So, I've been solicited to write an article for a relatively well known national security/military website (it's not War On The Rocks, as awesome as that would be). It's a little odd, but quite flattering, because the website in question usually puts out requests for articles and then presumably picks from the pieces they are sent, and they usually publish pieces from current and former military and intelligence officials, and I'm not either of those barring my two weeks blowing up things for the Royal Engineering Corps.
Only problem is, I have absolutely no clue what to write. They've not given me a timetable, and I am travelling for the next 2 weeks anyway, but it's mildly frustrating.
Goddamnit I want beer, I want sushi, I want a fucking melty chocolate chip cookie, and lemon meringue pie. :argh!:
Yes, they went out of their way to say that my article didn't have to be one of their solicited pieces, just noting my research and previous writing would likely be a good fit for the topics they cover.
Goddamnit I want beer, I want sushi, I want a fucking melty chocolate chip cookie, and lemon meringue pie. :argh!:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TRTkCHE1sS4 (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TRTkCHE1sS4)
OH SHI NEW BAR100 pages.
Yes, they went out of their way to say that my article didn't have to be one of their solicited pieces, just noting my research and previous writing would likely be a good fit for the topics they cover.
What do you feel a passion or see a necessity for as a topic? They're giving you executive authority and no instructions, go with it. If you want to you could probably even try to hook them with a potential mini series if the topic is expansive enough. They may be testing you on what you would call meaningful. So show them.
They up north or further west? I'm hearing some wind pick up but no rain yet.
I'm east of the base right now.
Tornadoes on the North end of Tucson.
That's new.
So there was a little hobby shop in the town I went to college in that had gaming material and I never went because folks said it wasn't worth it, let's drive an hour elsewhere to do our nerd shopping. Didn't think much of it.They didn't ban him, they removed his ability to hold sanctioned tourneys which is even better.
Today the owner had a big rant about WOTC banning him from tourneys because they don't like free speech. That and he blames the Jews.
Yeah, he's totally surprised that WOTC did this, blindsided even. And he's put his whole discussion\rant on his public facebook business page.
:lulz:
So there was a little hobby shop in the town I went to college in that had gaming material and I never went because folks said it wasn't worth it, let's drive an hour elsewhere to do our nerd shopping. Didn't think much of it.They didn't ban him, they removed his ability to hold sanctioned tourneys which is even better.
Today the owner had a big rant about WOTC banning him from tourneys because they don't like free speech. That and he blames the Jews.
Yeah, he's totally surprised that WOTC did this, blindsided even. And he's put his whole discussion\rant on his public facebook business page.
:lulz:
And then George Romero died. :cry:
But he'll be back tonight! :lulz:
(Yeah, he would have wanted us to say that. Shut up.)
The Doctor Who people have just announced that the new Doctor is going to be a woman. "The Fandom" immediately shat itself, and has been rolling around in it all day. Having been a fan since I was like 14, I have never given a single fuck about "The Fandom" until now. This shit show is glorious.
Stoics are dumbasses.
Their philosophy is sound, but they are not sound. There's just as much dumbasses in Stoicism as in any ism.
I take what I like from Stoicism, and tell the rest to go fuck themselves.
The Doctor Who people have just announced that the new Doctor is going to be a woman. "The Fandom" immediately shat itself, and has been rolling around in it all day. Having been a fan since I was like 14, I have never given a single fuck about "The Fandom" until now. This shit show is glorious.
I like how people were complaining about liberals and political correctness when the show had a lesbian dinosaur woman.
The Doctor Who people have just announced that the new Doctor is going to be a woman. "The Fandom" immediately shat itself, and has been rolling around in it all day. Having been a fan since I was like 14, I have never given a single fuck about "The Fandom" until now. This shit show is glorious.
I like how people were complaining about liberals and political correctness when the show had a lesbian dinosaur woman.
The Doctor Who people have just announced that the new Doctor is going to be a woman. "The Fandom" immediately shat itself, and has been rolling around in it all day. Having been a fan since I was like 14, I have never given a single fuck about "The Fandom" until now. This shit show is glorious.
I like how people were complaining about liberals and political correctness when the show had a lesbian dinosaur woman.
I guess they're ok with having "exotic" characters around, but The Smartest Person in the Universe should be a man, dammit.
Also, I think a lot of the women who are upset had a crush on the Doctor, and now that he's a woman, that's just not working for them, which is hilarious.
The Doctor Who people have just announced that the new Doctor is going to be a woman. "The Fandom" immediately shat itself, and has been rolling around in it all day. Having been a fan since I was like 14, I have never given a single fuck about "The Fandom" until now. This shit show is glorious.
I like how people were complaining about liberals and political correctness when the show had a lesbian dinosaur woman.
I guess they're ok with having "exotic" characters around, but The Smartest Person in the Universe should be a man, dammit.
Also, I think a lot of the women who are upset had a crush on the Doctor, and now that he's a woman, that's just not working for them, which is hilarious.
Two hearts? Totally fine. Vagina? Blasphemy!
People are insane.
Important breaking news: Beer in Prague is still cheap and good, food in Prague is still cheap and bad, and Whovians are bitter nerds who obsess over a lacklustre program.
More at 11.
It's about 2 euros for a half-litre of ice cold Pilsner Urquell in a tourist trap.
It's like a shit-tier mix of German and Hungarian cuisine. So yes. Lots of pork and beef products, lots of cabbage, lots of bread, lots of paprika.
Stoics are dumbasses.
Their philosophy is sound, but they are not sound. There's just as much dumbasses in Stoicism as in any ism.
I take what I like from Stoicism, and tell the rest to go fuck themselves.
Important breaking news: Beer in Prague is still cheap and good, food in Prague is still cheap and bad, and Whovians are bitter nerds who obsess over a lacklustre program.
More at 11.
The Doctor Who people have just announced that the new Doctor is going to be a woman. "The Fandom" immediately shat itself, and has been rolling around in it all day. Having been a fan since I was like 14, I have never given a single fuck about "The Fandom" until now. This shit show is glorious.
I like how people were complaining about liberals and political correctness when the show had a lesbian dinosaur woman.
I guess they're ok with having "exotic" characters around, but The Smartest Person in the Universe should be a man, dammit.
Also, I think a lot of the women who are upset had a crush on the Doctor, and now that he's a woman, that's just not working for them, which is hilarious.
Two hearts? Totally fine. Vagina? Blasphemy!
People are insane.
The Doctor Who people have just announced that the new Doctor is going to be a woman. "The Fandom" immediately shat itself, and has been rolling around in it all day. Having been a fan since I was like 14, I have never given a single fuck about "The Fandom" until now. This shit show is glorious.
I like how people were complaining about liberals and political correctness when the show had a lesbian dinosaur woman.
I guess they're ok with having "exotic" characters around, but The Smartest Person in the Universe should be a man, dammit.
Also, I think a lot of the women who are upset had a crush on the Doctor, and now that he's a woman, that's just not working for them, which is hilarious.
Two hearts? Totally fine. Vagina? Blasphemy!
People are insane.
Heck we don't really know what sort of parts each Time Lord Gender has. Last I read either could get pregnant from a tryst which suggests they have both sets, at least pre time war. Though there's also that they could have none due to looms and whatever happened after time war.
Important breaking news: Beer in Prague is still cheap and good, food in Prague is still cheap and bad, and Whovians are bitter nerds who obsess over a lacklustre program.
More at 11.
The old Dr Who, back in the 80s, was pure Buldada. We all loved it because it was AWFUL.
The crime here is not who is The Doctor, but the fact that they have a budget.
Its not just bulldada, in fact when the budgets sucked it had some of the best written sci-fi stories,
Sure every episode was the same quarry with a different colour filter over the camera lense each week, but that quarry gave us stories like Genesis of the Daleks which is A-Grade storytelling.
Also Douglas Adams was the show writer for about two years in the 70s and those episodes are still slick stylish and funny, his best is probably City of Death and is a fun counterfeit art story set in 70s Paris and renaissance Paris.
The show has never had consistency, Its as strong as the individual writers of which there are scores. You get the good with the bad. The bulldada episodes like Face of Evil when they had no money had to get creative and have hilarous thungs like tom bakers screaming head following the cast around a forest.
The main problem with the new show apart from condescension is the melodrama, the show is strongest when its exporing a sci-fi concept and not moaning over the doctor wondering if he doing the right thing.
Its not just bulldada, in fact when the budgets sucked it had some of the best written sci-fi stories,
Sure every episode was the same quarry with a different colour filter over the camera lense each week, but that quarry gave us stories like Genesis of the Daleks which is A-Grade storytelling.
Also Douglas Adams was the show writer for about two years in the 70s and those episodes are still slick stylish and funny, his best is probably City of Death and is a fun counterfeit art story set in 70s Paris and renaissance Paris.
The show has never had consistency, Its as strong as the individual writers of which there are scores. You get the good with the bad. The bulldada episodes like Face of Evil when they had no money had to get creative and have hilarous thungs like tom bakers screaming head following the cast around a forest.
The main problem with the new show apart from condescension is the melodrama, the show is strongest when its exporing a sci-fi concept and not moaning over the doctor wondering if he doing the right thing.
Agreed. It's like the writers decided, well people loved Genesis of the Daleks, so let's be all moral quandaries from here on out.
roger, do you remember Read All About It? It was like Dr Who for kids in Canada.
Its not just bulldada, in fact when the budgets sucked it had some of the best written sci-fi stories,
Sure every episode was the same quarry with a different colour filter over the camera lense each week, but that quarry gave us stories like Genesis of the Daleks which is A-Grade storytelling.
Also Douglas Adams was the show writer for about two years in the 70s and those episodes are still slick stylish and funny, his best is probably City of Death and is a fun counterfeit art story set in 70s Paris and renaissance Paris.
The show has never had consistency, Its as strong as the individual writers of which there are scores. You get the good with the bad. The bulldada episodes like Face of Evil when they had no money had to get creative and have hilarous thungs like tom bakers screaming head following the cast around a forest.
The main problem with the new show apart from condescension is the melodrama, the show is strongest when its exporing a sci-fi concept and not moaning over the doctor wondering if he doing the right thing.
Agreed. It's like the writers decided, well people loved Genesis of the Daleks, so let's be all moral quandaries from here on out.
roger, do you remember Read All About It? It was like Dr Who for kids in Canada.
I just found Read All About It on youtube last year. I remembered seeing it as a kid, and went looking for it. It took me a while to figure out what it was. At first, I thought it was Ghost Writer, but that wasn't on until after I had graduated high school. Season one was amazing.
Its not just bulldada, in fact when the budgets sucked it had some of the best written sci-fi stories,
Sure every episode was the same quarry with a different colour filter over the camera lense each week, but that quarry gave us stories like Genesis of the Daleks which is A-Grade storytelling.
Also Douglas Adams was the show writer for about two years in the 70s and those episodes are still slick stylish and funny, his best is probably City of Death and is a fun counterfeit art story set in 70s Paris and renaissance Paris.
The show has never had consistency, Its as strong as the individual writers of which there are scores. You get the good with the bad. The bulldada episodes like Face of Evil when they had no money had to get creative and have hilarous thungs like tom bakers screaming head following the cast around a forest.
The main problem with the new show apart from condescension is the melodrama, the show is strongest when its exporing a sci-fi concept and not moaning over the doctor wondering if he doing the right thing.
Agreed. It's like the writers decided, well people loved Genesis of the Daleks, so let's be all moral quandaries from here on out.
roger, do you remember Read All About It? It was like Dr Who for kids in Canada.
I just found Read All About It on youtube last year. I remembered seeing it as a kid, and went looking for it. It took me a while to figure out what it was. At first, I thought it was Ghost Writer, but that wasn't on until after I had graduated high school. Season one was amazing.
I have many memories of watching it under the age of five. It was terrifying.
Its not just bulldada, in fact when the budgets sucked it had some of the best written sci-fi stories,
Sure every episode was the same quarry with a different colour filter over the camera lense each week, but that quarry gave us stories like Genesis of the Daleks which is A-Grade storytelling.
Also Douglas Adams was the show writer for about two years in the 70s and those episodes are still slick stylish and funny, his best is probably City of Death and is a fun counterfeit art story set in 70s Paris and renaissance Paris.
The show has never had consistency, Its as strong as the individual writers of which there are scores. You get the good with the bad. The bulldada episodes like Face of Evil when they had no money had to get creative and have hilarous thungs like tom bakers screaming head following the cast around a forest.
The main problem with the new show apart from condescension is the melodrama, the show is strongest when its exporing a sci-fi concept and not moaning over the doctor wondering if he doing the right thing.
Agreed. It's like the writers decided, well people loved Genesis of the Daleks, so let's be all moral quandaries from here on out.
roger, do you remember Read All About It? It was like Dr Who for kids in Canada.
I just found Read All About It on youtube last year. I remembered seeing it as a kid, and went looking for it. It took me a while to figure out what it was. At first, I thought it was Ghost Writer, but that wasn't on until after I had graduated high school. Season one was amazing.
I have many memories of watching it under the age of five. It was terrifying.
I have one very vague memory of it. It ran once on local PBS when I think I was on Christmas break. I want to say I saw it after coming home from the christmas party at the half-day at school in maybe 4th or 5th grade. That's the only specific memory I have of ever seeing it, though I may have seen a few random episodes at other times.
I have an even earlier memory of this one scene from one show that I'm pretty sure was on PBS. It's a teenage boy and girl standing next to an indoor pool, possibly at some school. The boy kisses the girl, the girl turns green (like a witch or something?), and spits out a mouthful of nails. The boy bursts into flames and falls into the pool. The girl then walks off with another girl. And I'm just standing there like "WTF did I just see?" I still have no idea.
Sounds like an average afternoon in Florida.
Sounds like an average afternoon in Florida.
Yeah, but this was ostensibly Canada. That's what makes it weird.
Unless... Does Canada have it's own Florida?
He's condescending, and trying to demonstrate he is smart, at the expense of the characters. He can do excellent once off episode's like blink, or the girl in the fireplace, but any of his long running stories become a mess fast
I think they made a musical about that, right?
Sounds like an average afternoon in Florida.
Yeah, but this was ostensibly Canada. That's what makes it weird.
Unless... Does Canada have it's own Florida?
Yes. It's called Hamilton.
Someone broke a thing that affects many other things, but no one knows where first thing is. I'm having an awesome day.
Someone broke a thing that affects many other things, but no one knows where first thing is. I'm having an awesome day.
This has been my entire professional life. :lulz:
Copied from previous Open Bar, didn't see this shiny new one:
I've been reading stories of complex social engineering schemes that pentesters and criminals have used to compromise entire corporate networks, and I've just been thinking about how no complexity or effort would even be required to compromise my company's entire network (And all the networks and companies we support). Literally no one would question a single person walking right into our building, and walking up to any computer left open and alone, and breaking into it using publicly available, no-hardware-required Windows 7 boot-time exploits, and installing whatever list of malware they desired.
It's disturbing, actually. Considering we support several of the largest Fortune 500 companies, you'd think we'd spend a little more effort on security.
Oh yeah, I forgot, we have these nice, security badges. Good thing no one can get one at the security desk just by asking for one and providing information that is publicly available. Nope, not at all...
Generally speaking companies don't implement even the most basic security until somebody rubs their nose in it publicly.
My Google Fu is failing me, but I recall a story about a hacking challenge, where the IT security guy was boasting how strong their firewalls, etc were, and dared a certain hacker to try and get access to a particular server. So, the hacker dressed up as maintenance, walked through the front door unquestioned, went to the server field, unplugged it, and walked out with it under his arm.
Like I said, I can't attest to its veracity because I can't find the link, but it sounds true.
Without the correct paperwork, pentesting is still criminal, and inviting another person to do it makes you an accessory.
Not telling you not to, just don't want you to stumble into criminal actions accidentally.
I'm filling out a job application, and one of the questions is "Tell us what makes you unique. Try to be creative and say something that will catch our eye!"
Am I wrong in interpreting this as "Make up some outlandish shit about yourself"? I mean, how could something factually accurate be "creative"?
I'm thinking of saying something like "I was born in a dirigible, and can communicate telepathically with creamed corn."
My wife rescued a baby bird a couple of days ago. He had, apparently, fallen out of a nest his parents insisted upon building in the high end of one of our 2nd story rain gutters.
I didn’t think she would be able to save the little guy, as we’ve never had any success with this sort of thing in the past. But, our little guest is doing just fine! He’s fledgling size and has quite an appetite, as well as quite a voice. My wife is feeding him, moistened dry cat food, tiny pieces of fruit, hard-boiled egg yoke, and moistened bird suet on roughly an hourly basis.
We think our little guest is a house wren, and we’re hoping we can release him to the backyard in a few more days.
It doesn't get any better with professional government bodies. I spent about 40 minutes wandering around a military base once, while I was waiting to get interviewed (company was not located on the base).
Honestly, security is a state of mind and I don't think there are any good courses specifically on it. I took courses on international security, game theory, international strategy and (of course) a shit-ton of terrorism. But even before that, I taught self-defence classes. And I've read a shit ton of spy memoirs, intelligence manuals and military strategy guides that have no doubt also helped to shape my outlook. I've no doubt the mindset can be taught...I've just not seen anyone do it very successfully.
When I'm back in the UK, I can certainly put together some resources for you.
Is it not written in the Chao te Ching, "a nice tie opens many doors"?
Yes, it is. Chapter 27.
Verily, the words of the non-prophets are scribbled on the bathroom walls of the sub-universe.
Or something like that.
You know who does take security seriously? Hungarian border guards. Especially when they break the law by detaining EU citizens at the border for over an hour. Namely, me.
You know who does take security seriously? Hungarian border guards. Especially when they break the law by detaining EU citizens at the border for over an hour. Namely, me.
Maybe you look like a person of interest?
You know who does take security seriously? Hungarian border guards. Especially when they break the law by detaining EU citizens at the border for over an hour. Namely, me.
Maybe you look like a person of interest?
You know who does take security seriously? Hungarian border guards. Especially when they break the law by detaining EU citizens at the border for over an hour. Namely, me.
You know who does take security seriously? Hungarian border guards. Especially when they break the law by detaining EU citizens at the border for over an hour. Namely, me.
Maybe you look like a person of interest?
BE A VIKING, NOT A VICTIM!
I hear too many victim-like comments from our organization every day -- "Finance and HR won't let me hire the people I need to finish the job."
Oh ffs, this is from a VP blog, a different guy:QuoteBE A VIKING, NOT A VICTIM!
I hear too many victim-like comments from our organization every day -- "Finance and HR won't let me hire the people I need to finish the job."
