That's right. Gold is for the wierdo survivalist dudes to pretend that the economy can completely collapse but they'll be fine because they're sitting on a bunch of gold that nobody can afford to trade for.
What have you learned today?
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More likely they couldn't be arsed trading for because it'll be sodding useless to them. "Riiiiight, so you want me to swap you my smoked rat meat for a lump of metal?"
Learned how to remove parts of PGS images in BDSup2Sub. You go to Edit Frame and drag a box across the part you wanna delete and then the option under Erase Patch becomes available. I couldn't figure it out yesterday and searched the internet for this erase patch that's already included.
I find the parenthesized parts pretty distracting. Makes me feel like HBO thinks I'm stupid or have hearing problems. I'm never watching those Blu-rays again. Will back up the subs separately after I'm done.
I find the parenthesized parts pretty distracting. Makes me feel like HBO thinks I'm stupid or have hearing problems. I'm never watching those Blu-rays again. Will back up the subs separately after I'm done.
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A mimosa is equal parts champagne and orange juice.
A screwdriver is one part vodka, two parts orange juice.
A screwdriver is one part vodka, two parts orange juice.
My current obsession with ancient history pays off again and you guys get to enjoy my ramblings(Please don't run away).
There's a pretty good case to be made that Plato's Atlantis story is somewhat inspired by a bunch of shit that went about 1000 years before in the Bronze age. I know I'm not the first person to bring this up by a long shot but I'll lay out the salient points.
So basically Plato talks a bunch about how a VERY LONG TIME AGO(9000 years, I think the number Plato uses) Atlantis was a big Warmonging Maritime Power that attacked and conquered their neighbors and only Plunky little Athens(where Plato lived) could hold them back because Athens was cool and awesome and totally the good guys. And then the gods get mad about this and sink Atlantis somehow(Plato didn't really bother to finish the story but does a brief summary). Presumably Dramatically as the gods are wont to do and basically Plato wanted to make a point about Hubris.
-In the Late Bronze age the Minoan Civilization on Crete had conquered a bunch of the Aegean Islands in Maritime Empire and probably were harassing/raiding mainland Greece, until eventually the Mycenaean Bronze age Greeks took all the islands back and eventually conquered Crete, bringing the Minoan civilization down for good. The Minoans were also an advanced civilization for the Bronze age(having indoor plumbing in some of their cities).
-Around 1600 BCE, while the Minoans were still going strong in the ancient ancient Aegean, the island of Thera kind of had a massive ass Volcanic eruption that was big enough to only only blow the island into the sea, but probably also caused drastically altered weather patterns in Egypt and China as a result.
-Around 1200 BCE, the Bronze Age Collapse happens and more or less the eastern Mediterranean ends up in a Dark age for the next few centuries because shit stops getting written down and most of the political entities more or less fall apart for reasons we don't really know why.
So to sum up we have: Expansionist Maritime Empire gets kicked in the ass by Plunky Greek Mainlanders and ground into dust + Massive Volcanic Eruption Blows up Island and likely causes a Volcanic Winter for the region + Civilization collapses in the region and takes a few centuries to get back on it's feet. Do these 3 events connect with each other? Probably not, but it does kind of track with the broad strokes of the Atlantis Story, especially if Plato is using what little is remembered about said events 1000 years later to make his own points and the rest is a bit of creative license(A thousand years and a dark age is more then enough to muddle some dates, assuming plato didn't just nick the elements he wanted for his societal metaphor that is the Atlantis Story and knowing plato he likely did).
Of course, the big question mark here is just how much knowledge of the Minoan empire survived to classical Greece, but there's a lot of ancient documents we know about that didn't survive to the modern day(Most of the Epic Cycle, for example). The Thera Explosion very likely was remembered in some form considered what a big fucking deal it probably was(Like on of the largest volcanic explosions in recorded human history).
There's a pretty good case to be made that Plato's Atlantis story is somewhat inspired by a bunch of shit that went about 1000 years before in the Bronze age. I know I'm not the first person to bring this up by a long shot but I'll lay out the salient points.
So basically Plato talks a bunch about how a VERY LONG TIME AGO(9000 years, I think the number Plato uses) Atlantis was a big Warmonging Maritime Power that attacked and conquered their neighbors and only Plunky little Athens(where Plato lived) could hold them back because Athens was cool and awesome and totally the good guys. And then the gods get mad about this and sink Atlantis somehow(Plato didn't really bother to finish the story but does a brief summary). Presumably Dramatically as the gods are wont to do and basically Plato wanted to make a point about Hubris.
-In the Late Bronze age the Minoan Civilization on Crete had conquered a bunch of the Aegean Islands in Maritime Empire and probably were harassing/raiding mainland Greece, until eventually the Mycenaean Bronze age Greeks took all the islands back and eventually conquered Crete, bringing the Minoan civilization down for good. The Minoans were also an advanced civilization for the Bronze age(having indoor plumbing in some of their cities).
