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Watching a hilarious 'documentary' about ancient Sumer.
The whole topic of Mesopotamia is a super interesting topic in and of itself, but from the first episode it was sensationalist, with frequent snide remarks about academia and historical consensus. So I googled a review, almost couldn't believe what it said about the last episode, so I skipped ahead and yup! The culmination of the entire series is that aliens from outer space came to earth, interbred with prehistoric homo-species(or pre-lingual homo sapiens?) to produce us, specifically to use us to mine the gold they wanted, jumpstarted agriculture, writing, math, and everything else, and then...well I'm not quite done watching, I don't know if there will be a 'theory' about what happened to the 'shining ones.'
This watches like some college kid taking a history class got high and watched Stargate.
Mine gold? Sounds like scientology... Or a Thanos-grade idiot.
What respectable interstellar civilization would bother with planetary gold mining when they could process much more gold-rich asteroids instead?
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Because Earth gold is easy.
Because Earth gold is easy.
If you are on Earth.
If you have capability to travel between stars, asteroid mining is more economic because you don't have to lift it from another planet before sending elsewhere.
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And here we go again with the whole, "Money is a touchy subject" issue.
GothBard and I have been extremely fortunate during the pandemic:
(1) We both kept our jobs.
(2) GothBard working from home saves us over $200/month.
(3) No one in our extended families has gotten it (yet).
So the service industry is getting hammered, we're in a second shutdown so yet again our favorite service providers can't be open, and we want to help. So we try to pay them not to come. It's our way of trying to help fight the pandemic. "We know you're out of work now, but we want you around once the pandemic ends, so let us pay you as if we were still using your services."
And basic pride prevents all but one of them from accepting. It's another one of those psychological things I don't get, but as lisamarlene can attest, embarrassment isn't an emotion with which I'm particularly familiar. "The state has forced you to shut down. You have no source of income. Let us pay you as if you're working for us to help you get by until the state allows you to re-open," seems reasonable enough to me, but obviously it isn't.
Ah, well.
EDIT: And yeah, if Global Megacorporation shut me down, and Shiro said, "Let me pay you $100 a week until they open up again," I'd take it, but again, that's probably just me.
You wouldn't even need interstellar travel; we have our own asteroid belt between Mars and the gas giants. That's in the "less than 100 years" future I would say.
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Regardless of politics, yesterday was literal history in the making. I was glued to either the radio or TV all night. My kids shrugged and were like "whatever, can we watch Kill Bill?" Sometimes my girls make me feel SO old...
Impus Major and his friends were glued to the internet, writing political diatribes and creating graphic memes.
Which ended up being hilarious because there was a LOOOOONG anti-government rant in their thread, then Impus Minor's bathroom photo, which kind of broke the mood for everyone. Which was perfect, because they were pretty angry about the whole thing.
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Hooray for Woran and Mr. T!
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Because Earth gold is easy.If you are on Earth.
If you have capability to travel between stars, asteroid mining is more economic because you don't have to lift it from another planet before sending elsewhere.
You are technically correct (which is the best kind of correct), Drejk, but I suspect LLE was demonstrating his pun-fu.
I am, however, all for guillotine humor.A good use for one’s stimulus money, if ever there was one.
I'm researching 3D printers to buy with (part) of that money. 3D print jobs can take hours verging on days for not-very-large parts, so my guillotines will be fairly small. Probably not much use except for chopping something finger-sized or so.
Although now I'm wondering if you could make a guillotine blade or pitchfork from pasta or from Jello Biafra or from tofu?
I have to think that Jello would approve of being turned into a guillotine for such porpoises.
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...I'm researching 3D printers to buy with (part) of that money. 3D print jobs can take hours verging on days for not-very-large parts, so my guillotines will be fairly small. ...
She's contemplating gremlin sized guillotines! AAAAHHHHHH!!!!
Something from the one shot I ran, the players enjoyed it perhaps some of you will too.
** spoiler omitted **
This made me nauseous just reading it. Sea water tastes disgusting!
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What respectable interstellar civilization would bother with planetary gold mining when they could process much more gold-rich asteroids instead?
Didn't know there is so much gold in space!
Maybe the gold was only an excuse to get jiggy with prehistoric Humans. Kinda like dragons?
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In good news today, I just talked to an HR guy at a global megacorp and I'm being passed on to the hiring team! Still have to interview, but this is very promising. It's not my ideal job, but it would be a foot in the door to what I want, and the location and pay would be improvements!
