Posts made by Rinel

Dysphoria sucks

From my office slack, literally just now:

" 'The wives of men of rank when they die are not given at once to be embalmed, nor such women as are very beautiful or of greater regard than others, but on the third or fourth day after their death (and not before) they are delivered to the embalmers. They do so about this matter in order that the embalmers may not abuse their women, for they say that one of them was taken once doing so to the corpse of a woman lately dead, and his fellow-craftsman gave information.'

-Herodotos"

"Because a 3-4 day deceased body is less appealing than a fresh one.."

"If it hasn't been embalmed yet, yeah, you're looking at some pretty unfortunate bloating and discoloration at that point"

@insomniac7809 said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

no one's come up with a name for the decade that isn't just shit.

The TWENTY-Os. Part of your balanced geopolitical system breakfast.

...and between that and "zoomers" I feel like whoever picks these names just stopped giving a shit around the time they figured out GenX.

I feel so bad for Gen X and Gen Z. We got the cool, quasi-apocalyptic name, and y'all got... letters.

If my parents had attempted to log everything I did as a fifteen year old, it would have made me resentful and mistrusting. They did not like me talking to strangers, and by "did not like" I mean "were paranoid beyond reason about." But I did anyway--not in roleplay settings, but on various forums. I kept that hidden from them for a while. I'm glad I did. Some of my most meaningful relationships arose out of those forums, and I'd be much worse for not having those people in my life.

I'm also not autistic. My mother has worked in criminal defense since I was born. My parents were open and honest with me about why they didn't want me talking to strangers, and as a result I didn't do things that could endanger me, even though I violated their blanket prohibition.

Initial blanket prohibition, at least. At some point I explained what I was doing and why, and they mostly relaxed, though I still will get "is that a real friend you've met in person" questions from my father from time to time.

tosses in two cents; leaves

@faraday

The tl;dr in terms of civil liability in most jurisdictions is that if you

1. apply law to facts in such a way that
2. a person could reasonably believe that you are offering legal advice, and
3. that person then goes and acts on that presumed legal advice to their detriment,

then you are liable for some serious shit. It's even worse for actual lawyers. That's why you see most of us say things like "in most jurisdictions" and "this isn't legal advice" very frequently.

I don't know what the criminal aspect for unauthorized practice entails, but I expect it's pretty similar throughout the States.

Courtesy of @jibberthehut

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@Carex said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Also, remember, once she is inside your house you can shoot her dead. Just make sure she is fully inside the residence. If you have a restraining order out on her and she breaks into your home, you have a license to kill.

This isn't even the legal standard in every US state, much less abroad. Don't give legal advice like this if you aren't a lawyer. It's exceptionally dangerous for the person who is relying on your word, and, assuming you're an American, it opens you up to liability of your own.

I'm going to end up fucking buying this and I already hate myself for it

@peasoupling

What's particularly embarrassing about this is that I've studied Latin, French, and Spanish.

Oops.

@Ghost

Nicaea 1. Second council was about iconoclasm and happened about 400 years after Constantine died.

@Ghost

Christians have believed from early times that Jesus was not born on Christmas. And Easter, though named in the West after a pagan holiday, is tied directly to Passover.

Also, Constantine wielded rather less authority over the Church than most think. He supported Arius. Arius was anathematized at Nicaea.

@Tinuviel

I'm saying that because the two traditions share the common ancestor of 2nd Temple Judaism, the use of Passover in a Christian context is not appropriation. Cf. Christians trying to celebrate Hanukkah by lighting chanukkiot, which is cultural appropriation--that tradition arose after the life of Jesus and the destruction of the Temple. It is solidly a holiday of Rabbinic Judaism and is inappropriate for Christians to celebrate.

@Tinuviel

That wouldn't be cultural appropriation. Nicene Christianity is the evolution of a apocalyptic messianic sect of Judaism that arose during the late Second Temple era. It shares a lineage with Rabbinic Judaism, which evolved from the practices of the Pharisees after the destruction of the Second Temple. Modern Judaism and modern Christianity are more siblings than parent/child, though certainly modern Judaism bears a great deal more resemblance to its forebears than the sect that ended up overshadowing the more orthodox practices.

And I am definitely not going to get into the theology of that tangled relationship. Hoo boy.

@Ghost

Yeah, at least in the Western churches. The Eastern Orthodox call the Easter festival Pascha.

@insomniac7809

The foolish conservatives, of course, miss the fact that Christmas is suffering an attack from the rear--the Christmas season runs through Epiphany, until February 2nd!

@Auspice

I did say to someone who was grumping seriously about Christmas music and liturgical seasons that if people want to celebrate the birth of Jesus several weeks early because the holiday brings them happiness and the world is an unhappy place at present, then that should bring joy to a Christian's heart.

They actually agreed with me! Twitter is weird.

ETA my advent playlist is though

@insomniac7809

Christmas music shouldn't even be getting played. Christmas starts on sundown of December 24th and continues until Candlemas.

WE ARE IN ADVENT, PEOPLE.

/anglocatholic

@Herja

And people were predicting it as far back as episode fucking two. Caught me totally by surprise, of course.

@Snackness said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

eta: However, the Muppet Christmas Carol cures many ills.

Perpetual reminder that the DVD version does not have "When Love is Gone" and is therefore GARBAGE

Yeah, it's universally accurate that eating at a caloric deficit will make you lose weight. What, precisely, is lost--that's a wholly separate issue.

I've been doing intermittent fasting, which apparently has some benefits re: glycogen depletion yada yada yada, but honestly the best part of it for me is just that I have fewer periods of time in which to stuff my face. I am a terrible late-night snacker. Turning that off is very helpful.