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Teenagers deserve money, too.

As well as the hoardes of adults who work those jobs, too. After all, these places are open when school is in session.

This one time I had to stop at a gas station in a bad area of town. Open all night, movie theatre style checkout(slot to give and recieve money, glass(bulletproof), etc.

Whatever the hell the one clerk was making I'm going to assume is not enough for the risk factor involved.

But yeah, even in general I agree with mostly everybody here.

Jen0125 posted...

Yes, why shouldn't they?

I don't think there is anything wrong for being nostalgic for the past in general.

But the forms this nostalgia take are kinda cringe sometimes. People wishing they lived in the 50s because you can't wear a suit and tie on a date to a drive in theatre in 2022 is cringe as heck, for example.

supergamer19 posted...

Seems like a great way to maximize cash-back. Good on you, bud.

The get 250 cash back for spending $500 was a "special" offer. Special in quotes because I don't know how special it is, but I had to input *personal codes* when I signed up. I've never seen an offer THAT generous and easy to complete. I've done $200 if you spend $500 before, but $250 for 500 is even better.

I figured adding in more cards into the mix could be confusing, but I've got it down now to where I understand what I need to use in every scenario, so it's alright.

I never thought I would be that guy, but I've turned into a churner. Not just to get rewards(spend X in 3 months and get Y cash back) but now I have a good lineup optimized for most scenarios

gas - card A has 4% back on gas
restaurants - Card B has 3% back on resaurrants
drug stores - card B has 3% back at drug stores
grocery stores - card A gives me 2% back at grocery stores
parking garages/meter parking - card C gives me 5% cash back on the highest spend category, which is used for parking as no other card gives me a benefit on parking

everything else - I have two 1.5% cash back on every purchase cards...

The parking card is going to give me $200 back after I spend $750(this is mainly on parking - purchases I'd be making anyways), one of the 1.5% cards will give me $250 back if I spend $500 in 3 months. For this one I will be buying one high ticket item to meet the goal and effectively get the $250 immediately(camera lens).

This isn't like, life changing stuff, but damn...I know there are churners out there who have their shit optimized to a much greater degree than I do, but this is pretty good i'd say

edit: a true churner would probably go an extra step further and get something like a citi double cash where you effectively get 2% back if you pay it on time, for general purposes not covered in a specific category, but I don't really want a fifth card.

cause i wanna answer em

Did we have any questions tho

"The Heat Death of the Universe" by Off-Minor.

This is screamo at it's finest, and one of the reasons everybody who likes harder music should give the genre a chance. It's got some nice elements of hardcore, but the slow it down in some songs...'This is a Hostage Situation" has a haunting end section, "Punch for Punch" is an instrumental triumph, "Monday Morning Quarterbacks" begins with a menacing yet groovy rhythm.

It's got 9 songs and it's 22 minutes long but there is a lot of stuff packed into it.

what a time to be alive...

nah i'm okay. just being weird and random at 1AM

Just bein' weird.

THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION: Will you go to Heaven when you die? Have you lied, stolen, used Gods name in vain, lusted (Which Jesus said was adultery in Mt. 5-28)? If so, God sees you as a liar, thief, blasphemer, and adulterer at heart. If you die in your sins you will end up in a terrible place called Hell. But theres good news, Though we broke Gods law, Jesus paid the fine by dying on the cross. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes (trusts) in Him should not perish but have everlasting life (Jn. 3-16). Then Jesus rose from the dead and was seen by hundreds of eyewitnesses. if youve made it this far, please, repent and trust in Jesus and what he did for you on the cross. You have a promise from the God who cannot lie that he will forgive every sin youve committed or ever will commit and grant you everlasting life as a free gift

Star Citizen

Yeah that was probably me. I haven't played it in a while, but I can try to answer questions if you have any. the latest I own is 2018, but fundamentally, they are all kinda the same.

I want to play on the hardest difficulty I can play and not get frustrated at.

Easy mode is fine. I wouldn't like a game being intentionally made easier, but an actual easy mode is okay

Cacciato posted...

