I would like to thank the good Lord and Gregor Mendel for making carrots so damn tasty. Amen.
As a long time MMORPG cult member, the Deadpool & Wolverine trailer had me very confused with it's "LFG" tagline
One of my favorite things about humans is how we make odd noises when we misspeak. Especially on the phone.
Am I the only one who thinks Anna Scott didn't deserve William Thacker? Like she's gotta work on herself.
If we are still going to have grass lawns, why have we not genetically modified the frasses we use to only grow so tall? It is the year 2024, I should not be subjected to the sound of mowers for hours on end during the spring/summer.
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me after facing horrifying Trials: oh god that was awful but im so glad its over
Tribulations: hey
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it wasn't "some reason", it was 2D animators being unionized and 3D not being unionized. and the simple truth that capitalism kills art.
I remember when 2D faded out, the reason studios kept giving was "it's because 2D is a lot more expensive to produce". I was a child back then so I didn't think too much about it, assuming it was about the process itself, but as I grew up and learned more about art as an artist, and gained friends who were professional 3D artists themselves, I started to question it. Because 3D is very different from 2D, but it's definitely not easier or faster to make. Also, both European and Asian studios kept producing 2D animated movies
The answer was unions. The answer wasn't "this kind of art is cheaper because it's easier to make", it was "this kind of art is cheaper because these artists can't force us to pay them correctly"
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Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day!
They took a last, long drag from their cigarette before they said, "I told you this would happen," while exhaling their personal addition to the smog filled diner.
Reaching for the check, they pinned the remainder of their mashed potatoes with their smoldering butt and stood up. By the time I scooched out of the cracked vinyl booth they were already at the register.
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"Elon Musk's Shadow Rule," Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 21 August 2022 [try here if you're paywall blocked]:
In the past twenty years, against a backdrop of crumbling infrastructure and declining trust in institutions, Musk has sought out business opportunities in crucial areas where, after decades of privatization, the state has receded. The government is now reliant on him, but struggles to respond to his risk-taking, brinkmanship, and caprice. Current and former officials from NASA, the Department of Defense, the Department of Transportation, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration told me that Musk’s influence had become inescapable in their work, and several of them said that they now treat him like a sort of unelected official. One Pentagon spokesman said that he was keeping Musk apprised of my inquiries about his role in Ukraine and would grant an interview with an official about the matter only with Musk’s permission. “We’ll talk to you if Elon wants us to,” he told me. In a podcast interview last year, Musk was asked whether he has more influence than the American government. He replied immediately, “In some ways.” Reid Hoffman told me that Musk’s attitude is “like Louis XIV: ‘L’état, c’est moi.’ ”... “There is only one thing worse than a government monopoly. And that is a private monopoly that the government is dependent on,” [former NASA administrator Jim] Bridenstine said.
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NB: This is as an employee of a retail chain - not a family-owned business.
Since moving to the United States, it's struck me that I see way more people over 65 working in retail jobs than I ever did in Canada (granted, I only ever lived in major cities).
In Canada, it seems that people over 65 just retire, or at most transition into volunteer, part-time, or consulting work. I can't remember the last time I saw anyone of that age group out on a retail floor or working the cash.
I don't know if Canadians have better retirement savings, but certainly, having single-payer healthcare means those costs are largely covered, so there's less of a need to have supplementary income.
What's it like for people outside the US and Canada? Please reblog for reach.
I guess this goes hand-in-hand with the other observation, which is that these older folks I see working retail look like life hit them like a freight train; they seem much more visibly aged than their Canadian contemporaries.
Reblogging again for reach. Looking for more participants from Canada and outside the USA.
No matter where you’re from, if you reblog with comments / tags, please tag with your country if you can as I’m going to write a follow-up post including some of your comments based on the results. Thanks!
Statistics About My Life I Would Like to Know
A recurring series
Topic: Clothing
- How many times, if ever, have I worn the exact same set of clothes (the exact socks, underpants, everything)?
- Did I ever wear the same shirt and pants on the same day/date a week, month or year apart? How many times and what outfit?
- How many combos of clothes have I worn?
- How many times have I been somewhere like a mall or seen a movie or something and had on the shirt as someone else there?
Statistics About My Life I Would Like to Know
A recurring series
Topic: Nosebleeds
- How many have I had?
- Total volume of blood lost?
- How long and when was my longest bleed?
- What was the largest amount of blood lost in a single bleed?
- How many tissues have been used?
- How many times, if I had coughed during a bleed, would I have coughed up blood like the hero of a romantic novel?
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why does it cost money
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Tic tac toe
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He actually summed it up really well.
Source: mirror.co.uk