In the Golden Dawn tradition (if I read and recall correctly) you start with 1 to 2 if invoking and 2 to 1 if banishing (which is probably the more common of the two)! Yay knowledge no one asked for 🤣

Only if it somehow increases profit. FTFY

Would you recommend it? What sort of time span and what cultures does it cover?

• Melinda’s ghost pepper sauce (kinda my default)
• Tobasco scorpion (another default)
• yuca tecca reserve (for tacos usually with another sauce for more heat)
• trappey’s tobacco peppers (for hot dogs, eggs, and chili)
• Melinda’s ghost pepper wing sauce (for nuggies)

The newly inspired Roman fan in me wants to say ‘no you filthy Carthaginian scum!’ but the guy who just read about Dido in a Greek mythology book says he needs to learn more about it because it seems really interesting

Hahahaha that’s hilarious. I’ll never unsee it!

Have you been reading books or reading through Wikipedia? The wiki pages are very thorough but I like having an author organize everything for me. I read “Mesopotamia: invention of the city” by Gwendolyn Leick and listened to the majority of the audiobook for “Weavers, Scribes, and Kings.” I was looking at a book by Echart Frohm when I started getting enamored with Rome and I kinda got sidetracked haha

Wasn’t Shamshi-Adad the first one to claim the title "king of the universe

I think it was actually Sargon of Akkad! If you haven’t looked into the Akkadian stuff I highly suggest it. It’s woefully lacking in detail since it was the 3rd century BCE. A lot of it was written after Sargon passed, but it’s all very foundational for the Babylonian and Assyrian stuff that came after.

Assyrian boasting always cracks me up. Sennacherib describes this battle against Babylon:

Case in point, a lot of the bragging and boasting started during the Akkadian dynasty. Sargon jumpstarted it by bragging about how he captured Lugalzagessi and paraded him around the city before taking him to the gate of Enlil in Nippur. One of his sons (Rimush or Manishtusu) or perhaps his grandson, Naram-sin, was the first to try and estimate (and brag about) casualties by his army’s hand!

They also bragged a lot about how they put down rebellions…it was a tradition in their line haha 😂

That being said, like their rule, the Assyrians were far more boastful about their straight up brutality. But one thing they had in common that I found interesting and super respectable…they wanted to be remembered more for their creation and restoration than their destruction. Sennacherib and his successors did some really amazing city planning and tried to take care of their people.

I hadn’t seen that entire description from Sennacherib before thanks! I will say, he was fucking pissed and it shows!

I just wrapped up a deep dive into Mesopotamia myself and man it was fucking fascinating. Hadn’t heard this one before, so thanks

Another fun one from Mari was how Shamshi-adad berated his son via correspondence by saying he was too busy womanizing and partying to be a good leader and should be more like his older brother 😂.

There are so many cool stories. I have moved on for now to study some Greek and Egyptian history because I want to have a nice background for when I get to Roman history but one day I wanna grab a book specifically on Assyrian history.

Anyway I am around if you ever want to talk Mesopotamian history haha

I do mean it in an American way but also boiled peanuts masala salad sounds right the fuck up my alley.

Yes, they are super tasty! My parents grew up in the state of Georgia. But I moved to California as an adult and no one here has even heard of them. I get strange looks when I make them (homemade is best!) but I force people to try them and I’ve never had a single person or walk away impressed.

Boiled peanuts!

Syncthing!

I think they meant that in Sweden they removed the cancer labels? Here in the States (California specifically) at least, General Snus (made by Match) simply has the warning “may cause mouth cancer.” Camel Snus on the other hand has no cancer warning at all just “may cause gum disease and tooth loss.”

Like you said regulation is the final say in whether it’s on the label or not but these two warnings seem like the States (again at least CA) are taking the harm reduction into consideration as the labels aren’t as severe as they are on dip or cigarettes. Sorry if this is incoherent I’m typing on a phone while being talked at by a toddler who says he’s seen bigfoot.

Noticed this too and it’s annoying as ferk. It’s messed up many a queue between my wife and i

So, your first thought might be for enhancing clarity using techniques like compression and limiting to give the calls a consistent volume and avoid spikes that might bust an ear drum.

This is partially true; I run all these calls through a compressor and limiter for that reason, though I am not encouraged by my employer to be obsessed with making the calls pristine…after all they are done on regular phone lines over regular phones (viz., not on nice microphone) and as such you can’t exactly get Hollywood sound; you actually rarely useful data below 175 hrz and what is audible above 2500 us usually very useful when boosted (it becomes very essy, harsh, and hissy)

As a second consideration, many publicly traded companies, needing to carefully word their situations to their shareholders, will record two versions of their call and which one gets aired is dependent on news or other factors that come between the call and the airing of the call (could be a matter of hours, or a matter of days). This is also true to an extent and happens from time to time.

A third consideration you might have is, throat clearing, coughing, rummaging of papers. I’ll tell you…the MFS have the driest mouths and lip smack louder than a firecracker. They also don’t seem to realize if they shuffle papers next to the phone it will pick it up.

But no, even that is not the main reason.

The main reason they need to pre-record is because they can’t read. They can’t read simple sentences. I’ve picked a sentence out at random, and knowing nothing about their insane vernacular (we had fantastic EBITDA margins that gross outstanding for the coming tailwinds that outshine our core foundation pillars and drivers of growth) I was able to read them without messing up.

And yet they…will frequently have to read the same sentence 2-10 times. I’m not kidding. Most of these CEOs are fucking imbeciles and mean ones at that. They can barely read a sentence without fucking up. It sometimes takes me an hour to edit together a 15 min call.

On rare occasions it’s because they care. I’m under NDA but I’ll just say I have worked with a certain publicly traded meat-alternative company that has a lot of re-recording and edits but it’s because their CEO (seems to me) very passionate about what he’s doing and agonizes over the right word choices even up until the moment of recording. Props to him. He’s taking pride in what he does and can actually read a full sentence.

Other people on the other side of the spectrum can’t even be bothered to read their script before they show up and don’t know how to pronounce their own product names.

TL;DR: I am mostly there to make sure I have a clear pronunciation of every line of the script, take notes on where there are errors, and edit the script together to make a coherent whole at the end without any gross factual error. I do a little bit of processing to get rid of throat clearing, make the volume consistent.

Audio engineer and composer. I do music for a lot of little indie games and short films, etc. and then I also mix music, and edit audio for corporate earnings calls.

Like as in you traveled across the country to see them? If so, that sounds fun. I’ve driven across 3-4 times (assuming you mean the US) and it’s been a lot of fun each time.

It would be really great to see them for me this time since they are playing with the Descendants (the two were my introduction into punk music)!

Yea I just saw that in my feed. I’ve never seen them live (though I hear they suck live 😜) so I should def try.

One of my favorite songs of all time. I revisit it once a year or so but have to be careful because as much as I love it, it can put me in a dark place. I’ve urged a lot of friends to give it a listen while paying attention to the lyrics but that seems to be quite a commitment for most people 😂

I haven’t looked thoroughly because at the end of the day I have like …another 2 years of airvpn credit and I’m happy enough with them that I could make a separate server for a website…maybe with the rock pi 5a I bought that I haven’t touched. My current server is mostly for media and…uhh…sailing, as well as syncing devices (sync thing), running a telegram bot, etc. I could use the pi for more public stuff. And not use a VPN.

If you find a solution though, let me know!