I like the Discworld approach, as people stop truly believing in a god they will weaken until they fade away.
This could be either just not believing, or believing more in the system than the God itself.
Small gods is a good read and introduces the concept well.
Who said the books were in English?
Greek and Arabic still exist today and are widely used.
This timeline is already fucked so I really can’t make it any worse, so I’d go back just to fuck with the timeline.
Take written volumes on mathmatics, science, and engineering and hand them out in Greece and Arabia a few thousand years ago and see what kind of world we end up with instead.
It’s very clear where she got her name, but it’s the reason for the difference in spelling.
They’re not the same person, district of Columbia is named after the female personification of the United States, Columbia.
Outrage generates clicks, clicks generate revenue.
We’re both here because we’re disgusted by the headline so it obviously works.
Make sure you buy one with enough cooling power to cool the room it’s in. If it’s a small bedroom you’ll want 5,000-8,000 BTU and if it’s a larger area like a living room you’ll probably want 12,000-14,000 BTU.
I just put a 12,000 BTU unit in my living room because it’s open to the kitchen and it’s about 550ft².
A good rule of thumb is 20 BTU per Ft², so my 550ft² living room/kitchen area would require at least 11,000 BTU.
That sounds like something he would do on July 4th
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USA, I usually take a day or two at a time, either when I’m sick or I have a doctor’s appointment.
I get 40 hours of PTO per year and both sick and vacation come from the same pool, sick days count as “points” though and you get 3 points in a 6 month period, exceeding that is termination.
Unpaid time off isn’t an option until you run out of PTO.
Add instant potatoes until it gets to the desired thickness and add ground beef and cheese.
In college we called it “poverty slop”
It’s probably set up by the utility company to monitor either electric or water usage.
Files: always a list. Photos: preferably a grid
Honestly I prefer it to Reddit because it’s smaller and more civil.
But I won’t lie, I’ve quit Lemmy for a few days when there’s a huge news story.
I’ll go over there because there’s more engagement and updates seem to happen more frequently.
But in general I prefer it here, and I’m happy most of the people stay over there, I don’t want most of them here anyway.
A human centipede but made of weasels
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Every time I have taken a job that I hated and told myself that I would only stay for a few months, I ended up trapped in it for years.
Sometimes it’s not viable to wait for something that you like though, bills need paid and mouths need fed.
Chase routinely flags my phone bill that I’ve been paying to the same company for 5+ years as “potentially fraudulent” and doesn’t allow the purchase to go through.
However, they didn’t flag a $900 purchase on Chipotle gift cards on the other side of the country as potentially fraudulent and I had to file with them and wait for them to complete an investigation.
My Grandfather.
He was a drunk and a a wife beater.
One night starting at about 10 pm he beat my grandma to the brink of death with anything he could find.
He broke the walnut coat tree over her head, beat her with the radio, whipped her with his belt, broke her hands, tired her up behind his car and drug her up and down the gravel road, burned her clothes, and left her outside in February and kept dumping water on her trying to wake her up.
He finally stopped around 5 am when he called my mom because she wouldn’t wake up.
My mom and aunt took her to the hospital and sent the cops after him.
He tried to say she did it to herself and then charged his story to say that she ran off with “a bunch of n*ggers to do cocaine”.
She was in a coma and was pronounced brain dead 4 days after it happened.
There were belt marks on her back and stomach and you could clearly read his name from his belt buckle.
I vividly remember sitting though the court hearings and testifying at 12 years old.
He went to prison, we had to fight his parole every 5 years to keep him in, because he would have killed all of us for putting him in there, for 20 years.
In 2020 he died a slow and horrible death in the prison infirmary of Covid, he suffered for weeks and not one of his children or grandchildren went to visit him in his final days.
I was curious too so I found the channel and voted on it so I could see the results