Anyone who has ever banked with Bank of America is probably abundantly aware that they are Satan the Devil
You only notice if you fall into the category of customers they have decided to treat as fee cows. If you're banking entirely intra-state and don't flirt with overdrafts, you're fine.
But like hoo boy if you're a student or something?
AFAIK banks in general (at least in the US) all seem to have some skeletons in the closet. Some have more than others, but as a rule, it doesn't seem to be the most moral or ethical of industries.
That seems like a poor fit, or like someone was intentionally trying to make a conservative version of it.
The story of Julius Caesar is about a leader who was progressive, popular with the people, despised by the old rich patrician white men in the senate, and eventually had his friends turned on him. The point is that the senator's claim he's grabbing too much power even though he's been openly denying power. His death leads to unpopular reforms to undo his changes and leads to a widening split in the republic that leads to civil war. Brutus comes to regret his part in the murder and his co-conspirators are killed. It's a tragedy because the senators use Brutus's honor and loyalty to Rome to convince him that by killing Caesar he'll be saving Rome, but in reality he brings about a civil war and over his defeat the next Triumvirate is formed and Rome at last formally slips from Republic to Empire. The people who kill Caesar are the bad guys.
If we're doing presidents, the better fit would be Roosevelt or Lincoln. If we're doing recent presidents, Obama would be a better fit.
That sounds like an incredibly generous interpretation of Julius Caesar's actions.
Just because someone's a populist doesn't make them a progressive, whatever that even means in late Republican Rome.
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That seems like a poor fit, or like someone was intentionally trying to make a conservative version of it.
The story of Julius Caesar is about a leader who was progressive, popular with the people, despised by the old rich patrician white men in the senate, and eventually had his friends turned on him. The point is that the senator's claim he's grabbing too much power even though he's been openly denying power. His death leads to unpopular reforms to undo his changes and leads to a widening split in the republic that leads to civil war. Brutus comes to regret his part in the murder and his co-conspirators are killed. It's a tragedy because the senators use Brutus's honor and loyalty to Rome to convince him that by killing Caesar he'll be saving Rome, but in reality he brings about a civil war and over his defeat the next Triumvirate is formed and Rome at last formally slips from Republic to Empire. The people who kill Caesar are the bad guys.
If we're doing presidents, the better fit would be Roosevelt or Lincoln. If we're doing recent presidents, Obama would be a better fit.
That sounds like an incredibly generous interpretation of Julius Caesar's actions.
Just because someone's a populist doesn't make them a progressive, whatever that even means in late Republican Rome.
Surprisingly, Shakespeare's play is not completely historically accurate.
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That seems like a poor fit, or like someone was intentionally trying to make a conservative version of it.
The story of Julius Caesar is about a leader who was progressive, popular with the people, despised by the old rich patrician white men in the senate, and eventually had his friends turned on him. The point is that the senator's claim he's grabbing too much power even though he's been openly denying power. His death leads to unpopular reforms to undo his changes and leads to a widening split in the republic that leads to civil war. Brutus comes to regret his part in the murder and his co-conspirators are killed. It's a tragedy because the senators use Brutus's honor and loyalty to Rome to convince him that by killing Caesar he'll be saving Rome, but in reality he brings about a civil war and over his defeat the next Triumvirate is formed and Rome at last formally slips from Republic to Empire. The people who kill Caesar are the bad guys.
If we're doing presidents, the better fit would be Roosevelt or Lincoln. If we're doing recent presidents, Obama would be a better fit.
That sounds like an incredibly generous interpretation of Julius Caesar's actions.
Just because someone's a populist doesn't make them a progressive, whatever that even means in late Republican Rome.
That seems like a poor fit, or like someone was intentionally trying to make a conservative version of it.
The story of Julius Caesar is about a leader who was progressive, popular with the people, despised by the old rich patrician white men in the senate, and eventually had his friends turned on him. The point is that the senator's claim he's grabbing too much power even though he's been openly denying power. His death leads to unpopular reforms to undo his changes and leads to a widening split in the republic that leads to civil war. Brutus comes to regret his part in the murder and his co-conspirators are killed. It's a tragedy because the senators use Brutus's honor and loyalty to Rome to convince him that by killing Caesar he'll be saving Rome, but in reality he brings about a civil war and over his defeat the next Triumvirate is formed and Rome at last formally slips from Republic to Empire. The people who kill Caesar are the bad guys.
If we're doing presidents, the better fit would be Roosevelt or Lincoln. If we're doing recent presidents, Obama would be a better fit.
That sounds like an incredibly generous interpretation of Julius Caesar's actions.
Just because someone's a populist doesn't make them a progressive, whatever that even means in late Republican Rome.
He extended voting rights, citizenship, and opened the positions in government to people outside of Rome itself. He pardoned most of his enemies instead of the traditional prescription (IE, kill them and take their stuff). He reworked the tax and governorship systems to be fairer to the cities and provinces outside Rome, so that they hopefully wouldn't be besieged by one governor pillaging the people for their own gain after another. He reworked the grain dole to exclude wealthier patricians who had been exploiting it to the detriment of the poor.
