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Heloin
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Postby Heloin » Mon May 11, 2020 6:57 pm

Ethel mermania wrote:
Heloin wrote:Any self respecting spy organisation needs benefits and a good union. Stand tall members of the Guild of Surviving CONTROL Agents!

My shop steward

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I wonder if Rocky and Bullwinkle where unionised, I don't think they did any work though.
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Chrinthanium
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Postby Chrinthanium » Mon May 11, 2020 7:04 pm

A friend of mine on Facebook just realize she doesn't know how to adult. And the realization is astounding because I believe none of us do, we're just following what others in the generation before us did with our own twist.
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Farnhamia
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Postby Farnhamia » Mon May 11, 2020 7:07 pm

Chrinthanium wrote:A friend of mine on Facebook just realize she doesn't know how to adult. And the realization is astounding because I believe none of us do, we're just following what others in the generation before us did with our own twist.

And what do you think "adulting" is? You see what your parents and their generation did, figure out what you think worked and follow that. Otherwise, you make it up as you go along.
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Heloin
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Postby Heloin » Mon May 11, 2020 7:07 pm

Chrinthanium wrote:A friend of mine on Facebook just realize she doesn't know how to adult. And the realization is astounding because I believe none of us do, we're just following what others in the generation before us did with our own twist.

Steps to be an adult:
A: Realise that the world is a crippled mess going down the drain and there's little you can do about it
B: Drink
C: ???
D: Profit!
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Pax Nerdvana
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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Mon May 11, 2020 7:08 pm

Heloin wrote:
Chrinthanium wrote:A friend of mine on Facebook just realize she doesn't know how to adult. And the realization is astounding because I believe none of us do, we're just following what others in the generation before us did with our own twist.

Steps to be an adult:
A: Realise that the world is a crippled mess going down the drain and there's little you can do about it
B: Drink
C: ???
D: Profit!

C: Sell stuff?
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Heloin
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Postby Heloin » Mon May 11, 2020 7:10 pm

Pax Nerdvana wrote:
Heloin wrote:Steps to be an adult:
A: Realise that the world is a crippled mess going down the drain and there's little you can do about it
B: Drink
C: ???
D: Profit!

C: Sell stuff?

C: Sell your soul to corporations that don't even have decent employee benefits anymore and treat you like cattle.
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Ethel mermania
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Postby Ethel mermania » Mon May 11, 2020 7:11 pm

Heloin wrote:
Pax Nerdvana wrote:C: Sell stuff?

C: Sell your soul to corporations that don't even have decent employee benefits anymore and treat you like cattle.

We have a dental plan.
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Pax Nerdvana
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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Mon May 11, 2020 7:12 pm

Heloin wrote:
Pax Nerdvana wrote:C: Sell stuff?

C: Sell your soul to corporations that don't even have decent employee benefits anymore and treat you like cattle.

C: Realize that you will spend the prime of your life trapped in a tiny box doing paperwork.
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Ammunition supply-chain (6.5x55 Swede and .303 British, although available, isn't exactly everywhere)
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Heloin
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Postby Heloin » Mon May 11, 2020 7:12 pm

Ethel mermania wrote:
Heloin wrote:C: Sell your soul to corporations that don't even have decent employee benefits anymore and treat you like cattle.

We have a dental plan.

We work for the government and have decent Unions.
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Pax Nerdvana
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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Mon May 11, 2020 7:17 pm

Heloin wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:We have a dental plan.

We work for the government and have decent Unions.

The Wobblies?
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"The universe did never make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract."
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"Affordability
Suitability (.22LR for squirrels, bigger .22s for long range little things, and big-bore for legal hunting reasons, etc)
Ammunition supply-chain (6.5x55 Swede and .303 British, although available, isn't exactly everywhere)
If it's ugly, uncomfortable, and can't shoot straight, but it accomplishes the above, then it's either a Mosin or a Hi-Point."
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Heloin
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Postby Heloin » Mon May 11, 2020 7:21 pm

Pax Nerdvana wrote:
Heloin wrote:We work for the government and have decent Unions.

The Wobblies?

I'm part of two unions. The IWW and I'm also part of AFSCME which is by extension a part of the AFL-CIO. I very much doubt Ethel is a Wobbly.
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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Mon May 11, 2020 7:21 pm

This margarita is lovely and I’m making friends with it.
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Pax Nerdvana
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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Mon May 11, 2020 7:24 pm

Heloin wrote:
Pax Nerdvana wrote:The Wobblies?

I'm part of two unions. The IWW and I'm also part of AFSCME which is by extension a part of the AFL-CIO. I very much doubt Ethel is a Wobbly.

Then do I have the song for you:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kduhwbFlIco
It's about the IWW

I didn't know you were a Wobblie, Hel. How is it?
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The Internet killed gun control.
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We Will Not Comply
They can’t stop the Signal
"The universe did never make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract."
-Robert Heinlein

"Affordability
Suitability (.22LR for squirrels, bigger .22s for long range little things, and big-bore for legal hunting reasons, etc)
Ammunition supply-chain (6.5x55 Swede and .303 British, although available, isn't exactly everywhere)
If it's ugly, uncomfortable, and can't shoot straight, but it accomplishes the above, then it's either a Mosin or a Hi-Point."
-Hurtful Thoughts on stuff you want in a gun
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Farnhamia
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Postby Farnhamia » Mon May 11, 2020 7:27 pm

Ethel mermania wrote:
Heloin wrote:C: Sell your soul to corporations that don't even have decent employee benefits anymore and treat you like cattle.

