So they're teaching my 5th grade niece to do basic graphing algebra.
They've just started
The problems have FRACTIONS. You have to add , subtract, multiply and divide mixed numbers in multiple steps.
how the )#*(#$ are they supposed to convey the idea of an equation (which they've renamed a rule just to make sure the parents are lost) when you're stuck fiddling with fractions for a page and a half?
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Be honest, did you do that just to torture Freehold? If so, you get cookies.
By why in the blazing H-E-double hockey sticks would someone inflict that on fifth graders?
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So they're teaching my 5th grade niece to do basic graphing algebra.
They've just started
The problems have FRACTIONS. You have to add , subtract, multiply and divide mixed numbers in multiple steps.
how the )#*(#$ are they supposed to convey the idea of an equation (which they've renamed a rule just to make sure the parents are lost) when you're stuck fiddling with fractions for a page and a half?
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Don't. Get. Me. Started.
Basic Learning Theory 101: When you are teaching a new concept, the first example should be so trivial that 90+% of students have no difficulty with it. Finding the line between (1, 3) and (2, 5) would be a good, solid example.
And it doesn't extend to fifth graders. Impus Minor had to drop out of integral calculus not because he didn't understand the higher-level concepts, but because the homework literally had answers at the level of 1793/217 that were graded as 100% right or 100% wrong, so over 75% of his time spent on homework was trying to simplify and combine massive fractions.
Which, given the advent of calculators in the 1970s, is a nigh-useless skill.
I'll argue on the importance of mathematics education 'til I'm blue in the face. But I won't even climb that hill, much less fight on it.
They made me simplify and combine fractions over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over...
not... just to torture freehold...
Be honest, did you do that just to torture Freehold? If so, you get cookies.
By why in the blazing H-E-double hockey sticks would someone inflict that on fifth graders?
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They made me simplify and combine fractions over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over...
And yet how many times did they have you estimate 183,427,922/3,586 by saying, "That looks a lot like 18/3 so I'm guessing the leading number is roughly 6, so if my calculator says something that's too far off from that it's probably wrong" which is a MUCH more useful skill? (The leading number is actually 5, so not too far off at all.)
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not... just to torture freehold...
It was also to torture nobody's home with comically bad pedagogy if that makes you feel any better.
And also to see if there was some forgotten trick i was missing and.. nope. Homework designer is just obscene.
The state worker test I took had like 30 questions relating to the ratios of different kind of car doors none of which were actually exactly right even when i worked backwards from the answers. So were fractions like a general measure of intelligence 50 years ago or what?
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So, today's my 20-year anniversary at Global Megacorporation if you count the start date at my original company they they absorbed. So I'm getting large numbers of congratulatory emails. It feels rude to ignore them, kind of pathetic to respond to each one with, "Thanks," and absolutely out of line to say, "Thanks, but I'd rather be retired so I don't have to work with YOU any more."
I'll figure out some way to respond to them all by this afternoon.
So they're teaching my 5th grade niece to do basic graphing algebra.
They've just started
The problems have FRACTIONS. You have to add , subtract, multiply and divide mixed numbers in multiple steps.
how the )#*(#$ are they supposed to convey the idea of an equation (which they've renamed a rule just to make sure the parents are lost) when you're stuck fiddling with fractions for a page and a half?
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Ask AI to help you make a learning plan. Two plans.
The first for you, and the second for your kid.Work ahead of your kid, so when the time comes you are ready to go.
AI gives you superpowers.
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That's a great character name. Gripe Grumblecuss.
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So, today's my 20-year anniversary at Global Megacorporation if you count the start date at my original company they they absorbed. So I'm getting large numbers of congratulatory emails. It feels rude to ignore them, kind of pathetic to respond to each one with, "Thanks," and absolutely out of line to say, "Thanks, but I'd rather be retired so I don't have to work with YOU any more."
I'll figure out some way to respond to them all by this afternoon.
Congratulations on your 20-year anniversary at Global Megacorporation! It's a significant milestone, and it's great that your colleagues are acknowledging it.
Here are a few suggestions for responding to the congratulatory emails in a way that feels sincere but not overwhelming:
If it's appropriate, you could send a single group email to thank everyone at once:
Subject: Thank You for Your Kind Wishes
Dear Team,
I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for the kind words and congratulations on my 20-year anniversary. Your messages have truly made my day. It's been a wonderful journey, and I'm grateful for the support and camaraderie we've shared.
