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DiscussionMindless Monday, 22 June 2015 (self.badhistory)

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[–]QuouarFactose intolerant 9ポイント10ポイント  (15子コメント)

I spent last week driving to Minnesota and back in a car with no air conditioning! It was fantastic. Oh sure, the lack of air conditioning got old really fast, and having to stop every hour or so to put the weather stripping back on the car showed me more of the rural US than I maybe wanted to see, but it was really satisfying to go for hours on end, watching the landscape change and the highway fall away behind me. I was entertained by how many states met my stereotypes - West Virginia was filled with gorgeous mountains and dead coal mines, Wisconsin had cows, Kentucky was loaded with bourbon (though I only saw three horses). My actual destination was really nice, too. Honestly, I'm glad I got a chance to go on a road trip, however slapdash it might have been. It's a good way to remember what it is you like about the US. I like seeing the landscapes, meeting the people, and watching a giant country go by. It's got its own kind of magic.

I went to Minnesota for a job interview, and I'm not sure how the interview went. I showed up sopping wet because I forgot to pack an umbrella and it started pouring down rain on my way to the place, so I'm pretty sure that made a bad impression. It's also the first time anyone told me that they saw the languages I speak as a bad thing (they were worried I might be bored because there's not much call for Korean or Turkish in Minnesota). Overall, I got the impression that they were impressed, but thought I was over-qualified. Ah well. I'll see what they say, and even if they say no, I at least got a road trip to St. Paul out of it.

[–]Turin_The_MormegilDAGOTH-UR-WAS-A-VOLCANO 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

West Virginia's a great state to drive through, or to visit for a camping/skiing trip.

Not so great a place to live, though.

[–]QuouarFactose intolerant 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

It and Wisconsin were my favourite states to drive through.

[–]Disgruntled_Old_TrotMorale Officer, Burpleson Air Force Base 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

About ten years ago I chanced to be driving from the vicinity of Orange, Virginia towards Charlottesville. Beautiful piedmont landscape, rolling hills and sweeping curves all on two lane county roads and not another vehicle to be seen. It occurred to me that this was the sort of driving that normally only happens in TV commercials.

[–]QuouarFactose intolerant 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I completely agree. There were points that it took my breath away because it was so staggeringly and unexpectedly beautiful.

[–]belgarion90Graduated summa cum laude, Total War University 1ポイント2ポイント  (5子コメント)

<makes no mention of Illinois>

That's about right.

[–]QuouarFactose intolerant 2ポイント3ポイント  (4子コメント)

I drove through Chicago on the way up and southern Illinois on the way back. In Chicago, I was charged $20 in tolls so I could be rained on, nearly rear-ended, and take a couple of blurry pictures of the city. But I did get a nice sunset afterwards, and there was a decent radio station! :D

Southern Illinois was okay. I went into this one gas station where an old man was sitting on the floor because it was too hard for him to get to the bathroom. He refused my help. It was a bit weird.

What you'll actually get no mention of is Indiana because it was boring and I don't remember it.

[–]ciderczarUnrepentant Ouiaboo 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

What you'll actually get no mention of is Indiana because it was boring and I don't remember it.

I got my bachelor's in Indiana and this about sums the non-Bloomington parts of the state up perfectly.

[–]seaturtlesallthewayWikipedia is peer-viewed. 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

South Bend's Notre Dame on the same name college's campus is worth a visit. The ice status (might have melted by now) that they used to make in Niles are neat, as well.

[–]farquierFeminazi christians burned Assurbanipal's Library 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

My strongest memory of southern Illinois is being in a car when we got pulled over because we were mistaken for pot smugglers.

[–]QuouarFactose intolerant 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Ooo! Speaking of smuggling! One thing I found in Iowa is that there was nothing there, just mile after mile after mile of corn. I kept trying to find a gas station, but every time I stopped, they were all closed and had been for the last twenty years.