-Around 1600 BCE, while the Minoans were still going strong in the ancient ancient Aegean, the island of Thera kind of had a massive ass Volcanic eruption that was big enough to only only blow the island into the sea, but probably also caused drastically altered weather patterns in Egypt and China as a result.
-Around 1200 BCE, the Bronze Age Collapse happens and more or less the eastern Mediterranean ends up in a Dark age for the next few centuries because shit stops getting written down and most of the political entities more or less fall apart for reasons we don't really know why.
So to sum up we have: Expansionist Maritime Empire gets kicked in the ass by Plunky Greek Mainlanders and ground into dust + Massive Volcanic Eruption Blows up Island and likely causes a Volcanic Winter for the region + Civilization collapses in the region and takes a few centuries to get back on it's feet. Do these 3 events connect with each other? Probably not, but it does kind of track with the broad strokes of the Atlantis Story, especially if Plato is using what little is remembered about said events 1000 years later to make his own points and the rest is a bit of creative license(A thousand years and a dark age is more then enough to muddle some dates, assuming plato didn't just nick the elements he wanted for his societal metaphor that is the Atlantis Story and knowing plato he likely did).
Of course, the big question mark here is just how much knowledge of the Minoan empire survived to classical Greece, but there's a lot of ancient documents we know about that didn't survive to the modern day(Most of the Epic Cycle, for example). The Thera Explosion very likely was remembered in some form considered what a big fucking deal it probably was(Like on of the largest volcanic explosions in recorded human history).
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Learned how to sync audio tracks in Reaper. Right now I'm working my way through the Peanuts Holiday UHD collection, whose 5.1 surround tracks are disliked by a lot of people. It has five specials that I already owned on DVD, which are in mono. There are a lot of missing and added frames, especially during those black cuts and fades. Charlie Brown's All-Stars took two hours. That reddish curve was where I had to create a fade out, right at the end of the opening titles. The music there ended much sooner than on the old DVD.
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Today I learned about Juicero and am further convinced that the industrial revolution was a mistake. For anyone lucky enough not to know, fuck you I have to live with this knowledge and I'm taking you down with me.
Juicero was a $700 machine that you put a packet of juice into and it squeezed the juice out. To clarify. You buy a $700 piece of machinery and then you buy bags that contain juice. And then that machine squeezes the juice out. A thing that could very much be done by hand. It does not make juice. It simply puts the juice you bought from the container you bought it in into a glass.
Juicero was a $700 machine that you put a packet of juice into and it squeezed the juice out. To clarify. You buy a $700 piece of machinery and then you buy bags that contain juice. And then that machine squeezes the juice out. A thing that could very much be done by hand. It does not make juice. It simply puts the juice you bought from the container you bought it in into a glass.
Wow. I mean just WOW.
Then again, people will pay thousands for pictures of starships and NFTs while their neighbors starve so.......Maybe we made a mistake coming down from a trees a couple million years ago.
Iirc, it's not just a packet of juice, it has to be juicero's own packaged juice, which wasn't the same price as the Tesco 5L of orange.
Subscription single pack juice, with barcodes, that you can't buy without owning a Juicero
The Juicero is the single greatest example of why techbros are useless.
The Juicero is the single greatest example of why techbros are useless.
Today I learned that the white F-150 that's nearly run me off the road several times is not possessed by Satan nor achieved a malevolent sentience but is actually driven by a little old lady who can barely fucking see over the dash.
Oh yeah, it had to be juicero's proprietary $8 bag of juice. That you could only get via subscription, through the app, if you owned a juicero and they had a qr code so no 3rd party juices could be used. I have to ask, how much is juice in the states that that is a better plan than just buying juice?
This is all a failed experiment. I just want to go live in the woods.
Now, now, let's not put a Keurig anywhere near the same category as the abomination that was Juicero.
Keurig has practicality being a single-use option without soiling an entire appliance normally intended for larger quantities. Yes, it requires "K-cups," but they're not specific to their brand and, not that expensive when compared to buying normal coffee grounds/beans.
Juicero was simply bad scam that thankfully didn't go very far before people caught on. I'd argue that the fact it got ANYWHERE is already fairly damning of human intelligence and how crooked its developers were. I would love to have been a fly on the wall in that boardroom as they tried to rationalize their circular logic business model.
Good to know. Because even here going to like a juice/smoothie bar everyday would probably be cheaper. Not to mention that at 700 for the machine if you used it every day for 2 years you'd still be sitting at almost an additional dollar on the price of every juice.
I don't know enough about keurig but from what I've seen basically nespresso? Or is it closer to filter coffee?