Looking forward to many more years of collaboration and success!
Best regards,
[Your Name]
If you prefer to reply individually but keep it brief, you could personalize a short response:
Thank you so much for your kind words! I appreciate it.
Best,
[Your Name]
If you have too many emails to handle individually, you could set up an out-of-office style automatic reply for the day:
Subject: Re: Congratulations!
Thank you for your kind message celebrating my 20-year anniversary! I'm truly grateful for your support and well wishes.
Best regards,
[Your Name]
You might want to send more detailed replies to closer colleagues or those you have a significant relationship with:
Thank you so much for your kind words, [Colleague's Name]! Your support and friendship over the years have been invaluable. Looking forward to many more great times together.
Best,
[Your Name]
You can mix and match these approaches based on your relationship with the sender. For example, send a group email to the team and personalized replies to closer colleagues.
Choosing one of these approaches will help you manage the volume of emails while still acknowledging the congratulations in a polite and professional manner.
(And Orthos, if you ever need extra players for dungeons you can PM me and I'll give you my player info.)Mine's in my profile!Ugh. We're on different data centers. I believe that means that never the twain shall meet. I'm on Primal/Brynhildr.
So good news!
Apparently either you're not on Primal or not on Brynhildr, because Brynhildr is on Crystal - so one of those is wrong.
Either way, as of two years ago you can now travel between different data centers as long as you're in the same geographical zone - all the US DCs can travel to each other, all the EU DCs can travel to each other, etc.
So yeah, can travel!
does he have the conspiracy theory board?DM: "All right, introduce yourselves."
Barbarian:Iron Gods is off to a good start.
Not yet, but mostly only because we don't have a headquarters/place of respite yet. Once we do I'm sure we'll have red strings all over the place.
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(And Orthos, if you ever need extra players for dungeons you can PM me and I'll give you my player info.)Mine's in my profile!Ugh. We're on different data centers. I believe that means that never the twain shall meet. I'm on Primal/Brynhildr.
So good news!
Apparently either you're not on Primal or not on Brynhildr, because Brynhildr is on Crystal - so one of those is wrong.
Either way, as of two years ago you can now travel between different data centers as long as you're in the same geographical zone - all the US DCs can travel to each other, all the EU DCs can travel to each other, etc.
So yeah, can travel!
Interesting... I thought each data center included all of the worlds, and you could travel to all the worlds on your data center but not outside of it. I'll double-check, because I'm still 90% sure I'm Primal/Brynhildr. As I said, my impression is that worlds get duplicated between data centers. I'll look at it after work.
EDIT: Nope. I had a moment so I checked and you're right. At some point since I started I got migrated to Crystal. Well, that solves everything because we're on the same data center. I'll keep an eye out for you when I'm online.
Weird. I don't It took me a bit to find you on the Lodestone, but here's Malena in case you want to pop onto Brynhildr and look for me. I'm usually on from 3:30-4:30 pm Pacific on weekdays, but not today because haircut.
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So, today's my 20-year anniversary at Global Megacorporation if you count the start date at my original company they they absorbed. So I'm getting large numbers of congratulatory emails. It feels rude to ignore them, kind of pathetic to respond to each one with, "Thanks," and absolutely out of line to say, "Thanks, but I'd rather be retired so I don't have to work with YOU any more."
I'll figure out some way to respond to them all by this afternoon.
Regardless of exact response you will pick, don't forget to celebrate your 20th work anniversary with a long held corporate e-mail tradition of using Reply All!
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Regardless of exact response you will pick, don't forget to celebrate your 20th work anniversary with a long held corporate e-mail tradition of using Reply All!So, today's my 20-year anniversary at Global Megacorporation if you count the start date at my original company they they absorbed. So I'm getting large numbers of congratulatory emails. It feels rude to ignore them, kind of pathetic to respond to each one with, "Thanks," and absolutely out of line to say, "Thanks, but I'd rather be retired so I don't have to work with YOU any more."
I'll figure out some way to respond to them all by this afternoon.
Where's the button to - a post when you need it?
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Oh, and I don't know whether you (or someone else) has written this up yet, Drejk, but GothBard pointed out that there must be a gremlin who steals things from the places where you usually put them, then puts them back after you've searched there once...