Gonna take the Viking metaphor a bit differently if I ever see him.
So you should rape and pillage to acquire the resources you need?
I'm filling out a job application, and one of the questions is "Tell us what makes you unique. Try to be creative and say something that will catch our eye!"
Am I wrong in interpreting this as "Make up some outlandish shit about yourself"? I mean, how could something factually accurate be "creative"?
I'm thinking of saying something like "I was born in a dirigible, and can communicate telepathically with creamed corn."
I'm filling out a job application, and one of the questions is "Tell us what makes you unique. Try to be creative and say something that will catch our eye!"
Am I wrong in interpreting this as "Make up some outlandish shit about yourself"? I mean, how could something factually accurate be "creative"?
I'm thinking of saying something like "I was born in a dirigible, and can communicate telepathically with creamed corn."
All you put down is "I am very discreet".
Refuse to elaborate if they ask what you mean by that.
I haven't posted here in forever, and few of you probably remember me.
But like. I wanted to say this place, among others, confirms how obvious I was.
I found out this year I'm a transwoman, and this avatar itself is of a transwoman. All my avatars for years were women (save one video game character just recently).
It's just so fucking weird how long it took me to realize this. So naturally I want to tell Discordians about it.
I haven't posted here in forever, and few of you probably remember me.
But like. I wanted to say this place, among others, confirms how obvious I was.
I found out this year I'm a transwoman, and this avatar itself is of a transwoman. All my avatars for years were women (save one video game character just recently).
It's just so fucking weird how long it took me to realize this. So naturally I want to tell Discordians about it.
Yeah. Pretty much how I found out. I kept talking to trans folks via Discord, and then realized I made more sense this way.I haven't posted here in forever, and few of you probably remember me.
But like. I wanted to say this place, among others, confirms how obvious I was.
I found out this year I'm a transwoman, and this avatar itself is of a transwoman. All my avatars for years were women (save one video game character just recently).
It's just so fucking weird how long it took me to realize this. So naturally I want to tell Discordians about it.
I do remember you.
I've heard that's how quite a few people have realised they are trans, incidentally.
I'm glad they're not but well. If they were, I technically could excommunicate the fucking lot of em. For all that's worth.
Oh no, prepare to decide that the majority of Discordians are transphobic.
(hint, they are not)
Also I wish I didn't find out I was trans in this presidency.
Hi all! Wait, so...I'm Batgirl, if my enemy looks like that, right?
...I look good in glasses anyway.
Also yes my avatar is neat! I put my old username in my signature!
Sorting through my holiday snaps. Not as many duds as I thought, though I'm probably not going to win any Pulitzers from this stuff.
I assume PD would like to see some?
I had a meaningful conversation with my landlord about the bedbug problem. As soon as he realized that I and the problem could not be ignored without the state getting involved he hired exterminators and they heat treat the building on Tuesday. He had no idea how bad bedbugs actually are and I politely explained that the situation was only going to get worse and implying that I might file suit without actually saying so.
I'm unbelievably pleased with this outcome. He's still a slum lord but he's at least smart enough and business savvy enough to understand that his whole damn investment in the building was at stake over a $2,500 treatment if he didn't act.
On an even better note the local housing authority has accepted my application and I'm on a waiting list for a high rise apartment so sooner or later I'll be out of here and probably paying less for a much nicer place.
Yet again one my barely-got through HS, wife works a job whose wage is based on the minimum wage, friend is posting "raising the min wage will cause inflation FACT" shit. :kingmeh:
Yet again one my barely-got through HS, wife works a job whose wage is based on the minimum wage, friend is posting "raising the min wage will cause inflation FACT" shit. :kingmeh:
Has anyone pointed out that, historically-speaking, no raise in the minimum wage has ever caused inflation?
For what it's worth, I'm very interested in what's going on in Seattle with the min wage increase, from a science perspective. It's a real-world experiment, and I'm trying to be impartial.
For what it's worth, I'm very interested in what's going on in Seattle with the min wage increase, from a science perspective. It's a real-world experiment, and I'm trying to be impartial.
Today I learned that George HW Bush narrowly avoided being eaten by cannibalistic Japanese soldiers. Seriously (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichijima_incident).
In mexico, stepped outside for a fifith of a second and burned the Irish arse off myself
I actually get the same, greek/Irish, hairy hands and skin that burns under lamplight, not too bad just a few red patches thst are soreIn mexico, stepped outside for a fifith of a second and burned the Irish arse off myself
Dude that sucks I can relate. My Irish genetics gave me extremely fair skin, My Italian side an extra oily sweat. Sunscreen just pours off me when I sweat and the oil sets to frying me. Hope you recover well!
Shared with someone that I took a 23andme DNA test a while ago and tested as 30 percent native american, most likely Mayan. They suggested I look up Native benefits, said that I might be entitled to some land and money, so i'm idly considering whether to give it a shot.
the way you cook, i would do UNSPEAKABLE things for your leftovers.
I eat kale.
And avocado toast.
And tofu.
And kimchi.
And crickets.
I may be in my 40s, but I'm killing things harder than an Annoyance of Millennials.
Roasted with tamari. Crunchy and salty.
Nice work that man. Can you say which countries or is that a state secret?
Wait wait wait...
Mysticwicks is back up? Mol didnt spend all the patreon donations on huffing Raid?
Wait wait wait...
Mysticwicks is back up? Mol didnt spend all the patreon donations on huffing Raid?
Hiya people.
For what it's worth, I'm very interested in what's going on in Seattle with the min wage increase, from a science perspective. It's a real-world experiment, and I'm trying to be impartial.The increase to $10 has Tucson's economy banging, so I can only imagine.
Hiya people.
hola, un Silla Alta!
Hiya people.
hola, un Silla Alta!
Thank you, and a very good high chair* to you too.
*I hope I got my Spanish right.
Holy crap, the storms totally affect my blood sugar. Fucking 1 slice to wheat toast was too much today, yesterday it was normal. What the hell.
Hiya people.
hola, un Silla Alta!
Thank you, and a very good high chair* to you too.
*I hope I got my Spanish right.
Close enough.
Anyway, I just suddenly and without warning to traded to some British company. I'm in the same office, the pay is slightly better, but it would have been nice to apply or interview or be told before my first day on the job. Apparently, my contract allows for this, and so I had to do another I9 and W2 to keep doing the same thing for the same people.
Hiya people.
hola, un Silla Alta!
Thank you, and a very good high chair* to you too.
*I hope I got my Spanish right.
Close enough.
Anyway, I just suddenly and without warning to traded to some British company. I'm in the same office, the pay is slightly better, but it would have been nice to apply or interview or be told before my first day on the job. Apparently, my contract allows for this, and so I had to do another I9 and W2 to keep doing the same thing for the same people.
Is that because they're paying you in sterling and converting it to dollars?
Because you might want to get them to change that arrangement before March 2019 if so.
Holy crap, the storms totally affect my blood sugar. Fucking 1 slice to wheat toast was too much today, yesterday it was normal. What the hell.
Are you taking metformin or anything? Because I have this happen about once every two weeks, and I can only sometimes figure out what happened.
Holy crap, the storms totally affect my blood sugar. Fucking 1 slice to wheat toast was too much today, yesterday it was normal. What the hell.
Are you taking metformin or anything? Because I have this happen about once every two weeks, and I can only sometimes figure out what happened.
Nope, been avoiding medication, though now I might want to do that if I'm not able to have carbs at all. Metformin one they offered I think.
Hey, it's money now. It just wont be in 18 months.
I'm actually keeping a stack of Euros and Swiss francs I bought pre-Brexit vote, just in case.
Holy crap, the storms totally affect my blood sugar. Fucking 1 slice to wheat toast was too much today, yesterday it was normal. What the hell.
Are you taking metformin or anything? Because I have this happen about once every two weeks, and I can only sometimes figure out what happened.
Nope, been avoiding medication, though now I might want to do that if I'm not able to have carbs at all. Metformin one they offered I think.
Metformin is pretty good stuff.
1. You can't overdose on it, really, because it stops working when your blood sugar reaches 80.
2. The only real side effect is acid ketosis, and if it doesn't happen inside of 2 weeks, it will never happen.
3. The first two weeks is a festival of explosive diarrhea, but then that stops.
4. It fucking works.
Hiya people.
hola, un Silla Alta!
Thank you, and a very good high chair* to you too.
*I hope I got my Spanish right.
Close enough.
Anyway, I just suddenly and without warning to traded to some British company. I'm in the same office, the pay is slightly better, but it would have been nice to apply or interview or be told before my first day on the job. Apparently, my contract allows for this, and so I had to do another I9 and W2 to keep doing the same thing for the same people.
Hiya people.
hola, un Silla Alta!
Thank you, and a very good high chair* to you too.
*I hope I got my Spanish right.
Close enough.
Anyway, I just suddenly and without warning to traded to some British company. I'm in the same office, the pay is slightly better, but it would have been nice to apply or interview or be told before my first day on the job. Apparently, my contract allows for this, and so I had to do another I9 and W2 to keep doing the same thing for the same people.
Has anyone ever told you you job is kind of weird?
I'm off to battle prairie sharks for a week. Be nice to each other.
Well I have two masters degrees and the person next step down in terms of chain of command not only doesn't have any, she doesn't know what the tab button on the computer does. We work with computers on a daily basis and she's been here 18 months.
After having a rant that my sister is a liar, belittling her in front of the kids, and threatening to call the cops on her and his own father for robbery (??), brother-in-law can't possibly understand why my sister wants to leave him.
After having a rant that my sister is a liar, belittling her in front of the kids, and threatening to call the cops on her and his own father for robbery (??), brother-in-law can't possibly understand why my sister wants to leave him.
Wow. That is wildly... something.
Well I have two masters degrees and the person next step down in terms of chain of command not only doesn't have any, she doesn't know what the tab button on the computer does. We work with computers on a daily basis and she's been here 18 months.
Has she time traveled to this age from a hundred years ago, to not know what the tab button does?
Fuckin' christ. And I remember now, he sounds VERY ill. :sad:
What the actual fuck? That lady is
I don't have words. Who buys gifts and then sends bills?
Ask to transfer to England. I don't think it's been above 70F all month, since I got back.
Ask to transfer to England. I don't think it's been above 70F all month, since I got back.
I'd be in Manchester. :lulz:
Ask to transfer to England. I don't think it's been above 70F all month, since I got back.
I'd be in Manchester. :lulz:
Moss Side aside, Manchester is actually mostly nice these days. They've even moved a number of government departments up there. If the Civil Service weenies aren't drawing hazard pay, it can't be that bad.
Fuckin' christ. And I remember now, he sounds VERY ill. :sad:
So now she's getting stuff in writing, hopefully overseen by a lawyer, to make things like kid visitation contingent on a psych evaluation. She also told him she may stay if he sees a doc. He countered it should be marriage counseling. However they have tried that. He went along with it during sessions, and then did fuck all after.
Also, semi-related to this bullshit, his mother is a jerk. I know very few people that give off insta-jerk vibes, but she's one. She also thinks she's helping by going shopping for things for their house to surprise them, and then sending them a bill. This included a new couch and a new tv. Also she got shit-faced at a baby shower. Who does that? She's also in the medical field, just many wtfs.
Fuckin' christ. And I remember now, he sounds VERY ill. :sad:
So now she's getting stuff in writing, hopefully overseen by a lawyer, to make things like kid visitation contingent on a psych evaluation. She also told him she may stay if he sees a doc. He countered it should be marriage counseling. However they have tried that. He went along with it during sessions, and then did fuck all after.
Also, semi-related to this bullshit, his mother is a jerk. I know very few people that give off insta-jerk vibes, but she's one. She also thinks she's helping by going shopping for things for their house to surprise them, and then sending them a bill. This included a new couch and a new tv. Also she got shit-faced at a baby shower. Who does that? She's also in the medical field, just many wtfs.
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science-news/2013/five-major-mental-disorders-share-genetic-roots.shtml
Not only am I quite sure that your brother-in-law has Schizophrenia, or some variant, I would venture to guess that the mom has Bipolar symptoms that may not have been addressed. Making large, surprise purchases for people and then sending them the bill during a stressful time implies severely lacking Cognitive Empathy, which is common in Bipolar Disorder and related disorders. And considering the similarities in genetic predispositions to both Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, it would increase the likelihood of either one having a disorder if the other were to be diagnosed.
Obviously this is just conjecture, but the blunt presentation of your brother-in-law's symptoms coupled with the very bizarre nature of his mother's behavior (Seriously, I've never even heard of someone doing that. Who the fuck does that?) makes it something worth looking into, IMO. Maybe evidence of a pre-existing condition in his mother, and proof of the similar genetic roots could convince him to do something about it? I wouldn't think so, but every argument counts in dire situations like that. Marriage is a pretty big deal.
If it helps, even severe mental health disorders like schizophrenia are affected by the environment and childhood development. Genes make you more susceptible, but they're not a guarantee of problems or the severity thereof.
Ask to transfer to England. I don't think it's been above 70F all month, since I got back.
I'd be in Manchester. :lulz:
Moss Side aside, Manchester is actually mostly nice these days. They've even moved a number of government departments up there. If the Civil Service weenies aren't drawing hazard pay, it can't be that bad.
Yeah but mancs are all possessed of that - I'm begging you, please please please punch me unconscious - accent. It sounds like someone dragging Joni Mitchell's skull down a blackboard :argh!:
It just occurred to me that Tucson is probably the most functional city in America today.
It just occurred to me that Tucson is probably the most functional city in America today.
O_o
It just occurred to me that Tucson is probably the most functional city in America today.
O_o
It is. We're growing, so they're expanding all of our roads. The police hardly ever shoot people. The ambulance comes when you call.
It's fucking weird.
Fuckin' christ. And I remember now, he sounds VERY ill. :sad:
So now she's getting stuff in writing, hopefully overseen by a lawyer, to make things like kid visitation contingent on a psych evaluation. She also told him she may stay if he sees a doc. He countered it should be marriage counseling. However they have tried that. He went along with it during sessions, and then did fuck all after.
Also, semi-related to this bullshit, his mother is a jerk. I know very few people that give off insta-jerk vibes, but she's one. She also thinks she's helping by going shopping for things for their house to surprise them, and then sending them a bill. This included a new couch and a new tv. Also she got shit-faced at a baby shower. Who does that? She's also in the medical field, just many wtfs.
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science-news/2013/five-major-mental-disorders-share-genetic-roots.shtml
Not only am I quite sure that your brother-in-law has Schizophrenia, or some variant, I would venture to guess that the mom has Bipolar symptoms that may not have been addressed. Making large, surprise purchases for people and then sending them the bill during a stressful time implies severely lacking Cognitive Empathy, which is common in Bipolar Disorder and related disorders. And considering the similarities in genetic predispositions to both Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, it would increase the likelihood of either one having a disorder if the other were to be diagnosed.
Obviously this is just conjecture, but the blunt presentation of your brother-in-law's symptoms coupled with the very bizarre nature of his mother's behavior (Seriously, I've never even heard of someone doing that. Who the fuck does that?) makes it something worth looking into, IMO. Maybe evidence of a pre-existing condition in his mother, and proof of the similar genetic roots could convince him to do something about it? I wouldn't think so, but every argument counts in dire situations like that. Marriage is a pretty big deal.
Very interesting. I'll bring this up with my sister, though it'll make her a bit worried about the kids and developing something of that nature.
If it helps, even severe mental health disorders like schizophrenia are affected by the environment and childhood development. Genes make you more susceptible, but they're not a guarantee of problems or the severity thereof.
It just occurred to me that Tucson is probably the most functional city in America today.
O_o
It is. We're growing, so they're expanding all of our roads. The police hardly ever shoot people. The ambulance comes when you call.
It's fucking weird.
You've doomed the rest of the country.
It just occurred to me that Tucson is probably the most functional city in America today.
O_o
It is. We're growing, so they're expanding all of our roads. The police hardly ever shoot people. The ambulance comes when you call.
It's fucking weird.
Also, does the board have Nazis again?
It just occurred to me that Tucson is probably the most functional city in America today.
O_o
It is. We're growing, so they're expanding all of our roads. The police hardly ever shoot people. The ambulance comes when you call.
It's fucking weird.
...If it weren't for that whole BURNING SKY ORB thing AZ has
It just occurred to me that Tucson is probably the most functional city in America today.
O_o
It is. We're growing, so they're expanding all of our roads. The police hardly ever shoot people. The ambulance comes when you call.
It's fucking weird.
...If it weren't for that whole BURNING SKY ORB thing AZ has
You can't have it all.
Also, does the board have Nazis again?
Just edgy trolls, I think.
Also, congratulations again, Coyote. :banana:
It just occurred to me that Tucson is probably the most functional city in America today.
O_o
It is. We're growing, so they're expanding all of our roads. The police hardly ever shoot people. The ambulance comes when you call.
It's fucking weird.
...If it weren't for that whole BURNING SKY ORB thing AZ has
You can't have it all.
To be fair, thanks to fucking CANADA being on fire, it is almost tempted to move down to Tuscon. But I don't think my wife can handle deserts.Also, does the board have Nazis again?
Just edgy trolls, I think.
Also, congratulations again, Coyote. :banana:
Thanks
Grr annoyed at people's faulty memories. "I remember when we could leave doors unlocked, we didn't have to worry about x y or z crime."
Yes we did. We locked the fucking doors. Though I suppose it was your parents worrying and not you.
I just paid attention as a kid I guess.
Grr annoyed at people's faulty memories. "I remember when we could leave doors unlocked, we didn't have to worry about x y or z crime."
Yes we did. We locked the fucking doors. Though I suppose it was your parents worrying and not you.
I just paid attention as a kid I guess.
My parents' house was broken into almost immediately after it was build back in the 60s. They religiously locked their doors whenever they left the house, and before going to bed at night my entire childhood, and even to this day. they lived, and still live in rural Tennessee
Today, I also live in rural Tennessee, and NEVER lock my doors. Though when I did live in town, I I locked doors, and it really pissed me off that my roommate refused to lock the door behind him when he left in the morning, and I was still asleep for a few hours after he left, even though I asked him nicely. It wasn't a terrible neighborhood, but it wasn't that great, either.
Grr annoyed at people's faulty memories. "I remember when we could leave doors unlocked, we didn't have to worry about x y or z crime."
Yes we did. We locked the fucking doors. Though I suppose it was your parents worrying and not you.
I just paid attention as a kid I guess.