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In good news today, I just talked to an HR guy at a global megacorp and I'm being passed on to the hiring team! Still have to interview, but this is very promising. It's not my ideal job, but it would be a foot in the door to what I want, and the location and pay would be improvements!
Good luck and congratulations!
We get so livid with HR that they tell us that they have to screen "dozens" of candidates for us, and then they pass on only two or three, most of whom are completely unsuited to the job. It's as if HR is intentionally trying to hose both the candidates AND the department.
If HR passed you on to a department where you actually have some qualification for the job you're doing, you've got a very solid shot...
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Because Earth gold is easy.If you are on Earth.
If you have capability to travel between stars, asteroid mining is more economic because you don't have to lift it from another planet before sending elsewhere.
You are technically correct (which is the best kind of correct), Drejk, but I suspect LLE was demonstrating his pun-fu.
I am, however, all for guillotine humor.A good use for one’s stimulus money, if ever there was one.I'm researching 3D printers to buy with (part) of that money. 3D print jobs can take hours verging on days for not-very-large parts, so my guillotines will be fairly small. Probably not much use except for chopping something finger-sized or so.
Although now I'm wondering if you could make a guillotine blade or pitchfork from pasta or from Jello Biafra or from tofu?
Oh hey, I'm Lawful Lawful Evil.
Congratulations to Woran and Mr. T, and to Tequila Sunrise!
Now it is time to put your shackles back on and return to the Unpleasant Ziggurat of Bane, there to spend the next four days polishing my black spiked plate armour until I can see my bone-white, hideously scarred face in it. Chop chop!
And here we go again with the whole, "Money is a touchy subject" issue.
GothBard and I have been extremely fortunate during the pandemic:
(1) We both kept our jobs.
(2) GothBard working from home saves us over $200/month.
(3) No one in our extended families has gotten it (yet).So the service industry is getting hammered, we're in a second shutdown so yet again our favorite service providers can't be open, and we want to help. So we try to pay them not to come. It's our way of trying to help fight the pandemic. "We know you're out of work now, but we want you around once the pandemic ends, so let us pay you as if we were still using your services."
And basic pride prevents all but one of them from accepting. It's another one of those psychological things I don't get, but as lisamarlene can attest, embarrassment isn't an emotion with which I'm particularly familiar. "The state has forced you to shut down. You have no source of income. Let us pay you as if you're working for us to help you get by until the state allows you to re-open," seems reasonable enough to me, but obviously it isn't.
Ah, well.
EDIT: And yeah, if Global Megacorporation shut me down, and Shiro said, "Let me pay you $100 a week until they open up again," I'd take it, but again, that's probably just me.
I would not complain on having $100 a week...
You wouldn't even need interstellar travel; we have our own asteroid belt between Mars and the gas giants. That's in the "less than 100 years" future I would say.
Yeah, but we were speaking about interstellar travelers in the first place.
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Regardless of politics, yesterday was literal history in the making. I was glued to either the radio or TV all night. My kids shrugged and were like "whatever, can we watch Kill Bill?" Sometimes my girls make me feel SO old...Impus Major and his friends were glued to the internet, writing political diatribes and creating graphic memes.
Which ended up being hilarious because there was a LOOOOONG anti-government rant in their thread, then Impus Minor's bathroom photo, which kind of broke the mood for everyone. Which was perfect, because they were pretty angry about the whole thing.
New plan. If you are not going to... well... adjust Impus Major's birth certificate a year, then maybe you all should start working on constitutional amendment that reduces minimum age for presidentship?
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...I'm researching 3D printers to buy with (part) of that money. 3D print jobs can take hours verging on days for not-very-large parts, so my guillotines will be fairly small. ...
She's contemplating gremlin sized guillotines! AAAAHHHHHH!!!!
... executioner gremlin...
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Back from first session this year, first session of Alien, and first live session in eons*.
*for a definition of an eon that involves non-Eulidean timewarping effect of the distortion known in historical annals as "Year 2020".
Jesus Ramirez Rodriguez, corporal of a private military corporation died in the field of duty trying to save humanity from an unknown alien threat (and deny corporations a dangerous bioweapon).
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I would not complain on having $100 a week...And here we go again with the whole, "Money is a touchy subject" issue.
GothBard and I have been extremely fortunate during the pandemic:
(1) We both kept our jobs.
