Pretty much, except you’d need a really really really tall house for one of the gods to fall off of.

On the one hand, it kind of makes me feel like Nikola Tesla was just a god in human form doing cool, fun stuff and then fucking Edison, the “Wizard of Menlo Park” showed up and he probably killed, you know, dozens of Native American gods that we don’t really even have the names for anymore to create the moving picture and the phonograph.

I also bet the punishment for killing a god is something so unbelievably onerous that it would shrivel your soul to know the truth of it.

Like I bet Edison right now is screaming an eternal agony, ripped away from the cycle of reincarnation, and being subjected to immortal punishment.

I mean, I’m glad that there are pockets in the world where people feel confident in saying that nobody studies religion anymore because representation is important, but saying “nobody reads their book anymore” casually overlooks like six plus billion people who do actually participate in a religion of some type.

Like, I get what you’re saying, but more people are religious to some degree than are not.

By a huge margin.

I checked the World Population Review website for the least religious countries, and it seems like there’s approximately 1.2 to 1.4 billion officially non-religious people in the world as of 2020, And three-quarters of a billion of them are in China.

So if we were all placed onto a massive chessboard and forced to battle it out life or death style, the atheists are gonna be out numbered approximately 6 to 1.

I said all of that not to disparage your atheism, but rather to say that it’s okay to have mental exercises in fiction about religion and religious adjacent topics like this, if for no other reason than to enjoy our imagination and to have conversations with each other.

I think you misunderstood the point of the question, lol.

It’s fanfiction.

It’s like saying that the reason why we have not solved fusion is because we have not killed Apollo because he’s safe in the sun, and the only way to solve fusion would be to send a probe to the sun with a live chicken and some peach preserves as part of the method to kill Apollo to steal the power of fusion from his corpse.

I could see some sort of connection between, like, there’s a pickup line where a guy would dip his fingers in a glass of water and flick a few drops of water on a girls clothes, and then tell the woman, “hey, let’s get you out of those wet clothes”, but I don’t see anything inherently sexist in what you said.

Maybe she is making that connection in her mind and just having a difficult time expressing it to you cogently.

I think there’s a lot of misinformation about love bombing. Some people just get really interested in others and spend a lot of time and energy being cutesy. This is not a psychotic manipulation tactic. This is just actual interest in another human being.

The problem with love bombing is that it is very difficult to tell the difference between the two, so some people have defensively started saying that everybody that does it is love bombing because they’re a psycho as a self-defense mechanism, and that’s just not the case.

That being said, I think this person is putting out weird vibes.

If you’re at the point where you’re posting on lemmy about how you don’t want to go out with this person, that should be all of the information you need to know that you should not go out with this person.

I don’t think so, but we could possibly put a ring around the sun large enough to fit every human being to ever live on comfortably.

This would make both Apollo and Beyonce very happy.

Several thousand miles and no.

Like, I’m sorry if you’re not cheating in interviews, you’re fucking yourself over.

If you’re not the top person in your Ivy League class with a 5.7 GPA Being scouted by the big leagues in your field, then you should be cheating and doing everything you can to get every single advantage for yourself that you possibly can.

Otherwise the companies you’re applying for are just going to fuck you over as hard as they believe they can get away with.

You may not like it, but that’s capitalism, baby, and the sword of damocles cuts in both directions.

I remember when people used to complain about the annoyance and difficulty inherent in keeping up with the Joneses, and yet it seems like we have learned nothing as a society.

If you’re gonna spend $500 on a Switch 2 because you want little Billy to be able to play the newest latest games so that his friends won’t think he’s a weirdo, then you’re in for a penny, you’re in for a pound, fucking shell out.

But if you just want little Billy to have some games to play to keep himself active and interested and, you know, not spiraling into drug addiction and depression, because apparently that’s the only alternative to being a gamer, you could buy them like a really nice 200 some odd dollar Anbernic handheld that comes pre-installed with, you know, 5,000 video games and let him play that.

And if his friends complain about how he can’t play the latest Switch 2 Mario Kart game, you tell billy to tell them to go suck a dick while he’s 100%ing Majora’s Mask.

Fml

I was thinking about primer when I thought of this question.

It is time for the fax machine to die.

It has been time for the fax Machine to die for the last 18 years.

For the love of God somebody, please kill the fax machine.

Keep your eyes open for opportunities. Sure, you work in insurance, but surely they need ads and signs and such, maybe you can independently put forth a few products in the environment you work in and make a name for yourself serving the needs you find where you find them.

I work in IT now, but I used to be a musician. Some of my music has been used in training videos for companies I’ve worked for, evne though I didn’t get any credit I got paid my normal wages to make music. I learned image editing and creation in gimp and some of my images have been used in multi-million dollar court cases.

Being a jack of all trades is typically looked down on by snooty people who don’t know that the full saying is, “Jack of All Trades, Master of None, Oftentimes better than a Master of One”.

I work in IT, everyone in the workplace that doesn’t work in IT is basically a child when it comes to computers, so I can explain computers to a child.

Not casting aspersions or anything, but after the 5th time you’ve taught the same 63 year old doctor how to use a mouse you start to recognize a pattern, and I’ve been doing it long enough that I have started to successfully guess and solve the problem while people are still trying to find the words to describe the problem to me.

Best: None. Weddings are pretty boring. I had fun at mine I guess but I got chewed out afterwards because people kept coming to me and asking me to do things and apparently I was supposed to be glued to my new wifes side the whole time.

Worst: Went to a friends wedding, somehow got mistaken as the groom by the priest, which I cleared up, but then during the ceremony the priest said, “I believe that with the power of Jesus any marriage can work, even between people of different races” while looking directly at me, the only non-white (Lakota) person in the entire room.

So what you’re saying is that having nothing to do with Lutris itself, there is a discord where people get together and say things that are hateful.

But we can still use Lutris. It does not mean that we are endorsing the hateful rhetoric of the discord, right?

My work decided to close for Juneteenth, but then I had to come back on Friday, and I told everyone I was going to request that Friday off so I could have a four-day weekend for the price of one day of PTO, and I forgot to do it, so I had to work a weird bizarroland hellscape Friday where we had just had a day off so we have like a little bit more energy than usual, but then the weekend is also about to hit so everyone wanted to leave, but everyone also wanted to get all of their work done, so for me it was just a fucking nightmare.

How is it possible to regret eating blueberries? Like, I need more details.

If you have the lid closed, you’re looking at 3 to 15 watts to have a laptop running in the background doing some basic server shit.

Maybe a little more under high load, but those are going to be intermittent and not constant.

I’m just saying it’s not that much more electricity usage, and the recycling more than offsets the CO2.