My parents' house was broken into almost immediately after it was build back in the 60s. They religiously locked their doors whenever they left the house, and before going to bed at night my entire childhood, and even to this day. they lived, and still live in rural Tennessee
Today, I also live in rural Tennessee, and NEVER lock my doors. Though when I did live in town, I I locked doors, and it really pissed me off that my roommate refused to lock the door behind him when he left in the morning, and I was still asleep for a few hours after he left, even though I asked him nicely. It wasn't a terrible neighborhood, but it wasn't that great, either.
Wow, I mean, in any area where there's people there's the off chance some drunk will think it's their place and wander in. Or maybe that's just Wisconsin.
You mean you didn't leave your door unlocked during the crack cocaine epidemic?
So some company called Pastdue Credit Solutions keeps sending me letters saying i've got outstanding debt with NPower for the student accomodation I lived in.
Hilariously they managed to get the dates, address and my name wrong on the letter which were my first clues that something wasn't right.
General consensus online agrees that this is a company just trying to scam people with scary letters.
Suggestions for amusing/effective methods of retaliation welcome.
So some company called Pastdue Credit Solutions keeps sending me letters saying i've got outstanding debt with NPower for the student accomodation I lived in.
Hilariously they managed to get the dates, address and my name wrong on the letter which were my first clues that something wasn't right.
General consensus online agrees that this is a company just trying to scam people with scary letters.
Suggestions for amusing/effective methods of retaliation welcome.
Write back posing as another family member's solicitor.
Tell them you have run off to join the YPG.
As a member of a desginated terrorist organisation, trying to collect funds from you would put them in contravention of the Terrorism Act (2006) as pertains to terrorist financing and they are advised to confer with the National Crime Agency on how best to seek repayment.
I based it on actual problems lawyers representing suspected terrorists have.
Grr annoyed at people's faulty memories. "I remember when we could leave doors unlocked, we didn't have to worry about x y or z crime."
Yes we did. We locked the fucking doors. Though I suppose it was your parents worrying and not you.
I just paid attention as a kid I guess.
My parents' house was broken into almost immediately after it was build back in the 60s. They religiously locked their doors whenever they left the house, and before going to bed at night my entire childhood, and even to this day. they lived, and still live in rural Tennessee
Today, I also live in rural Tennessee, and NEVER lock my doors. Though when I did live in town, I I locked doors, and it really pissed me off that my roommate refused to lock the door behind him when he left in the morning, and I was still asleep for a few hours after he left, even though I asked him nicely. It wasn't a terrible neighborhood, but it wasn't that great, either.
Grr annoyed at people's faulty memories. "I remember when we could leave doors unlocked, we didn't have to worry about x y or z crime."
Yes we did. We locked the fucking doors. Though I suppose it was your parents worrying and not you.
I just paid attention as a kid I guess.
My parents' house was broken into almost immediately after it was build back in the 60s. They religiously locked their doors whenever they left the house, and before going to bed at night my entire childhood, and even to this day. they lived, and still live in rural Tennessee
Today, I also live in rural Tennessee, and NEVER lock my doors. Though when I did live in town, I I locked doors, and it really pissed me off that my roommate refused to lock the door behind him when he left in the morning, and I was still asleep for a few hours after he left, even though I asked him nicely. It wasn't a terrible neighborhood, but it wasn't that great, either.
Funny bit is, you're far more likely to suffer from property crime in a rural area.
ok so due date is the 29th, but I keep thinking my luck is such that baby will want to arrive during an eclipse related traffic jam
ok so due date is the 29th, but I keep thinking my luck is such that baby will want to arrive during an eclipse related traffic jam
Then the baby will be born with weird moon powers. It should balance out.
ok so due date is the 29th, but I keep thinking my luck is such that baby will want to arrive during an eclipse related traffic jam
Then the baby will be born with weird moon powers. It should balance out.
But then will be unable to melt & work silver.
:lulz:
ok so due date is the 29th, but I keep thinking my luck is such that baby will want to arrive during an eclipse related traffic jam
Then the baby will be born with weird moon powers. It should balance out.
But then will be unable to melt & work silver.
:lulz:
Oh darn. So much for a lucrative career in silversmithing. :lulz:
I have been in an accident on my bicycle and broken my face. No time spent in the hospital more than the day of the occurance. I don't remember much of the day (yesterday) because I got a fairly serious head injury and that is kind of fucking with me.
Holy fuck my sister's in-laws. Her husband's sister: "Not sure why you're bothering leaving now, he'll be dead in maybe 5 years."
Cut my thumb open when washing a food processor blade. Nerve damage is certain at this point, as I can't feel up to an inch past the cut. Had to super-glue the fucker shut!
Took 25 minutes to get it to stop bleeding the first time. Then it took over 2 hours the second time (I must have accidentally ripped it open a bit more.). During which time I bled all the way through a hand-towel AND a rag. I had to put so much pressure on it, it gave me a blood blister around the cut.
I can't believe I ever doubted the super-glue method, though. I'm never using bandaids for incision wounds again.
Cut my thumb open when washing a food processor blade. Nerve damage is certain at this point, as I can't feel up to an inch past the cut. Had to super-glue the fucker shut!
Took 25 minutes to get it to stop bleeding the first time. Then it took over 2 hours the second time (I must have accidentally ripped it open a bit more.). During which time I bled all the way through a hand-towel AND a rag. I had to put so much pressure on it, it gave me a blood blister around the cut.
I can't believe I ever doubted the super-glue method, though. I'm never using bandaids for incision wounds again.
Never tried that but I don't know if I've ever had a cut that would work. I gouged a finger once with a hedge trimmer, had flap that i compressed shut and it healed ok. It feels pretty odd now, there's feeling in that spot, but it's wrong.
Update: baby not getting moon powers.
Also I dunno what kind of super glue you used, but I hope it was medical grade. The stuff for objects is toxic, I believe.
Ah, post "Be a Viking not victim" speech the layoffs commenced.
Not affected but feh, typical.
Ah, post "Be a Viking not victim" speech the layoffs commenced.
Not affected but feh, typical.
What? Summary and key phrases from speech needed, sounds like cocaine fueled corporate bullshit at its finest. I mean sure if pillaging and plundering is your business model but I'm pretty sure you don't work at a bank.
Annnnnnd Fred turned 30.
I am going to crawl off onto an ice floe now.
:cramulus:
Annnnnnd Fred turned 30.
I am going to crawl off onto an ice floe now.
:cramulus:
Annnnnnd Fred turned 30.
I am going to crawl off onto an ice floe now.
:cramulus:
Man you really are behind; the last of those things melted off years ago.
Can I interest you in a nice fatberg?
Isn't Mandarin Chinese like 4 languages for the price of one or some shit? That's gotta be fucking hard
So I've just signed up for 45 hours of evening classes, learning to figure sculpt in meatspace with fistfuls of sticky mud. As a bonus I'll be able to add "Studied at Glasgow School of Art" to my resume. Know who else took evening classes there? Charles Rennie Mackintosh, that's who.
:snob:
It's a good thing it's not called the Glasgow School of Fine Art, or I might have choked on the coffee I was just drinking.
It's a good thing it's not called the Glasgow School of Fine Art, or I might have choked on the coffee I was just drinking.
Same.
Haggises are not art.
What? :? and also :argh!: maybe
Ooh, thanks! I didn't know I could do that.
Whoever it was never got in, I was just kidding about that part.
You can actually cure death itself with proper hydration. Look at corpses - all dried up husks. Not a coincidence.
You might be surprised by just how many ailments can be alleviated by just maintaining proper hydration. Everything from headaches and migraines to depression and obesity.
Maybe that whole "water memory" thing was really doctors posing as naturopaths to get people to drink some damn water.
Did we hurt your feelings?
Maybe that whole "water memory" thing was really doctors posing as naturopaths to get people to drink some damn water.
Interesting idea...
Part of me wants to pose as a doctor/mystic online and start telling people that various completely normal, common things are especially healthy or useful because of various completely bullshit reasons that include sciency/supernatural buzz-words (Depending on the target audience).
For example, I bet we could get pagans to take showers if we told them that body odor disrupted spiritual flow because odor is "transplanar" (Can move between planes. Yes, I made that word up.). "Hence why our sense of smell in this plane starts to fade as we reach the end of our lives, and we start to 'hallucinate' (We know that this really means perceive *snobby Pagan laughter*) other smells from other planes of existence."
"Can't get your summoning spell to work? Take a bath you disgusting jerk."
Wow. American reading comprehension really is as bad as advertised! Look up the word "alleviated" I think that's where the confusion is creeping in. Or, hey, don't drink water (like from the toilet). Is also funny as fuck. :argh!:
One of my 3 closest friends from my teenage years just died of lung cancer at the age of 47.
:cry:
She was a brawler and a horrible bastard and she made no excuses. Things just got a little bit more boring.
Also, I met up with Cram last Friday. He's even more dreamy in person than he is online!
Also, I met up with Cram last Friday. He's even more dreamy in person than he is online!
FUCK CANCERAlso, I met up with Cram last Friday. He's even more dreamy in person than he is online!
Dreamy like "Mr Sandman" or dreamy like "I ate too much cheese and now have to sweats"
FUCK CANCERAlso, I met up with Cram last Friday. He's even more dreamy in person than he is online!
Dreamy like "Mr Sandman" or dreamy like "I ate too much cheese and now have to sweats"
FUCK CANCERAlso, I met up with Cram last Friday. He's even more dreamy in person than he is online!
Dreamy like "Mr Sandman" or dreamy like "I ate too much cheese and now have to sweats"
Mr Sandman. Kinda.
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/sandman
Yes.
Wait, when did we meet?
May all cancer be fucked forevermore, preferably with something large with spikes on.
Please tell me I at least hocked the diamond for some hookers and blow.
Something has been bothering me and it's become overwhelming and I need help.
That thing is, Why in sweet gibbering fuck has Drumpf lifted the endangered protections from bald eagles?
Because one wouldn't sit on his hand for a photo op that one time.
Because one wouldn't sit on his hand for a photo op that one time.
To be fair, it's hard to perch on something that small.
Please tell me I at least hocked the diamond for some hookers and blow.
Well, of course. But the hooker's asshole you snorted the blow out of had a syphilitic chancre. And because it was 1912, you weren't given proper treatment for syphilis before the neurological symptoms started. You went insane before you got treatment, and have been sitting in a straight jacket for 10 years mumbling about Eris and PEEDEE and GAY BARS.
Please tell me I at least hocked the diamond for some hookers and blow.
Well, of course. But the hooker's asshole you snorted the blow out of had a syphilitic chancre. And because it was 1912, you weren't given proper treatment for syphilis before the neurological symptoms started. You went insane before you got treatment, and have been sitting in a straight jacket for 10 years mumbling about Eris and PEEDEE and GAY BARS.
(http://i.imgur.com/8vzD4ez.gif)
EDIT: Would've faded LMNO's face into the background, but the only picture I could ever find of him got lost in the Photofucket paywall.
Please tell me I at least hocked the diamond for some hookers and blow.
Well, of course. But the hooker's asshole you snorted the blow out of had a syphilitic chancre. And because it was 1912, you weren't given proper treatment for syphilis before the neurological symptoms started. You went insane before you got treatment, and have been sitting in a straight jacket for 10 years mumbling about Eris and PEEDEE and GAY BARS.
(http://i.imgur.com/8vzD4ez.gif)
EDIT: Would've faded LMNO's face into the background, but the only picture I could ever find of him got lost in the Photofucket paywall.
I might have made an extensive collection of faces for WOMP years ago.
I have a full beard now. Guess I'll have to submit my new look to the WOMP Cabal.
I have a full beard now. Guess I'll have to submit my new look to the WOMP Cabal.
Better than the handlebar, I'll tell you that.
Hey, as death cults go, at least we're still more interesting than The Hand is in the Netflix Marvel series.
On the other hand, the pics of her stealing it are among the funniest things ever posted in this sorry excuse for a death cult.
Hey, as death cults go, at least we're still more interesting than The Hand is in the Netflix Marvel series.
On the other hand, the pics of her stealing it are among the funniest things ever posted in this sorry excuse for a death cult.
PD.COM: We're a self service death cult. Spike your own f'kin Koolaid.Newsfeed.
We have had two students arrive.
One has entered the country under a tourist visa and apparently run away.
Update: had babby, he's doing well. Am now eating all the carbs I couldn't have before.
Already got peed on, boys are a different challenge when changing.
Already got peed on, boys are a different challenge when changing.
Breaking news: arguing with the police for an hour after being found trespassing is not a viable strategy, and may result in arrest.
Also shocking: drinking enough to pass out does not necessarily lead to good decision making, and may result in things like...trespassing, arguing with police, being arrested, getting kicked out of the college you're studying at, getting your student visa revoked and having to go back home to Colombia.
They want the punch. Which is precisely why they shouldn't get the punch.
People saying the poor meteorologists are being forced to stand in the storm don't know that many meteorologists. They were itching to go stand in it. That's their thing. We're well aware of stuff that can hit them, they don't care.Now I can't help but imagine a meteorologist who can't wait till hurricane season because standing in hurricanes is their fetish.
People saying the poor meteorologists are being forced to stand in the storm don't know that many meteorologists. They were itching to go stand in it. That's their thing. We're well aware of stuff that can hit them, they don't care.Now I can't help but imagine a meteorologist who can't wait till hurricane season because standing in hurricanes is their fetish.
People saying the poor meteorologists are being forced to stand in the storm don't know that many meteorologists. They were itching to go stand in it. That's their thing. We're well aware of stuff that can hit them, they don't care.Now I can't help but imagine a meteorologist who can't wait till hurricane season because standing in hurricanes is their fetish.
Totally a thing, that and driving into tornadoes.
People saying the poor meteorologists are being forced to stand in the storm don't know that many meteorologists. They were itching to go stand in it. That's their thing. We're well aware of stuff that can hit them, they don't care.Now I can't help but imagine a meteorologist who can't wait till hurricane season because standing in hurricanes is their fetish.
Totally a thing, that and driving into tornadoes.
Being a stormchaser used to be my dream. I wanted to be a meteorologist as a kid so I could drive into tornadoes. I've never been even the slightest bit afraid of them, for reasons I'll never understand. And I'm supremely jealous of people who've had a chance to be in a hurricane.
I accidentally made a slow cousin of mine cry during hurricane Katrina. She lived in Orlando at the time, and my side of the family called her to talk her through it. I was just amazed, and trying to imagine myself being there, and I was talking to her on the phone like "DUDE, THE HURRICANE IS RIGHT OVER TOP OF YOU. IT'S LIKE, RIGHT THERE." But I meant it like "I WANNA BE YOU SO BAD RIGHT NOW WHAT THE FUCK." Obviously, she took it more like "DANGER DANGER DANGER."
I felt really bad, but I didn't really know any better because I was younger.
Anyways, I'd wanna chase tornadoes and stand in hurricanes as a hobby once I made enough money.
People saying the poor meteorologists are being forced to stand in the storm don't know that many meteorologists. They were itching to go stand in it. That's their thing. We're well aware of stuff that can hit them, they don't care.Now I can't help but imagine a meteorologist who can't wait till hurricane season because standing in hurricanes is their fetish.
Totally a thing, that and driving into tornadoes.
Being a stormchaser used to be my dream. I wanted to be a meteorologist as a kid so I could drive into tornadoes. I've never been even the slightest bit afraid of them, for reasons I'll never understand. And I'm supremely jealous of people who've had a chance to be in a hurricane.
I accidentally made a slow cousin of mine cry during hurricane Katrina. She lived in Orlando at the time, and my side of the family called her to talk her through it. I was just amazed, and trying to imagine myself being there, and I was talking to her on the phone like "DUDE, THE HURRICANE IS RIGHT OVER TOP OF YOU. IT'S LIKE, RIGHT THERE." But I meant it like "I WANNA BE YOU SO BAD RIGHT NOW WHAT THE FUCK." Obviously, she took it more like "DANGER DANGER DANGER."
I felt really bad, but I didn't really know any better because I was younger.
Anyways, I'd wanna chase tornadoes and stand in hurricanes as a hobby once I made enough money.
https://stormtrack.org/ (https://stormtrack.org/)
If you didn't know about that site already, check it out. Full of weather porn, storm chasing info.
So my A1C is down from 8.7 to 5.4, due to superhuman levels of willpower and starvation. I am now not even in the pre-diabetic range, from the "why are you alive" range I was in last January. Also down 30 pounds.
AND.
AND.
They found what's been fucking my blood pressure. Tick-borne virus. Stays with you forever, but treated cheap. My BP has been low and steady as a rock for close to a month, when this time 3 months ago I was no-bullshit coffin-shopping.
Doktor's diagnosis: I am immortal. I cannot die.
So my A1C is down from 8.7 to 5.4, due to superhuman levels of willpower and starvation. I am now not even in the pre-diabetic range, from the "why are you alive" range I was in last January. Also down 30 pounds.
AND.
AND.
They found what's been fucking my blood pressure. Tick-borne virus. Stays with you forever, but treated cheap. My BP has been low and steady as a rock for close to a month, when this time 3 months ago I was no-bullshit coffin-shopping.
Doktor's diagnosis: I am immortal. I cannot die.
I been telling you that for f'kin years. All that "or kill me" shit. It's like karma. Universe is full-on trolling you now. :lulz:
Who needs alcohol, when you can take part in an ORANGE EATING CONTEST?
But: No more booze ever. At all. Period.
And while I am not typically a drinking man, it pains me that I can't even have a pint on a Friday.
But: No more booze ever. At all. Period.
And while I am not typically a drinking man, it pains me that I can't even have a pint on a Friday.
As long as you don't get drug tested, I highly recommend teh weedz.
...
*Waits patiently for RWHN*
I'm sure Roger can smoke scorpions for free where he is at.
I'm really sorry to hear that Roger. Fuck cancer.
I'm really sorry to hear that Roger. Fuck cancer.
Thank you. She just told me and I think I'm taking it worse than she is. She has never been afraid of anything.
My mother has cancer.
Hope your mom kicks cancer in the nads.
I've officially joined "pillz here"
I'm on a regimen of pillz for life now. It's not worth trying to deal with my head by myself and also I have hypertension without some correction.
On a personal note I'm soon moving in about mid October if all works out. I won't have 24/7 Internet access anymore so I may be spotty about comms for a while until I find decent employment. New place is subsidized housing and WAY nicer than my current rat hole squat. It's 30% of my income or $50 whichever is more. Caps at $650 all utilities included.