Until I got to this one gas station. I was excited because, from the interstate, you could see that there were cars there. You could see shiny new cars with Iowa plates. I pulled over and realised that not only was the gas station closed, but the people from the cars were all hiding in the abandoned gas station building. I got out of the car, popped the weather stripping back in place on my car, and left.

Iowa is weird.

[–]jaguarlyra 1ポイント2ポイント  (4子コメント)

iA you get the job. How is everything? I haven't asked for a while.

[–]QuouarFactose intolerant 2ポイント3ポイント  (3子コメント)

It's okay. Going for a long drive did wonders for my self-esteem and sense of worth, even if I was exhausted the whole time. I haven't stopped having nightmares about driving, which is odd and annoying, but I hope it will get better.

Beyond that, it's okay. I really hope I get the job because I don't really have a back-up plan. I can't stay here, but I do need something in order to go somewhere else, so I'm caught in a limbo. I'll figure it out, though. I usually do. :)

How have you been?

[–]jaguarlyra 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

I'm still under employed, depressed ,and anxious. I'm thinking of applying for disability if things don't get better soon.I can't really deal with the stares anymore , they are constant and it's getting to me. I'm seeing 2 different therapists and taking med and while it's helping it isn't enough. However on the other hand I'm told that suffering either takes away sins or raises your level in heaven so there are major positives, I just have to keep focused on that.

[–]QuouarFactose intolerant 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

At the same time, life shouldn't be suffering. Have your therapists given you things to do to try and help other than just medication? Mental exercises or something like that?

[–]jaguarlyra 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm going to be doing biofeed back therapy soon.

[–]buy_a_pork_bunListened to Hilter's Generals 5ポイント6ポイント  (6子コメント)

http://np.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3an2fy/confederate_flags_burned_and_monuments_honoring/csefot1?context=3

THE DOWNVOTES. I hath sinned in filth and now am filthy.

That said, I'm always surprised by how people can try to make logical hoops to exonerate members of a country that support slavery, which also started a war, and also seceded. For folks who might have been huge fans of Andrew Jackson they sure don't realize the irony.

In other news, it's weird to know that I can make a week's worth of minimum wage in my state in a day or two.

[–]Georgy_K_ZhukovLend Lease? We don't need no stinking 'Lend Lease'! 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

Not to pick on you, but incitement to imminent lawless action was literally defined by a case where the KKK marched, while armed, through a town and advocated violence in a general, indistinct way, and they were found to be protected. I think that the fact SC still does what it does is disgusting, and reflects terribly on every member of the Legislature who, every day, doesn't introduce a bill to remove it from the Capitol grounds, but you are quite wrong to bring up incitement to imminent lawless action. Maybe a lawsuit could be made on a Civil Rights violation? I dunno... there are legal approaches to take here I suspect, but it doesn't come close to violating Brandenburg.

[–]buy_a_pork_bunListened to Hilter's Generals 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Nah, that's totally fair. :)

I'm surprised no one called me on that, but a Civil Rights violation is most likely going to be the case. Although i wonder if a flag that calls for and has a past for supporting enslavement can be considered abstract? It probably is. Hrmm.

[–]The740Feminists hired Christians to put lead in the Roman water supply 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

If there's one thing I've learned over the last 15 years, it's to pretty much stay out of this debate. No one's mind is going to be changed.

What we have seen over time is the general abandonment of the flag as a representation of country/rural/redneck culture, with it being replaced by camo....well, everything. Obviously there are still plenty of holdouts, but I'd argue that the flag is a lot less frequently seen than it used to be.

[–]lolplatypusTwo Popes, a Fuhrer, and a Pizza Place 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Oooh okay, now I understand why all the Lost-Causers are crawling out of the woodwork. They've been going crazy in other threads too.

[–]buy_a_pork_bunListened to Hilter's Generals 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

I tried. I can understand some people saying "have empathy and think about those who didn't fully support the South and how hard it was to move."

That's the best defense I've heard, but it doesn't change the fact that the South's position was even remotely defensible. I mean christ look at their constitution.