He was a dictator, but he also took great care to include provincials in the processes of Rome, people who were previously nothing more than exploited resources.
ehhhhhhhh I wouldn't be super quick to look at any part of an old culture in a particularly positive or negative light, given severe differences in circumstance
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ehhhhhhhh I wouldn't be super quick to look at any part of an old culture in a particularly positive or negative light, given severe differences in circumstance
You don't have to say it would be good for today in order to say it was good for the times. And Caesar had two predecessors to the role of absolute dictator, Marius and Sulla, that put a pin in how different his rule was.
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Julius Caesar was overall a good leader for Rome, for the time that he was leader.
It's probably a good thing (for his image, if nothing else) that he was assassinated before that could change.
Regarding banks, I used to bank with Washington Mutual until they introduced fees for not keeping your account up to a certain amount monthly, among other nickle and diming. I was livid and went straight to my local branch and closed out all of my accounts.
It wasn't hasty thinking though. I had long considered joining USAA since my dad is retired Air Force and this was a great opportunity to do so. I signed up, got everything going, and have never looked back. I get a check I can take a picture with my phone and it's in my account instantly, I have my auto loan and both insurances through them, and they waive the fees from ATM's that charge me for withdrawals a set number of times a month. Also no bullshit fees. It's fantastic.
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Put your two fists together in front of you, so that the knuckles of your forefingers are touching. Then start counting hills and valleys - if they're a knuckle, it's a month with 31 days, if it's the space between, then it has 30 (unless it's February - I recommend getting a sweet scar there to make that one look a bit different).
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As a child I always assumed that one day I would know how many days are in each month. This did not come to pass.
30 days hath september, april, june, and november
all the rest have 31, excepting february, the little punk. Can't even make up its mind and switches how many it has every four years.
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Banks suck unless you're rich. Credit unions are the way to go for us peons. USAA is great if you can get it. If not, look for something in the shared branching credit union network. Get your money out of the bank and into a place that doesn't see you as a fee farm that they intend to harvest.
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You only notice if you fall into the category of customers they have decided to treat as fee cows. If you're banking entirely intra-state and don't flirt with overdrafts, you're fine.
But like hoo boy if you're a student or something?
fuggedaboutit
AFAIK banks in general (at least in the US) all seem to have some skeletons in the closet. Some have more than others, but as a rule, it doesn't seem to be the most moral or ethical of industries.
well, I guess this means they're still in the big pride parades :rotate:
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You can see my back in that picture.
That sounds like an incredibly generous interpretation of Julius Caesar's actions.
Just because someone's a populist doesn't make them a progressive, whatever that even means in late Republican Rome.
Surprisingly, Shakespeare's play is not completely historically accurate.
I was gonna say, thanks for that reading, Antony
Lewd.
except you end the play before he gets changed back
but who would top trump
Just replace the donkey mask with a Trump mask, I say. It's much more embarrassing for Titania to fall in love with that than a regular ass.
He extended voting rights, citizenship, and opened the positions in government to people outside of Rome itself. He pardoned most of his enemies instead of the traditional prescription (IE, kill them and take their stuff). He reworked the tax and governorship systems to be fairer to the cities and provinces outside Rome, so that they hopefully wouldn't be besieged by one governor pillaging the people for their own gain after another. He reworked the grain dole to exclude wealthier patricians who had been exploiting it to the detriment of the poor.
He was a dictator, but he also took great care to include provincials in the processes of Rome, people who were previously nothing more than exploited resources.
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You don't have to say it would be good for today in order to say it was good for the times. And Caesar had two predecessors to the role of absolute dictator, Marius and Sulla, that put a pin in how different his rule was.
It's probably a good thing (for his image, if nothing else) that he was assassinated before that could change.
Julisember?
He is also the reason we have 12 months instead of 10, and the months named after him and Augustus were specifically given 31 days in their honour.
Yep. Exactly. Got it in one.
I finally got the knuckle counting thing to work a couple of years back, and now I'm pretty good at it.
Anybody with the skill to do so is probably a witch imho
30 days hath september, april, june, and november
all the rest have 31, excepting february
I know the jingle too, but if you randomly asked me 'hey how many days are there in June?' I'd have to say it in my head until I got to that part.
Here's one for prime numbers under 100:
It wasn't hasty thinking though. I had long considered joining USAA since my dad is retired Air Force and this was a great opportunity to do so. I signed up, got everything going, and have never looked back. I get a check I can take a picture with my phone and it's in my account instantly, I have my auto loan and both insurances through them, and they waive the fees from ATM's that charge me for withdrawals a set number of times a month. Also no bullshit fees. It's fantastic.
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I was trying to formulate my response to that non-mnemonic and this is more wonderful and concise a way of doing it than I could ever have devised.