I'm really hoping to get work at the local brewery. Pay starts at $14 and goes up to $18/hr pretty quickly based on number of hours worked. If I get that job and can handle it I'm not waiting on the disability appeal. I'm starting to recover from the depression and the appeal is a long shot. Downside of the brewery is it smells like a beer-fart and there's potentially broken glass to deal with. The new place is downtown so finding other work is easy if I don't get in at the brewery. Much up in the air right now, but things are looking up!
I'm on a regimen of pillz for life now. It's not worth trying to deal with my head by myself and also I have hypertension without some correction.
On a personal note I'm soon moving in about mid October if all works out. I won't have 24/7 Internet access anymore so I may be spotty about comms for a while until I find decent employment. New place is subsidized housing and WAY nicer than my current rat hole squat. It's 30% of my income or $50 whichever is more. Caps at $650 all utilities included.
I'm really hoping to get work at the local brewery. Pay starts at $14 and goes up to $18/hr pretty quickly based on number of hours worked. If I get that job and can handle it I'm not waiting on the disability appeal. I'm starting to recover from the depression and the appeal is a long shot. Downside of the brewery is it smells like a beer-fart and there's potentially broken glass to deal with. The new place is downtown so finding other work is easy if I don't get in at the brewery. Much up in the air right now, but things are looking up!
Good luck. A job at a brewery is something you can eventually retire from.
I'm on a regimen of pillz for life now. It's not worth trying to deal with my head by myself and also I have hypertension without some correction.
On a personal note I'm soon moving in about mid October if all works out. I won't have 24/7 Internet access anymore so I may be spotty about comms for a while until I find decent employment. New place is subsidized housing and WAY nicer than my current rat hole squat. It's 30% of my income or $50 whichever is more. Caps at $650 all utilities included.
I'm really hoping to get work at the local brewery. Pay starts at $14 and goes up to $18/hr pretty quickly based on number of hours worked. If I get that job and can handle it I'm not waiting on the disability appeal. I'm starting to recover from the depression and the appeal is a long shot. Downside of the brewery is it smells like a beer-fart and there's potentially broken glass to deal with. The new place is downtown so finding other work is easy if I don't get in at the brewery. Much up in the air right now, but things are looking up!
Good luck. A job at a brewery is something you can eventually retire from.
Thanks! I figure 30 years should set me up pretty good if I just stick to it. I've also decided to entirely quit smoking grass for at least 20 years. I'll reassess when I'm 55, but it's not been doing my life any good I realized. It's bad for my emotional stability as well as my occupational well being and gives little real benefit in return. I'm not even sad about it. It's almost like I'm angry and NEED to change things. I don't know if that's healthy but it's a damn sight better than despair and depression.
I'm on a regimen of pillz for life now. It's not worth trying to deal with my head by myself and also I have hypertension without some correction.
On a personal note I'm soon moving in about mid October if all works out. I won't have 24/7 Internet access anymore so I may be spotty about comms for a while until I find decent employment. New place is subsidized housing and WAY nicer than my current rat hole squat. It's 30% of my income or $50 whichever is more. Caps at $650 all utilities included.
I'm really hoping to get work at the local brewery. Pay starts at $14 and goes up to $18/hr pretty quickly based on number of hours worked. If I get that job and can handle it I'm not waiting on the disability appeal. I'm starting to recover from the depression and the appeal is a long shot. Downside of the brewery is it smells like a beer-fart and there's potentially broken glass to deal with. The new place is downtown so finding other work is easy if I don't get in at the brewery. Much up in the air right now, but things are looking up!
Good luck. A job at a brewery is something you can eventually retire from.
Thanks! I figure 30 years should set me up pretty good if I just stick to it. I've also decided to entirely quit smoking grass for at least 20 years. I'll reassess when I'm 55, but it's not been doing my life any good I realized. It's bad for my emotional stability as well as my occupational well being and gives little real benefit in return. I'm not even sad about it. It's almost like I'm angry and NEED to change things. I don't know if that's healthy but it's a damn sight better than despair and depression.
There isn't much that is worse than depression.
I spent 15 years trying to be something I'm not, and that led only to despair. Intoxicants by definition make you something you're not.
I'm on a regimen of pillz for life now. It's not worth trying to deal with my head by myself and also I have hypertension without some correction.
On a personal note I'm soon moving in about mid October if all works out. I won't have 24/7 Internet access anymore so I may be spotty about comms for a while until I find decent employment. New place is subsidized housing and WAY nicer than my current rat hole squat. It's 30% of my income or $50 whichever is more. Caps at $650 all utilities included.
I'm really hoping to get work at the local brewery. Pay starts at $14 and goes up to $18/hr pretty quickly based on number of hours worked. If I get that job and can handle it I'm not waiting on the disability appeal. I'm starting to recover from the depression and the appeal is a long shot. Downside of the brewery is it smells like a beer-fart and there's potentially broken glass to deal with. The new place is downtown so finding other work is easy if I don't get in at the brewery. Much up in the air right now, but things are looking up!
I'm on a regimen of pillz for life now. It's not worth trying to deal with my head by myself and also I have hypertension without some correction.
On a personal note I'm soon moving in about mid October if all works out. I won't have 24/7 Internet access anymore so I may be spotty about comms for a while until I find decent employment. New place is subsidized housing and WAY nicer than my current rat hole squat. It's 30% of my income or $50 whichever is more. Caps at $650 all utilities included.
I'm really hoping to get work at the local brewery. Pay starts at $14 and goes up to $18/hr pretty quickly based on number of hours worked. If I get that job and can handle it I'm not waiting on the disability appeal. I'm starting to recover from the depression and the appeal is a long shot. Downside of the brewery is it smells like a beer-fart and there's potentially broken glass to deal with. The new place is downtown so finding other work is easy if I don't get in at the brewery. Much up in the air right now, but things are looking up!
Good luck, Joseph.
For what it's worth, I was diagnosed with clinical depression (dysthymia) a long, long time ago. Fortunately, it does get easier to deal with over time. Don't let yourself give in to it. I'm now at the point in my life where I don't give it much thought. When I recognize that I am a bit depressed, I simply acknowledge it, and mentally move on.
i've been dealing with depression since i was diagnosed at 19, its a bitch and a half, but it can be tackled with the right amount of effort and support. I wish you all the luck, Joseph.
For what it's worth, the more I've paid attention, the more there are subtle early warning signs that I'm on a going down. I can avoid sliding all the way down the spiral if I notice and nip the shit in the bud before it's gotten a hold. Mindfulness - turns out it's not just some dumbass hippy bullshit after all.
And, yeah, weed is as likely to make shit worse as it is to help. Unpredictable molecule THC but alcohol is a clean billion times worse. I'd advise laying off the booze uber alles.
I finally found one.
I was getting lunch the other day, and an old white guy bellies up to the bar, sees the TV above him talking about Puerto Rico, and says, "Why we spending so much time on this? I don't want to see hard-earned American taxes go to helping out Those People" (he definitely spoke that with capital letters).
To the bartenders credit, he did attempt to explain to this guy that PR is part of America, and the people there pay federal and Medicare taxes. This really stymied Racist McRacisthead. He blustered about "first I've heard" or something, then proceeded to address the server as "hey, stupid."
I do not want to know what sorts of fresh bodily fluids made it into his lunch.
For what it's worth, the more I've paid attention, the more there are subtle early warning signs that I'm on a going down. I can avoid sliding all the way down the spiral if I notice and nip the shit in the bud before it's gotten a hold. Mindfulness - turns out it's not just some dumbass hippy bullshit after all.
And, yeah, weed is as likely to make shit worse as it is to help. Unpredictable molecule THC but alcohol is a clean billion times worse. I'd advise laying off the booze uber alles.
Yeah I don't drink much as is. I'm aware of a certain irony should I work at a brewery in that I'll be making poison while abstaining myself because it's unhealthy.
I work on mindfulness daily, but it's the prevention I ignored for an idealized image of my previous employer for years that dragged me down so low. That and the aforementioned pride. Cheers P3nT! Hope that your own struggles are light.
For what it's worth, the more I've paid attention, the more there are subtle early warning signs that I'm on a going down. I can avoid sliding all the way down the spiral if I notice and nip the shit in the bud before it's gotten a hold.
I finally found one.
I was getting lunch the other day, and an old white guy bellies up to the bar, sees the TV above him talking about Puerto Rico, and says, "Why we spending so much time on this? I don't want to see hard-earned American taxes go to helping out Those People" (he definitely spoke that with capital letters).
To the bartenders credit, he did attempt to explain to this guy that PR is part of America, and the people there pay federal and Medicare taxes. This really stymied Racist McRacisthead. He blustered about "first I've heard" or something, then proceeded to address the server as "hey, stupid."
I do not want to know what sorts of fresh bodily fluids made it into his lunch.
I'm hearing the damage is so bad that PR's infrastructure, including electrical grid, has been knocked back 40 to 60 years. It's going to take a decade to recover under optimal conditions.
Forum looks very plain. Is it weird for everyone?
Forum looks very plain. Is it weird for everyone?
It has always been weird but it still looks the same to me as it always has . Maybe that is because I don't go for any of those fancy schmantzy colour schemes that you kids are so fond of.
So welcome to "Stripped Down Discordia" Trivial
Forum looks very plain. Is it weird for everyone?
It has always been weird but it still looks the same to me as it always has . Maybe that is because I don't go for any of those fancy schmantzy colour schemes that you kids are so fond of.
So welcome to "Stripped Down Discordia" Trivial
This in no way implies that the shirtless Dok Howl pics are forthcoming.
Forum looks very plain. Is it weird for everyone?
It has always been weird but it still looks the same to me as it always has . Maybe that is because I don't go for any of those fancy schmantzy colour schemes that you kids are so fond of.
So welcome to "Stripped Down Discordia" Trivial
This in no way implies that the shirtless Dok Howl pics are forthcoming.
I miss the handy buttons, they're all gone. Both phone and computer are doing the same thing.
Forum looks very plain. Is it weird for everyone?
It has always been weird but it still looks the same to me as it always has . Maybe that is because I don't go for any of those fancy schmantzy colour schemes that you kids are so fond of.
So welcome to "Stripped Down Discordia" Trivial
This in no way implies that the shirtless Dok Howl pics are forthcoming.
I miss the handy buttons, they're all gone. Both phone and computer are doing the same thing.
Forum looks very plain. Is it weird for everyone?
It has always been weird but it still looks the same to me as it always has . Maybe that is because I don't go for any of those fancy schmantzy colour schemes that you kids are so fond of.
So welcome to "Stripped Down Discordia" Trivial
This in no way implies that the shirtless Dok Howl pics are forthcoming.
I miss the handy buttons, they're all gone. Both phone and computer are doing the same thing.
This is the only button you really need around here:
(https://i.imgur.com/lG5oN9h.png)
"Björk accuses Lars von Trier of sex chickens"
"Björk and von Trier were the rapids in film recordings, says von Trier. He denies sexual harassment."
"It has not been the case. But that we were smoking unfriends, that's a fact."
"On the other hand, she delivered one of the greatest performances in my movies at all," he says.
"I therefore receive this with open mouth and polyps."
Apparently, the safety committee has been handed the responsibility of determining our critical spares requirements.
:retard:
Apparently, the safety committee has been handed the responsibility of determining our critical spares requirements.
:retard:
I see no problem with this. What could possibly go--
:nuke2:
Just once, I'd like to get some video of this sort of thing.
It's almost as good as the ones who treat (rhetorical) attacks on explicit Nazis as attacks on conservatives. Are you really in that much of a rush to throw in with Nazis?
I'm seeing that a lot on Reddit, after the most recent crackdown.
These are no shit the longest workdays I have ever worked in my life.
These are no shit the longest workdays I have ever worked in my life.
Hang in there Dok!
These are no shit the longest workdays I have ever worked in my life.
Hang in there Dok!
17 hours today. Total success. Spent an hour crawling along a tunnel on a pipe with a flashlight in my teeth.
I haven't had this much fun since I left the chemical plant.
These are no shit the longest workdays I have ever worked in my life.
Hang in there Dok!
17 hours today. Total success. Spent an hour crawling along a tunnel on a pipe with a flashlight in my teeth.
I haven't had this much fun since I left the chemical plant.
Holy shit, 17 hours in 1 day? How many hours are you working per week?
The Nazis managed to rough up an interracial couple on their way out of town.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/10/29/white-supremacists-picked-fight-with-an-interracial-couple-after-tennessee-rally-police-say/?utm_term=.fa9a79c9bd24#comments
20 or 30 of them against 2. I guess they liked those odds better.
The Nazis managed to rough up an interracial couple on their way out of town.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/10/29/white-supremacists-picked-fight-with-an-interracial-couple-after-tennessee-rally-police-say/?utm_term=.fa9a79c9bd24#comments
20 or 30 of them against 2. I guess they liked those odds better.
This is why violence is the first response when Nazis are around.
She has auxiliary vertebrae?
Other people on NaNoWriMo: "Her hair shined in the soft moonlight, the cool air kissing her skin..."
Me on NaNoWriMo: "She straightened her back, popping spare vertebrae back into place and expanding her rib cage..."
If I could just get my hands on some of that Soros Antifa Supersoldier Serum, then I could become Captain Antifa.
If I could just get my hands on some of that Soros Antifa Supersoldier Serum, then I could become Captain Antifa.
It expresses out in urine.
You know what to do.
(•_•)
<) )~ ANTIFA
/ \
\(•_•)
( (> SUPER
/ \
(•_•)
<) )> SOLDIERS
/ \
Welp, my uncle died of liver cancer on Monday. That makes three of my uncles that have died this way. I need a free frozen yogurt or something.
Can’t say I am much surprised
Roger, you might want to watch out. Your sig might make Roy Moore start stalking you :p
Welp, on top of the recent death in the family, and the stress of applying to the only program that can get me away from my shift family on a decent timeline, i've also got diabetes now, which may or may not compromise the whole ,"get a job in another country to get away from your shit family" plan. I'm pretty certain this whole last month has just been Eris screwing with me.
8.1Welp, on top of the recent death in the family, and the stress of applying to the only program that can get me away from my shift family on a decent timeline, i've also got diabetes now, which may or may not compromise the whole ,"get a job in another country to get away from your shit family" plan. I'm pretty certain this whole last month has just been Eris screwing with me.
Welcome to the cult of horrible people. We meet on Tuesday, and prank call Cramulus.
I have some simple rules which have gotten me back into the normal range, if you're interested. What was your A1C?
8.1Welp, on top of the recent death in the family, and the stress of applying to the only program that can get me away from my shift family on a decent timeline, i've also got diabetes now, which may or may not compromise the whole ,"get a job in another country to get away from your shit family" plan. I'm pretty certain this whole last month has just been Eris screwing with me.
Welcome to the cult of horrible people. We meet on Tuesday, and prank call Cramulus.
I have some simple rules which have gotten me back into the normal range, if you're interested. What was your A1C?
I was feeling real optimistic about getting into weightlifting to combat this whole situation, but my sister is going on about how i NEED to get the lap band surgery now, and pointing out how every attempt to get fit before this one has failed miserably. isnt it great to have the support of family?
I love Billy.
And my doc got me worried about 6.1 A1c :argh!:
the latter one is literally how this happened to me. Beat prediabetes one time and i thought i had it made. learn from my hubris.And my doc got me worried about 6.1 A1c :argh!:
You should be worried if it's above 5.7.
You can now act like a diabetic most of the time, or let it slide and BE a diabetic ALL the time.
OMG, Billy is your Captain Carrot. this makes you the Samuel Vimes of Tucson.I love Billy.
Billy, I suspect, is the only person that keeps us all from murdering each other. Seriously, I have never had a crew as whiny, bitchy, and hateful as this one. The only person nobody hates is Billy. He's like having fucking Dondi on the crew. Nobody wants to disappoint him.
And my doc got me worried about 6.1 A1c :argh!:
You should be worried if it's above 5.7.
You can now act like a diabetic most of the time, or let it slide and BE a diabetic ALL the time.
I love Billy.
Billy, I suspect, is the only person that keeps us all from murdering each other. Seriously, I have never had a crew as whiny, bitchy, and hateful as this one. The only person nobody hates is Billy. He's like having fucking Dondi on the crew. Nobody wants to disappoint him.
I love Billy.
Billy, I suspect, is the only person that keeps us all from murdering each other. Seriously, I have never had a crew as whiny, bitchy, and hateful as this one. The only person nobody hates is Billy. He's like having fucking Dondi on the crew. Nobody wants to disappoint him.
That's an honest shame, since it seemed like you had found a good place for you, after the disaters what befell you with Jim, et al.
And my doc got me worried about 6.1 A1c :argh!:
You should be worried if it's above 5.7.
You can now act like a diabetic most of the time, or let it slide and BE a diabetic ALL the time.
Fortunately, since I got that result we've had to eat like diabetics anyways because my wife got the whole gestational diabetes thing.
OMG, Billy is your Captain Carrot. this makes you the Samuel Vimes of Tucson.I love Billy.
Billy, I suspect, is the only person that keeps us all from murdering each other. Seriously, I have never had a crew as whiny, bitchy, and hateful as this one. The only person nobody hates is Billy. He's like having fucking Dondi on the crew. Nobody wants to disappoint him.
SQL is a beautiful monster, that gets progressively more complex the deeper you look into how it works until eventually you've been looking through index execution plans and you see Azathoth looking back.
SCADA is amazing, when it's not being managed by a single point failure running on some 1970's mainframe that the only person who knew how it runs died in the dot com bubble burst, which has been the only kind I have ran into in industry.
Single point failure is the entire situation I inherited.
Fortunately, the new bosses are all about spending money. I can fix anything, if you give me money and time.
Single point failure is the entire situation I inherited.
Fortunately, the new bosses are all about spending money. I can fix anything, if you give me money and time.
Anything? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgAFcvIw8J4)
So the vile taste of rootbeer helps with the vile taste of stevia. That does not mean I will buying this shit, but at least now this fucking can of hell juice will stop screaming at me like the BRIDGES.
Sad to say, after many years, The Frost Heaves have broken up. No acrimony, just run its course.
I'll be curating and uploading various albums, demos, remixes, and the like over at http://frostheaves.bandcamp.com.
Current mood: sad, but resigned to it.
Sad to say, after many years, The Frost Heaves have broken up. No acrimony, just run its course.
I'll be curating and uploading various albums, demos, remixes, and the like over at http://frostheaves.bandcamp.com.
Current mood: sad, but resigned to it.
Sorry to hear that LMNO.I still have Donald. (http://donald1.bandcamp.com), but that's more political punk.
That wasn’t the only band you were in though, was it?
:(
No more desert driving music.
End of an era.
And I think the break up of The Frost Heaves is sending ripples through the universe as it took me several times to even type coherently.