I know its a piece of shit move to genuinely enjoy players getting hurt, but watching Burfict finally get trucked in retaliation is still one of my favorite hits.

JuJu Smith-Schuster. Bold fuckin' move for a rookie.

Best part is hearing Jon Gruden on the broadcast team talking about how bad it was and everything, only for him to sign Burfict when he became coach of the Raiders.

Usually when teams routinely fail, I want them to succeed. The Bengals are no exception. However, like Muscles said, Stafford getting a ring would be cool. How about Stafford this year and Burrow next year?

Though, as a Steeler fan, I'll never forget the playoff game wherein Cincinnatii was going to end the curse of the wild card until Burfict and Adam Jones costly last second penalties led the Steelers to a made FG to win it. Even a further layer to add on top of it, the Bengals scored all 16 of their points in the 4th, so it would have been an epic comeback, too. But even as glorious as the "Burfict Ending" was, I still feel for you guys. Until now, no playoff wins since....1990!?

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?mag=1&rt=nc&_nkw=canada+1000+bill&_sacat=3429&_dcat=3429&vbn_id=7023248205&LH_Sold=1&_fsrp=1

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Probably not worth the trouble of selling to a collector unless it's one of the older series in really good condition." seems accurate

human piss.

when you get drunk and lock yourself in your room, and pee in an empty gatorade bottle at the same time you are drinking out of a real one...

That is something else...I am not entirely sure what that is but it's 13 cents now

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dogecoin/

Just 9 cents. It was stable at 17 cents fairly recently...I know this isn't good investing, and was quite a mistake but I also don't feel like it's unreasonable I can just wait and make it back. I don't see doge tanking completely...it has a lot of support and more places are accepting it as payment.

This is all cents.

I admit my first crypto foray has been kinda bad. But i didnt bet the farm and this is money i dont want to lose but it isnt going to hurt me too bad. Thiugh buying thr dips to lower avg cost is a sound strategy, yes? Just gotta wait. And i am prepared to do so

I bought doge at a bad price, and bought more at bad prices. I went from an avg price in the 30s now down to 22 buying these dips.

All I need is .22 cents and I can cash out. I can't blame DOGE itself, I just made poor choices(though compared to some...people bought thousands of dollars worth in the 50s and 60s).

I guess nobody here knows but it will rise to that level again? It's just 8-9 cents higher than what its been at lately. Surely it can happen.

ask to see them and when he pulls them out, bite them, because they could have been printed on some type of cracker.

I'd love to go if I was rich, but something about the superbowl kinda makes me think I don't need to financially support that outside watching it on TV.

What if I AM a watcher of the media but I decide to unwind by drinking 10% hazy imperial IPAs made by my favorite local craft brewery?

howdoya think Greg feels?

https://youtu.be/F0xUdBF_38k?t=1055

I didn't even know I had 7, but damn is an hourly chime one of my favorite all time watch complications.

Part of this is just to hear 'em all go off, another part of it is to track drift.

The competitors:

PRW-3500
DBG-611G
AE-1100W
GMAS110F
DBC-32
AQS810W
a probably fake g-shock

First hour after being set:

https://youtu.be/kzp1c1nMGC0

I had some AMC I bought at like 7 bucks. I sold it early on when it rose and made $350...the max I could have made was 8,000. I wish I'd have saved, but even more than keeping it to make more than the paltry $350 I did make, I hope I'd have had the sense to sell when it was around (iirc) 50 bucks. If you aren't in this for personal wealth, I feel like you're an idiot. I don't care about billionaire hedgefund guys who have never thought about me before...what does it make somebody when their fortunes come and go(sometimes more than once) but they hold because some rich asshole may be hurt a little by it?

This is part of a series of coins featuring women with several designs, much like the state quarters.

