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Volpone said:
Slavery is wrong. Not for moral or ethical purposes. It just fails economically.
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Dear God, you reveal yourself as an awful person more and more all the time.
 
Hopefully I'm not proud of myself for being clever and you all will go "Duh, everybody knows that," but today my mind was wandering and decided to say "our" in Spanish. Of course, since I have only the slightest understanding of Spanish, I got it wrong. "Nostromos" does not mean "our" in Spanish. But it made me think of something. Set Google Translate to "Latin" and popped in "Nostromo" and it says it means "shipmate" in English. Naturally I plugged in "Sulaco" next. Google Translate says that means "sloth." So if Ridley Scott (or the "ALIEN" writer) made a joke, it may have went over James Cameron's (or the "ALIENS" writer's) head.
 
Volpone said:
Hopefully I'm not proud of myself for being clever and you all will go "Duh, everybody knows that," but today my mind was wandering and decided to say "our" in Spanish. Of course, since I have only the slightest understanding of Spanish, I got it wrong. "Nostromos" does not mean "our" in Spanish. But it made me think of something. Set Google Translate to "Latin" and popped in "Nostromo" and it says it means "shipmate" in English. Naturally I plugged in "Sulaco" next. Google Translate says that means "sloth." So if Ridley Scott (or the "ALIEN" writer) made a joke, it may have went over James Cameron's (or the "ALIENS" writer's) head.
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As far as I remember my Spanish, nosotros is "we" and nuestra is "our". But I didn't know the rest of that about the Alien ship names, so thanks for that.
 
whisky said:
Is there something, or is there nothing, after death that is?

I lean towards something, but if there's nothing then I guess I'll never know.
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Why would there be something?
 


I am ignoring all the bad news in the world and watching World Cup fans having fun.
 
Cassie said:


I am ignoring all the bad news in the world and watching World Cup fans having fun.
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I am 100% loving this, and I'm not a soccer fan at all. I live in one of the host cities and it's just glorious having visitors from a plethora of other countries hanging around and everyone just getting along and having fun. It's a breath of fresh air, culturally, for everyone, considering all the negative bullshit going on in the world at large right now.
 
I love the Europeans that are being exposed to 'MURICA! I would kill a hobo for Freddy the German. [Been drinking. Bygones.]
 
Is Google gaslighting me!? I used to trust Google. And Google's weather is still the best weather info I've found (because WeatherUnderground decided to suck), but today it's been telling me "WARNING: EXCESSIVE HEAT!!!1111" And I'm looking at it and going "71 degrees F with 49% humidity in the summer in Kentucky?!" That's "EXCESSIVE HEAT!!!111"?

Why does Google suck so much now? It used to be amazing. Now it's annoying and only slightly less worthless than anything else I've found. Speaking of which, why is it that now, every time I check the weather or e-mails or search for something it's like "HEY! CHROME'S AWESOME. DON'T YOU WANT CHROME!?!? CLICK YESS AND YOUR LIFE WILL GET SO MUCH BETTER."

I've tried more than once to figure out how to turn it off, but since that usually boils down to a Google search... :(
 
If you have brown rice that takes 45 minutes to cook, that makes the white rice that takes 15 minutes to cook seem fast. [insert black guy tapping his forehead and smiling meme pic]
 
Volpone said:
Is Google gaslighting me!? I used to trust Google. And Google's weather is still the best weather info I've found (because WeatherUnderground decided to suck), but today it's been telling me "WARNING: EXCESSIVE HEAT!!!1111" And I'm looking at it and going "71 degrees F with 49% humidity in the summer in Kentucky?!" That's "EXCESSIVE HEAT!!!111"?

Why does Google suck so much now? It used to be amazing. Now it's annoying and only slightly less worthless than anything else I've found. Speaking of which, why is it that now, every time I check the weather or e-mails or search for something it's like "HEY! CHROME'S AWESOME. DON'T YOU WANT CHROME!?!? CLICK YESS AND YOUR LIFE WILL GET SO MUCH BETTER."

