as alive as you need me to be
So you're saying that ... a woman's partner having more money ... makes them... decisive?
Like, inherently?
... or because women only want to do things that cost a significant amount of money, and give noncommital answers when such money is not present?
I am genuienly trying to follow the logic here.
... is the joke that the women were too old, or too good at essentially fleecing their Johns?
I somehow managed to both use my first word processor program and play the Sims 1 at almost the same time, so ... its both, but I prefer calling it the Simolean symbol.
And if you disagree, well, kra gee narwok, habadu ba blingblong.
There's also thiſ.
The 'long s'.
An f without the crossbar, ſ , sometimes more fully shaped at the bottom, like the integral symbol.
As best I can tell... linguists have not actually been able to figure out totally consistent rules for its usage, beyond 'it replaces s, sometimes'.
It seems to pretty much be purely stylistic flair, everyone who did use it seems to have slightly different rules for how and in what circumstances they did. It tends to follow certain broader rules, but counterexamples can be found for most of them.
... I wonder if we could merge old/middle english characters and l33t sp33k.
ð4t aſſ B b0unc1n, æ'r3 d4y, æ'r3 9t
Wait, what.
... oh no. Nope.
Nope, not going back to set theory, it is 105F / ~40C right now, highly confident I would give myself heat stroke.
You are legitimately one of the luckiest people on the planet.
HR are professional gaslighters, that is literally their job.
Human Resources.
You, the human, a resource, for a company.
Their job is to manage and modify your behavior, as a resource, cattle with feelings.
...they are literally professional gaslighters.
... its pupils are differently dilated.
Ok, drunk internet god-uncle, I'll ... go do ... that.
You might be able to find a compromise in M-ATX form factor.
Smaller than normal ATX, but less of a price premium than ITX, easier to find ... spatially compatible higher end GPUs, and people do make more compact M-ATX cases.
https://www.gamingpcbuilder.com/motherboard-size-guide-e-atx-atx-matx-itx/
EATX, ATX, MATX, ITX.
Now your taste in cases may be different than mine, and I've no idea what EU prices look like, but...
Asus Prime AP201
Jonsbo D30
ThermalTake Tower 300
... if you want to be a bit of a show off, haha.
Well... middle east is never settling down again, in our lifetimes, so... best make your peace with it, if you can.
I still appreciate 3.5 years of out of date study.
3.5 more years than me!
https://radar.cloudflare.com/cloud-observatory/amazon/me-south-1
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
https://repost.aws/questions/QU9Tw9aOItQMKTMaJHobNnUg/https-me-south-1-console-aws-amazon-com
Amazon appears to agree.
The IRGC said in a statement on Tuesday that it had struck back at what it called the "child-killing US Army" by attacking Amazon infrastructure in Bahrain, claiming AWS's "central data infrastructure" had been "destroyed" after being hit by "several cruise missiles," according to Google Translate. The IRGC said the claimed strike was retaliation for what Iran described as a US attack on the under-construction Darkhovin nuclear facility.
A look at the AWS Health Dashboard shows that there are definitely issues in Bahrain and the UAE, with issues in both regions being blamed on the US-Iranian conflict. While the status of AWS me-central-1 (UAE) is just “unable to reliably support customer applications,” me-south-1 (Bahrain) is said to be “currently unavailable.”
The last update to the state of AWS services in Bahrain and the UAE in the open issues area of the Dashboard was on April 30, and the Service History tab shows that every single AWS service in Bahrain has been offline for months.
The difference is the young people got their minds obliterated by convenience through apps from a young age... and everyone saying that this would be the new permanent sustainable future, so doing anything the hardway is just stupid.
They were presented with all this, the content on demand, the simplified UIs... things that mostly 'just worked'.
They also grew up in a time where there is no reward for perservering through difficulty and confusion. The economy, to a job seeker, is a random casino, or nepotism, that's it.
So to them... any kind of delayed benefit is more pointless.
They're not 'making it harder for themselves'... curiosity is a thing that has to be nurtured, encouraged, rewarded... and everything about their lives did the opposite, punished it, mocked it.
Thats not a switch you can just flip. They don't know how to contemplate.
