Also, If I understand it correctly it’s also called this because caulking requires jamming pitch soaked rope into the joints so it’s still about rope!

Paid : give money for

Payed: nautical term meaning to let out some slack on the rope or to cover the deck in tar/pitch for sealing it

People will lose their jobs to AI in the same way that lumberjacks lose their job to forest fires.

I bought this game and it came with a poster that had the epoch on it.

When my father saw me flying around in the airship he asked if this was a war game or like galaga and I explained to him that it was my time traveling airship and its name was epoch.

He taught me what the word meant and decided this game was a-okay.