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Oh, and I don't know whether you (or someone else) has written this up yet, Drejk, but GothBard pointed out that there must be a gremlin who steals things from the places where you usually put them, then puts them back after you've searched there once...
not a gremlin. An imp.
Oh, and I don't know whether you (or someone else) has written this up yet, Drejk, but GothBard pointed out that there must be a gremlin who steals things from the places where you usually put them, then puts them back after you've searched there once...not a gremlin. An imp.
Impus Freehold?
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OK. Points to at least one person in Global Megacorporation's HR department.
As I joked to one of my well-wishers, "Yeah, this afternoon I'll be taking compliance training for the 20th time. You'd think I'd be good at it by now."
Wrapped up my real work, started the compliance training, and the very first course on insider training asked, "Do you want to try to test out of this course?"
Heck, yes I did!
And it was a good, solid 5-question test that required thought and was pretty hard, and you had to get 100% on it to pass.
I got my 100% and saved myself an hour of training. And I am now grateful to whoever figured out that some of us have been around long enough to know the corporate insider trading policy.
EDIT: And yes, paladin. It's pretty funny having to take Insider Trading, Conflict of Interest, and Anti-Bribery training when even my fellow gamers refuse to watch me roll up characters because they know it would eat me alive to cheat on my rolls. But as Shiro puts it, they're legally protecting themselves, not me. "See? We provided the employee with the required training and he signed off that he understood it, so we have 0% liability for him bribing the Pope."
EDIT 2: LOL. Talk about your conflicts of interest! I just tested out of the Conflict of Interest training because the questions were too easy. I want to report them to the Conflict of Interest department...
EDIT 3: My guess is that if they offer an anti-bribery test I'll fail it because "don't give anybody anything" (which is my approach) isn't the correct one, and you have to know the nuances of exactly what's OK and what isn't, and that's not in my wheelhouse.
EDIT 4: Yep. 40%. Guess I'm going to training.
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Bri-bri-bri, bribin' the Pope.
Went fighting for,
Holy Roman Emperor,
He couldn't cope,
So he had to bribe the Pope,
Bribin' the Pope (Pope, Pope, Pope)
Po-o-o-o-ope.
Enough wherewithal,
Could make you a Cardinal,
Bribin' the Pope.
And now I'm angry. Took the training in what? 15 minutes? And learned nothing about anything I'd gotten wrong on the assessment.
I was surprised I did so poorly on the assessment. I'm angry that the training taught me nothing new, so if I took the exact same assessment again I'd get the exact same 40%. That's not what training is supposed to do.
Vany, PM.
does he have the conspiracy theory board?DM: "All right, introduce yourselves."
Barbarian:Iron Gods is off to a good start.
They opted to bypass stopping at the Foundry, so they don't have a base yet.
And now I'm angry. Took the training in what? 15 minutes? And learned nothing about anything I'd gotten wrong on the assessment.
I was surprised I did so poorly on the assessment. I'm angry that the training taught me nothing new, so if I took the exact same assessment again I'd get the exact same 40%. That's not what training is supposed to do.
Could you ask questions at the training? What was the format?
Do we have any information about PMG's passing away, how did he die? Illness, accident?
That's a great character name. Gripe Grumblecuss.
sold! the very next one, i promise. regardless of class (which i've started selecting randomly, of late).
And now I'm angry. Took the training in what? 15 minutes? And learned nothing about anything I'd gotten wrong on the assessment.
I was surprised I did so poorly on the assessment. I'm angry that the training taught me nothing new, so if I took the exact same assessment again I'd get the exact same 40%. That's not what training is supposed to do.
Could you ask questions at the training? What was the format?
Standard corporate online video training. No humans involved.
The good news is that every year they ask for feedback about the training and they honestly take it to heart; there's been a lot of improvement over the years.
The bad news is that stupidity of the masses has taken over. Three or four years ago we had some awesome, very intense training that was quite difficult because it touched on a lot of grey areas and I learned a ton. And the feedback was that it was too hard and should be dumbed down.
Not a fan.
Impus Freehold?Oh, and I don't know whether you (or someone else) has written this up yet, Drejk, but GothBard pointed out that there must be a gremlin who steals things from the places where you usually put them, then puts them back after you've searched there once...not a gremlin. An imp.
I wouldn't do that...often.
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Thursday was our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, so we went "away" (i.e. only as far as Fort Worth in case Miz Daisy had health trouble) for a couple of days. Hermione was at the other grandparents, and Val was home with Daisy.
