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... if it's summer where you're at, I have naught but commiseration with them. Though 8 is too late. Have to start before the hateful sky fireball comes up. Four or five AM is good. Providing local law doesn't preclude such. And the neighbors aren't armed. Or at least less armed than you are. More seriously, eight, eight thirty is about the point where I offer a completely insincere mea culpa to the neighbors and fire up the lawnmower or whathaveyou, during the summer. Nine if I'm pushing it. Afterwards is just too goddamn hot, and by that point everyone with a morning job should be awake anyway. Do kinda' dislike doing it, because I hate that sort of noise with a frothing passion (All TVs may die in a fire, thank you), but, well, their morning is worth less to me than a heatstroke, y'know?

Though I guess it's the farming area influence that eight seems like an odd hour to complain about. Everyone should be up and moving by then, haha! Or the neighbors wake you the hell up anyway. Now, if it were like... three or four. Then yes. Burning, etc., etc.

May I suggest a good set of noise-canceling headphones and/or earplugs? They're a good investment, especially if you can get a hold of a pair you can sleep in.

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Quote from: Iceblaster on July 09, 2014, 10:18:23 pm

It is terrifying.

Welp, I'm already sick of this.

You lasted longer than I did! Congratulations.

It got old at about the third repeat, for me. Now, to coin a previously used phrase, the horse has been beaten into a pile of fleshy pulp and people are rolling around in the offal. Cue latest meme being driven into irritation instead of tasteful use. It's the macarena all over again ;_;

Parasyte's pretty nice. Probably would recommend nixing the link, though. Copyright infringement yadda yadda.

... are they worth more or less when sold as food and/or fish bait? Do fish go after streetcorner grasshoppers more readily than normal ones?

Mom making me and my sis do work for her.
We have to do six people's schedule thingies in two to three hours.
We have done three in one hour fifty one minutes.
Now we're worried she'll be angry at us for taking too long.

Hey, if y'all did as well as you could and she flips anyway, just remind her that when you recruit untrained, unpaid workers, any more than you put in that you get out is a notable bonus.

Sometimes people will choose to do things even though it will get them fired, or even face criminal sanctions, and they may be correct to do so. But the system still should have an obligation to fire them / punish them / attempt to prevent them / etc. for not fulfilling their stated duties.

Also, even if their choice was overall moral, I would argue that it was overall moral IN SPITE OF being locally immoral in breaking their implicit promise to their constituency. That is still wrong. Lying is wrong. If there's a greater good that adds up to a net profit of morality, then so be it. Doesn't make the lying not wrong itself.

This is again amazing. Just a little bit ago, you were saying it's desirable for the elected officials to lie -- either by omission (not disclosing how they do their job), or directly (by saying they're going to do one thing -- "election persona" -- and then doing something else in order to achieve desired outcomes) -- and now you're saying it's wrong and they should be fired.

So... it's okay to lie, cheat, and deceive so long as the constituency isn't aware of it and the end results is still in their favor? I'm becoming vaguely confused at this point.