the only “um akshually” I would even bother adding to this is that the Torah / Pentateuch is just the first five books of the Tanakh, which is the best / closest approximation of books that later became the Christian old testament. The Tanakh also includes the Prophets (Nevi’im), and the Writings (Ketuvim). There’s also a few books in there that the council of Nicaea (the council of og old Catholic dudes who decided which books were true or not) chose not to include. Also relevant is the Septuagint which was the first translation from Hebrew into a mainstream language (which at the time was Koine Greek) which is relevant because that specific translation has had a profound effect on translations since, which really hammers in that concept of “a translation of a translation of a translation of-”

I worry a lot of it is human trafficking or at least human trafficking lite. A lot of employers really like having employees they don’t actually have to pay properly or obey workplace safety and other protections for, and who will be afraid to speak up about fraud and other illegal practices.

But to me that would be easily solved if we only made it illegal to hire people without a permit, but never deport or otherwise penalize the workers. And publicize that heavily. So if you don’t have a permit and your boss is abusing you, just call the hotline on the billboard and let us know and we’ll arrest them and you can go find another sketchy employer and tell on them too when they piss you off.

No one would be hiring people without permits if there were actual consequences for the employer. We wouldn’t be stuck with trying to figure out how to deport people and whatnot. They’d only be able to hire people the law is already protecting as workers. but nobody actually wants to hold rich people accountable for having caused all this trouble in the first place.

how for right coherent sentences other people red

I can’t tell if this is a bit or not—I thought I was having a stroke for a minute.

well first I’d take an extension cord to goodwill

am I already scheduled for a shift? I make that hourly.

it’s funny because I’m AFAB but NB with a husband and I’m the one who gets the man-flu.

I think I would last a little longer than average. And I only say that because the more power I get handed the more anxiety I get and I think it’s the people it doesn’t make anxious that are the scariest. I also burnout quickly though and I don’t handle everybody being mad at me very gracefully.

Not sure if this is what they’re talking about, but vampires are frequently depicted as having to stop and count large numbers of small things. So if you’re being chased by one you can throw out salt or grains of rice or seeds or whatever and they will have to stop and count it before they continue pursuing you. Or you can attack while they’re preoccupied too I guess. That’s where you get the count from Sesame Street.

oh this one is a fav of mine but I was raised redneck so

got hubs one because I couldn’t afford a steam deck for his birthday. he loves it. I never see him play it at home (I think because the actual computer is here) but every once in a while he’ll mention having played x or y retro game and he has covered the ENTIRE thing in Simpsons stickers.

so you can study stuff and do coursework but you gotta make it really easy to do accidentally. when I got a paper to write I would make a google drive folder with the project outline and a template for the paper including a reference sheet. I would lazily look up sources occasionally and add the pdfs to the folder and easybib / citation machine them into the reference section by doi. at that point it would be a matter of when the paper would get written, not if. the dopamine would just hit suddenly when I’m having an IBS shit at 2am and “oops. I wrote a research paper.” I accidentally wrote so many papers while shitting. one time I set all of it up and went to bed and turned out one of the group members was also ADHD because when I woke up she’d accidentally done the whole thing while I was asleep. 10/10 method.

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