Agreed. And thanks to all the tokers, smokers, and midnight jokers as well.
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"The Law" is built on human sacrifice, in that, someone or even many people have to die before certain problems get "fixed".
READY!
Alchemy is a cover-story for the skill and wisdom to turn bas elements into gold (wealth).
Just give it a bit of thought.
The idea of direct conversion of X into gold is folly.
The real alchemists can turn crude oil into "gold" by creating markets that pay them in gold for a product or service.
I don't think it's that deep.
Gold from dirt.
With a dumptruck, a flatbed trailer, and a backhoe, a man can put gold in his pocket digging ditches, leveling and grading land, making gardens, etc.
You don't see the alchemy in the Schools that sell MBAs? I can't help you.
Alchemy is defined in terms of gold. I didn't make that distinction, history did. I'm just keenly aware that it's a metaphor for turning something generally seen as worthless, like rocks and dirt, into wealth no matter the form.
Yandex is good. Its biased too, but not nearly as comped by the M-MIC.
Too busy implementing the CCP's DEI initiatives to do their fucking jobs.
Bluecoat fail?
This what happens when you rely on hat garbage from Seattle.
Are, perhaps, the "stripes" of military enlisted ranks symbolic of the whippings by "the man" they have taken? Evidence of having the disobedience "beaten" out of them? #X stripes makes one the top nigger? Maybe "battle scars" while serving in the, "You volunteered to be a slave," Army?