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There are few problems in life that cannot be solved with a .45 cal Desert Eagle.Ugh. Power has been out for more than 90 minutes. I’m sitting in the twilight darkness, listening to the sound of my neighbor’s generator and my tinnitus.Nothing a .45 cal Desert Eagle can't cure. Will simultaneously take out that generator and help you hear your tinnitus more clearly!
That's what you were complaining about, right? Did I get confused again?
Those are easily solved with a saw. Or a skid loader. Or a skid loader with saws mounted.
Or nudity, with a skid loader with saws mounted.
Holy s$#$, did I just discover the American Dream.
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G%!~#$n liberal anarchist trees.
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There are few problems in life that cannot be solved with a .45 cal Desert Eagle.Ugh. Power has been out for more than 90 minutes. I’m sitting in the twilight darkness, listening to the sound of my neighbor’s generator and my tinnitus.Nothing a .45 cal Desert Eagle can't cure. Will simultaneously take out that generator and help you hear your tinnitus more clearly!
That's what you were complaining about, right? Did I get confused again?
Those are easily solved with a saw. Or a skid loader. Or a skid loader with saws mounted.
Or nudity, with a skid loader with saws mounted.
Holy s+&~, did I just discover the American Dream.
Only if you're wearing Stars & Stripes body paint with a 101st Airborne pastie over each nipple, a Punisher mask and cowboy boots, and carrying the sort of gun that, in other countries, would only be brought out once a millennium to kill a dinosaur, then hidden away again in shame and embarrassment.
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And this week is the first week of December. Today is only November by courtesy.
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Given the disagreements, I Googled it. Interestingly, there is an ISO standard for "first week of the year" (the week starting on Monday that contains January 4th), but no such standard for "first week of the month". (Even though the same exact standard would work: The week starting on Monday that contains the 4th of the month.)
I saw a very nice little answer on one web site. "Since there is no standard, there are 3 definitions that are in common use:
(1) The week starting on a Monday and that contains any days of the month. For example, if November 25 is a Monday, then November 25-December 1 is 'the first week of December'.
(2) The week starting on a Monday and such at at least 4 days of the week are in the month. For example, if November 27 is a Monday, then the week would NOT be the first week of December because most of its days are in November. If November 28 is a Monday, then the week IS the first week of December because most of its days are in November. This is the prevalent use of the term.
(3) The week starting on the first Monday in the month. So if November 27 is a Monday, then the first week of December starts on December 4.
Also, since the United States has not adopted the ISO standard, their definitions may differ."
Not only was I amused that 'Merikuns got called out yet again for ignoring standards, but that the most-commonly-accepted definition requires the most thought and math. That's thoroughly un-American!
Interesting that the ISO standard uses Monday as the beginning of the counting line. Especially (2).
Years ago I shifted my thinking to a Monday through Sunday definition of a week: in my mind it's 'the week' (Mon-Fri) plus 'the weekend' (Sat-Sun).
Which is the same pattern this appears to use. Given the multitude of international definitions of "weekly holy day" (Is it Friday? Saturday? Sunday?) I wonder what drove the choice of Monday?
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Interesting that the ISO standard uses Monday as the beginning of the counting line. Especially (2).
Years ago I shifted my thinking to a Monday through Sunday definition of a week: in my mind it's 'the week' (Mon-Fri) plus 'the weekend' (Sat-Sun).
Which is the same pattern this appears to use. Given the multitude of international definitions of "weekly holy day" (Is it Friday? Saturday? Sunday?) I wonder what drove the choice of Monday?
I'm guessing the standard start of the work week, since the ISO standard is relatively recent.
The U.S. still defines the start of the week as Sunday, which just makes no sense at all to me. Even in Biblical terms, Sunday was the SEVENTH day, not the first.
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Even in Biblical terms, Sunday was the SEVENTH day, not the first.
For some Christian and most Jewish traditions, Saturday is the seventh day. Which makes Sunday the first day of the week.
But Rome and Greece? What did the Western calendar look like without the Abrahamic religions? Or are our calendars all driven by the Jewish and Christian holy days?
Even in Biblical terms, Sunday was the SEVENTH day, not the first.For some Christian and most Jewish traditions, Saturday is the seventh day. Which makes Sunday the first day of the week.
But Rome and Greece? What did the Western calendar look like without the Abrahamic religions? Or are our calendars all driven by the Jewish and Christian holy days?
Excellent question. Right or wrong, I always consider the U.S. to be rooted in Puritanism, which has Sunday as its holy day. Going beyond that would probably end up in forbidden religious discussions, which sounds like something happening in a fun Call of Cthulu campaign.
Interestingly, Googling around tells me that the Babylonians came up with the 7-day week to represent the 7 celestial bodies: The sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. And their week started with the most important body, the sun. So weeks starting with Sunday pre-date even the Romans, if what I've looked up is correct.
I do love the name changes in the days, though.