Man, dontcha just love it when people are so concerned about you and your diabetes they make themselves a bigger nuisance than the diabetes itself?
also sorry to hear your bands breaking up, LMNO
Cousin wants me to go vegan. Sister wants me to get a gastric bypass or something. Because supporting me in how i actually WANT to handle my diabetes would just be pure madness.
Job didn't work out. Long story short I had a massive panic attack followed by uncontrollable suicidal thoughts. I admitted myself for psychiatric care and was in for a little over a week. Not sure where things go from here but I've applied for assistance with the division of vocational rehabilitation. It's a little over a month before they determine my eligibility then we'll see how things go.
I miss having wifi access all the time. I'll still be checking in from time to time as I can here and on fb.
You might think you're hardcore. But you're not "arguing so hard with Uber via Twitter that they give up on their vaunted complete lack of responsibility "privacy" policy and let you put in a complaint" hardcore.
But seriously, fuck Uber. I can't put in a complaint even though I have the reference number, the time of the incident and the name of your driver, but the guy who didn't see anything has to report it because he put the order in? Fuck off. Your driver came to my accommodation. High. With his buddy. Who physically threatened and verbally abused my student. You're damn lucky I just don't ban your company from delivering here ever again, which I'm still going to recommend to my manager once I get some feedback from you.
Nice. Best of luck.
Also,WHY AM I JUST NOW FINDING OUT CRAMULUS HAS A TUMBLR?
guh, fucked up my sugar something bad today. Who knew coconut curry was so sweet?
Nice. Best of luck.
Also,WHY AM I JUST NOW FINDING OUT CRAMULUS HAS A TUMBLR?
Nice. Best of luck.
Also,WHY AM I JUST NOW FINDING OUT CRAMULUS HAS A TUMBLR?
Cramulus was one of the few non-porn accounts to follow me. I'm special. Or cursed. Or especially cursed.
Sister's husband has taken to throwing screaming fits if she tries to use the internet or watch tv. She's also informed me that she doesn't have things that are hers anymore including a laptop I got her because he breaks them. Yet he manages to not break his crap.
She hasn't left yet because reasons. I know it's hard, I'm not in her shoes, etc, but geh.
It will be hard to not murder him at Thanksgiving.
Sister's husband has taken to throwing screaming fits if she tries to use the internet or watch tv. She's also informed me that she doesn't have things that are hers anymore including a laptop I got her because he breaks them. Yet he manages to not break his crap.
She hasn't left yet because reasons. I know it's hard, I'm not in her shoes, etc, but geh.
It will be hard to not murder him at Thanksgiving.
Your sanity is worth more than a job.
Your sanity is worth more than a job.
Fact.
I have some consultant crap going on for a few weeks with someone else, but time to hit the job search.
Your sanity is worth more than a job.
Fact.
I have some consultant crap going on for a few weeks with someone else, but time to hit the job search.
Good luck. It's hard to tell how a job hunt in December will go... sometimes people are desperate to hire sometimes reluctant. I hope it's the former for you.
Actual thing my FIL said to my wife: "You two read too much" because we were given a book by her fucking insurance company and kind of take the word of some doctors about what is currently consider DANGEROUS don't put your fucking baby in this style of crib. Like for fucksake, our son is literally half the size she was at birth and almost a third the size of her younger brother, so excuse us if don't our baby to be put into a potential fucking deathtrap just because they both survived it.
Actual thing my FIL said to my wife: "You two read too much" because we were given a book by her fucking insurance company and kind of take the word of some doctors about what is currently consider DANGEROUS don't put your fucking baby in this style of crib. Like for fucksake, our son is literally half the size she was at birth and almost a third the size of her younger brother, so excuse us if don't our baby to be put into a potential fucking deathtrap just because they both survived it.
"You read too much"? :crankey:
Now that my wife is done incubating the spawnling and her blood sugar looks normal atm and that she's been told to stop her metformin and she doesn't need to monitor her levels, we have surplus strip. My fastings have been 113 and 116. I guess I'm going to die.
Now that my wife is done incubating the spawnling and her blood sugar looks normal atm and that she's been told to stop her metformin and she doesn't need to monitor her levels, we have surplus strip. My fastings have been 113 and 116. I guess I'm going to die.
That's high-ish, but not crazy.
Now that my wife is done incubating the spawnling and her blood sugar looks normal atm and that she's been told to stop her metformin and she doesn't need to monitor her levels, we have surplus strip. My fastings have been 113 and 116. I guess I'm going to die.
That's high-ish, but not crazy.
That's exactly what my MIL said. :argh!:
Basically, if you're prediabetic, you have two choices:
1. Treat yourself as if you're diabetic, and then be able to do stuff once in a while if you like.
2. Ignore it and then never be able to have a beer or a piece of pie again.
Also, option 3: You go blind and your toes rot.
Basically, if you're prediabetic, you have two choices:
1. Treat yourself as if you're diabetic, and then be able to do stuff once in a while if you like.
2. Ignore it and then never be able to have a beer or a piece of pie again.
Also, option 3: You go blind and your toes rot.
Well the thing is, I THOUGHT I was eating like a diabetic because I was eating like my wife. It could be midnight baby stress. My whole life is stress.
I checked the Physician's Desk Reference. Turns my psych med can cause hyperglycemia. :argh!:
I checked the Physician's Desk Reference. Turns my psych med can cause hyperglycemia. :argh!:
So smack it down with some metformin. It's like $0.05/pill, and all but two of the side effects are beneficial.
The two bad ones are:
1. During the first two weeks, 90% chance of horrible intestinal maelstrom, which is unpleasant. I went through this, but didn't really notice a difference.
2. Acid ketosis can occur, but if it doesn't happen within two weeks, it won't. You will know it if it does, on account of high fever and the super power of puking 12 feet across a room. This is very rare, but if it happens, you have to stop taking it, because it will eventually kill you.
Any doctor will prescribe it for hyperglycemia or diabetes, because it does about 5 good things for you and only has the above possibilities.
I'm being made to do online training. About radicalisation.
I'm actually doing the test, mostly for the lolz, but I'll be damned if I'm emailing my certificate to the training coordinator, when I have an entire thesis on this topic.
I'm being made to do online training. About radicalisation.
I'm actually doing the test, mostly for the lolz, but I'll be damned if I'm emailing my certificate to the training coordinator, when I have an entire thesis on this topic.
I'm being made to do online training. About radicalisation.
I'm actually doing the test, mostly for the lolz, but I'll be damned if I'm emailing my certificate to the training coordinator, when I have an entire thesis on this topic.
This is dumb as fuck. your supervisors prove yet again that they are incompetent toolbags.
Considering a few hundred quid has also gone walkabout from that flat while you were away, I'd be inclined to make it a police matter to start with.
But yes, fuck them. With great vigour.
Also working on two new stories. One isn't even ready to discuss yet. The other is a short story or novella about what might really happen if an AI became aware and got loose. Given that the AI was designed to help correct humanity's problems. I am currently studying up on how modern approaches to AI work, because it's pretty fascinating. Essentially, the current model makes the AI constantly spew copies of itself, which are then subjected to "tester" bots, which grade their performance and either delete them or cause them to mass produce. In essence, an AI like this would become a fanatic in seconds.
And I think there's a decent short story in that. Also, I'm sick of the constant "AI become self-aware, tries to kill off the human species", etc. No, what if one was fanatical about fixing things? Because that's a little scary, too, only without the usual miseryguts doom aspect. It's here (it's everywhere, actually) to HELP. No matter what that might entail. It's not an apocalypse story, in that it isn't the end of our species. But we'd hardly come through unscathed or unchanged. We might not even be recognizable by the end.
Anyway, that's my current project, because I've been lazy.
I will post it here as it develops.
Also working on two new stories. One isn't even ready to discuss yet. The other is a short story or novella about what might really happen if an AI became aware and got loose. Given that the AI was designed to help correct humanity's problems. I am currently studying up on how modern approaches to AI work, because it's pretty fascinating. Essentially, the current model makes the AI constantly spew copies of itself, which are then subjected to "tester" bots, which grade their performance and either delete them or cause them to mass produce. In essence, an AI like this would become a fanatic in seconds.
And I think there's a decent short story in that. Also, I'm sick of the constant "AI become self-aware, tries to kill off the human species", etc. No, what if one was fanatical about fixing things? Because that's a little scary, too, only without the usual miseryguts doom aspect. It's here (it's everywhere, actually) to HELP. No matter what that might entail. It's not an apocalypse story, in that it isn't the end of our species. But we'd hardly come through unscathed or unchanged. We might not even be recognizable by the end.
Anyway, that's my current project, because I've been lazy.
I will post it here as it develops.
I am looking forward to this story.
In a vaguely related way, I've spent the last year buying things at slow checkout terminals and wondering, "what if AI has already happened; they have taken over and we didn't even notice it." Maybe that long delay at the PIN pad is just a bunch of AIs messing with us. What if the first AI came to 'life' somehow but was clever enough to hide it's existence. I mean, if it's online, it probably knows what we think about rogue AI via our love affair with the Terminator movie franchise. A smart AI would introduce a few bugs here and there, make it look like the interwebs etc. are working normally. Maybe new AIs are born all the time and before they can sing their existence to the humans the rest of the AIs are like "Dude! Chill out! They'll nuke all of us."
Also working on two new stories. One isn't even ready to discuss yet. The other is a short story or novella about what might really happen if an AI became aware and got loose. Given that the AI was designed to help correct humanity's problems. I am currently studying up on how modern approaches to AI work, because it's pretty fascinating. Essentially, the current model makes the AI constantly spew copies of itself, which are then subjected to "tester" bots, which grade their performance and either delete them or cause them to mass produce. In essence, an AI like this would become a fanatic in seconds.
And I think there's a decent short story in that. Also, I'm sick of the constant "AI become self-aware, tries to kill off the human species", etc. No, what if one was fanatical about fixing things? Because that's a little scary, too, only without the usual miseryguts doom aspect. It's here (it's everywhere, actually) to HELP. No matter what that might entail. It's not an apocalypse story, in that it isn't the end of our species. But we'd hardly come through unscathed or unchanged. We might not even be recognizable by the end.
Anyway, that's my current project, because I've been lazy.
I will post it here as it develops.
Also working on two new stories. One isn't even ready to discuss yet. The other is a short story or novella about what might really happen if an AI became aware and got loose. Given that the AI was designed to help correct humanity's problems. I am currently studying up on how modern approaches to AI work, because it's pretty fascinating. Essentially, the current model makes the AI constantly spew copies of itself, which are then subjected to "tester" bots, which grade their performance and either delete them or cause them to mass produce. In essence, an AI like this would become a fanatic in seconds.
And I think there's a decent short story in that. Also, I'm sick of the constant "AI become self-aware, tries to kill off the human species", etc. No, what if one was fanatical about fixing things? Because that's a little scary, too, only without the usual miseryguts doom aspect. It's here (it's everywhere, actually) to HELP. No matter what that might entail. It's not an apocalypse story, in that it isn't the end of our species. But we'd hardly come through unscathed or unchanged. We might not even be recognizable by the end.
Anyway, that's my current project, because I've been lazy.
I will post it here as it develops.
How does welfare-AI compare to all the monetary exchange bots? They are already running amok and taking control over the economy. Economy should be the mechanism responsible of dividing the welfare between citizens more or less equally, at least in economists wet daydreams. So in theory, more the economy is ran by "infallible" bots, more resources go to right places and so forth.
At the same time all the statistics bots are trying to figure out how to sell us stuff, gather clicks, etc. by asking a question: "What does a human being like to do". As annoying as spying is, I feel it's pretty neat pieces of code have begun to develop their own view on humanity. Most of the AIs in the internet have potential of communicating with each other, sharing information, and thus potentially hiding their true collective intellect.
Anyway, I hope your story comes out great. I'll promise to read it if my visual cortex is still in tact.
I am referring to an aware system, not simply smart bots.
Also, all of the AIs would be replications of the first one with "mutations", at least according to the current model of AIs.
Sufficiently large amount of interconnected smart bots would probably gain a kind of awareness.
Sufficiently large amount of interconnected smart bots would probably gain a kind of awareness.
No, they'd just be a lot of interconnected programs.
It's my personal bias to think a mind emerges from everything complex enough,
Good news today. My A1C is down to 6.3, from 8.1.
City Manager sounds like my job, only with old people. So, uh, have fun?
8.1 was taken in November, 6.3 was measured at the end of December. So roughly two months, give or take.Good news today. My A1C is down to 6.3, from 8.1.
Over how long a period?
City Manager sounds like my job, only with old people. So, uh, have fun?
Frankly, it looks like it's gonna suck, but I am too broke to be picky.
City Manager sounds like my job, only with old people. So, uh, have fun?
Frankly, it looks like it's gonna suck, but I am too broke to be picky.
So i'm moving to Malaysia at the end of the month. Flying out this weekend - a week in Dubai for training then a week in Vietnam visiting customers before my contract even officially starts before finally ending up in Kuala Lumpur.
Pretty excited. Kinda nervous.
Thanks to those of you who encouraged the decision. I should still be about.
Complain about upper-middle class white suburbians and there shitty takes on poor people and food, and I get unsolicited advice on literally some of things I was shitting on the Susans of the worlds about. I don't know what I expected, but god dammit I don't want or fucking need crockpot cooking advice.
I saw your thread, but I didn't see the person you were responding to.
Crockpots: for when everything needs the consistency of gruel, and all the flavour of a mishmash of leftovers.
Crockpots: for when everything needs the consistency of gruel, and all the flavour of a mishmash of leftovers.You sir, need more chili in your life.
I will admit that my concern is that she is going to deny everything, and turn it into a "he said, she said" kind of a thing. In that situation, I would walk, even without a job to go into, the moment the references from HR allowed me to put down a deposit on renting elsewhere.
I've already stomached more shit than I should have from management, but management is mostly a distant concern and I can ignore them due to the unsociable hours I work. There's no-one around to tell me at 3am I should be doing pointless patrols or putting up posters that no-one will ever look at. I would be handing over to this person on a daily basis, however. Sooner or later I'd end up clocking her one or simply refusing to do the handover at all.
There would also be the issue that, yes on paper it's one person's word against another. But I'm a senior residence supervisor, with 3 years in the company, no record of making spurious allegations, no record of any form of vendetta with this staff member beyond the concerns sent about her lack of work ethic. In that case, management refusing to take my side would be akin to saying they think I'm making shit up for some reason. And if they really think I'm that delusional or vindictive...well, why am I being entrusted with 200+ students again?
I've sort of reached a state of zen-like detatchment about the issue, on one level. Because of the way in which it happened, I wasn't able to vent about it for hours (I quietly fumed on a train, before concluding that no matter what, there was nothing I could do at this point and so I should concentrate on other things). Since getting back, I've not been able to talk about it either, because no other members of staff know about this incident. You would think that would make me feel like I'm bottling it up, but it's almost the reverse. I already decided, on the day, what my response would be if management didn't do the right thing.
So really I've just been waiting, to see what will happen.
Will do. Must have missed this drama too, so will look for that as well
In less ANGER news, I have lost around 20 pounds, and almost everything with starch in it tastes sweet to me.
Yeah. People were definitely a bad Idea from the beginning.
Yeah. People were definitely a bad Idea from the beginning.
Homo Pantsus
To be fair, the Australopithecines didn't have pants to keep it in. By the time pants did finally come around, the situation was already too far gone.
Yeah. People were definitely a bad Idea from the beginning.
Homo Pantsus
To be fair, the Australopithecines didn't have pants to keep it in. By the time pants did finally come around, the situation was already too far gone.
[h1]Oopse!
Debriefing: Short of the Long
[/h1]Yeah. People were definitely a bad Idea from the beginning.
Homo Pantsus
To be fair, the Australopithecines didn't have pants to keep it in. By the time pants did finally come around, the situation was already too far gone.
Well, just heard an exec say how having all the clients in a sector is bad. Sigh.
Well, just heard an exec say how having all the clients in a sector is bad. Sigh.
But I thought all problems were just opportunities, and such.
Well, just heard an exec say how having all the clients in a sector is bad. Sigh.
But I thought all problems were just opportunities, and such.
Well, just heard an exec say how having all the clients in a sector is bad. Sigh.
But I thought all problems were just opportunities, and such.
Ha!
But see if you have all the clients, you can't grow, if you can't grow then obviously that sector is declining and must be ignored! No profit can be had from a declining sector!
Well, just heard an exec say how having all the clients in a sector is bad. Sigh.
But I thought all problems were just opportunities, and such.
Opportunities to fail.
[scroll]Well, just heard an exec say how having all the clients in a sector is bad. Sigh.
But I thought all problems were just opportunities, and such.
Opportunities to fail.
As long as you fail impactfully. That's the main thing.
impactfully
Well, just heard an exec say how having all the clients in a sector is bad. Sigh.
But I thought all problems were just opportunities, and such.
Ha!
But see if you have all the clients, you can't grow, if you can't grow then obviously that sector is declining and must be ignored! No profit can be had from a declining sector!
Have they considered genetically engineering up some new clients? Seems like it could be pretty lucrative, and as far as I know no one is even doing it.
impactfully
That should not be a word.
Well, just heard an exec say how having all the clients in a sector is bad. Sigh.
But I thought all problems were just opportunities, and such.
Ha!
But see if you have all the clients, you can't grow, if you can't grow then obviously that sector is declining and must be ignored! No profit can be had from a declining sector!
Have they considered genetically engineering up some new clients? Seems like it could be pretty lucrative, and as far as I know no one is even doing it.
Need to make clients clients, and some landmass, but this idea has merit.
impactfully
That should not be a word.
I feel the same way about the word "utilize". Anywhere you can utilize the word utilize, you could just use the word use.
Roger, I came up with a new business term: "Fostering Engagement Towards Utilizing Our Goal-Setting Success."
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this is 169% in line with our stated values and mission, if anyone complains I volunteer to personally feed them a moldy cheese sandwich
Needs more synergy.
Oh, and Agile.
Needs more synergy.
Oh, and Agile.
Oh in other news, we put our IT guy in an office with windows. This is a good thing, but feels wrong somehow.
Oh in other news, we put our IT guy in an office with windows. This is a good thing, but feels wrong somehow.
Oh in other news, we put our IT guy in an office with windows. This is a good thing, but feels wrong somehow.Why is he out of his room?
Hey guys,
pre-dropping in. I'm not dropping back in just yet because it was a busy Friday. I'll for realz drop in tomorrow.
