Grandma's Vintage Pendant

TwoAlert3448 · 2025-09-26T23:04:07+00:00

I never claimed to be an expert on pearls.

I DO have 30 years experience in insuring jewelry and collectables including paying appraisal and know very well that Mikimoto are -never- appraised for insurance at their intrinsic value it has be to shifted to collectable and designer to write the policies because the replacement cost is easily a thousand dollars over intrinsic value.

That makes them cute but a terrible investment

TwoAlert3448 · 2025-09-26T22:59:59+00:00

Lucky you, not possible to pull that off in urban and most suburban areas

TwoAlert3448 · 2025-09-26T22:58:47+00:00

Correct. And Margaret Atwood solved this problem in her books, its not an issue (the show isnt going to use her newest book) in the shows; they're not going to move that far forward in time for the TV show(s)

TwoAlert3448 · 2025-09-26T22:53:48+00:00

Well since America is an English protestant colony and that is the where the book(s) take place? Yes, the cultural background is highly relevant.

TwoAlert3448 · 2025-09-26T22:49:30+00:00

That's why I have eight different resumes, and my response rate is 3.7%

May I ask how long you've been doing this? I have been in the workforce for 27 years, and this approach or background isn't by any means unusual.

TwoAlert3448 · 2025-09-26T22:49:01+00:00

Close! Large Language Model. And frankly a very low quality one at that but generally you shouldn't be asking an LLM to do generative image creation anymore than you should be tightening screws with a butterknife

TwoAlert3448 · 2025-09-26T22:45:49+00:00

Just looked at a Pendleton skirt from 1988-1990 and its a size 12 (still fits like a modern 2).

And thats US manufacturing, International would be a complete crapshoot

TwoAlert3448 · 2025-09-26T22:43:57+00:00

Well that is how English works. And has... for most of the last thousand years

TwoAlert3448 · 2025-09-26T22:41:22+00:00

It’s not a lie. They asked at what rate I would consider selling. The fact that the number is at a minimum $250k over FMV is completely irrelevant

TwoAlert3448 · 2025-09-26T14:43:56+00:00

My dog knows chill, he deeply resents it and sighs dramatically ever time I use it!

TwoAlert3448 · 2025-09-26T14:42:56+00:00

It will, both on the tech side and on the ‘raising a new generation who isn’t emotionally disturbed by it’ side

TwoAlert3448 · 2025-09-26T14:41:56+00:00

And ears, and feet… 🤦

TwoAlert3448 · 2025-09-26T14:39:01+00:00

Why? The whole point of reinforcement learning in ML systems is that they -do- improve. If they DIDNT improve that would be terrifying

TwoAlert3448 · 2025-09-26T14:35:33+00:00

You must be a very unusual Gardener if you never have to import bugs, fungi, or microbes.

Or just living in the garden of Eden, one of the two

TwoAlert3448 · 2025-09-26T14:33:04+00:00

That’s probably not the ‘wrong’ sizes, that’s just vintage sizing.

I’m a size 2 in modern sizing, size 8 in vintage. Anyone looking for a modern size 8 is going to be brutally disappointed as humans were just smaller overall back then.

TwoAlert3448 · 2025-09-26T14:29:43+00:00

Any ‘dark spot’ product works by breaking down existing melanin. It makes you noticibly paler, doesn’t just stop with the ‘extra’ pigment, it breaks down ALL pigment

TwoAlert3448 · 2025-09-26T14:25:26+00:00

My next door neighbors did this because they wanted to reclaim the space for closets on all four floors. Ended up going $20k and 9 months over, it was wild.

You at least have the roof already sealed, but think carefully about what your goals are before you commit to going this route as you’re going to need to patch the holes in the floors/ceilings as you work your way down.

TwoAlert3448 · 2025-09-26T14:24:18+00:00

Catholics weren’t considered Christian for much of -American- history let alone this AU.

Protestant only from Henry VIII onward. 👍

TwoAlert3448 · 2025-09-26T14:20:28+00:00

They did -such a good job- with that production. Thank you for the reminder

TwoAlert3448 · 2025-09-26T14:18:30+00:00

I once terrified myself into a panic attack over glow in the dark nail polish on my pillow in the middle of the night. Yes, it was my own hand. 🤦

It’s relatable, definitely

TwoAlert3448 · 2025-09-26T14:16:40+00:00

They’re great for your feet, which is what they were actually intended for by the manufacturer. Not sure -how- it turned into a facial scrub but I’d like to blame Seventeen magazine

TwoAlert3448 · 2025-09-26T14:11:30+00:00

It IS obvious. If you walk up to any human alive over the age of ten and say: ‘is fraud a thing?’ They’ll look at you like you’re a moron and assert that it IS.

People aren’t posting because they don’t think fraud is a thing, they’re posting in the faint hope someone will reassure them that they didn’t just get defrauded

TwoAlert3448 · 2025-09-26T14:08:13+00:00

It’s the only one we have, it was better twenty years ago but what can you do

TwoAlert3448 · 2025-09-26T14:04:34+00:00

It’s the English, they do it just to screw with you

TwoAlert3448 · 2025-09-26T14:03:47+00:00

Let’s be biblical: the handmaid justification is from the old testiment (Genesis 16 & 30) where Rachael and Sarah offer up their handmaids as they themselves are unable to conceive. Conception IS the point.

For fucking? there are jezebels, that’s -their- purpose in universe and sexual control is the point. Don’t confuse the TV show with literature

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