(2) GothBard working from home saves us over $200/month.
(3) No one in our extended families has gotten it (yet).So the service industry is getting hammered, we're in a second shutdown so yet again our favorite service providers can't be open, and we want to help. So we try to pay them not to come. It's our way of trying to help fight the pandemic. "We know you're out of work now, but we want you around once the pandemic ends, so let us pay you as if we were still using your services."
And basic pride prevents all but one of them from accepting. It's another one of those psychological things I don't get, but as lisamarlene can attest, embarrassment isn't an emotion with which I'm particularly familiar. "The state has forced you to shut down. You have no source of income. Let us pay you as if you're working for us to help you get by until the state allows you to re-open," seems reasonable enough to me, but obviously it isn't.
Ah, well.
EDIT: And yeah, if Global Megacorporation shut me down, and Shiro said, "Let me pay you $100 a week until they open up again," I'd take it, but again, that's probably just me.
You should have included your Patreon link ;)
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New plan. If you are not going to... well... adjust Impus Major's birth certificate a year, then maybe you all should start working on constitutional amendment that reduces minimum age for presidentship?Regardless of politics, yesterday was literal history in the making. I was glued to either the radio or TV all night. My kids shrugged and were like "whatever, can we watch Kill Bill?" Sometimes my girls make me feel SO old...Impus Major and his friends were glued to the internet, writing political diatribes and creating graphic memes.
Which ended up being hilarious because there was a LOOOOONG anti-government rant in their thread, then Impus Minor's bathroom photo, which kind of broke the mood for everyone. Which was perfect, because they were pretty angry about the whole thing.
He's got my vote!
New plan. If you are not going to... well... adjust Impus Major's birth certificate a year, then maybe you all should start working on constitutional amendment that reduces minimum age for presidentship?Regardless of politics, yesterday was literal history in the making. I was glued to either the radio or TV all night. My kids shrugged and were like "whatever, can we watch Kill Bill?" Sometimes my girls make me feel SO old...Impus Major and his friends were glued to the internet, writing political diatribes and creating graphic memes.
Which ended up being hilarious because there was a LOOOOONG anti-government rant in their thread, then Impus Minor's bathroom photo, which kind of broke the mood for everyone. Which was perfect, because they were pretty angry about the whole thing.
It's a teensy bit more than a year.
- 25 years = House of Representatives- 30 years = Senate
- 35 years = President
So closer to doubling his age than adding a year or two...
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... executioner gremlin...
I'm kinda surprised they're isn't already a jinkin variant who can intangibly possess a weapon or device, and then manipulate/animate it or cause it to fail attack/damage/skill checks while wielded.
Speaking of being proud/frustrated parents, it is utterly exhausting how little respect non-parents have for kids' ability with money (or anything else for that matter).
I've posted about Impus Major being a "gray hair" child, where he gave other adults gray hairs because they didn't think he should be climbing that high/on that/without a rope/whatever.
So this is even worse because he's a 19-year-old college student with his own bank card, but when he tried to pay the dentist bill today (around $330 including x-rays), the dentist refused his card and said he'd just mail us a bill...
...which he's refused to do for us for years.
My takeaway: He was SO mistrustful of Impus Major having sufficient funds in his account that he broke his own protocol and decided to mail us a bill.
Which is an insult to both me (since he knew I'd brought Impus Major) and Impus Major.
Ah, well. Whatever. Just frustrating when people don't trust your kids to be competent, even when they've given no reason for you to doubt them.
New plan. If you are not going to... well... adjust Impus Major's birth certificate a year, then maybe you all should start working on constitutional amendment that reduces minimum age for presidentship?Regardless of politics, yesterday was literal history in the making. I was glued to either the radio or TV all night. My kids shrugged and were like "whatever, can we watch Kill Bill?" Sometimes my girls make me feel SO old...Impus Major and his friends were glued to the internet, writing political diatribes and creating graphic memes.
Which ended up being hilarious because there was a LOOOOONG anti-government rant in their thread, then Impus Minor's bathroom photo, which kind of broke the mood for everyone. Which was perfect, because they were pretty angry about the whole thing.
It's a teensy bit more than a year.
- 25 years = House of Representatives
- 30 years = Senate
- 35 years = PresidentSo closer to doubling his age than adding a year or two...