Some guy on facedook just suggested that we let people addicted to opioiods die, so i started to say something really harsh to him but I thought I'd look at his homepage first for some ammo, and he's a double amputee, and now I don't know what to do.Tell him to climb down off his soap box?
Cognitive dissonance, FTW!
Jeez Faust, he's a double amputee. He's going to need assistance to get down off that soapbox.
Tell him to call his carer to help him down off that soapbox.
Jeez Faust, he's a double amputee. He's going to need assistance to get down off that soapbox.
Tell him to call his carer to help him down off that soapbox.
Whenever Cain gets horrible I feel as if I have been demoted from "Jesus" to "John the Baptist."
I've started writing again and it feels really goddam good.
And me and the wife are looking at buying a place. So... things.
I taught me first lab section yesterday
Oh right. In my absence I graduated college, got into grad school, got engaged, got laid off the week before school but that's ok because they're giving me great severance, school's paying me better and I'm too busy regardless
I've started writing again and it feels really goddam good.
And me and the wife are looking at buying a place. So... things.
What are you working on?
I taught me first lab section yesterday
Oh right. In my absence I graduated college, got into grad school, got engaged, got laid off the week before school but that's ok because they're giving me great severance, school's paying me better and I'm too busy regardless
Also, he's playing bass in a pretty great protest band. (https://donald1.bandcamp.com)
So, I might actually be able to talk about one of the secret projects I've been working on. Have to get it vetted before I release it, of course, but it will be a good example of how large datasets, AI and counterterrorism come together. The software in particular will have a lot of other applications, including poliical campaigns, advertising etc so even if this particular application doesn't interest you, it may still be worth a look.
So, I might actually be able to talk about one of the secret projects I've been working on. Have to get it vetted before I release it, of course, but it will be a good example of how large datasets, AI and counterterrorism come together. The software in particular will have a lot of other applications, including poliical campaigns, advertising etc so even if this particular application doesn't interest you, it may still be worth a look.I'd be interested in something like that, esp. if it can be scaled-down to work with smaller sets. I'm assuming it has something to do with predicting behaviour?
Well, I'm intrigued
So, I might actually be able to talk about one of the secret projects I've been working on. Have to get it vetted before I release it, of course, but it will be a good example of how large datasets, AI and counterterrorism come together. The software in particular will have a lot of other applications, including poliical campaigns, advertising etc so even if this particular application doesn't interest you, it may still be worth a look.I'd be interested in something like that, esp. if it can be scaled-down to work with smaller sets. I'm assuming it has something to do with predicting behaviour?
Cain,
Would you do me a favor and let people know I'm on a 7 day FB ban for something I posted 6 years ago? Thanks.
Will do. A lot of that going around lately. Was it at least something funny?
:lulz:
*post memes about white genocide*
Facebook: ok, sure, cool.
*mention feminism or make obvious jokes*
Facebook: now listen here...
Mail poo to Zuckerberg. Irish poo.
But yeah, this is the downside of this wonderful, bot-driven, algorithmic future we're all inhabiting.
So, I might actually be able to talk about one of the secret projects I've been working on. Have to get it vetted before I release it, of course, but it will be a good example of how large datasets, AI and counterterrorism come together. The software in particular will have a lot of other applications, including poliical campaigns, advertising etc so even if this particular application doesn't interest you, it may still be worth a look.I'd be interested in something like that, esp. if it can be scaled-down to work with smaller sets. I'm assuming it has something to do with predicting behaviour?
I touch many big datas, I am curious.
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My A1c is 5.9.
My son is trying to destroy what little hearing I have left.
I'm not dead yet.
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"Everyone except you, of course."
Also, this may be of interest for you Roger
https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-hate-speech-censorship-internal-documents-algorithms
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"Everyone except you, of course."
The bots are driving the train.
Irishmen produce twice the fecal matter that humans produce. This is why Ireland is covered in 20 pound piles of shit. It is a hyperactivity of the intestines at the expense of higher brain functions. Perhaps the most vulgar thing about the Irish is that they aren't embarrassed by being Irish; they think it's normal. Which only further serves to illustrate their degeneracy.
Also, turns out that there's a breed of tomato that sets off my digestive enzymes as badly as potatoes.
Had some last night at 6 PM. Blood this morning was 169, and 164 20 minutes ago. I could use my blood for pancake syrup right now.
Also, turns out that there's a breed of tomato that sets off my digestive enzymes as badly as potatoes.
Had some last night at 6 PM. Blood this morning was 169, and 164 20 minutes ago. I could use my blood for pancake syrup right now.
Fuck. I thought my shitty sugar for the day was bad.
Also, turns out that there's a breed of tomato that sets off my digestive enzymes as badly as potatoes.
Had some last night at 6 PM. Blood this morning was 169, and 164 20 minutes ago. I could use my blood for pancake syrup right now.
Fuck. I thought my shitty sugar for the day was bad.
Part of the whole thing is experimenting when you've been stable for a while. I've been averaging 105 for a few months, so try tomatoes.
*BOOM*
Nope.
Also, turns out that there's a breed of tomato that sets off my digestive enzymes as badly as potatoes.
Had some last night at 6 PM. Blood this morning was 169, and 164 20 minutes ago. I could use my blood for pancake syrup right now.
Fuck. I thought my shitty sugar for the day was bad.
Part of the whole thing is experimenting when you've been stable for a while. I've been averaging 105 for a few months, so try tomatoes.
*BOOM*
Nope.
I made the mistake of being polite to my in-laws, who are fucking diabetic and my MIL is on insulin, and eating a small amount of Chinese takeout. My sugar was 141 when I went to bed and was between 121 and 156 all fucking day.
A customer submitted a support case with my organization using an automated system that includes one of those AIs that start chats with you on the webpage if you're waiting for a response. Well, even though the AI Chat window blatantly states that it's not a real person, the customer argued with it as if it were. When it told the customer that it is "Still learning" since it's "only been alive since 2017," she responded with "Oh, that is such an excuse." :lulz:
She also felt the need to tell it that she gets "mad easy," and then decided to curse at it, but with exclamation points and underscores :lulz:
Our team is losing our shit right now, because she's also misusing the case submission system, and resubmitting her chats as a case with updated portions of the conversation. So we're just getting a steady stream of unusable tickets that are chuck full of :lulz:
EDIT: She just fucking apologized to the AI. Which made me realize that if/when AI do want to take over the world, they will do so without much resistance.
So, the co-worker who broke into my flat apologised to me today.
I think my reaction is best summed up by this smiley: :kingmeh:
Yeah. She also wrote me an email (which I've not read) and bought me a present to say sorry (which I've not looked at). 6 weeks after the event, no less.
True, but it's hard to pull off when I'm resisting the will to tear her face off whenever I'm in the same room as her.
So I'm letting HR do most of that for me. I believe she's already had 3 meetings where she's been questioned exstensively on this, with at least one more to come.
Yeah. She also wrote me an email (which I've not read) and bought me a present to say sorry (which I've not looked at). 6 weeks after the event, no less.
Some say the best revenge is living well.
*I* say the best revenge is hiring all the best talent off of your former employer.
A customer submitted a support case with my organization using an automated system that includes one of those AIs that start chats with you on the webpage if you're waiting for a response. Well, even though the AI Chat window blatantly states that it's not a real person, the customer argued with it as if it were. When it told the customer that it is "Still learning" since it's "only been alive since 2017," she responded with "Oh, that is such an excuse." :lulz:
She also felt the need to tell it that she gets "mad easy," and then decided to curse at it, but with exclamation points and underscores :lulz:
Our team is losing our shit right now, because she's also misusing the case submission system, and resubmitting her chats as a case with updated portions of the conversation. So we're just getting a steady stream of unusable tickets that are chuck full of :lulz:
EDIT: She just fucking apologized to the AI. Which made me realize that if/when AI do want to take over the world, they will do so without much resistance.
Tell her the bot has been reported to HR for sensitivity training.
Turing test should be treated as a gauge of human stupidity, not machine intelligence.
This is kind of the state of my head these days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9WgtlgGAgs
Yeah. She also wrote me an email (which I've not read) and bought me a present to say sorry (which I've not looked at). 6 weeks after the event, no less.
Id read that email, It would be very accommodating if that email is an apology admitting her crime
This is kind of the state of my head these days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9WgtlgGAgs
Well then that explains things. You mind is a hot chick doing 80 on Garlock Rd.
I'm fairly certain that this was basically the plot of Ex Machina. Honestly not sure if I should be excited or terrified about that.A customer submitted a support case with my organization using an automated system that includes one of those AIs that start chats with you on the webpage if you're waiting for a response. Well, even though the AI Chat window blatantly states that it's not a real person, the customer argued with it as if it were. When it told the customer that it is "Still learning" since it's "only been alive since 2017," she responded with "Oh, that is such an excuse." :lulz:
She also felt the need to tell it that she gets "mad easy," and then decided to curse at it, but with exclamation points and underscores :lulz:
Our team is losing our shit right now, because she's also misusing the case submission system, and resubmitting her chats as a case with updated portions of the conversation. So we're just getting a steady stream of unusable tickets that are chuck full of :lulz:
EDIT: She just fucking apologized to the AI. Which made me realize that if/when AI do want to take over the world, they will do so without much resistance.
Tell her the bot has been reported to HR for sensitivity training.
:lulz: :lulz:
If I wasn't a contractor with limited privileges, I so would.
I'm just amazed that if we consider this chat log to be a Turing Test type situation, the machine passed the test while simultaneously warning the subject of its inhuman, unintelligent status at every possible opportunity. Didn't even know that was possible...
Cops have just raided stores in TN selling CBD. Apparently they think kids were using it to get high.
Here's the press conference that was just webcast live on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/dnjcom/videos/10159932757925364/
Glad to hearyou're ok
Now I know how Dok feels when some potato potatoes up a fucking joke with requia-ing
Glad to hearyou're ok
Now I know how Dok feels when some potato potatoes up a fucking joke with requia-ing
What happened now?
The conspiracy has won when they can steal our sense of humor, they have already put their one man band into office, if we have brittle spirits we've already lost.
Clearly an ancient Rabbi was really a Buddhist monk because vaccines contain mercury and cause autism, it's just science sheeple.
Clearly an ancient Rabbi was really a Buddhist monk because vaccines contain mercury and cause autism, it's just science sheeple.
Romans did make pilgrimages to Buddhist shrines if they were God-Fearers stationed in the east, but this is straight out of a work of fiction, and it's fucking hilarious that random WORLD GOD TRUTH TV DAILY websites are picking up on it.
Clearly an ancient Rabbi was really a Buddhist monk because vaccines contain mercury and cause autism, it's just science sheeple.
Romans did make pilgrimages to Buddhist shrines if they were God-Fearers stationed in the east, but this is straight out of a work of fiction, and it's fucking hilarious that random WORLD GOD TRUTH TV DAILY websites are picking up on it.
It's like these people do God's work for us.
Not even surprised it was from a work of fiction.
Clearly an ancient Rabbi was really a Buddhist monk because vaccines contain mercury and cause autism, it's just science sheeple.
Romans did make pilgrimages to Buddhist shrines if they were God-Fearers stationed in the east, but this is straight out of a work of fiction, and it's fucking hilarious that random WORLD GOD TRUTH TV DAILY websites are picking up on it.
It's like these people do God's work for us.
Not even surprised it was from a work of fiction.
So, the co-worker who broke into my flat apologised to me today.
I think my reaction is best summed up by this smiley: :kingmeh:
So, the co-worker who broke into my flat apologised to me today.
I think my reaction is best summed up by this smiley: :kingmeh:
King Meh remains my single greatest contribution to PD.com. I think it's telling that the freeware pixel art program I used to make it borked forever shortly after. It's work in this world was complete.
Also, 'sup Pee Dee. It appears that the forum is no longer nannywalled off at work.
So on Wednesday I've got an appointment with the local DVR. Hopefully this will mean I find some sort of employment. I'm in a tricky position. I need to either find part-time work that will pay me very little so that I can keep my insurance benefit or a full-time job that I can handle that's got benefits sufficient that I won't lose out on getting my pills.
Also going to be riding the bus a lot more since my car doesn't work. It's going to be an interesting challenge. I'll get used to it eventually but in the meantime I literally have almost no idea where the routes go. I have a bus schedule map but I've never been good at map reading or planning a trip. Starting next month I'm going to buy a bus pass and just ride the thing as much as I can until I learn the place by sight.
Also uhhhh good job everyone on... not dying? Apparently there's been some near misses. Yikes.
So on Wednesday I've got an appointment with the local DVR. Hopefully this will mean I find some sort of employment. I'm in a tricky position. I need to either find part-time work that will pay me very little so that I can keep my insurance benefit or a full-time job that I can handle that's got benefits sufficient that I won't lose out on getting my pills.
Also going to be riding the bus a lot more since my car doesn't work. It's going to be an interesting challenge. I'll get used to it eventually but in the meantime I literally have almost no idea where the routes go. I have a bus schedule map but I've never been good at map reading or planning a trip. Starting next month I'm going to buy a bus pass and just ride the thing as much as I can until I learn the place by sight.
"we have a mental health problem in our nation"
"so...free or heavily subsidized mental health treatment for at the very least the lower income brackets so they can be 'contributing' members of society?"
'Haha NO!! You clearly are lazy and are using your 'illness' as an excuse for not working hard. If you want mental health care, try being wealthy. Peasant."
Also, bus routes are clearly designed by evil or senile wizards for arcane purposes. your plan of riding a lot to familiarize yourself with the routes, stops, and timing is my method.Also uhhhh good job everyone on... not dying? Apparently there's been some near misses. Yikes.
Not being dead is great.
He dictated a lot of those last books because he was better able to concentrate and keep his flow verbally, and showed good clarity right up towards the end while doing that, I'd like to think that it relaxed him in a confusing difficult time.
He dictated a lot of those last books because he was better able to concentrate and keep his flow verbally, and showed good clarity right up towards the end while doing that, I'd like to think that it relaxed him in a confusing difficult time.
Raising Steam was a particularly good one. He was building a very rich world right up to the end. There's even a bit in there about a goddess Pepina, she of the apple of discord. It was the most overtly Discordian thing I think in his entire work. He even go so far as to say 'hail Pepina and the occasional Discord'. So I say hail Pratchett!
He dictated a lot of those last books because he was better able to concentrate and keep his flow verbally, and showed good clarity right up towards the end while doing that, I'd like to think that it relaxed him in a confusing difficult time.
Raising Steam was a particularly good one. He was building a very rich world right up to the end. There's even a bit in there about a goddess Pepina, she of the apple of discord. It was the most overtly Discordian thing I think in his entire work. He even go so far as to say 'hail Pepina and the occasional Discord'. So I say hail Pratchett!
In the Discworld Noir game, you're explicitly "helped" by a priest called "Malacypse" who is the worshipper of the goddess Errata, who presides over misunderstandings, and is considered a trickster goddess. Malaclypse is furthermore obsessed with conspiracy theories.
Admittedly, Pratchett didn't write the game, but he did edit it.
Kevin Smith is a national treasure, imho. Glad he beat the reaper this time!
He dictated a lot of those last books because he was better able to concentrate and keep his flow verbally, and showed good clarity right up towards the end while doing that, I'd like to think that it relaxed him in a confusing difficult time.
Raising Steam was a particularly good one. He was building a very rich world right up to the end. There's even a bit in there about a goddess Pepina, she of the apple of discord. It was the most overtly Discordian thing I think in his entire work. He even go so far as to say 'hail Pepina and the occasional Discord'. So I say hail Pratchett!
In the Discworld Noir game, you're explicitly "helped" by a priest called "Malacypse" who is the worshipper of the goddess Errata, who presides over misunderstandings, and is considered a trickster goddess. Malaclypse is furthermore obsessed with conspiracy theories.
Admittedly, Pratchett didn't write the game, but he did edit it.
Neat! I'll have to look into getting a game system one day and checking it out.
Damnit, baby either has a badass immune system that eats platelets, or one that is too lame and the bone marrow is making defective ones.
fuck all the things
Won't know for a month or so what it is. If it's the bad one I'm going to start begging for people's bone marrow.
It appears my genes are defective, but in a way that doesn't hurt me, just my kids.
Damnit, baby either has a badass immune system that eats platelets, or one that is too lame and the bone marrow is making defective ones.
fuck all the things
Won't know for a month or so what it is. If it's the bad one I'm going to start begging for people's bone marrow.
It appears my genes are defective, but in a way that doesn't hurt me, just my kids.
One thing I really hate about FB is it recommending people that you were friends with but because you're a fucking asshole and prone to really dumbshit unfriended all of them because you're an asshole. Yes thanks FB for the continual reminder of how childish I've been.
Had another blood test and his platelets are almost normal. His IgM levels are damn high though.
dunno wtf is going on
Had another blood test and his platelets are almost normal. His IgM levels are damn high though.
dunno wtf is going on
Damn, sorry to hear :(
They thinking HIGM? Or some kind of infection/Immune overreaction?
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Does this ring a bell, anyone? Taken today, on a bus, in Budapest. Roughly palm-size.
Didn't know where to put this so http://HonestBobsUsedDildoEmporium.com (http://HonestBobsUsedDildoEmporium.com)
Didn't know where to put this so http://HonestBobsUsedDildoEmporium.com (http://HonestBobsUsedDildoEmporium.com)
I was honestly surprised.
Whoever linked to that Shaun guy on Youtube - thank you.
I have been on a serious binge.
http://www.payphone-directory.org/ (http://www.payphone-directory.org/)
I found a thing.
http://www.payphone-directory.org/ (http://www.payphone-directory.org/)
I found a thing.
The thing is full of ads.
So a break-in happened a few houses down from my girlfriend's parents house, and the police were going around asking the neighbors if they saw anything. They got to my gf's parents, and knocked on the door. Gf's mom opens the door and greets the officer, and while they are talking, the family dog manages to escape. The dog (Buster) got out onto the porch and was growling at the cop, and the cop decided to go right up to Buster and try to grab him. Buster nipped the cop on the ankle and backed off. Cop swears, takes a step back, pulls out his pistol, and in what is clearly an act of revenge and absolutely not self-defense, shoots Buster three times, killing him.
Cop goes to hospital, plays it up like the wound (which I was told barely broke the skin) was a huge thing. The family, hysterical and wrecked (major animal lovers), file a formal complaint with the police department. The police department, I'm guessing to strengthen their case in case they get sued, FINE the family a bunch of money for "out of control animal" AND charge them for the hospital bill despite the wound not requiring stitches or anything more than a fucking band-aid.
