even if the kernel has extra chromosomes.
Okay, that is a hilarious way of saying those forks are back of the short bus “ssssspecial”.
Not hopeless, just overcompensating from the freedom.
OP needs to strongly consider whether he:
- actually likes doing those things, or
- is just entranced/aroused by being able to do things that would be otherwise forbidden by his family and culture.
Either is OK, but when being the source of that behaviour, the former is a lot more healthy than the latter.
Capitalism is expressly designed for neurotypicals.
If your particular deviancy cannot be monetized for the benefit of those who sign your cheques, you’re worse than useless - you’re actively dangerous to the profit stream flowing upwards to the Parasite Class.
Right now I’m taking a sabbatical for two main reasons:
- My parents are reaching EoL, and as the executor of their estate I’m getting involved in them handing everything off to the rest of us. So this pause in my career couldn’t have come at a better time -- how many kids have the opportunity to spend the last year or two of their parent’s lives with them to help them wrap stuff up? Not many.
- My entire industry has gone koo-koo for AI. They are quite literally eliminating entire development divisions in favour of badly hallucinating LLM’s that create some of the shittiest code I have ever seen -- it’s worse than having only juniors on staff with no-one else more experienced. So I am waiting out until the inevitable “ZOMG we need to hire everyone back” stage, just like Klarna is doing right now. Because as it is, 60+% of all job postings are ghost ads, with no intent to hire anyone, and the other 40% require applicants to go through 4+ interviews and have ridiculous requirements. Like, no. if the pope was appointed with only two rounds of discussions, your company doesn’t need to rope in 20+ people over multiple interviews and weeks of deliberations to hire my sorry ass.
it's just like prehistoric earth just after land started becoming visible (waters receding and making land visible),
Ironically, it’s more of a Christian source than a scientific one. Once we had any sort of a clear idea of what happened that far back, it’s the land that acquired lakes and oceans by a million years of constant rain as the earth cooled enough for vapour in the atmosphere to precipitate out, whereas the story of Genesis had the waters first, then god creating land by drawing the waters back.
In this case, the dinosaur is just an inadvertent hitchhiker.
many of the words and phrases in those samples are veryarchaic
Some even come with scientific baggage from that era.
The dinosaur, in particular -- during that era, it was believed that most of the great sauropods were too large to exist unencumbered upon land; that they had to be partially or fully aquatic in order for buoyancy to permit them to actually stand on their legs. Plus, most ambulatory references were made to modern lizards and reptiles, the majority of whom walk with legs out to the side instead of directly underneath the body like most mammalian quadrupeds. So the characterization of the dinosaur’s shambling gait was a mischaracterization that arose from assumptions and insufficient data.
About the only thing I am unsure about is how the waddling dinosaur contributes to the gloomy atmosphere, aside from the physical threat of being trampled underfoot that it would pose.
I guess a modern turn of phrase would be something like, “I almost expected to see…”, in that the conditions were so bad that it wouldn’t be above a sauropod to be present.
Plus, there are also historical interpretations to consider, because when this passage was penned, large dinosaurs were also considered to be mostly aquatic due to their sheer size (water bouyancy was seen as an aid to allow them to stand) and not particularly graceful on land. So “waddling” is indeed a period-appropriate view of how such a sauropod would walk, and not just artistic license by the author.
But Sokets and wrenches?
For the longest time almost ⅓ of their Motomaster sets were rebranded Gearwrench. Especially the non-classic ones with extra features.
Now, Gearwrench may not be on par with Grey Tools or Snap-On. But it’s also significantly upper-shelf and definitely nothing to sneeze at.
Tools are pretty good bang for the buck
Don’t know what it is now, but for the longest time about ⅔ of the wrenches and rackets were rebranded Gearwrench, which is nothing to sneeze at. So OK, it’s not Grey Tools or Snap-On. But Gearwrench is solidly upper-end quality.
They exchanged a Motomaster battery charger that was almost 20 months old. It suddenly stopped working, and they didn’t even bother testing it to confirm my assertion.
The biggest headache was finding the purchase in my account’s history, as they can only search a month at a time, and not by product. Very bad usability for something that employees likely use on an hourly basis.
Not all of them. I fully agree that a traditional one has an inward-curving blade, but Sabatier (with the elephant mark) made a Bec Oiseau with a straight blade. It was marketed with that knife-type name in Canada, specifically through Lee Valley, for a good two-plus decades. I bought three of them.
Anyone who is evidence-based as opposed to ideology based needs only to look at every single jurisdiction where rent controls have been enacted, to become a vociferous opponent to rent controls.
Rent
Controls
Do
Not
Work.
Not over the long term, and definitely not for new tenants.