We went to an art museum, the botanical gardens, stayed in a swanky b&b, and went out to dinner at a lovely French restaurant (escargot, wood-fired roast duck, souffle, the whole nine yards), and then out to a jazz club to hear a Thelonious Monk cover band. It was a very nice escape from reality.
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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
Another 50 years of not murdering each other!
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RE: Fallout 4: DQ is absolutely correct about everything I've actually gotten super fat into the game without developing a single settlement except for the Red Rocket gas station for crafting purposes (I love modding weapons and armor).
As long as far as crafting goes, the game with the absolute best weapon crafting system is Biomutant.
I misread this as Fallout 4: DQ.
Now I am waiting for a DeathQuaker focused Fallout.
Fallout 4: DQ is a mod for Fallout 4, but all it involves is a fat nerdy editor yelling at Piper for burying the lead.* (And then pining for her behind her back because it would be unprofessional to act on those feelings.)
I mean, she seems to think journalism involves risking her life to tell people her version of the truth. And it can be that, but you're not a real journalist unless a sweaty editor is breathing down your neck to get your deadline met and your copy clean.
(The pining for her is just because it's me.)
* Yes, per the Associated Press Style Manual, "lead." "Lede" is an alternative and included in many dictionaries, but considered by the go-to style manual for journalists to be jargon.
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I swear, if my family needs me for some emergency in the middle of the night, their inability to get in touch with me will be 100% their fault.
I think to no one here's surprise, I'm a, "Hope for the best, plan for the worst," kind of guy. So in spite of my distaste for cell phones, I have mine on my bedside table with it set to, "Do not disturb except for immediate family members."
Needless to say, semi-sister-in-law got kittens and has been sending out pictures. Older brother and his wife look at these pictures after they get home from being out, so suddenly between 1 and 3 am there will be a flurry of bings on my phone. "Can you NOT do that?" is met with, "Well, you can turn your phone off, you know."
So I will.
And I'll just hope they never need me in the middle of the night.
(And yes, I've received multiple real emergency calls at night over the years, so it's not a fear/fantasy thing, it's that about once every 6-7 years I actually get an important call I need to respond to in the middle of the night.)
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I'm still sad about pmg and now I have to work all day.
I need a way to trick my mind into focusing...
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I swear, if my family needs me for some emergency in the middle of the night, their inability to get in touch with me will be 100% their fault.
I think to no one here's surprise, I'm a, "Hope for the best, plan for the worst," kind of guy. So in spite of my distaste for cell phones, I have mine on my bedside table with it set to, "Do not disturb except for immediate family members."
Needless to say, semi-sister-in-law got kittens and has been sending out pictures. Older brother and his wife look at these pictures after they get home from being out, so suddenly between 1 and 3 am there will be a flurry of bings on my phone. "Can you NOT do that?" is met with, "Well, you can turn your phone off, you know."
So I will.
And I'll just hope they never need me in the middle of the night.
(And yes, I've received multiple real emergency calls at night over the years, so it's not a fear/fantasy thing, it's that about once every 6-7 years I actually get an important call I need to respond to in the middle of the night.)
I would say new kittens are a family emergency. Especially if your sister in law, whom I assume is human, had them out of nowhere.
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I swear, if my family needs me for some emergency in the middle of the night, their inability to get in touch with me will be 100% their fault.
I think to no one here's surprise, I'm a, "Hope for the best, plan for the worst," kind of guy. So in spite of my distaste for cell phones, I have mine on my bedside table with it set to, "Do not disturb except for immediate family members."
Needless to say, semi-sister-in-law got kittens and has been sending out pictures. Older brother and his wife look at these pictures after they get home from being out, so suddenly between 1 and 3 am there will be a flurry of bings on my phone. "Can you NOT do that?" is met with, "Well, you can turn your phone off, you know."
So I will.
And I'll just hope they never need me in the middle of the night.
(And yes, I've received multiple real emergency calls at night over the years, so it's not a fear/fantasy thing, it's that about once every 6-7 years I actually get an important call I need to respond to in the middle of the night.)
Eh, I slept through the night call from the hospital when my grandfather died. It's not like it would change anything aside of me not being able to sleep through the night.
I would say new kittens are a family emergency. Especially if your sister in law, whom I assume is human, had them out of nowhere.I swear, if my family needs me for some emergency in the middle of the night, their inability to get in touch with me will be 100% their fault.