[–]purefabulousityMayan girls have babies at 8, 9, and 10 years 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I actually just posted this article about the use of the confederate flag in my town. Apparently because it's a tradition it's ok.

[–]seaturtlesallthewayWikipedia is peer-viewed. 4ポイント5ポイント  (2子コメント)

First the AC broke. Then my wife broke her finger. Then the fridge failed, and my joints hurt from just walking.

Gaaaah.

I demand a do over! I demand it for the sake of my sanity.

On the upside, Soon™ I can cover a fridge into a fermentation chamber.

[–]Emergency_WardDon't cortez those Aztecs, bro 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Tell me more of this fermentation chamber. Do you just unplug the fridge and start putting stuff (cheese?) in it?

[–]seaturtlesallthewayWikipedia is peer-viewed. 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Plus a bit of temperature control, so that beer/cider/wine yeasts work at their best, for better conversion of sugars into Bad Academics fuel.

[–]tj4kicksI learned all my morals in the 1800"s 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

This weekend I went camping. Got to burn the winter witch. Did some stand up paddle boarding that was pretty exciting. It also barely rained on us. That's a record for my family. It usually pours on us. Had tea and a bacon donut at a cafe called "custards last stand". There custard was pretty meh.

[–]TheOneFreeEngineerEuropeans introduced kissing to Arabs 3ポイント4ポイント  (10子コメント)

I'm pleasantly surprised that the New total war attila isn't buggy as Hell like total war Rome II was. I picked up yesterday during the stream sale and it's really a well made game and they refined the mechanics really well I think. Though I did steal Constantinople from the eastern Romans by sneaking a naval seige into a hun land seige, so that's a little gamey but super fun

[–]ciderczarUnrepentant Ouiaboo 1ポイント2ポイント  (9子コメント)

That's good to hear, though I'm worn out on Roman-era Europe. I think I'm going to wait for them to move to another time period or area. I'd love a second Empire.

[–]TheOneFreeEngineerEuropeans introduced kissing to Arabs 1ポイント2ポイント  (8子コメント)

The late Roman empire is so different from the early one it's a completely different game and it actually feels like it. The barbarians expansion to the original Rome was always my favorite.

Another empire would be good but I think I'd rather a total war China during the warring states period to throw some new blood into the series.

[–]ciderczarUnrepentant Ouiaboo 1ポイント2ポイント  (7子コメント)

Some new blood would be fantastic. Warring States, something in the sub-continent maybe.

I just get 18th century tactics more than the other games, so I selfishly want them to go back to that so I don't feel like a dummy. Also, they missed a huge trick not letting us play as minor states in the first one.

[–]TheOneFreeEngineerEuropeans introduced kissing to Arabs 0ポイント1ポイント  (6子コメント)

Yeah I miss playing as every single minor state on the map. The subcontinent would be interesting, I don't know enough about the region to fully understand but my first thought is late mughal empire time period with the start of the east Indian company.

[–]ciderczarUnrepentant Ouiaboo 0ポイント1ポイント  (5子コメント)

I don't know enough either, just how the Rajputs and Sikhs armed themselves and how the Anglo-Sikh wars went. I'm sure there must be more given the number of players and history going back so far. That period would be cool, as would the time period of Alexander's Army tipping up.

[–]TheOneFreeEngineerEuropeans introduced kissing to Arabs 0ポイント1ポイント  (4子コメント)

Eh the Alexander total war was a bad game in my opinion. They tried that and failed.

[–]ciderczarUnrepentant Ouiaboo 0ポイント1ポイント  (3子コメント)

That's true, but I mean one that's focused on the sub-continent with Alexander being maybe just one of the playable factions, instead of a whole game focused on Alexander where you can maybe play as one of a couple Indian factions if you want but we don't want you to do that because ALEXANDER.

[–]TheOneFreeEngineerEuropeans introduced kissing to Arabs 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

That was definitely a low point in the total war series for me besides the super buginess of Rome II at launch.

