I personally have some doubts about Elagabalus, the accounts sound like a hatchet job, it’s much closer in time to the actual ban. But, sometimes people are just nuts so we should expect some historical leaders to do some really strange things. The Nero account is both more neutral and the described wedding a public spectacle so it seems unlikely for someone to just make it up whole cloth. Though it’s also been debated extensively, we simply don’t have concrete proof either way.
In terms of legality of marriage in Rome, I mostly agree. Arguably male adoption of other adult men could be largely equivalent to heterosexual marriage as far as the state were concerned. Ie name change, social rank, and property as there’s no kids and no wife possibly leaving her father’s control depending on the type of marriage. To be clear it was often a political tool, but that doesn’t mean it was always a political tool. Just something to think about.
I’m not sure what you are calibrating against but I feel like the last 20 odd years are full absolute batshit crazy stuff that doesn’t make sense and this seems rather tame.
There is an old electric station near me that is used for various things sometimes. Some band was in there shooting a music video and bumped something and somehow the whole area started filling with water. Nobody could stop it.
The government, the water company, everyone was struggling to figure out what to do, and they decided to call the old guy that used to work there. He was in his 90s but he told them how to fix everything.
I wouldn't dismiss that scenario. It seems plausible that the documentation is so extensive that it takes time and effort to answer some questions. It might be easier to just ask the authors, if they're still around.
Likely you know this, and you're just being funny, but the try/catch statement is more like setjmp/longjmp in C. The Result type in Rust is syntactic sugar for integer return codes, returning early on errors, and tagged union structures. And where C programmers use goto statements, C++ programmers use destructors, and Rust programmers use the Drop trait. Walter Bright also says that nested procedures in D eliminate most use cases of goto for him.
You can also always avoid goto, in C, but usually, either it has excessive if-statement nesting, it uses boolean flag variables in loop conditions, or it uses structures to create state machines, but these are usually just uglier and more error-prone than the equivalent version using goto. The same applies to avoiding break, continue, and early returns.
"Stack said lawyers for the governor’s office determined that Panera doesn’t meet the standard for a business that “produces” bread “for sale on the establishment’s premises” because “many chain bakeries (such as Panera Bread) mix dough at centralized off-site locations and then ship that dough to their retail locations for baking and sale.”
1. They are claiming that because Panera generally mixes dough at central locations that they don't "produce" bread by baking it at the retail locations. It is not clear that this was their original intent and not a recently invented rationalization to obscure the connection to Panera.
2. The lawmakers that are calling for an investigation into the deal aren't the same lawmakers that write the deal are they?
3. The governor can obviously influence legislation including but not limited to his power to veto it.
Tupac was a gangster who'd been convicted of sexual assault. Personally I try to separate the artist from the human because humans are consistently awful creatures, and otherwise we'd never be able to enjoy any art ever. But I wouldn't be in support of Tupac running Y Combinator, or to be the CEO of pretty much any company, ever.
I like Freddie Gibbs and Danny Brown. Both release music that is extremely misogynistic.
Deeper, Freddie (+ Madlib, ofc)
> Slammin', half a thang of heroin in the bathroom
> Keep an AK and the backup in the backroom
> Cook a meal clean and she suck me like a vacuum
If I tweet at a woman I disagree with that she should be in the kitchen cooking me a meal clean and then sucking me like a vacuum, that's okay right? Because I'm just aping my favourite popular rapper?
The interesting thing about 2Pac is he grew up intelligent and was taught to respect women. Some of his earliest lyrics were very pro-women.
He changed his tone later in life as he was betrayed many times.
“Since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why we take from women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think its time we killed for our women, be real to our women, try to heal our women, cus if we dont we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies, who make the babies. And since a man can't make one he has no right to tell a women when and where to create one”
Wonder how much of that change was personal and how much marketing. He'd be far from the first artist to appeal to the "thug life" despite having a relatively comfortable and conflict-free childhood. But in the 90's the music industry went HARD on selling that image.
i'm also suffering from alienating people i just met by means of ill-adapted funniness. if one identifies this issue it's probably best to intentionally avoid attempting to be funny at all during the first or even first few interactions.
> 1. The effectiveness of clever on other people is highly contingent on outside factors, over which you have no control and of which you may not have any knowledge; i.e., just because you intended to be clever doesn’t mean you will be perceived as clever, for all sorts of reasons.
1. People have a different sense of humor, that means what you find funny isn't always what others find funny. If you have a very... peculiar.. sense of humor, it might happen that nobody finds your jokes funny ever.
2. What is funny also depends on the context. The same joke will land differently if you tell it on the internet, in a chat, on a date, in a pub, to a stranger to a friend etc. If you have a hard time understanding what the context does to a joke, don't make them.
3. The purpose of jokes (typically) is to lighten the mood and to ease potential tensions in social situations. If you dice a 0 on joking however the outcome will be that people will see red flags and connect you with that weird guy that totally overdid it for them. If you are constantly rolling zeros, maybe stop rolling because it is hurting yourself.
At least when I read it, it said specifically that he had NOT drank the chemicals beneath the sink, or tried a Tide Pod. He DID stick the fork in a light socket. It sounds funny to me, but if it had said that he DID drink the chemicals or the Tide Pods then I would agree it sounds nutty.
Are you sure it said that he DID do those things when you read it?
One way to consider that all is that it's actually a good way to filter out people who aren't going to want to hire a software engineer that's a felon for computer crimes.
Another perspective is that OP already has massive baggage associated with him so he should tread extremely carefully, not add even more baggage. You want to look like an exemplary employee, not a liability.
Exactly. My idea of someone that I would hire who is a felon is someone that has "learned their lesson" and in this case being dead serious and to the point might help. After all OP wants to convince others that he doesn't do anything stupid again.