I was specifically refering to him missing his chance in 2035 (as that that was mentioned in the past as being too early for him to candidate). There should be enough time to push for constitutional amendment for that until then. Of course if the amendment could push age limit more he could start even earlier.
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You should have included your Patreon link ;)I would not complain on having $100 a week...And here we go again with the whole, "Money is a touchy subject" issue.
GothBard and I have been extremely fortunate during the pandemic:
(1) We both kept our jobs.
(2) GothBard working from home saves us over $200/month.
(3) No one in our extended families has gotten it (yet).So the service industry is getting hammered, we're in a second shutdown so yet again our favorite service providers can't be open, and we want to help. So we try to pay them not to come. It's our way of trying to help fight the pandemic. "We know you're out of work now, but we want you around once the pandemic ends, so let us pay you as if we were still using your services."
And basic pride prevents all but one of them from accepting. It's another one of those psychological things I don't get, but as lisamarlene can attest, embarrassment isn't an emotion with which I'm particularly familiar. "The state has forced you to shut down. You have no source of income. Let us pay you as if you're working for us to help you get by until the state allows you to re-open," seems reasonable enough to me, but obviously it isn't.
Ah, well.
EDIT: And yeah, if Global Megacorporation shut me down, and Shiro said, "Let me pay you $100 a week until they open up again," I'd take it, but again, that's probably just me.
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New plan. If you are not going to... well... adjust Impus Major's birth certificate a year, then maybe you all should start working on constitutional amendment that reduces minimum age for presidentship?Regardless of politics, yesterday was literal history in the making. I was glued to either the radio or TV all night. My kids shrugged and were like "whatever, can we watch Kill Bill?" Sometimes my girls make me feel SO old...Impus Major and his friends were glued to the internet, writing political diatribes and creating graphic memes.
Which ended up being hilarious because there was a LOOOOONG anti-government rant in their thread, then Impus Minor's bathroom photo, which kind of broke the mood for everyone. Which was perfect, because they were pretty angry about the whole thing.
It's a teensy bit more than a year.
No-no!
We do not want teensy Valeros as president.
Yet.
Impus Major should be first. Then we'll see.
Speaking of being proud/frustrated parents, it is utterly exhausting how little respect non-parents have for kids' ability with money (or anything else for that matter).
I've posted about Impus Major being a "gray hair" child, where he gave other adults gray hairs because they didn't think he should be climbing that high/on that/without a rope/whatever.
So this is even worse because he's a 19-year-old college student with his own bank card, but when he tried to pay the dentist bill today (around $330 including x-rays), the dentist refused his card and said he'd just mail us a bill...
...which he's refused to do for us for years.My takeaway: He was SO mistrustful of Impus Major having sufficient funds in his account that he broke his own protocol and decided to mail us a bill.
Which is an insult to both me (since he knew I'd brought Impus Major) and Impus Major.
Ah, well. Whatever. Just frustrating when people don't trust your kids to be competent, even when they've given no reason for you to doubt them.
Uh, what kind of card reader her uses that wouldn't let him know if the card was charged or declined? o.O
I was specifically refering to him missing his chance in 2035 (as that that was mentioned in the past as being too early for him to candidate). There should be enough time to push for constitutional amendment for that until then. Of course if the amendment could push age limit more he could start even earlier.New plan. If you are not going to... well... adjust Impus Major's birth certificate a year, then maybe you all should start working on constitutional amendment that reduces minimum age for presidentship?Regardless of politics, yesterday was literal history in the making. I was glued to either the radio or TV all night. My kids shrugged and were like "whatever, can we watch Kill Bill?" Sometimes my girls make me feel SO old...Impus Major and his friends were glued to the internet, writing political diatribes and creating graphic memes.
Which ended up being hilarious because there was a LOOOOONG anti-government rant in their thread, then Impus Minor's bathroom photo, which kind of broke the mood for everyone. Which was perfect, because they were pretty angry about the whole thing.
It's a teensy bit more than a year.
- 25 years = House of Representatives
- 30 years = Senate
- 35 years = PresidentSo closer to doubling his age than adding a year or two...
Not a problem; the election's in 2036.
If they do over the phone payments I’d call in with Impus Majors card and have them run it.
It's a nice idea, but paying it myself means I don't have to transfer money between accounts, so it's less work for me.