The other women coming out this year are

• Maya Angelou celebrated writer, performer, and social activist
• Dr. Sally Ride physicist, astronaut, educator, and first American woman in space
• Wilma Mankiller first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation
• Nina Otero-Warren a leader in New Mexicos suffrage movement and the first female superintendent of Santa Fe public schools
• Anna May Wong first Chinese American film star in Hollywood

However, even if this was the permanent quarter design, I could think of people "more deserving" than the people you'd pick. Ultimately "deserving" just doesn't matter much.

One person said "I think a portrait [of angelou] would be better"

I think having a coin with two portraits would look really, really awful. The quarter is still Washington's coin no matter what happens on the other side, so removing some portrait of Washington was likely never a real possibility.

As always, I love reading peoples thoughts about these things, specifically because I KNOW people are going to hate it. That's okay that people dislike something, of course, but I just knew people were going to hate it the second I saw one.

https://gl-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Maya-Angelou-first-black-woman-to-be-featured-on-the-quarter-coin-in-U.S..jpg

My thoughts: From finding one in person, the minting quality gives off something to be desired. Like the quality control isn't as good as it used to be. Not to unlike the 2021 quarter with Washington Crossing the Delaware. Quarters become more worthless every year, so it's no surprise they need to cut corners where they can.

Maya Angelou: I like it. I really do. It's different and unique, and I don't mind it.

Washington: Ehhh....that part I don't like so much. His portrait is kinda awkward and too big. His face looks out of proportion. Not so much a fan of this side.

What makes me laugh are the people going "who?" over Maya Angelou. I don't expect everybody to know who she is, but I guess it's like most times when somebody of note is being talked about, it's isn't hard to google who it is instead of looking like an idiot.

Overall, I kinda like it. It is funky at the same time, but that's alright.

BeesKnees posted...

how are these antonyms

HELL-O if you haven't noticed men start most of the wars out there

I don't actually care that Bonds took steroids...lots of players in that era took steroids(nevermind the players from previous eras that took other kinds of supplements and drugs), but Barry Bonds became one of the most feared players of all time. He was walked an absolute ton and got on base a ridiculous amount of the time. In bases loaded situations, some teams would actually opt for walking Bonds and letting a run score automatically.

Yeah, I get it. Steroids and cheating. But a LOT of other guys took steroids in that era, but who actually transformed into one of the most feared players of all time? Perhaps considered the greatest to ever play outside of Babe Ruth.

edit: and yeah, as somebody said, even before he took steroids and grew a head 3 times the size of a normal human head, he was probably going to be a HOFer. It just seems pointless to keep him out.

<img src="https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/3/9/AAFUswAAC12H.jpg">

So I thought a HUGE map size with 1 AI opponent would be kinda fun...give myself unlimited money(with caveats...can buy settlers and buildings but no other units or tiles), but it's been a bore. After like 10 cities I kinda don't even see the point. I've got scouts aplenty(plus my first scout I gave them like 20 promotions to get everything they could) but I havent even seen his lands yet. My scouts have seen their scouts but that's about it.

I thought this would be more interesting than it is. I think I may just buy all the tiles I can get right now for my cities and then just continue for a little.

I kinda feel like for a 1v1 duel to be fun you not only need a smaller map, but also you need a human opponent.

The AI gave me Nebuchadnezzar as my foe. I chose Ramses to get the Wonder production bonus because I wasn't going to be cheating for those. Neb is outpacing me in science by a bunch but I am holding my own otherwise. I know Neb is a science civ for sure, but being able to build everything as soon as it's available doesn't seem to be closing the gap in terms of tech.

I have .00005 BTC(or some other fractional number) I bought just for the hell of it.

I have several K plunked in doge, but at this point I just want to sell off at no loss and buy a dip down to 14-15 or so and put some back in.

I just need doge to get to 23 cents and I can sell it...I'm assuming doge will rally that high again at some point.

joemodda posted...

Give yourself a free culture tree and see how hard you can steamroll the AI on diety

I've done two versions of this: every policy from day 1, and every early policy tree from day 1

both are kinda OP as one would expect. On Diety, I feel like one entire tree would be a big boost, definitely, but it wouldn't be enough to steamroll the AI on diety if you aren't a good player as it is. I could be underestimating this.

