I had job duties, but I couldn’t do anything without running it through this narcissistic and nepotistic executive structure.

The top brass were all related and crazy.

It can be both, or neither, or both at the same time. Depends on the story really.

Weirdly, it was an online betting company… 🤷

Series X is the current high end Xbox, don’t expect mods anytime soon.

MAYBE if it were the Xbox One X…

https://consolemods.org/wiki/Xbox_One:Xbox_One_Mods_Wiki

Being hired and told not to do anything. Everything, down to cleaning out my desk, required upper management approval.

Craziest place I ever worked. They wanted spineless yes men with zero initiative.

The Kings Chamber in the great pyramid of Egypt maintains an average temperature of 68°F (20°C).

Modlog here:

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=20640119

reason: Suspected sockpuppet of CheetahHybrid https://pawb.social/pictrs/image/fca1c31b-bf83-441c-9985-d07ae45622b1.png

All you get is today, try to see it that way, don’t hold on too tight

Loosen your shoes, don’t listen to news that keeps you up at night

Don’t try to explain, try not to complain, no one really cares

And don’t try to find your place in line 'cause it’s everywhere

You don’t need to find your place in line 'cause it’s everywhere

Chris Smither - Place in Line
https://youtu.be/MztnxPiiDbI

The many steps were planned and completed 50 years ago, we just forgot.

Ezekiel 20 also says hello:

24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.

25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;

26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the Lord.

This ^ I get it, the images we are getting back ARE stunning, but is there anything about this mission that demanded a manned spaceflight? Couldn’t we/didn’t we already do the same thing remotely with the other planets?

I’m glad we’re getting back to it, and I’m happy to see anything other “We’re sending mice up on the space shuttle… AGAIN!”

But even Artemis IV where they are planning a moon landing has been done.

Let me know when the first colony is formed, then I can get excited.

For me, it depends on when all of our paperwork is in.

Generally, the W-2s from the employers don’t come in until the end of January, then I have to wait on my stock account. My wife had unemployment last year, and dividends from an oil field.

All of that has to be in before we can file.

Technically we were ready mid-February but got laid out by hospitalizations. I think we filed mid-March?

Spinal stenosis. I went to bed fine one night and woke up with my brain screaming that my back was broken. Not just that, but that I could feel the broken ends grinding against each other.

For the next 12 months, the pain was so intolerable, I was taking 10 vicodin a day just to function. 2 to get out of bed, 2 when I got to work, 2 at lunch time, 2 when I got home, and 2 to go to sleep.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/lumbar-spinal-stenosis

To be clear, I’ve had 2 heart attacks, open heart surgery, 6 kidney stones, and stage 2 colon cancer… I’d gladly choose any of that over spinal stenosis.

Long story short, the biggest differences between now and then are the coloring, printing, and paper.

Pencils and inks are still pencils and inks, but the color process was vastly different then because of the four color printing process.

You also had to take into account ink bleed because of the cheap paper being used.

As of 1983, comics could be printed in 124 colors, prior to that, the max was 63 colors.

https://www.wowcool.com/blogs/blog/cmy-ok-eclipse-comics-color-chart-1983

Last one I saw was “Who’s Holiday”, a drag production featuring Cindy Lou Who from the Grinch Who Stole Christmas, all grown up and living in a trailer park.

https://bagnbaggage.org/event/whos-holiday/2023-12-01/

“Unbelievable!”

It means whatever the asker wants it to.

!politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world

Then you look at their OTHER comments…

You can see the comment in the modlog, apparently banned for trolling:

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=21316133

There’s a scene in Wings of Desire… but before I tell it to you, let me set the scene…

Wings of Desire is set and filmed in Berlin while it was still divided. Angels are silent observers, able to read the thoughts of its citizens.

One old man is fixated on a town square he was fond of, but has been demolished during the wall construction:

“I can’t find Potsdamer Platz. Here? This can’t be it. Potsdamer Platz is where the Café Josti used to be. In the afternoon I’d go there to chat and have a coffee and watch the crowd after I’d had my cigar at Löhse and Wolff, a famous tobacconist, right around here. So this can’t be Potsdamer Platz.”

As I get older and more landmarks slip away, this resonates even stronger.

“The Lotus Card-Room? What a great place that was… people had been going there, oh, almost a hundred years. And that bar! Brought around Cape Horn they say, such a marvelous place. Bought by a developer and torn down for a hotel that never got funded.”

(the bar survived)