Buster, the 9 year old Australian Shepard, was a friendly family dog. Great with kids, loved people, and was protective of his property from strangers. He was absolutely NOT any sort of menace. There wasn't a mean bone in his body.
And people wonder why I hate the police as much as I do.
Down to 211 from 235-240. Turns out raising a kid and cutting out all that sugar/carbs is a weight loss plan.
I am disturbed by the fact that I now wear suits or "business casual" more often than jeans & a black tee shirt. And that my engineer boots have been under the bed for weeks.
This can't be good for me.
Down to 211 from 235-240. Turns out raising a kid and cutting out all that sugar/carbs is a weight loss plan.
So is writing down everything you eat, so you can shame yourself out of a trip to the fridge.
Diabetics: Bad people AND OCD.
Down to 211 from 235-240. Turns out raising a kid and cutting out all that sugar/carbs is a weight loss plan.
So is writing down everything you eat, so you can shame yourself out of a trip to the fridge.
Diabetics: Bad people AND OCD.
I'm hoping to avoid that, the writing things down thing, I already shame myself out trips to the fridge or buying certain things at the store.
I am disturbed by the fact that I now wear suits or "business casual" more often than jeans & a black tee shirt. And that my engineer boots have been under the bed for weeks.
This can't be good for me.
WELCOME.
Down to 211 from 235-240. Turns out raising a kid and cutting out all that sugar/carbs is a weight loss plan.
So is writing down everything you eat, so you can shame yourself out of a trip to the fridge.
Diabetics: Bad people AND OCD.
I'm hoping to avoid that, the writing things down thing, I already shame myself out trips to the fridge or buying certain things at the store.
It's more important than metformin. 169% dead serious. It is the difference between a 5.5 A1C and getting toes amputated.
Down to 211 from 235-240. Turns out raising a kid and cutting out all that sugar/carbs is a weight loss plan.
So is writing down everything you eat, so you can shame yourself out of a trip to the fridge.
Diabetics: Bad people AND OCD.
I'm hoping to avoid that, the writing things down thing, I already shame myself out trips to the fridge or buying certain things at the store.
It's more important than metformin. 169% dead serious. It is the difference between a 5.5 A1C and getting toes amputated.
God. My fucking mil everytime I mention how my sugar's been or what my A1C is: "Why are you worried? Those great numbers." For a fucking diabetic maybe. My A1C is 5.7 which is still prediabetic but it's so far the "well check every 6mon to a year" not "well every 3 months we want your blood you degenerate sugar fiend."
So a break-in happened a few houses down from my girlfriend's parents house, and the police were going around asking the neighbors if they saw anything. They got to my gf's parents, and knocked on the door. Gf's mom opens the door and greets the officer, and while they are talking, the family dog manages to escape. The dog (Buster) got out onto the porch and was growling at the cop, and the cop decided to go right up to Buster and try to grab him. Buster nipped the cop on the ankle and backed off. Cop swears, takes a step back, pulls out his pistol, and in what is clearly an act of revenge and absolutely not self-defense, shoots Buster three times, killing him.
Cop goes to hospital, plays it up like the wound (which I was told barely broke the skin) was a huge thing. The family, hysterical and wrecked (major animal lovers), file a formal complaint with the police department. The police department, I'm guessing to strengthen their case in case they get sued, FINE the family a bunch of money for "out of control animal" AND charge them for the hospital bill despite the wound not requiring stitches or anything more than a fucking band-aid.
Buster, the 9 year old Australian Shepard, was a friendly family dog. Great with kids, loved people, and was protective of his property from strangers. He was absolutely NOT any sort of menace. There wasn't a mean bone in his body.
And people wonder why I hate the police as much as I do.
I am disturbed by the fact that I now wear suits or "business casual" more often than jeans & a black tee shirt. And that my engineer boots have been under the bed for weeks.
This can't be good for me.
WELCOME.
Thanks! WHY DO I FEEL SO DIRTY?
Sometimes, I let my clothes go to lunch without me.I am disturbed by the fact that I now wear suits or "business casual" more often than jeans & a black tee shirt. And that my engineer boots have been under the bed for weeks.
This can't be good for me.
WELCOME.
Thanks! WHY DO I FEEL SO DIRTY?
Because humans were not meant to live like this.
I am disturbed by the fact that I now wear suits or "business casual" more often than jeans & a black tee shirt. And that my engineer boots have been under the bed for weeks.
This can't be good for me.
WELCOME.
Thanks! WHY DO I FEEL SO DIRTY?
Because humans were not meant to live like this.
Had my post gestational diabetes test and I do not have the permanent diabetes.
I can have all the potatoes now.
Had my post gestational diabetes test and I do not have the permanent diabetes.
I can have all the potatoes now.
:rogpipe:
I have the jealousy.
Had my post gestational diabetes test and I do not have the permanent diabetes.
I can have all the potatoes now.
:rogpipe:
I have the jealousy.
If it makes you feel better, I can have none of the dairy.
Found myself in a Brooks Brothers store today.
Someone kill me before the metamorphosis is complete. :tgrr:
Woo don't have to ask people for bone marrow! Might have to shove steroids and iron into the kid though.
Found myself in a Brooks Brothers store today.
Someone kill me before the metamorphosis is complete. :tgrr:
The minute you exit the store whatever was in your bag turned into a black tee and a pair of hobnail boots. The universe has ways of self correcting.
Meanwhile I'm playing "dodge the refined carbohydrates" on account of living with the in laws. I don't understand the attitude of my mil towards carbs. She also doesn't think prediabetes is a thing and that it's bullshit the diagnostics for diabetes keep trending to lower levels of acceptable.Had my post gestational diabetes test and I do not have the permanent diabetes.
I can have all the potatoes now.
:rogpipe:
I have the jealousy.
Meanwhile I'm playing "dodge the refined carbohydrates" on account of living with the in laws. I don't understand the attitude of my mil towards carbs. She also doesn't think prediabetes is a thing and that it's bullshit the diagnostics for diabetes keep trending to lower levels of acceptable.Had my post gestational diabetes test and I do not have the permanent diabetes.
I can have all the potatoes now.
:rogpipe:
I have the jealousy.
Like, I'm trying not to get the beatus? Her conception of what is a good A1c or sugar level is so warped.
Meanwhile I'm playing "dodge the refined carbohydrates" on account of living with the in laws. I don't understand the attitude of my mil towards carbs. She also doesn't think prediabetes is a thing and that it's bullshit the diagnostics for diabetes keep trending to lower levels of acceptable.Had my post gestational diabetes test and I do not have the permanent diabetes.
I can have all the potatoes now.
:rogpipe:
I have the jealousy.
Like, I'm trying not to get the beatus? Her conception of what is a good A1c or sugar level is so warped.
Meanwhile I'm playing "dodge the refined carbohydrates" on account of living with the in laws. I don't understand the attitude of my mil towards carbs. She also doesn't think prediabetes is a thing and that it's bullshit the diagnostics for diabetes keep trending to lower levels of acceptable.Had my post gestational diabetes test and I do not have the permanent diabetes.
I can have all the potatoes now.
:rogpipe:
I have the jealousy.
Like, I'm trying not to get the beatus? Her conception of what is a good A1c or sugar level is so warped.
How is she telling you what to eat?
Also, it's very likely that a) I have PTSD, 2) it had it before I joined the army, and c) the army made it worse. And this might explain why half of my BP isn't fully responding to my meds and why I had an extremely atypical reaction to another.
Also, it's very likely that a) I have PTSD, 2) it had it before I joined the army, and c) the army made it worse. And this might explain why half of my BP isn't fully responding to my meds and why I had an extremely atypical reaction to another.
This is possible, but speaking from experience, I wouldn't rule out a physiological problem.
Also, it's very likely that a) I have PTSD, 2) it had it before I joined the army, and c) the army made it worse. And this might explain why half of my BP isn't fully responding to my meds and why I had an extremely atypical reaction to another.
This is possible, but speaking from experience, I wouldn't rule out a physiological problem.
That is likely. Seroquel should not have made me react in almost the opposite of its function. But I think the PTSD is likely why Lamictal isn't doing much for my manic irritability while helping with the depression.
Also, it's very likely that a) I have PTSD, 2) it had it before I joined the army, and c) the army made it worse. And this might explain why half of my BP isn't fully responding to my meds and why I had an extremely atypical reaction to another.
This is possible, but speaking from experience, I wouldn't rule out a physiological problem.
That is likely. Seroquel should not have made me react in almost the opposite of its function. But I think the PTSD is likely why Lamictal isn't doing much for my manic irritability while helping with the depression.
Lamictal is actually known for mainly treating the depressive phase of BP, not so much the manic phase. Specifically, it should decrease the amplitude of the low, and delay the high, but it usually won't prevent it or dampen it.
The Seroquel activity depends on genetic predisposition to favoring certain neurotransmitter activity over another, and also depends on dosage. You may wanna discuss dosage of that one with your doctor, as you may need more or less. If they're not aware of that distinction, or think it irrelevant, you may wanna shop around for another doctor if possible.
Also, it's very likely that a) I have PTSD, 2) it had it before I joined the army, and c) the army made it worse. And this might explain why half of my BP isn't fully responding to my meds and why I had an extremely atypical reaction to another.
This is possible, but speaking from experience, I wouldn't rule out a physiological problem.
That is likely. Seroquel should not have made me react in almost the opposite of its function. But I think the PTSD is likely why Lamictal isn't doing much for my manic irritability while helping with the depression.
Lamictal is actually known for mainly treating the depressive phase of BP, not so much the manic phase. Specifically, it should decrease the amplitude of the low, and delay the high, but it usually won't prevent it or dampen it.
The Seroquel activity depends on genetic predisposition to favoring certain neurotransmitter activity over another, and also depends on dosage. You may wanna discuss dosage of that one with your doctor, as you may need more or less. If they're not aware of that distinction, or think it irrelevant, you may wanna shop around for another doctor if possible.
I appreciate the concern and I know that it's where your info dump and advice come from, which is why I'm not going in a tear about the implied insult that I am so dumb i would not have done research into my health or the medications I am on and my treatment. I am well aware what lamotrigine primarily treats in bp. I am week aware of what quetiapine is and does. BPII and PTSD are treated in different ways with different kinds of drugs and therapy. My treatmenttement needs to be adjusted in light of the new revelation. And before you point out that one of the unapproved uses for lamotrigine is top treat PTSD, it its clearly not currently working fully.
I will however point out that were I dissatisfied with my psychologist or the staff psychiatrist I would be venting about that and not talking about my experiences in the joy that is trying out psychiatric drugs.
Also also, I wasn't implying that you were dissatisfied with your psychologist. I was just emphasizing the importance of the dosage in its effects, as the effects become completely opposing to what is expected depending on the dose (Seemed to be what you were experiencing, but if you insist this was false, then it probably was, and I apologize for that, too.).
I was unaware that there was any effective drug protocol for PTSD.
Friend of a friend was in some PTSD study that involved MDMA.
Speaking of Nazis, check out this diary https://imgur.com/a/22mHD
In the space of 2 months, Hoffman goes from "we will crush the untermenschen Russians" to "we will be lucky to get out alive". There's also bonus whining about Russia's "gangster methods".
So, I'm writing again.
I have decided to try something that is both optimistic and horrifying. 1st chapter up on Monday evening.
Your Honor, defense proffers that the District Attorney presents itself as the "Doctor of convenience" in evidence for discovery thereof.
So, I'm writing again.
I have decided to try something that is both optimistic and horrifying. 1st chapter up on Monday evening.
So, it turns out the penalty for breaking and entering into someone's flat is...a written warning.
At least it is apparently the case...I don't know because no-one has actually officially told me. I had to rely on my co-worker to pass on the gossip.
It would literally be just a list of things I was carrying, and/or things I saw at the store arranged so that they would rhyme occasionally.
Maybe if I find some time this weekend....
So, my solictor and I have drafted a letter of grievance over the whole break-in incident.
Fun starts on Monday. Solicitor thinks I could angle for constructive dismissal, but he recommends it as a final option, due to the way work tribunals are these days (lol tories).
The police have also been informed, so that's adding some pressure into the mix. It will take a while to build, but I'm looking forward to the police dropping by the main offices to pick up the papers on the disciplinary process.
Hey guise. What'd I miss?
Does this mean that there will be no culling of the montana sharks this year?
“... like so many, and we were moved by them. Truly, even the wisest of us were blind until your eloquence shone a light like the new sun upon the intolerable injustice under which we suffered.” He’d kept talking while she wandered off in her head. Fuckballs.
So, the Houston shooter was a Nazi.
I am shocked.
We're having the referendum on abortion today. We have a clause in our constitution saying Mother and child have equal rights to life. This blocked abortion completely in Ireland, and had a side effect that a woman has to literally be approaching death before doctors will intervene to end a pregnancy (they let a woman get septicemia rather then perform the abortion to save her life and she died which sort of triggered today's vote).
I've voted yes to remove this clause, because I trust women to know when they need an abortion (for whatever reason, not just health). But I suspect this is probably the last time they could call this referendum and have a high chance it wont go through.
That has actually been really funny, we have staunch anti abortion die hards in this country, and even they were out for blood when they found out foreign money was behind posters and foreign canvassers were coming in. It triggers the "800 years" reflex nationalism that at this point has become genetic.Okay, now that's just lovely.
There's talk of charging them on filing for a holiday visa under false pretenses, they may all end up with a criminal charge.
We're having the referendum on abortion today. We have a clause in our constitution saying Mother and child have equal rights to life. This blocked abortion completely in Ireland, and had a side effect that a woman has to literally be approaching death before doctors will intervene to end a pregnancy (they let a woman get septicemia rather then perform the abortion to save her life and she died which sort of triggered today's vote).
I've voted yes to remove this clause, because I trust women to know when they need an abortion (for whatever reason, not just health). But I suspect this is probably the last time they could call this referendum and have a high chance it wont go through.
Good luck. Somehow I have a surprising amount of Irish or Irish-adjacent content on my Twitter feed, so I woke up to a ton of posts about this.
That has actually been really funny, we have staunch anti abortion die hards in this country, and even they were out for blood when they found out foreign money was behind posters and foreign canvassers were coming in. It triggers the "800 years" reflex nationalism that at this point has become genetic.Okay, now that's just lovely.
There's talk of charging them on filing for a holiday visa under false pretenses, they may all end up with a criminal charge.
I finally got myself decent employment today! I'll be working in a local bakery just a few blocks from where I live. It's through a staffing agency right now but after 3 months of good work they should hire me in.
It's been almost two years since I last held a real, well paying, full time job. It's third shift so I'm going to be doing A LOT of adjustment for the next few months, but I'm finally getting back to being able to take care of myself again after years of crippling depression. This is a huge step in the process of my recovery. I'm excited!
Thanks for the advice!I finally got myself decent employment today! I'll be working in a local bakery just a few blocks from where I live. It's through a staffing agency right now but after 3 months of good work they should hire me in.
It's been almost two years since I last held a real, well paying, full time job. It's third shift so I'm going to be doing A LOT of adjustment for the next few months, but I'm finally getting back to being able to take care of myself again after years of crippling depression. This is a huge step in the process of my recovery. I'm excited!
Advice for working graves:
1. Go to bed the moment you get home.
2. Don't drink coffee until midnight.
3. Forget all about alcohol.
"Okay: Imagine it's a Saturday, and you are hugging your knees in the shower and crying, because you realized that the government is never actually going to provide a pussy ration. The radio, though is playing Morrissey - the crown prince of sad - and he tells you that deaf girls are terrible at warning people of disaster and that it sucks to be famous because your friends all hate you for having new shirts. So instead of cutting your wrists the long way, you instead get out of the shower and use EXTRA eyeliner because the world is full of bastards and you don't care.
And THAT, my friends, is postmodernism."
Elliot Rodgers was a lunatic.
Joe Cosby, one of the greatest ranters in the CotSG, died early yesterday morning.
I've know this guy on Usenet and then FB for something like 20 years. :cry:
Joe Cosby, one of the greatest ranters in the CotSG, died early yesterday morning.
I've know this guy on Usenet and then FB for something like 20 years. :cry:
:sad:
I have had him as a fb "friend" for several years. It's not like I knew him personally, but he was always posting insightful content or just wonderful weirdness. I'm sad to hear of his unexpected passing. I'm also sad to see you saddened by the passing of a friend. Hang in there Roger. Was he a regular poster here? Like could a memorial thread with links to his content be set up, or would that not be appropriate?
And bonus groundless Soros accusations.
One day, someone is going to have to tell the story of how Soros became the boogieman for the American right (it involves Glenn Beck mainstreaming militia conspiracy fodder, for those wondering).
It's pretty much the same thing. Substandard shock jocks cut their political talk show act with a bit of conspiracy....but then they get a taste for it and get addicted. Before they know it, they're snorting down whatever crap they can find, even if it was made by Nazis and cut with rat poison.
What is true is already so.
Owning up to it doesn't make it worse.
Not being open about it doesn't make it go away.
And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with.
Anything untrue isn't there to be lived.
People can stand what is true,
for they are already enduring it.
—Eugene Gendlin
Ghosting means working off the clock, right?
Fuck it. It is what it is. Or as Cain quoted like 8 years ago:QuoteWhat is true is already so.
Owning up to it doesn't make it worse.
Not being open about it doesn't make it go away.
And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with.
Anything untrue isn't there to be lived.
People can stand what is true,
for they are already enduring it.
—Eugene Gendlin
Ghosting means working off the clock, right?
No, it means being on the clock when you're not at work.
Ghosting means working off the clock, right?
No, it means being on the clock when you're not at work.
Ah, I'd never heard the phrase, so I googled it and the first result I saw had it the other way around.
Ghosting means working off the clock, right?
No, it means being on the clock when you're not at work.
Ah, I'd never heard the phrase, so I googled it and the first result I saw had it the other way around.
A ghost on the payroll is a salary for someone that doesn't exist, and is actually funneled to someone else.
Ghosting hours is being clocked in when you're not at work, collecting pay.
Ghosting means working off the clock, right?
No, it means being on the clock when you're not at work.
Ah, I'd never heard the phrase, so I googled it and the first result I saw had it the other way around.
A ghost on the payroll is a salary for someone that doesn't exist, and is actually funneled to someone else.
Ghosting hours is being clocked in when you're not at work, collecting pay.
That certainly makes more sense than you firing someone for working for free.
I don't know this Kang character, but my compliments on the Easter egg.
Oh, to speak of Sam Tarwell.
To tell of his life is to risk summoning cthulhu for the purpose of telling it to lick your barnacle covered taint, but I'll attempt it anyway, Nyarlathotep be dammed.