Sunday --> Sunday is impressively static
Moonday --> Monday is almost as good
Saturnday --> Saturday is another close match
Tuesday and Wednesday I'm going to blame on the Germans, because in French you have Mardi (very close to Marsday) and Mercredi (presumably Mercury day, but what do I know?). I know somehow the Norse came in and Thursday is Thorsday. Which tickles me pink.
Is Friday Frejya day? I have no idea.
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Huh, looks like the Jewish observance of the Sabbath was shaped during the Babylonian exile (597-538 BCE) So, 2500 years later, we're still discussing Babylonian science and culture as it affects our own thinking and behavior.
Changing the Babylonian calendar to make Monday the first day of the week. Heady stuff!
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The names for the days of the week in English seem to be a mixed bag. Saturday, Sunday and Monday are named after the celestrial bodies, Saturn, Sun and Moon, but the other days are named after Germanic gods, Tuesday (Tiw's day), Wednesday (Woden's day), Thursday (Thor's day) and Friday (Freya's day)
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As mentioned above the naming of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday was less at odds with the naming of Saturday, Sunday and Monday than it seems. Freya, the Germanic goddess of love, corresponds to the Roman goddess of love, Venus, for whom the planet Venus is named. Tiw, roughly corresponds to the Roman god of war, Mars, whom another planet was named. The Roman god Jupiter was known for throwing bolts of lightening and therefore there was a correspondence with the Germanic god of thunder, Thor. In the Roman calendar the day between Mars' day (Tuesday) and Jupiter's day (Thursday) was Mercury's day. Somehow the ancient Germans found a correspondence between Mercury and Woden. Thus the days of the week in the Roman calendar were Sun's day, Moon's day, Mars' day, Mercury's day, Jupiter's day, Venus's day and Saturn's day. The days were not named after the gods, the days were named after the celestial bodies, which in some cases were named after gods and a goddess.
Tiw is better known as Tyr to us westerners. You're welcome.
Even in Biblical terms, Sunday was the SEVENTH day, not the first.For some Christian and most Jewish traditions, Saturday is the seventh day. Which makes Sunday the first day of the week.
This is how it was in the church I was raised in. Which is why it was made a point to never call Sunday "the Sabbath" - that was the Jewish holiday which is on "the seventh day", while the Christian holiday is "the first day of the week".
I was raised to see Sunday as the 7th day of the week.
All I know is Sunday is Willy's time!
WE GOT A VIDMASTER7 AND A RYSKY!
Two games installed today: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice and Elex. I have started playing the later some time ago on laptop but it was too much for its capabilities - exploring was doable but fights were rendered too hard by the slowness.
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What do you mean by "Can't you focus on a single game at a time?"
Hellblade looks great but it also suffers from the designers decision to put the camera right behind Senua's back, having her obscure the left half of the screen...
WE GOT A VIDMASTER7 AND A RYSKY!
Huh? what?
I think he's saying that he caught you doing something Rysky.WE GOT A VIDMASTER7 AND A RYSKY!Huh? what?
Maybe Rysky was doing something vidmastery?
Oh yeah that would make sense.
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Interesting that the ISO standard uses Monday as the beginning of the counting line. Especially (2).
Years ago I shifted my thinking to a Monday through Sunday definition of a week: in my mind it's 'the week' (Mon-Fri) plus 'the weekend' (Sat-Sun).
Which is the same pattern this appears to use. Given the multitude of international definitions of "weekly holy day" (Is it Friday? Saturday? Sunday?) I wonder what drove the choice of Monday?
I'm guessing the standard start of the work week, since the ISO standard is relatively recent.
The U.S. still defines the start of the week as Sunday, which just makes no sense at all to me. Even in Biblical terms, Sunday was the SEVENTH day, not the first.
Weeks starting on a sunday is just ()*#$)#*$)(*$%)(*$%)(*#$)*%)(*$)($%%$$$%()
Freehold how is my mech doing?
its just fine..I used it recently on a map where there was a lot of room to run and jump around so it got behind people and started sniping.
I wish to know more about mech (Vidmaster7).
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I wish to know more about mech (Vidmaster7).
IIRC, Vidmaster7 has two large, deadly ultra autocannon 20s with a little bit of ammo, and that's about it. It is slow and doesn't have much defense, but can take at least one hit. It usually defends other mechs from hunter/killer units, especially ones that are slower than it is, or surprises mechs that stumble across it. A powerful defensive unit, but with weaknesses that must be respected.
Also a bald eagle, a cheeseburger and a beer. Or wait, is that just the commercial of the American dream?Only if you're wearing Stars & Stripes body paint with a 101st Airborne pastie over each nipple, a Punisher mask and cowboy boots, and carrying the sort of gun that, in other countries, would only be brought out once a millennium to kill a dinosaur, then hidden away again in shame and embarrassment.There are few problems in life that cannot be solved with a .45 cal Desert Eagle.Ugh. Power has been out for more than 90 minutes. I’m sitting in the twilight darkness, listening to the sound of my neighbor’s generator and my tinnitus.Nothing a .45 cal Desert Eagle can't cure. Will simultaneously take out that generator and help you hear your tinnitus more clearly!
