I like American music. Do you like American music? I like American music, too, baby.
Other versions of me:
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tildes.net/user/nemo
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reddit.com/user/nemo_sum
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metafilter.com/user/324647
Did we have another outage / rollback? Some comments seem to be missing.
... and I'm getting notifications about replies I saw a week ago.
I traveled a thousand miles by bus but it was direct with only one "rest" stop and it was also overnight. Went to sleep on my way out of one city, woke up on my way into another.
I've also done longer trips with multiple stops and changing busses. I brought a book. It was fine.
When you've got less money and more time, it's a good option to have.
White sage and purple sage are both native to North America. What do you mean by "there is no sage"?
It's the 'default' instance so you see a lot of default behaviors.
Their beauty is beyond compare.
I have blocked nothing, but then I like a few shitposts in the feed. Keeps it spicy.
Coffee "beans" are closer to cherry pits than any real bean.
Not from within the "comment reply" action, sadly.
The law does not currently prevent me from doing anything I want to do.
Really only bothers me if I ask hey are kids welcome at this event and the reply is "Fuck no!"
Huh. I'll check it out, their series on pasta was really good.
users on their instance, not users from their instance. This account is from midwest.social but currently commenting on... uh, lemmy.world, right?
And the blue area is definitely "commute by boat", btw.
Anyone going that fast on a bike IS a motorcycle.
It's spammy.
Because it is the duty of parents to support their children, and this is desirable for the purposes of a stable society, and the purpise of law is to protect the stability of society?
I've had friends that did that. It's not something I would do; feels too much like "poverty tourism".
Completely different? Where do you think the word "ghetto" comes from?
That aside, OP specified American cities.
I have never played an otome game before, didn't even know that was a category with a name, but I very much enjoyed this game when I first played it years and years ago.
With multiple paths through the school year, determined both by romance choices and academic ones, there is a great depth to the stories of your PC's freshman year and magic school. Each playthrough takes an hour or two, and multiple passes are rewarded.
My work is organizing right now, this afternoon, and I don't know what I'm doing. What are the best practices? What are the pitfslls?
I work in a restaurant, high-end, multiple locations across the US. We are in Chicago, specifically. We have corporate in for the week as we launch a new menu with training for the whole team every day. Yesterday, second day, right before the end of the day, they sprung on us that they are changing our pay structure.
I have minor concerns but some of my coworkers have major ones. We met beforehand today to get united in our talking points. We raised them at the meeting with the corpos and though the bosses were clearly pressured and made (verbal) concessions, they would not acknowledge our concerns.
We had another off-premises meeting just now where we agreed to all skip the (technically optional) training meeting tomorrow while each sending the same written message through the official, and public, communication channel. We will still show up for our actual scheduled shifts.
Where I feel we're strong:
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We're asking to keep the status quo rather than make a change. All we want is income stability.
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All but four of us were at the organizing meeting, and of the four missing, two said in advance they'll do what the group decides and one of the others spoke up verbally during the meeting today in support.
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The bosses have already offered us concessions, some we asked for (after initially refusing) and some we didn't ask for (greater leeway in comping [giving away] menu items, which may or may not improve tips).
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Most of us don't need this specific job, and can find a new one in less than a week. If it comes to an actual walkout, they will have to close the restaurant.
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Management has already been trying to hire more staff for months, and cannot find worthwhile candidates; of the few they've hired, half don't make it through training. We are not easily replaced.
Where I feel we're weak:
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Some servers have said they can't afford to strike if it means lost income or losing a job.
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The management we're talking with may not have the authority to roll back this decision.
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The company already made these changes at one other restaurant in the chain already, and we can't count on other locations to support us.
Any advice is appreciated. None of us has done anything like this before.
Edited to fix typos and add location.
ABC News: Chicago police tweak mass arrests policy ahead of Democratic National Convention
Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling is touting the nation's second-largest police department as fully prepared for protests ahead of the Democratic National Convention, including on a new mass arrest policy
How do we feel about this? Article makes it sound like there will be a greater emphasis on deëscalation and oversight, but is that enough of a change?
I stopped telling "Yo Mama" jokes because they were déclassé.
Now I tell Yo-Yo Ma jokes, which are much classier.
What are your favorite non-Classical Stoic media?
I saw a post recently about how the family cartoon Bluey was very good at showcasing Stoic behavior, even though it wasn't labeled as such. What are your favorite novels, essays, songs, or movies that showcase Stoicism in the modern or postmodern eras?
My answers in the comments.
SMBC - "Who would be sympathetic?"
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sympathy
Thought I was going to have to wait until next year for a snow Pikmin...
Nope! Had to quick charge my radar, but o e last day of snow got it for me!
The Killers - The Cowboy's Christmas Ball
Music video by The Killers performing The Cowboys' Christmas Ball. ©: The Island Def Jam Music Group Director: Robert Schober / Prod co: SUPER! ALRIGHT! Sub...
This is one of my favorite songs off my Xmas playlist. The Michael Martin Murray original is also good, but I prefer the sound of the Killers' cover, and the video only makes it weirder.
Also one of the best descriptions of American folk dancing in popular media.
Atomic Robo - Knights of the Golden Circle
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
Atomic Robo is a comic book, mirrored on the web, about alternate history. In this arc, the eponymous hero has been sent back in time to the Old West... where he finds an old enemy who hasn't met him yet.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Soul
Is Dune isekai?
Paul is transported to another world where he doesn't know the rules and has to start over in a strange land. He befriends the locals, goes on adventures, becomes their leader, and eventually saves the planet.
What do we think?
I use a to-do list to remember important tasks. But if I am anxious about a task, just looking at the list triggers my anxiety.
Often I end up closing the list and immediately turning to self-soothing. And because there's no way to know in advance if a task on the list will give me anxiety, this often results in my list being not just unusable but unreadable, preventing me from doing or even remembering the non-anxiety tasks on the same list.