I've tried more than once to figure out how to turn it off, but since that usually boils down to a Google search... :(
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Are you using a VPN? Is it giving you the weather for the correct location?
 
Yeah. No VPN. It's befuddling. It shows unseasonably pleasant weather for where I live. Then it says "EXCESSIVE HEAT" in literal big red letters under it and I think about the number of times its been 89F with 89% humidity this time of year and wonder WTF?!
 
Fucking cat. Looking at outside temp and humidity and inside temp and humidbouity and time of night and decided it was time to close windows. My windows don't have screens, so I just *assumed* The Cat was Out. So I opened the door to call nim. And he ran Out. Looked up at me and said "yeah, fuck you. I'm going out when you wanted me in. You can't do anything about it." And he's right. Fucker.
 
...and after more cocktails than are appropriate on a Tuesday, I went to see if The Cat was ready to come back In and instead The Dog wanted to go Out. On the plus side, she can bark loud enough for me to hear (and knows to do this) and often brings in The Cat (which kind of makes me wish I'd named him "Apollo" instead of "Gaius Frackkin' Baltar."
 
 
OK. Apparently the "EXCESSIVE HEAT" thing is for, like, a week from now. And it's going to be in the low 90s. Low 90s in July in Kentucky?! I, for one, am shocked. This definitely needed a heads-up of a week or so. Shit, I'm just amazed that it's been in the low 80s/high 70s with less than 50% humidity in June.
 
This is why I'm stuck still using Google. It sucks, but it sucks less than any other option. (Sometimes Yahoo!--of all things--actually outperforms Google, but I find its interface clunky.)
 
Do we have any math/finance types here? Article today with Suze Orman saying it's a mistake to take Social Security at 62 and you should wait until 70 if possible because of the reduced percentage you get. And I guess Suze Orman is a pretty respectable finance person so I have to take her advice with a grain of salt, but I also feel like she's wrong. Because she's assuming having money sitting in a giant (but shrinking) metaphorical mattress in the Senate basement, for legislators to pillage for other things on a Ponzi promise that you will get money from someone else's paycheck in the future is the best use of your money.

If you're not going to claim Social Security until you're 65--or even 70--you're obviously going to be doing something else to provide money for room and board. Why not claim Social Security and start investing that money into something that will appreciate--and then start drawing from that when you're 65 or 70, along with your Social Security check? Yes, if you make more than $24K or so, you get penalized until you're 65, but even so, I'd argue it's a better use of your money than SS.

Hell, someone just did an article on how, if...Greenspan? in 1996--or Dubya in 2005--had been able to privatize SS, basically everyone today could retire a millionaire. Backed it up with math and everything.
 
Volpone said:
Do we have any math/finance types here? Article today with Suze Orman saying it's a mistake to take Social Security at 62 and you should wait until 70 if possible because of the reduced percentage you get. And I guess Suze Orman is a pretty respectable finance person so I have to take her advice with a grain of salt, but I also feel like she's wrong. Because she's assuming having money sitting in a giant (but shrinking) metaphorical mattress in the Senate basement, for legislators to pillage for other things on a Ponzi promise that you will get money from someone else's paycheck in the future is the best use of your money.

If you're not going to claim Social Security until you're 65--or even 70--you're obviously going to be doing something else to provide money for room and board. Why not claim Social Security and start investing that money into something that will appreciate--and then start drawing from that when you're 65 or 70, along with your Social Security check? Yes, if you make more than $24K or so, you get penalized until you're 65, but even so, I'd argue it's a better use of your money than SS.

Hell, someone just did an article on how, if...Greenspan? in 1996--or Dubya in 2005--had been able to privatize SS, basically everyone today could retire a millionaire. Backed it up with math and everything.
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Fuck Suze Whoreman! I'm retiring at 62 and collecting my Social Security and pension.
 
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