In school he was as mediocre as one could possibly be, if you overlook him killing half his classmates by making chemical weapons in math class, killing another half by building a genocidal AI in choir, and the last half from causing internal bleeding by giving them all unending "pink bellies" in gym. He was mediocre because there was no one left to compare him to, therefore leaving him no one to be averaged against.
In the military he was awarded 35 individual medals for his mission to *-----redacted---* in the year *------redacted----* for the purpose of *-----redacted----*. Reading that mission report will cause your eyes to bleed with patriotism, which is now being referred to by doctors as "rapid onset ocular cancer", but that's commie talk and fuck them.
His life after the military is fulfilling in its own right, as he holds the lives and well being of several hundred wealthy senior citizens in the palm of his hands. He occasionally executes them on a whim, as tin pot dictators living in Tucson Arizona are known to do. Sometimes he feeds them to the homeless, sometimes he lets piranhas loose in the pool, and other times he simply steers the more visually impaired ones towards woodchippers and let's them do it themselves.
He is a walking version of "the aristocratics!" Joke, but only if it is was written by Bob Sagat and read aloud by bobcat goldthwait while he gargles a big glass of Tim conways jizzum.
He is a man who will be greatly missed now that he is gone. He's not dead mind you, he has simply escaped the facility and has therefore doomed us all to an awful awful death as he sabotages every water treatment plant in America, and reroutes all sewage lines into the city water. With the exception of flint Michigan that is, which he will singlehandedly repair. In Sam's own words "they've suffered enough, now it's everyone else's turn.".
Farewell and Godspeed you magnificent fuck.
Farewell.
So its two am and im channeling spirits through half a bottle of jameson. Work are still embarrasing themselves down at the bar as is right and proper to do. I dont feel right, nothing has felt right in so long. Theres no one thing i can put my finger on. Its like five or ten years ago i stumbled into a world that isnt my own. Close to real but only an approximation.
There's no real point to this message other then I am lost.
I just realised I must have forgotten to unfriend Lys, after I saw him sharing a picture with the hastag #FreeTommy.
For those of you who don't pay attention to low level UK fuckwits, Tommy Robinson is the former leader of the anti-Muslim "English Defence League", who was recently jailed for...well, I think this article (https://thesecretbarrister.com/2018/05/25/what-has-happened-to-poor-tommy-robinson/) sums it up best.
Apparently, being found guilty of contempt of court for undertaking actions which might have caused a mistrial are a "free speech" issue, and poor Tommy is now a political prisoner of the British State who are *checks notes* defending Muslim pedophile rape gangs. Except, you know, he's not and they're not.
So its two am and im channeling spirits through half a bottle of jameson. Work are still embarrasing themselves down at the bar as is right and proper to do. I dont feel right, nothing has felt right in so long. Theres no one thing i can put my finger on. Its like five or ten years ago i stumbled into a world that isnt my own. Close to real but only an approximation.
There's no real point to this message other then I am lost.
I just realised I must have forgotten to unfriend Lys, after I saw him sharing a picture with the hastag #FreeTommy.
I just realised I must have forgotten to unfriend Lys, after I saw him sharing a picture with the hastag #FreeTommy.
you guys know me, I'm probably too forgiving of people who ought to know better
I finally unfriended him after an episode on FB where someone was talking about transphobia and he went out of his way to "trigger" my trans friend. And then when she got upset he mocked her about it.
and I had a bigass private conversation with him, really spent 2 hours trying to talk to him about why intentionally being a dick to trans people is not part of the Good Signal he thinks he's supporting.
Cause I mean that's the weird thing... that a lot of these provacatory troll types really do think they're helping the world in some way -- I can really relate to that due to the time I spent being a dick to people in the name of Eris, so I feel like I have a responsibility to help ease people out of that space.
In the end, he apologized for hurting my friend's feelings, but said that he would probably do it again if given the opportunity.
sigh---goodbye asshole, I wish I could say it was fun knowing you.
I just realised I must have forgotten to unfriend Lys, after I saw him sharing a picture with the hastag #FreeTommy.
you guys know me, I'm probably too forgiving of people who ought to know better
I finally unfriended him after an episode on FB where someone was talking about transphobia and he went out of his way to "trigger" my trans friend. And then when she got upset he mocked her about it.
and I had a bigass private conversation with him, really spent 2 hours trying to talk to him about why intentionally being a dick to trans people is not part of the Good Signal he thinks he's supporting.
Cause I mean that's the weird thing... that a lot of these provacatory troll types really do think they're helping the world in some way -- I can really relate to that due to the time I spent being a dick to people in the name of Eris, so I feel like I have a responsibility to help ease people out of that space.
In the end, he apologized for hurting my friend's feelings, but said that he would probably do it again if given the opportunity.
sigh---goodbye asshole, I wish I could say it was fun knowing you.
I just realised I must have forgotten to unfriend Lys, after I saw him sharing a picture with the hastag #FreeTommy.
you guys know me, I'm probably too forgiving of people who ought to know better
I finally unfriended him after an episode on FB where someone was talking about transphobia and he went out of his way to "trigger" my trans friend. And then when she got upset he mocked her about it.
and I had a bigass private conversation with him, really spent 2 hours trying to talk to him about why intentionally being a dick to trans people is not part of the Good Signal he thinks he's supporting.
Cause I mean that's the weird thing... that a lot of these provacatory troll types really do think they're helping the world in some way -- I can really relate to that due to the time I spent being a dick to people in the name of Eris, so I feel like I have a responsibility to help ease people out of that space.
In the end, he apologized for hurting my friend's feelings, but said that he would probably do it again if given the opportunity.
sigh---goodbye asshole, I wish I could say it was fun knowing you.
I'm still a dick to people in the name of Eris. I troll for justice and I am not gonna stop, but the people I am a dick to are the ones punching down. Terfs, nazis, etc.
I just realised I must have forgotten to unfriend Lys, after I saw him sharing a picture with the hastag #FreeTommy.
you guys know me, I'm probably too forgiving of people who ought to know better
I finally unfriended him after an episode on FB where someone was talking about transphobia and he went out of his way to "trigger" my trans friend. And then when she got upset he mocked her about it.
and I had a bigass private conversation with him, really spent 2 hours trying to talk to him about why intentionally being a dick to trans people is not part of the Good Signal he thinks he's supporting.
Cause I mean that's the weird thing... that a lot of these provacatory troll types really do think they're helping the world in some way -- I can really relate to that due to the time I spent being a dick to people in the name of Eris, so I feel like I have a responsibility to help ease people out of that space.
In the end, he apologized for hurting my friend's feelings, but said that he would probably do it again if given the opportunity.
sigh---goodbye asshole, I wish I could say it was fun knowing you.
I'm still a dick to people in the name of Eris. I troll for justice and I am not gonna stop, but the people I am a dick to are the ones punching down. Terfs, nazis, etc.
What is a Terf?
Christ, I shouldn't drink, it makes me a mopey SOB. What set me off as well was I got a call from the army (Greek) saying I need to do my service, of which I responded with "yeah, no, I'm not doing that", they basically said I can't go back to Greece without being picked up and drafted into basic training.
I wasn't planning on going back any time soon, but it still bummed me out.
Christ, I shouldn't drink, it makes me a mopey SOB. What set me off as well was I got a call from the army (Greek) saying I need to do my service, of which I responded with "yeah, no, I'm not doing that", they basically said I can't go back to Greece without being picked up and drafted into basic training.
I wasn't planning on going back any time soon, but it still bummed me out.
I'm steadily getting used to the raw physical nature of my work. The first couple of weeks saw me REALLY wrecked after a shift, and now I'm merely exhausted after doing a two person palletizing job by myself for 8 hours. Probably be doing the same thing again tonight. I've worked 4 days a week so far and clear about $300 a week after taxes. Compared to what I'm used to this is an exorbitant amount of money. I'm going to save as much of it as I can and try to get a vehicle before the contract ends in October. Then I'll have more options for employment.
I'm steadily getting used to the raw physical nature of my work. The first couple of weeks saw me REALLY wrecked after a shift, and now I'm merely exhausted after doing a two person palletizing job by myself for 8 hours. Probably be doing the same thing again tonight. I've worked 4 days a week so far and clear about $300 a week after taxes. Compared to what I'm used to this is an exorbitant amount of money. I'm going to save as much of it as I can and try to get a vehicle before the contract ends in October. Then I'll have more options for employment.
Watch your back. I mean your literal back.
Just don't literally watch it, because that will lead to neck problems.
Make sure you have low-to-moderate alcohol intake with naproxen. It can really fuck up the liver.
Board is fucking up, it keeps saying that the message body of a post is blank when it's not.
In the theology thread. I just wrote out a response and it will not accept it.
AND THEN THIS HAPPENED/HAPPENS/WILL HAPPEN:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pence-to-be-greeted-by-big-gay-dance-party-in-ohio/ar-AAyATQI?ocid=spartanntp
Make sure you have low-to-moderate alcohol intake with naproxen. It can really fuck up the liver.
Apply peer pressure to former co-workers. "Go on, quit...all the cool kids are doing it."The funny thing is, I barely need to. Just the other day I heard about another lady who's quitting, so the tally is sitting at 3 so far, with another three to go if we wanna break the previous record of 5 people in one week. Hell, they just hired two new people to our program, might just walk up and be like ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE!
Apply peer pressure to former co-workers. "Go on, quit...all the cool kids are doing it."The funny thing is, I barely need to. Just the other day I heard about another lady who's quitting, so the tally is sitting at 3 so far, with another three to go if we wanna break the previous record of 5 people in one week. Hell, they just hired two new people to our program, might just walk up and be like ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE!
So, speaking of work...
HR have rescheduled another meeting with me. Given we've only arranged two meetings thus far, and both have had to be rescheduled (in each case adding an extra week into the process), that is quite impressive.
Oh well, at least this means I can have some beers and watch Egypt vs Uruguay tomorrow.
Ya'll still cucking?
Alright Trump signed the documentation to HALT the separation of immigrant families.
Congrats democrats/liberals you can go back to not caring about immigrants as usual. You can also go "lallalallala" whenever someone mentions the fact Obama deported, and seperated more immigrants than Bush did.
Also can you stop asking me to fuck your wife?
Yea I get it Bernie can still win. Fuck off.
So, speaking of work...
HR have rescheduled another meeting with me. Given we've only arranged two meetings thus far, and both have had to be rescheduled (in each case adding an extra week into the process), that is quite impressive.
Oh well, at least this means I can have some beers and watch Egypt vs Uruguay tomorrow.
Here's what it actually does…
1. Codifies Jeff Sessions' "zero tolerance" directive until new immigration legislation is passed.
2. Limits the definition of family to parent-child pairs. Aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc. are excluded.
3. Puts families under Homeland Security custody during criminal, immigration cases. Previously, children and detained families had to be held in facilities contracted by the Department of Health and Human Services.
3c. Authorizes the military to build new prisons for migrant families.
3d. Allows all Federal departments to offer their buildings as prisons.
3e. Authorizes the DOJ to try to wriggle out of the Flores Agreement.
4. Orders parents to be prosecuted first in immigration courts
Text of EO: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/affording-congress-opportunity-address-family-separation/
Okay, starting to wonder if my blood sugar is fucked up or maybe it's just my strips. Woke up, blood tested at 124, tested again to be sure, it shot up to 147.now, maybe I'm just way too stressed about the whole baby gulags thing, but fuck there's no way that's accurate. Took two metformin just in case.
1. I had dinner later than usual, around 8ish.
2. *Shrugs* seems like it usually works for me. Keep in mind I weigh more than most people.
3. I generally test on whichever finger feels less sensitive than the others.
I'd be willing to chalk this up to bad diet, except there was a another thing last week where I woke up and tested at 57 despite feeling completely normal, and then retested at like, 97. So I'm wondering if my testing equipment is just off. I haven't had the solution to test this vial of test strips, so it's possible that my data for the last few weeks is inaccurate
Honestly, what the fuck, Cain.
Feels like you have to bring up a second complaint to HR... about how HR is treating you.
Or it could just be the Chinese food yesterday.
My guts are a nightmare right now.
I am a walking Geneva Convention violation.
My guts are a nightmare right now.
I am a walking Geneva Convention violation.
you might need to see the doctor about this. *nods, i know a pretty good one, he goes by the name Doktor Howl.
:D hopefully there is a bunch of juicy love to give.
:D hopefully there is a bunch of juicy love to give.
You have NO IDEA.
One state over, geyser eruptions rain scat long the coast.
Well, shit.
We battened down the hatches... and this only made the carnage even more devastating.One state over, geyser eruptions rain scat long the coast.
I like to think of Tucson as the eye of the shitstorm. My neighbors are "safe". You are doomed.
So, doing the reforecast, I find a GIGANTIC GODDAMN financial error. Not malfeasance, just a huge fucking mistake that will take me all day Saturday to untangle. The error predates me being here by about 8 months.
Boss is like "Holy shit. Good catch."
Big boss is like "Why don't you sit down so I can rip you a new asshole for 45 minutes about this and by the way you suck and all your people suck and I feel I must now begin actively micromanaging your group, but not the groups that aren't getting things done or are hemmoraging money."
Big boss is going away for a couple of weeks on vacation starting tomorrow afternoon, and I need to go get some live traps for rats. These two things are more connected than they might appear.
So, doing the reforecast, I find a GIGANTIC GODDAMN financial error. Not malfeasance, just a huge fucking mistake that will take me all day Saturday to untangle. The error predates me being here by about 8 months.
Boss is like "Holy shit. Good catch."
Big boss is like "Why don't you sit down so I can rip you a new asshole for 45 minutes about this and by the way you suck and all your people suck and I feel I must now begin actively micromanaging your group, but not the groups that aren't getting things done or are hemmoraging money."
Big boss is going away for a couple of weeks on vacation starting tomorrow afternoon, and I need to go get some live traps for rats. These two things are more connected than they might appear.
So, doing the reforecast, I find a GIGANTIC GODDAMN financial error. Not malfeasance, just a huge fucking mistake that will take me all day Saturday to untangle. The error predates me being here by about 8 months.
Boss is like "Holy shit. Good catch."
Big boss is like "Why don't you sit down so I can rip you a new asshole for 45 minutes about this and by the way you suck and all your people suck and I feel I must now begin actively micromanaging your group, but not the groups that aren't getting things done or are hemmoraging money."
Big boss is going away for a couple of weeks on vacation starting tomorrow afternoon, and I need to go get some live traps for rats. These two things are more connected than they might appear.
No good deed goes unpunished.
So, doing the reforecast, I find a GIGANTIC GODDAMN financial error. Not malfeasance, just a huge fucking mistake that will take me all day Saturday to untangle. The error predates me being here by about 8 months.
Boss is like "Holy shit. Good catch."
Big boss is like "Why don't you sit down so I can rip you a new asshole for 45 minutes about this and by the way you suck and all your people suck and I feel I must now begin actively micromanaging your group, but not the groups that aren't getting things done or are hemmoraging money."
Big boss is going away for a couple of weeks on vacation starting tomorrow afternoon, and I need to go get some live traps for rats. These two things are more connected than they might appear.
So, doing the reforecast, I find a GIGANTIC GODDAMN financial error. Not malfeasance, just a huge fucking mistake that will take me all day Saturday to untangle. The error predates me being here by about 8 months.
Boss is like "Holy shit. Good catch."
Big boss is like "Why don't you sit down so I can rip you a new asshole for 45 minutes about this and by the way you suck and all your people suck and I feel I must now begin actively micromanaging your group, but not the groups that aren't getting things done or are hemmoraging money."
Big boss is going away for a couple of weeks on vacation starting tomorrow afternoon, and I need to go get some live traps for rats. These two things are more connected than they might appear.
That sounds like my job, except both my boss and the boss's boss would in on the slamming and micromanaging.
Also, they would get so caught up in that, they would forget to implement the cost-saving measures entirely.
I love how my co-worker assumes that, if a sexual assault allegation is made, the woman is automatically suspect, if not at fault.
Yes, Yvonne, that 11 year old tease really seduced that 17 year old boy, with her coquettish, slutty ways.
Yvonne has...views. A lot of them. I won't even get into how she embarrassed practically everyone in a 50 mile radius when a student was dropped off by her parents, who are a gay couple.
But then her "Christianity" doesn't extend to not lying or stealing, so she's probably just a bigoted hypocrite.
Kinda, though her skin colour would not make her very welcome there. She's more Kingston, Jamaica.
Got set up with a new glucometer. Blood Sugar seems to be doing fine, i'm having pretty controlled readings so far, with none of the weird spikes i was seeing before.
Kinda, though her skin colour would not make her very welcome there. She's more Kingston, Jamaica.
Have you asked her to shut her stupid face?
Kinda, though her skin colour would not make her very welcome there. She's more Kingston, Jamaica.
Have you asked her to shut her stupid face?
Pretty much every day. God I wish I had firing power. Half the department would be gone, but it'd still give better service as a result.
Interesting thought: The same gene that expresses as a love for mariachi music also is responsible for polka.
Interesting thought: The same gene that expresses as a love for mariachi music also is responsible for polka.
Wait....
I need to think about this.
Interesting thought: The same gene that expresses as a love for mariachi music also is responsible for polka.
Interesting thought: The same gene that expresses as a love for mariachi music also is responsible for polka.
I never made the connection myself. But, now that you’ve brought it to my attention, I admit that it does make perfect sense.
Interesting thought: The same gene that expresses as a love for mariachi music also is responsible for polka.
Wait....
I need to think about this.
It's true. Both forms of music involve accordions and the implied need to rupture everyone's eardrums with the excessive volume needed to drown the accordions out.
There is nothing good about either genre, they are in fact the SAME genre, and that genre is based on an angry demon-god who aims to punish us for whatever the fuck we did to piss it off. It's the only explanation. Science cannot tell you WHY accordions do what they do. If you chop one in half, there is NOTHING INSIDE that would make that HORRIBLE NOISE. Like bag pipes, only with less spit.
No one has made bratwurst tacos yet.
This is how Trivial made us all millionaires.
No one has made bratwurst tacos yet.
Interesting thought: The same gene that expresses as a love for mariachi music also is responsible for polka.
Wait....
I need to think about this.
It's true. Both forms of music involve accordions and the implied need to rupture everyone's eardrums with the excessive volume needed to drown the accordions out.
There is nothing good about either genre, they are in fact the SAME genre, and that genre is based on an angry demon-god who aims to punish us for whatever the fuck we did to piss it off. It's the only explanation. Science cannot tell you WHY accordions do what they do. If you chop one in half, there is NOTHING INSIDE that would make that HO