I think to no one here's surprise, I'm a, "Hope for the best, plan for the worst," kind of guy. So in spite of my distaste for cell phones, I have mine on my bedside table with it set to, "Do not disturb except for immediate family members."
Needless to say, semi-sister-in-law got kittens and has been sending out pictures. Older brother and his wife look at these pictures after they get home from being out, so suddenly between 1 and 3 am there will be a flurry of bings on my phone. "Can you NOT do that?" is met with, "Well, you can turn your phone off, you know."
So I will.
And I'll just hope they never need me in the middle of the night.
(And yes, I've received multiple real emergency calls at night over the years, so it's not a fear/fantasy thing, it's that about once every 6-7 years I actually get an important call I need to respond to in the middle of the night.)
Hey, does that mean we have kitten-cousins?!
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I'm still sad about pmg and now I have to work all day.
I need a way to trick my mind into focusing...
Have you tried to turn it off and on again?
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Eh, I slept through the night call from the hospital when my grandfather died. It's not like it would change anything aside of me not being able to sleep through the night.I swear, if my family needs me for some emergency in the middle of the night, their inability to get in touch with me will be 100% their fault.
I think to no one here's surprise, I'm a, "Hope for the best, plan for the worst," kind of guy. So in spite of my distaste for cell phones, I have mine on my bedside table with it set to, "Do not disturb except for immediate family members."
Needless to say, semi-sister-in-law got kittens and has been sending out pictures. Older brother and his wife look at these pictures after they get home from being out, so suddenly between 1 and 3 am there will be a flurry of bings on my phone. "Can you NOT do that?" is met with, "Well, you can turn your phone off, you know."
So I will.
And I'll just hope they never need me in the middle of the night.
(And yes, I've received multiple real emergency calls at night over the years, so it's not a fear/fantasy thing, it's that about once every 6-7 years I actually get an important call I need to respond to in the middle of the night.)
People dying isn't an emergency. The last three were, in order:
- GothBard because the Prius died when she was trying to pick up Shiro and I had to coordinate getting him to her, getting her to diagnose and fix the issue with the Prius, and getting them both on the road.- Impus Major after his collision in the Celica because he didn't know what to do/say/sign to legally protect himself.
- Impus Major (in the middle of the night) because he thought his friend was OD'ing and 911 couldn't be bothered to stay on the line to provide him with support.
So as far as I know I've prevented two suicides and saved us hundreds of dollars on a tow truck. I've had a third person call a couple of times when they were thinking of suicide, but they weren't as obviously ready to do it as the first two.
I like to be available to people in need. I don't like people liking cat photos at me at 2:30 in the morning and telling me that it's my problem for not muting them.
EDIT: I really need a three-tier system:
Tier 1: Unidentified calls. Always ignore.
Tier 2: Known troublemakers who text in the middle of the night. Set on a Do Not Disturb schedule.
Tier 3: Family members and other well-behaved contacts. Always let through.
And my phone is a 2-tier system, so I'm stuck either accepting unidentified calls during the day or my sister-in-law's cat likes in the middle of the night.
I'm choosing to suffer through unidentified calls.
...
(And yes, I've received multiple real emergency calls at night over the years, so it's not a fear/fantasy thing, it's that about once every 6-7 years I actually get an important call I need to respond to in the middle of the night.)
Ya know what they say ... video link
Thursday was our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, so we went "away" (i.e. only as far as Fort Worth in case Miz Daisy had health trouble) for a couple of days. Hermione was at the other grandparents, and Val was home with Daisy.
We went to an art museum, the botanical gardens, stayed in a swanky b&b, and went out to dinner at a lovely French restaurant (escargot, wood-fired roast duck, souffle, the whole nine yards), and then out to a jazz club to hear a Thelonious Monk cover band. It was a very nice escape from reality.
Happy anniversary!
(I like a bit of Monk)
...
(And yes, I've received multiple real emergency calls at night over the years, so it's not a fear/fantasy thing, it's that about once every 6-7 years I actually get an important call I need to respond to in the middle of the night.)
Ya know what they say ... video link
I don't know whether I've been complimented or insulted... the dreaded, "Which friend am I?" question...
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One of my true frustrations with financial institutions is their insistence that they need to tell you everything.
