victims were elderly folks and women.
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Recently I ordered a soft toy from Amazon, its huge in actual size, like 3ft or something but Amazon had vacuum packed it to the size of a laptop. Since then I started wondering if I could use that.
I’m moving across country, normally I’d leave most of my clothes and blankets here because they are bulky and puffy and take up a lot of space. But in reality they are very light. And I always tend to travel light from the 50lb weight limit, it’s just that the clothes take up almost all of the space where I can’t push it any further.
So I was starting to consider if vacuum packing would be a good idea. In my mind if I can use that I can even compress my pillows and take them with me and then leave them in the sun for a couple days to let them stretch out.
Do the magic bags and vacuum bags sold on Amazon and Walmart do job effectively enough if anyone has experience with them.
The difference in my situation is that I do not have to pack the bags on the way back so I was considering purchasing a pump and bags separately, and then I could just leave the pump instead of half my stuff.
If anyone has other suggestions let me know as well.
Thanks a lot
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Hey r/Bitcoin, about a month ago I posted about trying to live off Bitcoin. Most comments called it dumb or said it wouldn’t work due to taxes and fees. I actually agreed, but I’ve found a simple solution that works for me. It’s not perfect, but here’s my plan to start. I will learn as I go and get better I am sure.
The Plan:
I’m using Strike’s Direct Deposit, Pay Rent, and Pay Bills features. 100% of my paychecks will be converted to Bitcoin on Strike. For expenses, I’ll use credit cards with solid rewards (for example Gemini’s 4% Bitcoin cashback or Prime/Chase for Amazon purchases). So in short I am spending USD that are not mine, and instead of paying off my cards every paycheck like I have been doing my whole life, I’ll simply do one payment monthly via Strike’s Pay Bills feature to minimize Bitcoin transfer fees. It won’t eliminate fees entirely but lower them quit a bit, and I’m fine with that. Once I hit a certain amount of Bitcoin on Strike I’ll move my Bitcoin to a cold wallet.Having 12 payments a year(one a month) via Strike paying off cards, I can use their tax forms to easily fill out taxes. As for income/capital tax, it shouldn’t be much but even so it just means Bitcoin went up and I am beating inflation.
Savings:
I’m converting half my savings to Bitcoin now and the other half over the next 3 months. If this doesn’t work out, I can easily switch my direct deposit back to my bank and convert savings back to USD.Why I’m Doing This:
With Bitcoin hovering around $117-120k, I don’t see it disappearing, and frankly it’s got too much momentum. I’m fed up with my hard earned money losing value and my investments barely outpacing inflation. I’m going 100% into Bitcoin over the next few months. I’ll either sink with the ship or sail to the new world! (lol that was so cheesy).I wouldn’t normally share this info but I have been seeing more interest in doing this exact thing from a lot of people online, some friends, and some family. I hope my journey can help others who are interested and seeing what works and doesn’t.
As always I love the discussion and feedback. What do you think? Any tips or flaws I’m missing?
TLDR Using Strike and a cold wallet lol
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We built NeuralOS, probably the world’s most expensive operating system, running at a blazing 1.8fps on an NVIDIA H100 GPU. 😅
**What exactly is NeuralOS?**
It’s an experimental generative OS that predicts every screen frame entirely from your mouse and keyboard inputs. No internet, no traditional software stack, purely hallucinated pixels.
**How does it work?**
* An RNN tracks the computer state (kind of like a traditional OS kernel, but all neural and continuous).
* A diffusion model generates the actual screen images (imagine a desktop environment, but fully neural-rendered).The GIF shows a funny demo: NeuralOS running NeuralOS inside itself. Every single pixel you’re seeing is model-generated, no network involved at all!
Long-term, our goal is to remove boundaries between software entirely and make OS fully customizable beyond fixed menus and options. Imagine asking your OS something like:
* “Merge all my messaging apps into one interface.”
* “Make Signal look like Messenger.”
* “Turn the movie I’m watching into a playable video game.”**I’m curious about your thoughts:**
* Could future OS interfaces just become human-like avatars (think Grok’s Ani)? Are menus and app-specific UIs going away?
* What about fully generative games: could diffusion-based games eventually replace traditional ones?Try the live demo here: [neural-os.com](http://neural-os.com) (you might need patience…)
More details about the project: [x.com/yuntiandeng/status/1944802154314916331](http://x.com/yuntiandeng/status/1944802154314916331)