Another important other part of this is the Boomers rigged society to work for them and fuck everyone else, and lied about doing that... and the Millenials, Zoomers and now Alphas all grew up to now in that world.
Homeowner average age is just the Boomer's average age. Political figures get older and older, anomalously.
And... nobody teaches anybody anything any more. The Boomers stopped passing down useful life advice, and that has now compounded into the incredible irresponsibility of Millenial parents just handing their 6 month old an Ipad, to do the parenting for them.
Of course the broadly shit economic conditions for Millenials are a huge part of why that happens...
But you can't pass down skills and habits you don't have, because they were never passed to you.
I am a millenial. Taught myself how to cook, taught myself car maintenance, taught myself socializing and romance advice/strategies, taught myself personal finance habits... my parents either didn't have time, mocked me for not already knowing, or actively had terrible advice that was either immoral, ineffective, or both.
And I think that is a very common Millenial experience.
My dad would tell me about the good times he had learning shit from his dad... and then just... didn't do that, with me.
Maybe I am a bad example, because I am so no contact with my parents they probably think I am dead.
But then again... more and more millenials are going no contact with their Boomer parents, because they've been treated similarly terribly.
Wait.
Ok uh... what if...
What if anti-energy + energy = 50.0000...1% matter, and 49.9999...9% anti matter?
We... still don't actually know why matter dominates the universe over anti-matter, right?
... just spitballing here.
Does that even .... possibly make sense?
I don't know.
This is extremely true and worth saying as you have.
Yeah, I'm not an subject matter specialist? expert? as you are, but yeah... errybody hates Schliemenn, because his idiotic site practices very likely destroyed a whole lot of ... pretty important history.
Not to be too flippant, but:
Boomers gonna boom.
They literally can't help themselves, they're egomaniacal narcissists.
The rare ones that aren't that way can truly be awesome sources of perspective... but goddamnit so many of them are completely insufferable man-babies.
... Did I say that you said that?
No.
I did not.
I was adding general context to what you said, for general readers.
More people read comments than... just you.
Calm down.
The theories are that its a mythic retelling of a legend that's an embellished version of something that basically 'kind of' happened, around the time of the Late Bronze Age Collapse, between the 13th and 12th centuries BCE.
The original date of it being first written down is somewhere in the 8th century BCE, so, yeah roughly 500 years of oral tradition untill then.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Is-the-Odyssey-a-True-Story
Schliemann’s findings and the continuing work of later archeologists seriously fueled theories of the historicity of the Trojan War, dated by later Greek authors to the 12th or 13th century bce. While the mere existence of Troy is not proof that the war was real, the discovery of arrowheads, signs of fire, and unburied bodies found in a layer corresponding to the 13th century bce indicates the possibility of battles having occurred.
Supporting evidence includes Hittite records mentioning warfare with Wilusa, their name for Troy. Some historians believe that a kingdom the Hittites called Ahhiyawa was really Achaea, or ancient Greece. Records suggest that sometime in the 13th century, Ahhiyawan forces were involved in a war against Wilusa, whose ruler, Aleksandu (very similar to Alexandros, a name for the Trojan prince Paris), requested military aid from the Hittites. Experts believe that a real conflict or a series of conflicts of some scale—either a struggle for political or commercial supremacy—inspired embellished accounts of the Trojan War.
So... taken in whole... the Odyssey is maybe roughly as actually historically accurate as... the Old Testament.
If your lense is 'is this legitimate history?'...
There are kernels of events that basically actually happened, and some important people who did something vaguely similar to what's described in the stories... around which is erected a grand mythic narrative featuring a great amount of totally fantastic and impossible nonsense, and many wholly fabricated characters and 'plot points'.
I can see how it would be very annoying to genuienly be trying to sleep, and someone is playing video games in the very same room.
Maybe move the console to the living room, use a headset?
If he's got too much energy to sleep, and she wants sleep now... this seems mutually agreeable?
Maybe I'm an odd duck, but what's always made sense to me, as a very light sleeper, is that a couple would each have their own beds, where they could sleep in the same bed when feeling more cuddly, or seperately when truly exhausted.