Well, see, I consider it cheating, but I don't think cheating is inherently bad...even though I had my doubts here about my IGE.

So what would be a fun use of an editor? Thinkin mainly something like a huge map with 200 settlers and workers and build cities all over with enough money to buy every tile

Cheating isn't wrong at all. However, for me, with Civ V, it is a challenge but I felt like as I learned more strategy and technique I could be successful. So, that is why I said it felt wrong, but it isn't really wrong. I can stop cheating at any time, certainly, but I know sometimes cheating does ruin some aspects. I've played football manager before with players edited to have 20s in all attributes, and it does kind of sour the normal game experience in some ways because no player in the game is going to be that good, so you know how well players who are "perfect" do. It's as if you've seen perfection so nothing else can compare. BUT I have loads of fun in FM anyways because in game and external editors are included with the game(external) or $5 download(internal) but both are licensed and provided Sports Interactive themselves...it's meant to be played however you want.

I guess my fear is, after using this editor, can I go back to playing vanilla? I can stop cheating, but if I get super annoyed at basic tenets of the game like accruing culture points to spend on policies...I don't know. But cheating means I get no satisfaction from doing well. I may be having fun, yes, but satisfaction and accomplishment are different.

Ultimately that was a huge jumble of word salad I'm not even sure if I got out the point I wanted to get out. I'm actually sorry for having you read that, PO(but of course I wasn't going to appologize ahead of time, see...)

What this means sometimes is once I cheat to this level(have never cheated in civ v before except saving before i go to war in case i severely miscalculated my forces), I can't go back. Not because cheating gives me great power and I feel like I couldn't be a successful player before...in a game like civ cheating honestly feels wrong. BUT once I see the extent of how badass I am, playing it normally will make me feel like "aww shucks, why don't I have every social policy from the start?"

Maybe though this will accelerate me getting into Civ 6 which I have bought but immediately stopped playing almost right after I saw the icons were in different parts of the screen to five.

this is kind of a shitshow.

So....I have a total of 1,375 notes.

$1 - 939/939 face value
2 - 117/234
5 - 72/360
10 - 42/420
20 - 111/2220
50 - 25/250
100 - 11/1100

total face value for 1,375 notes is $6,523. The average note value is $4.74

This collection fits in neat little red pickboard boxes but I feel like this stack is becoming unwieldy, but what are ya gonna do? Every day I find shit to keep, every day I continue the hoard.

my brain hurts.

thedicemaster posted...

i don't remember the name, but there's a card that shuts down any card with 4 or more stars.
would be really useful to have a 500/400 2 or 3 star monster with an axe of despair or two if that happens.

Gravity Bind. However even so, there isn't much use for those ones because there are some stronger 3* star would help out in that case better.

They have limited uses but really they are just filler.

I like the utility pole even though it is kinda...there. Moreso than that I like the power lines connecting to it from a few different directions.

What I really don't like is the potted plant to the left, but I didn't really do much editing and this was just a snapshot and not entirely planned out as best as it could be.

Hoya R72 baby. it's around 50 bucks, but it's a heck of an investment.

Look at all the fun you can have

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via the channel mixer. you make the reds blue and blues red.

Now, generally when you take an IR photo it turns up some shade of pink magenta or red, if not black and white. When you invert the colors it sometimes looks really badass. I was never able to figure out quite what I was doing wrong, because when inverted the photos i take don't get as dramatic.

However, I just tried this on a photo I took a while ago and this is it! This is the shit i'm talking about.

click through to imgur to see a high quality version
https://imgur.com/MXBv0je
https://imgur.com/6iW9epH

More people in the county where this hospital is are vaxed than unvaxed, so the numbers being slightly higher on that end make sense to some degree.

Ultimately, you can't really draw any conclusions from a one day snapshot.

Well, I don't know why they use 70 for coins and currency being the max, but 70 does mean absolute perfection in the currency world.