That's what you were complaining about, right? Did I get confused again?
Those are easily solved with a saw. Or a skid loader. Or a skid loader with saws mounted.
Or nudity, with a skid loader with saws mounted.
Holy s+&~, did I just discover the American Dream.
Now I want captain yesterday to model this.
Also a bald eagle, a cheeseburger and a beer. Or wait, is that just the commercial of the American dream?Only if you're wearing Stars & Stripes body paint with a 101st Airborne pastie over each nipple, a Punisher mask and cowboy boots, and carrying the sort of gun that, in other countries, would only be brought out once a millennium to kill a dinosaur, then hidden away again in shame and embarrassment.There are few problems in life that cannot be solved with a .45 cal Desert Eagle.Ugh. Power has been out for more than 90 minutes. I’m sitting in the twilight darkness, listening to the sound of my neighbor’s generator and my tinnitus.Nothing a .45 cal Desert Eagle can't cure. Will simultaneously take out that generator and help you hear your tinnitus more clearly!
That's what you were complaining about, right? Did I get confused again?
Those are easily solved with a saw. Or a skid loader. Or a skid loader with saws mounted.
Or nudity, with a skid loader with saws mounted.
Holy s+&~, did I just discover the American Dream.
Stop trying to ruin the American Dream, it's nudity for everyone, and a skid loader with saws mounted on it in every garage.
No need to overcomplicate it.
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Also a bald eagle, a cheeseburger and a beer. Or wait, is that just the commercial of the American dream?Only if you're wearing Stars & Stripes body paint with a 101st Airborne pastie over each nipple, a Punisher mask and cowboy boots, and carrying the sort of gun that, in other countries, would only be brought out once a millennium to kill a dinosaur, then hidden away again in shame and embarrassment.There are few problems in life that cannot be solved with a .45 cal Desert Eagle.Ugh. Power has been out for more than 90 minutes. I’m sitting in the twilight darkness, listening to the sound of my neighbor’s generator and my tinnitus.Nothing a .45 cal Desert Eagle can't cure. Will simultaneously take out that generator and help you hear your tinnitus more clearly!
That's what you were complaining about, right? Did I get confused again?
Those are easily solved with a saw. Or a skid loader. Or a skid loader with saws mounted.
Or nudity, with a skid loader with saws mounted.
Holy s+&~, did I just discover the American Dream.
Stop trying to ruin the American Dream, it's nudity for everyone, and a skid loader with saws mounted on it in every garage.
No need to overcomplicate it.
Stop trying to ruin the American Dream, it's nudity for everyone, and a skid loader with saws mounted on it in every garage.
No need to overcomplicate it.
I have wanted my own bobcat* for decades! When will it get here? I have things to saw, and dig, and shove, and .......
*I know them as "bobcats". CY calls them skidloaders.
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For Freehold again.
WHY ISNT TODAY TOMORROW?!?
Well, only 18 days after we reported the leak under our foundation to the landlord, it's finally going to get fixed, maybe as early as Thursday. And they think they can do it without us having to vacate.
Meanwhile, it's been 32 days since WW was laid off, and we still haven't seen a penny from the Texas Workforce Commission, which is the agency that handles unemployment here. So that's fun.
Everything is a waiting game. Almost like it's, ya know, Advent or something.
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Wow... and I was about to complain about *my* "problem", which seems pretty trivial, considering.
Long story short, we signed our new loan on the 23rd, they said it would be processed by the 27th, and it wasn't. So with our auto-pay turned on today we just paid our December mortgage on a loan that was supposedly paid off 4 days ago.
So while I'm not about to be homeless nor waiting a month for unemployment (and I've read horror stories across the country about how hard it is to get the checks these days), I did just make a mortgage payment I didn't owe, so I get to fight the bank to get my money back.
Whee?
Positive thoughts for LM and her family. My daughter has a good friend who is 21 and now unemployed. She's about to be homeless b/c she's living somewhere w/no lease and she's been working to get her benefits started for a little over a month so she can't make rent.
I thought Advent was about waiting for one specific thing to happen, not like, everything.
Linguistics humor; I went to a Catholic university, where you got bonus points for Latin jokes. The Latin root of Advent means "coming" or "arrival".
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I did that on my refinance. it took about 2 months and one phone call. Your experience may differ.
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Plumbers got finished with the job before ours ahead of schedule and are on their way here now!
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Shove as much as you can into an envelope and mail it to me!
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Plumbers got finished with the job before ours ahead of schedule and are on their way here now!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
*SIGH*.
Looks like California's headed for another full lockdown.
At this point, I honestly think it would be cheaper to just pay people for negative COVID tests.
"You may come in up to once a month and get COVID tested. The test is free, and if your test comes back negative we'll hand you $100 cash on the spot."
Impossible to implement logistically, but it would at least provide some financial encouragement for people to try to avoid getting sick. "Woo hoo! $100 a month just for wearing some stupid mask and avoiding my relatives? Where do I sign up?"
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Can't you just wear a mask and wash your hands?