Wednesday night ramblings
How are you, dear Read.cash readers?
Today my mind has been scattered, and I haven't been able to focus much on anything, so today, it's my turn to ramble a bit.
It seems unavoidable
Yesterday morning I found out that my aunt, who has been feeling a bit under the weather the last few days, has tested positive for Covid; she and my mother are always together although they each have their own homes, so the chances of my mother showing symptoms in the next few days are high. Also, my sister had a fever last night, she has not seen my mother or my aunt in the previous few days, but apparently, they have started to get cases at her work.
And to top it off, my son, who started school on Monday, came home yesterday with a sore throat, and this morning he started having a cough. Today his classes were online, and he has spent most of the day lying down with discomfort, so in the afternoon, I called a girl who does Covid home testing, a service I have used before, and she said she couldn't come because she has Covid.
So it seems that the virus is advancing around me like the tentacles of an octopus, and at this point, I think it is inevitable, and I can only hope that when it hits me, it will be mild.
How many years can it live?
Yesterday in a travel post I did on Hive, I posted a photo of a field of olive trees, and I remembered that when I saw them, it seemed to me that those trees had been there for many years.
Remembering that, I got curious and wanted to know how many years an olive tree can live. And it turns out that some are over 1000 years old, and I found an article that says that the oldest olive tree in the world is in Spain, but it is not the one in the photo. The photo is taken in a field of olive trees in Mallorca, and the oldest one, which is 1700 years old, is in the town of Ulldecona, Tarragona.
And you may wonder what the Omicron and the olive tree and its age have to do with each other. And the answer is nothing, but remember I warned you that I was going to ramble.
Just one more.
Isn't it easier to take a picture?
I recently started moderating in a community on another platform, and these days someone made a post that didn't fit the community. It was a picture and a couple of sentences, but a Google search for the image yielded no result, so It seemed legit.
However, I happened to learn something new in the moderation group. Someone searched for the image with Google Lens, and the search turned up an image of a picture on a wall, the picture was the image used in the post. The wall image was from Aliexpress.
And I wonder if it's not easier instead of going to the trouble of cropping a photo from Aliexpress and passing it off as your work, to go out and take a picture and add the same two sentences that added nothing and at least you could say it was original content.
So the Google Lens app that serves to look up the name of flowers and plants turns out to also help to detect image theft, as it doesn't search for the exact image but similar ones. Maybe this information among my ramblings will be helpful to you.
That's all for today, take care. And if you've made it this far, thanks for reading!
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January 12, 2022
Google lens is a helpful tool sometimes. These scammers think they can get away with what they do.
I didn't know olive trees can live that long. Awesome!
COVID is inevitable. We will contract it sooner or later. My hope is the same that when I am infected by it the symptoms will be mild. I hope your family will be okay soon. Stay safe. Boost your immune system naturally.