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(please see footnote)

...therefore biweekly ought to mean twice a week, and semiweekly ought to mean once every other week. And same with the quarterly and yearly variants, etc.

This is how the math works on a rate. Weekly = 1 event/week. Biweekly = 2×1 event/week= twice a week. Semiweekly = 1/2×1 event/week = 1/2 event/week = (1 event every 2 weeks).

Nowhere are either a bi\[time period\] or a semi\[time period\] used in serious discourse, other than when discussing these botched rates. So these are clearly rates and not durations.

Can I get some \*combination\* STEM and linguistics folks to chime in here?

(this post is pending on r/unpopularopinion. I am new to this sub, and ready to have the it deleted if it violates any rules here)

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Had my boss look me in the eye and tell me that when I raised some objections about something he was ordering me to do.

He's a first tier supervisor with enormous backing from the next leader up.

I know I need to find an alternative, and I'm working on that. I'm almost through moving laterally internally, but he still has a lof of say over my priorities.

I imagine there is no law that says a boss can't be weird like this (personally I'd be embarrassed to ride on such thin logic for why a direct report should do what I say), but is this something that HR/employee experience/ethics at most places would consider an actionable item, or would they ignore or side with the supervisor on it?

- A testament as in a people's record of their testimony? A record of what was demanded of them, exposing the logic and zeitgeist of the demanding party even in being unable to resist the demands

- Jesus 'upholding' the old testament, as one would uphold evidence, not as one would uphold righteousness/metavalue?

- What amount of choice would they have (had)?

- How would one go about practically exploring the implications of and the likely reactions from the current living people, descencents of the originally chosen?

"...for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments"

In the "normal" being true, if the "abnormal" turns out to also be true (and in charge of the characteristics of the "normal"), then what we see are the intended workings, not some coincidence or mutually exclusive reality. The practical (secrecy, surveillance, sacrifice, corruption, riches in exchange for obedience and secrecy, etc) are as the exoteric would have it, not in opposition to it.

Something akin to "the system isn't falling, it is working as designed" but applied to the inner workings of the realm as a whole?

Note that, (Though I am aware that this is no guarantee of my not offending, or my not being out of line...) I have partial blood ties to the peoples in question as well as in-law relationships and friendships. Please read correctly that this is very much not demonizing any groups of people, but very much the exact opposite.

I was going to post on the Gnostic sub as well, but it seems like it's full of magick benders, mystics and cold souled "scholars" there. They cast me out before, this way, so I am asking this group instead.

Do these dots connect in anyone else's head and instincts?

P1718, CEL is on.

2009 hatch

Shop is asking for $2.5k. Replace, flash, etc. We had a less experienced family member do the initial shopping and unfortunately they might have called most of the options in town and shared that initial quote value. Maybe not surprisingly, all the other places agreed that is a legitimate cost. But my quick online search suggested national average is ~1.2k or less for the fix.

What is actually reasonable for this?

And is it worth attempting to DIY if we don't yet own an advanced OBD tool?

Does my employer have any legal requirement to let me know what my current PTO accrual rate is? I can't find it on the employee resources websites, but I think something was miscalculated and now I am accruing at a much lower rate than before.