We have a dental plan.

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Tony Stark: We have a Hulk.
Make Earth Great Again: Stop Continental Drift!
And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water ...
"Make yourself at home, Frank. Hit somebody." RIP Don Rickles
My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right. ~ Carl Schurz
<Sigh> NSG...where even the atheists are Augustinians. ~ The Archregimancy
Now the foot is on the other hand ~ Kannap
RIP Dyakovo ... Ashmoria (Freedom ... or cake)
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Geneviev
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Postby Geneviev » Mon May 11, 2020 8:34 pm

I love when school actually makes me think about what I believe. It should happen more often. :)
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Heloin
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Postby Heloin » Mon May 11, 2020 8:55 pm

Pax Nerdvana wrote:
Heloin wrote:I'm part of two unions. The IWW and I'm also part of AFSCME which is by extension a part of the AFL-CIO. I very much doubt Ethel is a Wobbly.

Then do I have the song for you:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kduhwbFlIco
It's about the IWW

There's foxes in the hen house
Cows out in the corn
The unions have been busted
Their proud red banners torn
To listen to the radio
You'd think that all was well
But you and me and Cisco know
It's going straight to hell

So come back, Emma Goldman
Rise up, old Joe Hill
The barracades are goin' up
They cannot break our will
Come back to us, Malcolm X
And Martin Luther King
We're marching into Selma
As the bells of freedom ring

So come back Woody Guthrie
Come back to us now
Tear your eyes from paradise
And rise again somehow

I didn't know you were a Wobblie, Hel. How is it?

Always join your union, whatever that may be. Even form one if need be. The IWW is the Union for everyone and it's great that people are starting to see again that capitalism will never help the common worker and that we fight for those rights and benefits together.
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Postby Dumb Ideologies » Tue May 12, 2020 6:28 am

Internet goes down and resetting it doesn't work.

Me: "I've missed my zoom meeting, I've told my boss and I'm doing all I can to fix it, but what if we can't and I get fired because I can't do any work, and will we able to afford things?"

Partner: turn it off for a half hour then go back, probably overheated or something.

Half an hour later, everything works again.

I only react proportionally to things.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Tue May 12, 2020 6:56 am

Dumb Ideologies wrote:Internet goes down and resetting it doesn't work.

Me: "I've missed my zoom meeting, I've told my boss and I'm doing all I can to fix it, but what if we can't and I get fired because I can't do any work, and will we able to afford things?"

Partner: turn it off for a half hour then go back, probably overheated or something.

Half an hour later, everything works again.

I only react proportionally to things.

Glad to see you are the level headed one, maybe you need to tell your partner to calm down.
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The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger
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Postby Rojava Free State » Tue May 12, 2020 7:37 am

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My girlfriend told me to post this, so I did.
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Postby Dylar » Tue May 12, 2020 9:12 am

TIL that there's a Renaissance fair 10 minutes away from me.
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Postby The Cosmic Mainframe » Tue May 12, 2020 9:15 am

Dylar wrote:TIL that there's a Renaissance fair 10 minutes away from me.

Most of the world is still under pseudo-lockdown though.

Is this year's Renaissance fair a medieval quarantine? Where you are forced to stay inside a boat under armed guard for 40 days?
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Postby Dylar » Tue May 12, 2020 9:17 am

The Cosmic Mainframe wrote:
Dylar wrote:TIL that there's a Renaissance fair 10 minutes away from me.

Most of the world is still under pseudo-lockdown though.

Is this year's Renaissance fair a medieval quarantine? Where you are forced to stay inside a boat under armed guard for 40 days?

I wouldn't know. Never been. Pretty sure they're closed, though. I just happened to notice it on Google Maps when I was looking around the area.
St. Albert the Great wrote:"Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena."
Franko Tildon wrote:Fire washes the skin off the bone and the sin off the soul. It cleans away the dirt. And my momma didn't raise herself no dirty boy.

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Postby Hurdergaryp » Tue May 12, 2020 9:29 am

Albrenia wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:No, enforced alcoholism. Drop the water quality till mixing it with wine is the only safe way to drink water again.

Never before has a law which would literally kill me been so enticing.

That's marketing for you.


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Ethel mermania
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Corrupt Dictatorship

Postby Ethel mermania » Tue May 12, 2020 9:32 am

Hurdergaryp wrote:
Albrenia wrote:Never before has a law which would literally kill me been so enticing.

That's marketing for you.


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The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger
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Heloin
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Postby Heloin » Tue May 12, 2020 9:44 am

Dylar wrote:
The Cosmic Mainframe wrote:Most of the world is still under pseudo-lockdown though.

Is this year's Renaissance fair a medieval quarantine? Where you are forced to stay inside a boat under armed guard for 40 days?

I wouldn't know. Never been. Pretty sure they're closed, though. I just happened to notice it on Google Maps when I was looking around the area.

Every renaissance fair right now.
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