CadCom

Actually this is a good point. Counting can be helpful but it isn't necessary at least until we get extremely close to the 100,000th post. In fact, counting might actually discourage posting in some cases since it seems to be so very far away before we reach 100,000. If instead we just chat about whether or not dark matter and antimatter exist in the cosmere, we'll surely reach the 100,000th post much faster.

I can be a pinch hitter. July 4th is a very busy time for me

So, I wrote a poem that I'm considering reciting at a small town July 4th program. It's a first completed draft and it's a bit different than my other attempts at poetry because it's much more historical based and sometimes that leaves less room for imagery. But I'd love feedback on the poem or suggestions to improve it. In Seventy-six, the colonies convened To Dissolve the Bands that once had bound Thirteen That parchment was the first flame of the nation But flames, once lit, require preservation. The tiny flame flickered through years of war Kept just alive till the yankees had won And redcoat oppressors stood here no more The fight for freedom had now just begun The Soldiers were owed for years of back pay Which Congress had no writ of tax to fund Tariffs and debts led to income delay Farmers owed taxes they couldn’t afford Til’ Shays led Rebellion of farmers dismayed The impending collapse could not be ignored The flame with bright hopes now barely remained Convention was called, Amendments implored So to Philadelphia delegates came. To mend the old frame or build in its place And strengthen the nation, revive the flame They each had dreamt a different outcome there Of what they hoped could come of freedoms flame So in a room with hot and muggy(humid?) air They gathered to achieve their worthy aim. Perfection was not a quality held By those fifty-odd men in attendance Some people owned slaves, some egos were swelled Tempers flared in the Hall of Independence On almost everything they disagreed From slaves to votes to states to presidents From legislature to judiciary But they knew the import of the event. New Jersey wanted equal votes by state Virginia's plan was more proportional This led to compromise so great The dying flame revived, gave hope to all. So through four months of heated argument Compromise became the guiding light Inspired, they solved each predicament Divided, yet united they did fight. A semiiquincentennial gone by And still their constitution is the law Imperfect men who recognize their pride Can build a nation in spite of all their flaws. Today is not a celebration of perfection Instead, an opportunity for reflection. If we elect to pursue the American dream We must unite fight for the same team. Freedom survives not by triumph or fame But by imperfect souls who choose to stoke the flame.

I do like cookies. Several years ago, it was on the wikipedia page for a molecule containing Cadmium. I copied it from there. CadCom is short for Cadmium Compounder. It isn't on that wikipedia anymore and when I reverse image search it I can't find anything with a reference to cadmium. Probably about 7 years ago, @Alvron ran a Sanderson Elimination game that was very freestyle. Rules were basically you could submit any reasonable action you wanted to do to avoid a zombie apocalypse. The zombies tried to spread to everyone. I realized I was going to be trapped but I had gasoline and a flame. So I drank the gasoline and lit myself on fire to kill as many of the zombie players near me. It's now a quote as part of my signature.

I thought you were Jake from Stake farm Why did you leave a banana peel on my doorstep?

2860 Meticulously read through every prior comment until you find someone mention the plague to illustratethat it has been mentioned before 2861 Be the type of person that does 2860 2862 Not bother to check if the plague had been mentioned before 2863 Misspell the word 'plague'

Worldshopping spree. How could you betray my trust by selling my spanreed to a southern Scadrian while I was on vacation in the Forests of Hell?

1428: intentionally misnumber important lists and hope no one notices.

I know it's not units, but hear me out. Base12. It can also be intrinsicly counted on your hands. You can count up to 24 using your thumb as the placeholder, and the 2nd knuckle, 3rd knuckle, and finger tip on each remaining finger, totalling 12 on each hand (Alternatively, you can count the sections between each knuckle on each remaining finger.) It factors more evenly. base10 factors into halves, 5ths, and 10ths. Base12 factors into halves, thirds, quarters, 6ths, and 12ths. Thirds are a very common factor in every day usage, and in base10 it's an irrational decimal. In base12 it would be a rational decimal. It more naturally fits the superior system (By that I mean imperial)(This part is somewhat a joke. In current system, metric is nicer because of how well it fits the base10 system) For example, 12 inches in foot, 12 tsp in quarter cup, 12 months, 12*2 hours in a day, 12 apostles, 12 hours on a clock, Instead of Ones Place, tens place, hundreds place, etc... We could do ones place, Dozens place, bundles place, chains place, etc. (these are based on my brief research into history of groups who used dozens to count, and could definitely be considered in more detail) I have a whole PPT I facetiously made to present to my sister after she argued we should completely redo the numeric system, but hreally she just changed the linguistics of the current number system. I'll try to edit a link to that in later when on a different device. TO be fair, I came up with mine independent of watching this, but a lot of the stuff is very very close.

Hi y'all, I have been perusing the general discussions page, and saw several threads dedicated for discussion for people who fit a specific group. Atheist, LDS, Trans, astronomists, and others. It's so cool to see all thos groups. One group that I didn't see, unless I missed it, is a thread for parents. I thought it could be a cool page to start, just to share stories that made us laugh, cry, feel proud. I honestly don't know if there are many other parents out here, but I thought I'd try to put it out there to see if there's any engagement. So last night my Little One (LO) told us a straight up lie for the first time. LO didn't want to change clothes before bed, but had spent several hours outside digging in dirt, honestly should have had a bath too, but it was already really late. (I was helping my parents with their sprinkler system, so LO decided to "help" too.) My wife wasn't at grandma's house, so my LO didn't know that wife knew we were outside the whole time. My wife was putting LO down for bed time while I was putting younger siblings down, and LO told my wife that they had spent the entire time at grandma's house inside, so they didn't need to change clothes and could sleep in normal clothes. I realize that starting to lie is a developmental milestone when a child realizes they can say something that didn't actually happen, and at that age it's more about testing their abilities to influence parents and not be truthful. But it still kindof stung that LO would double down as much as they did, when they knew full well that they had not even gone inside grandma's house the entire time we were there.

I figure I'll resurrect this post, which I like to do every time I return to the site after a long Haitus. It's been like 2 years since I was last here. Any new questions for me? (Even though most people don't know me because of my absence)

So is the idea that the specific culture has a form of quasi-religion, but no one can confirm the existence of the deity? And the Deity doesn't explicitly do anything in the story? Essentially the coincedences that help the hero along could be explained by either Supernatural or natural causes, and that is left to the interpretation of the reader? So From what I'm seeing from your solution, your saint is able to somehow imbue objects with what people believe is power from on high, but the actual saint starts to question if the objects are actually given divine power or if it's some other mechanism bestowing the good fortune. (Like positive mindset or placebo) I think your solution seems like a very real-world way to ground any fantasy, making it seem more realistic. Because A lot of real-world religious figures I believe often actually question their relationship with their chosen deity. I would definitely include some sort of ceremony or liturgy in the book. You wouldn't need to associate the liturgy with a specific deity, but just have specific ceremonies.

2852: Announce plans to build a hyperscale data center 2853: Become a trillionaire 2854: Drink a Red Bull, rip off your wings. 2855: Invite people over to your Dugout in the woods for homemade moonshine with your...Special... ingredient that definitely isn't derived from cyanogenic plant materials.

You simultaneously missed nothing and everything.

Oh I totally forgot that I'm a Sanderson Eliminator Moderator. My bad. I didn't have mod rights on this page, so i spaced. So yall need to make the decision. Did I make it 0 or is this 35? My bad.