Start with Short Stories or novellas. A whole story from beginning to end in as short as 3 pages or as many as 30 or so. There are entire books of short stories (anthologies) in every genre you can imagine. You say you don’t have the patience. However, in the time its taken you to read this entire thread, you could have finished a short story. You’ve proven you have the patience.
Now you have to make a giant guitar for him too.
That’s exactly what he’d expect now. Subvert expectations! Make a tiny guitar!
There’s a luthier reading this post now exclaiming “Tiny guitar!? Absolute madness! We’re through the looking glass here, people”.
“buck” is a common slang for a US Dollar. Its also a male deer. These are both very common words in American English. The “buck” in Starbucks doesn’t use either of these meanings, and thats fine, in this case you’re right that that part of Starbucks doesn’t carry any meaning from English…HOWEVER neither does “star” in Starbucks. The modern Starbucks logo has no star shapes in it, and nothing referencing astronomical stars. Its equal to “bucks” in that it is just a set of sounds. Yet in Mandarin, the “star” is literally translated as “star” like the astronomical body and spoken it sounds close to “sheen”, while the “bucks” sounds close to “bahcoo” for a total pronounced word of “sheenbahcoo”. So literal for the first part, phonetic for the second part. Essentially using two completely different sets of rules inside one word.
Its taught me all languages are broken in some way. Romance languages have words that have arbitrary gender needing conjugation. Some have two genders, some three! Then the Romanian language comes in with its own tricks.
Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) lack an alphabet so words are conjunctions of smaller words, or sometimes worse the phonetics of smaller words without the meaning of the word.
Starbucks (the coffee company) in Mandarin is 星巴克. 星 is the literal translation of Star. So far so good. However 巴 can mean “to hope”. 克 can mean “to restrain”. The reason they use 巴克 for the second half of Starbucks is that when you pronounce them they vaguely sound like “bahcoo” (buck). So the first half is the traditional use of direct translation ignoring what it sounds like phonetically, but the second half ignores direct translation and instead uses the phonetics of the second two characters to sound like “buck”.
You could accomplish what you’re trying by putting the GPU in a second computer. Further, most UPSes have a data interface, so that you could have the GPU computer plugged into the UPS too, but receive the signal when power is out, so it can save its work and shutdown quickly preserving power in the UPS batteries. The only concern there would be the max current output of the UPS in the event of a power outage being able to power both computers for a short time.
You need to do one of those force perspective photos making the giant watch look small. Give him the photo first.
Fake alternate headline:
“…and finally we had a weapon capable of take the fight to the Zentradi.”
“The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is right now.”
Stop regretting what you didn’t do in the past, and do it now. Time will continue to march into the future irrespective of whatever actions you take. In another 20 years from now would you like to arrive there having accomplished many of your goals or accomplishing nothing?
Why do we hate commercials and advertisements?
In marketing principles, there are about 20 methods used in advertising, heres a good list and explanation of each:
https://thevisualcommunicationguy.com/business-communication/advertising-appeals-overview/
Most of these are manipulative to the audience by creating a need where one didn’t exist, then providing the product to fill that need. Of these only three can be used ethically without manipulation:
However even THESE can be misused and distorted in an effort to sell a product.
In short, nearly all modern advertising lacks honesty.
My answer is that we don’t like to be marketed to, especially from companies of which we don’t have a single ounce of interest of doing business with.
Those businesses would actually prefer not marketing to you either. There’s a saying in marketing “I know I’m wasting have my money on advertising. I just don’t know which half”. If you’re being marketed to for a product or service you’re not a candidate to consume, thats wasted money for the advertiser. This is one of the reasons that Facebook and Google are so valuable as advertising platforms. They have access to VERY DETAILED information on what does interest you, and advertisers desperately want to reach you with their appeals to their product or service.
Makes me wonder a lot of the time, why we aren’t attacking marketers and salespeople more often. I swear if we all focused on a week or a month by breaking the kneecaps of any salesperson or marketing agent while tormenting their families through harassment because of all of the years they’ve harassed us and fucked with us by relentless advertising.
Are you actually suggesting bodily violence against people working in advertising or sales?! That is wildly inappropriate if nothing else just based upon basic human rights most nations recognize as “free speech”, such as the USA Constitution’s 1st amendment.
This is called Voluntary Nystagmus.
Bananaphone by Raffi
Stay by the phone always. We may need you to defuse a bomb someday.
Well, my mother has asked me to digitize her collection too and have me host it. Originally, fine, you give your movies to me, I host them, same thing.
Did your mom buy your computer and hard drives? I doubt it. You spent your own money, right? So she’s giving you a whole bunch of stuff which is consuming your space. Quote out the cost of buying components for a separate server for her with her own drives. When she buys the parts, build her her own server and put her stuff on it.
While thats an awesome pile of storage, I weep for your electricity bill.
Then again, if washing machines did not exist, society would have to adjust it’s expectations.
Wouldn’t it simple revert to the class based system of cleanliness we had before?
One of them looked much larger with the naked eye during totality. It appeared to be almost 1/4 the diameter of the sun and extended out at about 8 o’clock when viewed from the Midwest USA. It was also a color red I’ve never seen before in my life. No photo or artificial light has ever looked like it to me before.
You need to make sure you always use the “+consent” flag. Never move forward without it.
I’m very sorry for what is happening to your country right now. Please stay safe and know that someone on the other side of the world is thinking about you and wishing you well.
I hate to say it but your description could be two or three different countries in the world I can think of. I’m going to guess Sudan?
There’s a fantasy series that has part of this as a plot point. A normal person becomes god with all the godly powers but only for a very short time do they get ALL the power. Its overwhelming in the first few moments and they almost destroy the planet with a mere thought. They realize their mistake a few seconds later, but only have half the power by then, so they put in an ugly workaround, before most of their power runs out. Now that ugly workaround is just “life as we know it” on the planet for the people that live there.
This is a deep spoiler for a popular book series so I don’t want to post the series name and I don’t think we have a spoiler tag yet.