Posts made by Rinel

@Auspice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

All the anxiety.

Oh, you're collecting it? Here, lemme give you mine. No, seriously, it's free.

I can commiserate. It's hell.

I'm debating whether or not I'm going to go see Detective Pikachu next week, in a theater that is at worst a five minute drive from my house, simply because I don't want to have my agoraphobia trigger a panic attack. And of course not going is avoidant behavior which is bad, but for goodness' sake can I just enjoy a fun pure thing without pain?

@Lotherio You got the geography right but the time period wrong. It was inspired by the Wars of the Roses.

@Tyche said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@Rinel said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@Tyche said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Why the hell is American insulin being sold at 700% higher than it was 10 years ago?!!
Supply and demand...mmm.. I want to know.

Because corporations have established monopolies and destroyed any reins on them through regulatory capture.

Well there are 3 American corporations manufacturing insulin. So I'm not going to put it down to just a monopoly and what not. Because generally I'm not anti-corporatist.

I refer you to regulatory capture. And oligopolies are functionally the same as monopolies.

@Tyche said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Why the hell is American insulin being sold at 700% higher than it was 10 years ago?!!
Supply and demand...mmm.. I want to know.

Because corporations have established monopolies and destroyed any reins on them through regulatory capture.

@Ganymede said in RL things I love:

Michael Bolton.

It's always nice when folks don't take themselves too seriously.

I never really liked Teen Titans, and I have even less interest in Teen Titans Go, but that and this appearance of the Golden Girls has me appreciative of the creators slipping in little things for parents to enjoy.

@tek said in RL Anger:

@Rinel said in RL Anger:

I MUST KNOW WHAT WAS SAID IN RESPONSE TO MY STATEMENT ABOUT IRREGULAR LATIN VERBS

"Because I kept tripping over the syllables and sounding like an idiot, mostly."

Then I realized the post above was about school shootings and it just felt gauche.

Don't worry about it. I'm so gauche I'm practically sinister.

@silverfox

Yikes. I'm sorry to hear that.

I MUST KNOW WHAT WAS SAID IN RESPONSE TO MY STATEMENT ABOUT IRREGULAR LATIN VERBS

@silverfox
I've gotten completely numb to it, which in most ways is actually substantially worse than anger.

I honestly think Djawadi is even better in Westworld than in GoT (in fairness, I think Westworld is a better show). But his work is singlehandedly carrying scenes in GoT that would otherwise fall flat. "Light of the Seven" in particular is just beyond belief.

@tek said in RL Anger:

Right now I am irrationally angry at the Latin verb "appropinquabamus". IDK why. It just feels like it's fucking with me.

That's such a basic sort of verb tho. Why not get pissed at some stupid fucking irregular like ferre (tuli, latus)?

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

In most jurisdictions, the answer is no. This is because: (1) the prior lease was never terminated; and (2) the current tenants are still paying rent. The landlord did not terminate the prior lease, nor did anyone else. This makes you a form of holdover tenant, who arguably may owe Auspice and Roz a portion of their monthly rent. Regardless, the landlord at the moment has no grounds to evict you even though: (1) you did not sign the renewal; and (2) you may not even be living there.

Common law is fucking weird.

@Ganymede said in Good TV:

@Thenomain

Dude, I've misled you ever?

Here's Unikitty's very accurate take on the law.

This is what every trial is like, honest.

I feel like someone injected a combination of sugar and cocaine directly into the pink corners of my eyes after watching that.

@Kanye-Qwest said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

find a podcast, seriously. "Sleep with me" is a good one, it's a guy reading very bland news stories in a very bland voice. No lights, just enough distraction to keep your mind from racing off.

I miss "Nuns in Space." Dearest Scooter is a gift.

So I know I've said I don't have ADHD, but I've been reading this thread, and I've been thinking "Hmm" a lot. I'm planning on asking my shrink (more than) a couple of questions when I see her this week.

I have heard that the ending of the season has been leaked. I have been exposed, unintentionally, to what an anonymous rando on the internet claimed to be the ending based on those leaks.

Said ending was so absurd that I do not think the anonymous rando was correct. But if the anonymous rando was correct?

HOO BOY

@Arkandel

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah spoiler prevention thingie goes here blah blah blah.

***=NOPE***

@Tinuviel
The Empire had been divided into two wholly separate states by the time of the Western empire's collapse, and while the Eastern empire called itself Roman, "Rome" in the English language has been reserved for the city-state and attendant western political entities.

So pbbbth.

@Tinuviel said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

@Rinel said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

@Tinuviel said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

@Rinel said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

the fall of Rome

Which one?

I was thinking the deposing of Romulus Augustulus.

That was the fall of Ravenna, then.

Rome is metonymy for the Empire, you semantical flibertigibbet.

@Tinuviel said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

@Rinel said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

the fall of Rome

Which one?

I was thinking the deposing of Romulus Augustulus.

@Arkandel said in Game of Thrones:

@Spending 20 minutes to discuss fantasy-military siege strategy is missing the point by... a lot. This isn't an RTS game.

But this is not stuff that's esoteric military tactics. This is stuff like "why is that ditch there?"