[–]ciderczarUnrepentant Ouiaboo 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

I put the weird "capture this flag and gain a boost!" cartoony thing from Shogun 2 way up there too.

[–]mouser42corrected snickeringshadow on Mesoamerica once 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

I live in South Carolina, less than 20 miles from where the shooter lived. Because of this, it's very surreal and a bit scary to see how poorly some of them are taking it. This especially applies to my more conservative friends. They keep saying garbage on social media about how the pastor could have saved everyone if he had carried a gun, and that anyone who doesn't like the Confederate flag should move away. I agree that I should move away, and I'll be doing that in 2 months, but I'd also like to be able to visit, and I won't do that if people in SC are still being idiots about this.

[–]pittfan46 3ポイント4ポイント  (6子コメント)

I caught mindless Monday while it wasn't stickied.

Hey guys,Howre you all doing?

My influence gets even greater in /r/HistoricalWorldPowers. It's fun. Join pls.

I'm supposed to interview with a school in China tonight at 930EST. But my placement person didn't give me a method,skype, phone call...etc. so....yea.

I hear back from city year today apparently.

Is it weird that the Charlestown shooter looked like a redditor. And the CT subreddit was like...praising his manifesto. Ugh

Also, no sports are playing besides baseball. Helpppp

[–]ciderczarUnrepentant Ouiaboo 2ポイント3ポイント  (3子コメント)

Weird. Connecticut doesn't usually praise anything outside of apizza and Yankees/Sox depending on which side of the state you're in.

[–]pittfan46 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

Oh you think I'm talking about the Connecticut subreddit...

[–]QuouarFactose intolerant 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

With me, the interview was a phone call. Do they have your phone number?

[–]pittfan46 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yea they have my phone number and my skype. I guess I'll just wait for a call.

[–]Turin_The_MormegilDAGOTH-UR-WAS-A-VOLCANO 3ポイント4ポイント  (6子コメント)

So in the last two weeks, I've acquired an apartment in Pittsburgh for the fall semester, bought a 97 Volvo, and had my cats put to sleep. It's been an interesting June. Still need to locate a job for the fall that pays more than minimum wage, because 8.15 an hour isn't going to cut it.

Reading Barry Strauss's The Death of Caesar, it's interesting so far. The prose leaves a bit to be desired, however. There's a couple of passages that remind me of myself phoning in a paper back in high school.

[–]QuouarFactose intolerant 1ポイント2ポイント  (2子コメント)

...why were the cats put to sleep?

[–]Turin_The_MormegilDAGOTH-UR-WAS-A-VOLCANO 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

They were 18 years old. One had cancer that had metastasized to her lungs, the other had kidney and thyroid disease and had stopped eating. It was the best thing we could do for them.

[–]QuouarFactose intolerant 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm really sorry to hear that. I'm sure they had happy lives until that, though. :(

[–]pittfan46 1ポイント2ポイント  (2子コメント)

PITTSBURGH! what neighborhood????

[–]Turin_The_MormegilDAGOTH-UR-WAS-A-VOLCANO 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

Oakland, it's a studio on Bayard. I'm doing an MLIS at Pitt in the fall.

[–]pittfan46 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Ah, good olé north oakland. You'll like oakland. Watch out for late nights up there tho. Riff raff spills over from the hill district

[–]lolplatypusTwo Popes, a Fuhrer, and a Pizza Place 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Mmm there's some delicious Lost Causery relating to flags going on here. I always seem to things I want to do an R5 on when the subject is on moratorium...

In other news though, the girlfriend and I just booked our trip to Alaska next month! Crazy excited about that!

[–]prousts_macarony no modern ideology??? 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

This thread troubles me. I haven't been in a bio anthropology course in a couple years, so I'm not about to try and jump in.

The argument boils down to "humans were smarter thousands of years ago because they had to know more stuff about nature" and "we are domesticated and cows are stupid", which I don't think I buy. Prehistoric humans had to know different stuff, certainly...