Yes. I understand that getting my quarterly prospectus is legally required and all that, but this isn't about investing.
I had to create an Experian account to unlock my credit. Fine.
They started sending me alerts about everything: "Hey! You just paid your credit card bill! Hey! You just paid your mortgage bill! Hey, the amount of credit used on this card has increased! You probably used it!"
It is mind-bogglingly irritating to get multiple daily emails telling me that I'm actually, y'know, using money.
So I signed in to Experian figuring that I could turn all that s*** off.
Nope. Because it's "financial disclosures" they're free to foist them on me 'til the cows come home. And Experian isn't exactly a company whose email you want to auto-route to spam, because something important might actually happen.
So yet another bucket-o-manual sort for me.
I'm sorry I created an account.
EDIT: Oh, speaking of credit, it's appalling out there. I got a Costco card with a credit score of 820. I just noticed my APR on the account: 20.49%!! Yet another one of those, "If you ever start carrying a balance you'll have one for the rest of your life 'cause there's no way you're going to keep up," traps. Scary.
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Vanykrye : I'm in Eureka tonight so I expect I'll be around to your place tomorrow afternoon.
NobodysHome: Sounds good. Which freeway are you taking? It'd take you 4 hours on I-5 but you'd be bored stupid, or at least 8 hours on 1.
Vanykrye: I'm going to take Highway 1.
So... no sign of him yet, but I'll have to admit, we've tried three times to get from the Bay Area to Eureka in a single day on Highway 1, and we've never succeeded on the Will saves to do so.
The Coastal Highway along that route is SO interesting there's just no way to do it in a day.
I'll be interested in seeing whether he manages to make it here for a late dinner. He could succeed on a Will save or three and be here soon, but I'm curling up with FFXIV in the meantime...
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One of my true frustrations with financial institutions is their insistence that they need to tell you everything.
Yes. I understand that getting my quarterly prospectus is legally required and all that, but this isn't about investing.
I had to create an Experian account to unlock my credit. Fine.
So I signed in to Experian figuring that I could turn all that s*** off.
And Experian isn't exactly a company whose email you want to auto-route to spam, because something important might actually happen.
I'm sorry I created an account.
So you went decades without knowing what was going on with your Experian account.
But now you're afraid something important might happen if you don't accept every single one of their emails?How about a compromise? You shut off all their emails and then manually check your credit score once a week to see if anything alarming has happened. If you went all those years without checking it at all, perhaps once a week will be sufficient to manage your fear-of-missing-out concerns.
Actually, you're more right than you know. Part of my legal support from Global Megacorporation is credit monitoring. So I really don't need any of the Experian emails. Into spam they go!
Thanks!
Weird.
I don'tIt took me a bit to find you on the Lodestone, but here's Malena in case you want to pop onto Brynhildr and look for me. I'm usually on from 3:30-4:30 pm Pacific on weekdays, but not today because haircut.
As you can see, usually tank, been leveling healers a lot lately, lots of DPS left in the lurch and haven't even unlocked DOH/DOL classes yet >.>
One of my true frustrations with financial institutions is their insistence that they need to tell you everything.
Yes. I understand that getting my quarterly prospectus is legally required and all that, but this isn't about investing.
I had to create an Experian account to unlock my credit. Fine.
They started sending me alerts about everything: "Hey! You just paid your credit card bill! Hey! You just paid your mortgage bill! Hey, the amount of credit used on this card has increased! You probably used it!"
It is mind-bogglingly irritating to get multiple daily emails telling me that I'm actually, y'know, using money.
So I signed in to Experian figuring that I could turn all that s*** off.
Nope. Because it's "financial disclosures" they're free to foist them on me 'til the cows come home. And Experian isn't exactly a company whose email you want to auto-route to spam, because something important might actually happen.
So yet another bucket-o-manual sort for me.
I'm sorry I created an account.
That's where AI should come in, a personal assistant that acts as an actual secretary and reads the mail, and notifies you of important things and gives you a digest of the content of things that are not...
Ahem.
Infinity RPG had a vision of the future where basically all population of humanity (aside of a few "Atek" outliers, and denizens of a lost colony that only recently regained contact with the rest of the humanity) have one or more Geists, a sort of lesser AI that adapts to the user over the years, becoming almost an extension of them (sort of Siri/Alexa, except actually intelligent, though not necessarily truly sapient and self-aware, it's complicated).