Crozekiel

That is an extremely foreign concept to my indoctrinated american brain… My grandmother pre-paid for her entire funeral, casket and burial plot included, back in the early 1980s and didn’t pass until 2005. It cost her like $3000 in 1980s money and we were told at the time the same arrangements would have cost about $25000 in 2005. Another family member died that same year and was cremated and that cost about $4000 just for the basic plain box mentioned above. I’m sure today it is at least double that… (guessing based on how much more EVERYTHING else costs vs 20 years ago).

Unfortunately, $5k doesn’t buy you a sweet funeral. You’re lucky to be cremated and remains in a plain plastic coated cardboard box for $5k.

$5k might cover the costs of moving a country with proper healthcare though.

LLMs making “errors” around elections might be the exact point of them.

Fun memory of mine from playing Morrowind when it first came out…

#1 was having a printed map that came in the game box that got used A LOT. No directional aids in game, and a quest giver would give you directions to a place like going to a southerner’s cousin’s house before GPS (“go west out of town along the river road, you will pass 2 dwemer ruins on your right and there will be a small path breaking off to the right. Follow that until you see the strange statue and look for a cave entrance to your west.” Yea, I needed that printed map and I basically wore it out playing the game).

#2 early on in the main story, the quest giver tells you he needs to look into some information and asks you to come back and check in “after 2 moons have passed”. Well, having been forced to read the book “walk 2 moons” in school recently at that point and having my teacher explain that “a moon” was a month because of moon cycles… I was shocked this quest giver wants me to wait TWO BLOODY MONTHS to continue the main story quests… I get to looking and sure enough there is a whole ass calendar system in Morrowind, so I tried to write down what month it was and wait to see when 2 months had passed… I became the top dog for the mages guild, fighters guild, thieves guild, etc… Explored basically the entire continent. Come back to him and continue the quest but now I’m powered up to fight a god on basically day 4 of the main story. I find out after this that the guy wanted me to wait two nights. TWO NIGHTS. not TWO MONTHS. TWO FUCKING NIGHTS. As in he meant “see the moon twice” not see it go through it’s entire fucking cycle twice. I never even tried talking to him for 2 entire fucking in-game months.

I should go back and replay Morrowind…