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3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work

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Re: 3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work

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Post by neycoda »

_carbyau_ wrote: post #324
james-skemp wrote: post #270

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With his boss: It's a little buried (on mobile) but: > ... the next most frequent is being away with one's superior doing private work for him, a practice that was not forbidden if done in moderation.

While definitely a legal grey area in these modern times, foremen borrowing a truck/excavator and a bloke or two to sort out something at the foreman's house still seems to happen.

I imagine this happens often considering the amount of stories I hear of developer companies doing inadequate jobs.

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Post by the_af »

Ma8ee wrote: post #371
the_af wrote: post #320

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Hm. Why would they have to take over? Women on their period are not invalids. Though maybe the weren't allowed to do household tasks?

There are still some cultures where women isolate themselves in separate buildings while they are "unclean".

Yes, this brings us back to my original comment :)

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Post by dotancohen »

nullc wrote: post #342
reustle wrote: post #273

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Who pees that close to a wall though? Yikes

My guess: someone who is attempting to pee on the scorpion. We are talking about a 10 year old, after all.

It would appear that the scorpion was in fact pissed off, not pissed on.

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Post by micromacrofoot »

silentsea90 wrote: post #222
micromacrofoot wrote: post #120

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One in four women suffer pain severe enough to result in absenteeism from regular activities. > Menstrual pain is a very common problem, but the need for medication and the inability to function normally occurs less frequently. Nevertheless, at least one in four women experiences distressing menstrual pain characterized by a need for medication and absenteeism from study or social activities https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.…

If it helps, the richest of men suffer from baldness, cancer etc and haven't "solved" it yet, but I agree with the take in that it might have made things better if not cured.

Look at before/after photos of Elon Musk and tell me rich men haven't cured baldness. The man was aggressively balding 20 years ago.

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Post by ben_w »

2000UltraDeluxe wrote: post #356
zrobotics wrote: post #309

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Well, the whole point of the holiday is he didn't stay buried.

Hence the need to do it repeatedly.

“To bury your god once may be regarded as misfortune, to bury them twice looks like carelessness.” - not Oscar Wilde.

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Post by ben_w »

nemo44x wrote: post #291

Isn’t there also writings from this time describing how “kids don’t listen anymore” and that “society is doomed” or something? Ahhh, the human condition doesn’t really change. It just restyles itself.

Socrates (469-399BC) is reported to have condemned writing in that kind of way, would that count?

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Post by ben_w »

gibspaulding wrote: post #133
dylan604 wrote: post #86

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Don't forget that the $promisedLand was already inhabited, so you have to kill every man, woman, child before you can have it. What's that? More questioning my authority? Let's see if 40 years in the desert strengthens your faith.

That time we listened to a bush and ended up wandering around the desert without a clear exit strategy..

I was about to make a joke about small errors radically changing the meaning of the text, then I saw what you did.

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Post by ben_w »

adamsmith143 wrote: post #201
oh_sigh wrote: post #182

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You're only closer to the homeless guy with a completely naive take on the utility of money.

Can you check my math? 0 -> 1M -> 10B Not sure how far away from 10B 1M is. Maybe you can help

As the other response is somewhat condescending — and as the usual utility of money calculation is log($), your example numbers would normally suggest the second difference is greater than the first — I think you may find it more useful to ask yourself what you can do with 10B that you can’t do with 1M.

Sure, there are plenty of nice big houses that cost more than 1M, but you’re not off by much, and the first million makes a massive difference, including being able to talk to the bank rather than being escorted out by security.

But: anything over about 100M, the only difference the number makes is which company you get to own because that’s the only[0] thing people sell at that price… and at that level you get the money as a way to keep track of the score of how well you’re running them.

[0] OK, sure, private islands, and I don’t know how yachts work in law, but you get my drift

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Post by ben_w »

ncmncm wrote: post #305
omnicognate wrote: post #39

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"Billionaire" doesn't need a prefix yet and it'll certainly be a while before we get any megabillionaires, aka quadrillionaires. Probably not long before we start having megamillionaires, aka kilobillionaires, aka trillionaires though. Elon Musk's around a quarter of the way there.

Supposedly Putin is there already. Much good it does him.

I hear this claim, but I disbelieve. Wikipedia list of countries by total wealth[0] says Russia’s worth was $3.3 trillion in 2019, and I don’t believe he can really be said to control that fraction of Russia even if he was explicitly given more power than Stalin had over the USSR.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_wea...

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Post by adamsmith143 »

FredPret wrote: post #241
adamsmith143 wrote: post #202

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>The very rich having astronomical amounts of money has zero negative effect on the day to day of the middle class - we don’t have a limited money supply. I think this almost completely false. Elon Musk just bought Twitter and could drastically change a major point of interaction for hundreds of millions of people. The Koch Brothers spend billions to influence, to great effect, the laws that are passed in the US. The…

How could you possibly think the economy hasn’t grown in real terms since the 70’s? Almost every consumer item is vastly better and cheaper. Middle class lives are luxurious in the extreme compared to then. Who cares if 100 people at the top are getting more rewards faster, does it actually make your life worse? No. Only if you are jealous and mean-spirited does Musk’s quarter trillion dollars bother you. In fact, th…

>How could you possibly think the economy hasn’t grown in real terms since the 70’s?

"The economy is almost zero sum, certainly since the 70s the top percentiles have been taking a larger portion of the pie even considering the growth of the pie."

Pretty clearly stated its obviously growing.

>Almost every consumer item is vastly better and cheaper. Middle class lives are luxurious in the extreme compared to then.

"I can buy an Iphone so therefore it's irrelevant that the Koch brothers own significant portions of the US Congress?" Non sequitur imo.

>Who cares if 100 people at the top are getting more rewards faster, does it actually make your life worse? No. Only if you are jealous and mean-spirited does Musk’s quarter trillion dollars bother you.

Because there is literally less to go around.

https://www.epi.org/blog/growing-inequalities-reflecting-gro....

A huge portion of the productivity gains in the past 50 years have gone straight to those 100 people at the top so yes people should be upset that they are taking more.

>In fact, these people tend to invest in things that lead to further improvement.

I fail to see how Spacex or Blue Origin will improve life on Earth in this century.

>Furthermore, if Twitter bothers you that much, go on Parler.

Pot calling kettle black? You seem to be parroting near word for word arguments from Ayn Rand/Alt Right etc. so Parler seems like a natural fit for you.

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