"no guys I work from home is just as productive as coming to the office"
While dirt farmers in North Korea get fortune 500 tech jobs wfh and apparently it's just fine.
While dirt farmers in North Korea get fortune 500 tech jobs wfh and apparently it's just fine.
The moment overpaid wfh desk jockies need to walk to the
The store the crackdowns begin.
The store the crackdowns begin.
I wonder if YouTube shadow and posts with the quebecois word "tabarnac"?
I'll let you know.
I'll let you know.
Who wants to be the ones to tell these idiots what imperial Japan was actually like?
They'll not want to take credit for much of that after hearing about it!
They'll not want to take credit for much of that after hearing about it!
I've said it before in different ways, but I'm even more convinced of it today: every book long enough that it needs to be read over multiple sessions should have a ribbon glued in the spine as a bookmark. It's simply too useful to not have.
If Amazon gave me the option I'd include it in every copy of the graysonian ethic, but as things are I bought a length of ribbon and some clear glue and glue a ribbon into every book I buy.
Previously I might fold in a page where I stopped (damaging the pages), or I'd put the book down face down (which can damage the spine), or I'd use a piece of scrap paper as a bookmark (which works but you don't always have scrap nearby). The other difference between a ribbon and a bookmark is the ribbon is generally much more secure. A bookmark can fall out, but the ribbon is secure in its location until you pull it directly and fully out from between the pages and put it on another page, even if the pages become loose.
If Amazon gave me the option I'd include it in every copy of the graysonian ethic, but as things are I bought a length of ribbon and some clear glue and glue a ribbon into every book I buy.
Previously I might fold in a page where I stopped (damaging the pages), or I'd put the book down face down (which can damage the spine), or I'd use a piece of scrap paper as a bookmark (which works but you don't always have scrap nearby). The other difference between a ribbon and a bookmark is the ribbon is generally much more secure. A bookmark can fall out, but the ribbon is secure in its location until you pull it directly and fully out from between the pages and put it on another page, even if the pages become loose.
Anyone have any suggestions for good domain name providers who might support a dynamic DNS script? I obviously need something new now that godaddy decided to shut down their API...
And for people about to go "wow you're so stupid didn't you know godaddy is shit", I started using them 20 year ago and they were basically the first guys I found and they worked ok for me for most of those 20 years...
And for people about to go "wow you're so stupid didn't you know godaddy is shit", I started using them 20 year ago and they were basically the first guys I found and they worked ok for me for most of those 20 years...
I know some things are just better in book form. You can't stop for an hour in the middle of a movie to explain the minutae of political relationships between different factions of dwarves or something, but you can do that for a surprising amount of time in a book.
One of my favorite series is called Hell Mode, and each volume is like 400 pages because it goes into such detail about so much stuff that you could make the narrative into an anime but it wouldn't be the same story.
One of my favorite series is called Hell Mode, and each volume is like 400 pages because it goes into such detail about so much stuff that you could make the narrative into an anime but it wouldn't be the same story.
Just finished the adventures of Tom Sawyer with my son, we just started the Hobbit.
I read Tom Sawyer in college and remember enjoying it, but it apparently was long enough ago that I forgot many of the plot beats so it was kind of like enjoying it again for the first time.
I've never been a fan of Lord of the rings or Tolkien -- not saying it's bad, rather than that I just was never a fan -- never had access to the books, and I was aware that the movies were very popular and highly regarded, but I ended up watching the trilogy one day with my brother, and it was like the super long director's cut where the last movie was like 7 hours long, and then probably just wasn't a good way to experience that movie. Regardless, I'm pretty interested in seeing how the book plays out. I've got a giant monstrous tome containing all three Lord of the rings novels for when he's a little bit older.
I think The Hobbit is 19 chapters, and as a general rule of thumb I try to do a chapter a week, so whatever I read next day assume I'll be starting it before the end of the year. I'm kind of giving bullfinch's mythology the side eye, apparently it's a really good mythology book.
I read Tom Sawyer in college and remember enjoying it, but it apparently was long enough ago that I forgot many of the plot beats so it was kind of like enjoying it again for the first time.