It's just frustrating that for years the dentist's office has been a "bill up front" company: We pay the full price for the visit, they send in the insurance forms, then the insurance company sends us the check for most of it. So we're out of pocket for $300 for 2-3 weeks after each visit. We've pointed that out, and they've said it's just the way they do things.
But the moment a kid offers them a bank card, "Oh, no! Don't worry! We'll bill insurance first and send you a bill for the balance!"
...just like every other medical practitioner around here...
Is it possible they changed their policy? Like maybe they've been pressured by insurance companies to do things the more common way?If they do over the phone payments I’d call in with Impus Majors card and have them run it.It's a nice idea, but paying it myself means I don't have to transfer money between accounts, so it's less work for me.
It's just frustrating that for years the dentist's office has been a "bill up front" company: We pay the full price for the visit, they send in the insurance forms, then the insurance company sends us the check for most of it. So we're out of pocket for $300 for 2-3 weeks after each visit. We've pointed that out, and they've said it's just the way they do things.
But the moment a kid offers them a bank card, "Oh, no! Don't worry! We'll bill insurance first and send you a bill for the balance!"
...just like every other medical practitioner around here...
Oh, it's possible. But Impus Minor was in there last month and since he doesn't have that kind of balance in his account I gave him my credit card and they ran it with no issues.
Maybe with the new year they changed policies. Or maybe they're just condescending. I'll see what they do for Impus Minor's next visit.
*sniff*
Dammit, Kay!
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Uh-uh...
So apparently a bit over a year ago, in January 2020 I have posted a dark fey under the title of The Herald Of Doom To Come...
o.o
I am so sorry...
Back from first session this year, first session of Alien, and first live session in eons*.
*for a definition of an eon that involves non-Eulidean timewarping effect of the distortion known in historical annals as "Year 2020".
Jesus Ramirez Rodriguez, corporal of a private military corporation died in the field of duty trying to save humanity from an unknown alien threat (and deny corporations a dangerous bioweapon).
Awesome!
Have heard good things about the game, need to spend more time reading the rules.
Speaking of being proud/frustrated parents, it is utterly exhausting how little respect non-parents have for kids' ability with money (or anything else for that matter).
I've posted about Impus Major being a "gray hair" child, where he gave other adults gray hairs because they didn't think he should be climbing that high/on that/without a rope/whatever.
So this is even worse because he's a 19-year-old college student with his own bank card, but when he tried to pay the dentist bill today (around $330 including x-rays), the dentist refused his card and said he'd just mail us a bill...
...which he's refused to do for us for years.My takeaway: He was SO mistrustful of Impus Major having sufficient funds in his account that he broke his own protocol and decided to mail us a bill.
Which is an insult to both me (since he knew I'd brought Impus Major) and Impus Major.
Ah, well. Whatever. Just frustrating when people don't trust your kids to be competent, even when they've given no reason for you to doubt them.
mm. I've heard a lot of horror stories on both sides of this.
New plan. If you are not going to... well... adjust Impus Major's birth certificate a year, then maybe you all should start working on constitutional amendment that reduces minimum age for presidentship?Regardless of politics, yesterday was literal history in the making. I was glued to either the radio or TV all night. My kids shrugged and were like "whatever, can we watch Kill Bill?" Sometimes my girls make me feel SO old...Impus Major and his friends were glued to the internet, writing political diatribes and creating graphic memes.
Which ended up being hilarious because there was a LOOOOONG anti-government rant in their thread, then Impus Minor's bathroom photo, which kind of broke the mood for everyone. Which was perfect, because they were pretty angry about the whole thing.
It's a teensy bit more than a year.
No-no!
We do not want teensy Valeros as president.
Yet.
Impus Major should be first. Then we'll see.
Indeed, we should vote Freehold first.
Goddamn.
Scint is a stone cold assassin. Don't take your eyes off her.
G%#!&~n.
Scint is a stone cold assassin. Don't take your eyes off her.
Oh, right, your game Scint.
I was starting to search the thread for whatever I missed.Our Scint has been pretty quiet since this school year started.
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Back from first session this year, first session of Alien, and first live session in eons*.
*for a definition of an eon that involves non-Eulidean timewarping effect of the distortion known in historical annals as "Year 2020".
Jesus Ramirez Rodriguez, corporal of a private military corporation died in the field of duty trying to save humanity from an unknown alien threat (and deny corporations a dangerous bioweapon).
Awesome!
Have heard good things about the game, need to spend more time reading the rules.
Its on my 'to play list' as well.