Astramancer

60314 pts ยท March 8, 2015


The post is still up even.

1 day ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I make a bit less than what my dad made by the time he retired. It only took me 20 extra years to reach the point he reached when he was 25... except he had 4 kids and I have 0.

2 days ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Would purple be better?

3 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My work is pushing the use of AI. They recently gave us an AI course to take. 90% of the course is "be sure to tell it ahead of time to not make shit up, admit when it's wrong. Then when you have the output ask if it is made shit up. Then research the output to make sure it's not made up. Isn't AI great?

3 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I'm a mortgage underwriter so I get to see the financials of tons of different kinds of people. I've seen doctors still on income-based repayment plans on their $400k-$700k student loans. Making great money but still struggling to qualify for a mortgage because they're drowning in debt.

5 days ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It's about Shenanigans. He's a spy who needs a fake family for a mission, she's an assassin who needs a fake family to get her brother off her case, the kid's an orphan who just wants a family. Only the kid knows the other's backstories and thinks it's the coolest thing ever. Shenanigans Ensue.

5 days ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Skipping steps happened to my oldest sister. She wasn't really speaking and my parents were concerned enough to take her to a speech therapist and considered holding her back from kindergarten. The therapist was like "well, send her to school, let her try." She came back from the first day of school and said "I didn't like it there, I'd rather not go back." Turns out she didn't have a problem speaking... she just had nothing to say.

5 days ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

In a very real way, Punisher represents a *failure* of police. He became who he is because the police were unwilling or unable to take care of the problem themselves. Police who drool over punisher are saying "I'm fucking awful at my job and hope someone else does it for me."

6 days ago | Likes 43 Dislikes 1

I have it on good authority (source: I wish it was true) that all animals love hugs.

1 week ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Can't be poor if you're dead!

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I was with her until $10.44. Then I'm 100% with him... and so is she.

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2 weeks ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Bookmark this post. At some point in the future your aunt will try to bring you into her clutches again and the emotions of this moment will be muted by time. She'll convince you she was more reasonable than she was and that she's shifted to be yet more reasonable. Likely she'll be just as bad as she ever was. You'll want this post so you can see your own emotions frozen in that moment, to remind yourself that sometimes it's not worth it to risk giving some people another chance.

2 weeks ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#2 Teal = off-brand crunchberry cereal.

2 weeks ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I'm still waiting for the usb-GIANTFUCKOFFSPIKE standard.

2 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

GDP per capita only matters when the capita see it.

2 weeks ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Magic: Arena is actually not too bad. The rules are baked in so you get pretty quick feedfback on "what I thought the rules were" vs "what the rules actually are," plus it's ladder algo is actually pretty good for matchmaking so you generally play with people with comparable "power" to you (as a combination of playing skill and how good the deck is). Unranked matchmaking is super weird, though.

3 weeks ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

You can if you work retail or another job that commonly has weekend hours.

3 weeks ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That's beautiful in its simplicity. Too bad it's like $100 worth of lumber these days.

3 weeks ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Pretty much what those lame apologetics people do now, but less terrible apologetics and more preaching. Selling indulgences (not that they called it that) through the mail, that sort of thing.

3 weeks ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And use those screwball dice like a d19 for attack rolls or a d7 for a longsword damage roll. A curse she can *feel.* Every time she rolls to do something and has to use the d19 she'll curse ever trying to get involved with the BBEG.

3 weeks ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I realized that when I was 18 and saw how much grift was available in the online pastor market (late 90s/early 2000s)

3 weeks ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I freaking hate dual sinks. Give me one big basin, damn it! My big pans never fit in the half sink. It's definitely on my "some day" list.

1 month ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

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I don't like soy milk for the same reason. I like cows milk but my gut doesn't. Oat milk is fine.

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I've been saying for years that most of the ultra-wealthy are fucking losers. Ask anyone who makes less than generational wealth what they would do with generational wealth and they'd tell you about the places they'd go, the things they'd do, the hobbies they purse. What do ultrawealthy losers? Work. They work. Because they're fucking losers that don't know how to have a life.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Good luck banning sharia law while avoiding banning non-binding private party arbitration. I'd love to see how you ban sharia law without also banning 1 buddy mediating between 2 friends.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I hate that 'new' slivers are not symmetrical. The whole point is the hive mind, I think they lost something special when they changed to "slivers YOU control."

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And waaaay too much work. He shouldn't need to squat down for every swing. I'm sure he's well experienced and knows what he's doing, maybe it's a speed technique thing, but there's no way that technique is sustainable to cut more than a demonstration patch of field, especially since it's throwing cut grass everywhere and good technique should leave it piled in rows.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I don't think NDAs are *ever* appropriate for a city counsel to sign. Like, their entire job is to run the city in trust for the public. How can they do that if the public is not allowed to know what they are doing?

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