I've never been a fan of Lord of the rings or Tolkien -- not saying it's bad, rather than that I just was never a fan -- never had access to the books, and I was aware that the movies were very popular and highly regarded, but I ended up watching the trilogy one day with my brother, and it was like the super long director's cut where the last movie was like 7 hours long, and then probably just wasn't a good way to experience that movie. Regardless, I'm pretty interested in seeing how the book plays out. I've got a giant monstrous tome containing all three Lord of the rings novels for when he's a little bit older.
I think The Hobbit is 19 chapters, and as a general rule of thumb I try to do a chapter a week, so whatever I read next day assume I'll be starting it before the end of the year. I'm kind of giving bullfinch's mythology the side eye, apparently it's a really good mythology book.
It sure seems to me that when organizations with unlimited amounts of money want to call for horrible things or support horrible things, there's absolutely no repercussions, but magically the government seem to be able to find all of the money and power to suppress speech when it's just some guy named George.
Maybe it's time to impose jail terms for state actors who violate civil rights?
Maybe it's time to impose jail terms for state actors who violate civil rights?
I simply cannot watch the movie wish by Disney anymore without seeing it as the story of a young girl who wants to overthrow the government upon realizing that she would have to pay taxes.
https://youtu.be/6A5raLXDsmc
https://youtu.be/6A5raLXDsmc
You almost can't even be mad at the people who make "free" stuff that's going to inevitably get worse, they're just doing the thing that made a bunch of people filthy rich.
If course, that doesn't mean you keep falling for it.
When you're a kid you might see a perfectly good hot dog on the ground and say "hey, free hot dog" but as an adult you probably get wiser.
If course, that doesn't mean you keep falling for it.
When you're a kid you might see a perfectly good hot dog on the ground and say "hey, free hot dog" but as an adult you probably get wiser.
"Poisoning the water supply" is going right to the top of the list.
You shall rrrrrrrue the day you rrrrrrrefused to rrrrrretain my serrrrrrvices!
You shall rrrrrrrue the day you rrrrrrrefused to rrrrrretain my serrrrrrvices!
"He worked a shitty job serving bean juice to people who weren't as cool as they thought they were so he could have food and shelter"
Man, so true. Timeless words.
Man, so true. Timeless words.
The Mycenaean Greeks are likely to have been the ones that created the Medusa myth, and at that time the Egyptian Old Kingdom that built the pyramids had collapsed 500 years before the very beginning of Mycenaean Greece. There would have been multiple Egyptian eras of which Egypt would have been in an era of unity. , The Mycenaean Greeks are documented in a letter to have had diplomacy with Egypt, and Mycenaean pottery was found in Egypt suggesting trade between the two regions.
With all that being the case, Africans wouldn't be some mythical creature due to the power and influence of ancient Egypt in that era, and it seems much likely the Medusa just follows the Greek tradition of chimeras combining different animals or animals and people to allegorically represent different parts of the human experience....
Another thing about the legend of Medusa is that she starts as a beautiful woman and angers the gods, being turned into a hideous beast with snakes for hair. This directly contradicts the core idea of the picture, suggesting that some people need to learn the legends they're trying to appropriate before they try to do so.
A potential counterpoint to my argument could be the minotaur, which we now know was derived from the Greek contact with the Minoan civilization. However, I think this actually proves my point -- the Minotaur didn't look like a bull/man hybrid because the people of that civilization looked like bulls, it was a representation of the bull icons the Minoans placed everywhere in their complex architecture.
Anyway, I know, nobody asked but it bugged me...
With all that being the case, Africans wouldn't be some mythical creature due to the power and influence of ancient Egypt in that era, and it seems much likely the Medusa just follows the Greek tradition of chimeras combining different animals or animals and people to allegorically represent different parts of the human experience....
Another thing about the legend of Medusa is that she starts as a beautiful woman and angers the gods, being turned into a hideous beast with snakes for hair. This directly contradicts the core idea of the picture, suggesting that some people need to learn the legends they're trying to appropriate before they try to do so.
A potential counterpoint to my argument could be the minotaur, which we now know was derived from the Greek contact with the Minoan civilization. However, I think this actually proves my point -- the Minotaur didn't look like a bull/man hybrid because the people of that civilization looked like bulls, it was a representation of the bull icons the Minoans placed everywhere in their complex architecture.
Anyway, I know, nobody asked but it bugged me...