[–]jaguarlyra 2ポイント3ポイント  (6子コメント)

It's currently day 5 of Ramadan and it's going far better then I expected, I think this is because this year I live in place with air conditioning.

[–]QuouarFactose intolerant 3ポイント4ポイント  (5子コメント)

Did you end up getting the glucose tablets?

[–]jaguarlyra 4ポイント5ポイント  (4子コメント)

I did get the tablets.

[–]QuouarFactose intolerant 4ポイント5ポイント  (3子コメント)

I hope they're helping.

[–]jaguarlyra 4ポイント5ポイント  (2子コメント)

They did help me when I needed them. Turned out most of the time when I was shaky it was because of panic attacks.

[–]QuouarFactose intolerant 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

I'm glad they helped at least a little. :)

[–]TFielding38The Goa'uld built the Stargates 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Storm looks like its coming from Minnesota. Might have to leave work early today. Yet another reason to hate Minnesota

[–]Colonel_BlimpO Fisher-san, give me your Dreadnought! 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

I get my exam results back tomorrow. Nervous :o

[–]8BallTigerInvest in confederate Bonds, the South will rise again! 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

My laptop and stack of books I need to read are calling out to me but so is the siren song of Fallout 3

[–]DirishVeni, Vidi, Predatori 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Is the such a thing as a "happy Monday", bot, or are you just taking the piss?

Weekend was way too short. I hate it when I build up a lack of sleep during the week. It feels like I've slept away half the weekend as a result.

The weather was nice though, and one of our favourite places to relax opened up again after a 6 months refurbishment and ownership change. Luckily the new owners haven't changed the bits we like, and massively improved the cafe area and food choices. Should have brought the sun lotion though... ouch...

[–]ciderczarUnrepentant Ouiaboo 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

The first half of the round of 16 was marvelous and tonight's going to be even better with the England/USA double-header!

IT'S COMING HOME!!! We're going to get knocked out by Norge on pens! Lindesvarne will not be avenged today, but Stamford Bridge might.

[–]flyingdragon8Anti-Materialist Marxist 1ポイント2ポイント  (4子コメント)

Go see Inside Out NOW

[–]The740Feminists hired Christians to put lead in the Roman water supply 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

I'm at work though. Will you write me a note to leave and go to the movies?

[–]flyingdragon8Anti-Materialist Marxist 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

To whom it may concern

On my authority as a Redditor, The740 is hereby excused for 3 hours to watch inside out and cry afterwards.

Sic semper pluribus et cetera paribus

Twentieth of June MMXV

FD8, Esq.

[–]allhailzorp 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Did you cry? Cause I cried. That movie punched SO many buttons for me. I know Pixar usually goes a little deeper with their movies, but I was not expecting something that touching.

[–]flyingdragon8Anti-Materialist Marxist 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

If you didn't cry you're literally skynet

[–]facecubenever go full volcano 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

We saw Jurassic World. It was... not good.

[–]purefabulousityMayan girls have babies at 8, 9, and 10 years 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/06/19/confederate-flag-remains-a-source-of-controversy-in-walpole/

Confederate flag controversy in my hometown again. Oh boy. Very classy.

[–]International_KBAt least three milli-Cromwells worth of oppression 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

So. I've not been around here or AH all that much recently as life's been fairly hectic. Which is a putting some gloss on it. In reality I've been fully occupied with:

  • Work. They now expect me to actually do my job. Ugh.

  • Prison Architect. Picked it up in the Steam sale and spent most of the weekend building virtual prisons for virtual people. This is more satisfying than it should be. Yet, in a very whimsical way, it helps me understand how the likes of Fyodor Mochulsky could turn the horrific nature of the gulags into a series of engineering problems to be solved.

All in all, the weekend has left a slightly unpleasant taste in my mouth. I'm not troubled by the digital deaths that followed my unfortunate placing of a cell block but by the sense that my life's drifting slightly. Work and games. I've got to do more with my life.

And this week I've been mostly listening to laid-back synth pop.