I love to improvise on this tune: eyes closed, shut off from everything. I get into trouble a few times here, but I truly love the things that DO connect. I’ll take that risk.
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Just made an online purchase of !00% Kona Coffee beans from Buddha’s Sanctuary. Hope to soon try my 1st cup of Kona after hearing so many good reviews. I enjoy good coffee and many of my long distance friends rave about Kona.
Irritating work news.
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Liquor store owners around here are pissed. Per state law, they can’t sell on Sundays (thanks, Republicans!) so they won’t make a penny on NYE this year.
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
Hmm. Are you anywhere near another state border?
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
Liquor store owners around here are pissed. Per state law, they can’t sell on Sundays (thanks, Republicans!) so they won’t make a penny on NYE this year.
We just repealed our dry Sunday law a few years ago. It amazed me that in a state as progressive and forward-thinking as Minnesota, there was still a dry Sunday law on the books.
re: #164 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Nikki is just trying to cover her bases and position herself for a VP/cabinet spot under DJT if he does not drop out or appeal to his base if he is forced out
cabinet maybe
but she has to drop out soon and 100% endorse him
or he’ll definitely hold a grudge, like he does
*however* if he taps her for VP (which i highly doubt), then guaranteed he will lose votes.
re: #5 PhillyPretzel ✅
Hmm. Are you anywhere near another state border?
Two, actually. Not sure about Alabama but I know Louisiana sells on Sundays. I’m just going to get what I need today.
re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg
Oh. Okay. I guess I am lucky in the fact that my local Acme sells wine and beer on Sundays too. PA does allow alcohol sales on Sunday. The Drys are still giving us heck for it.
re: #6 Nerdy Fish
We just repealed our dry Sunday law a few years ago. It amazed me that in a state as progressive and forward-thinking as Minnesota, there was still a dry Sunday law on the books.
I remember when I moved from Utah to Arizona, and not just to Arizona, but to a town founded by Mormons in Arizona. I went into a local Stop’n’Rob and was boggled to see that they had HARD LIQUOR behind the cashier counter. Oh, and that you could WALK IN to the beer cooler. Then I went down to the CVS and boggled again at the well stocked aisle of hard liquor and wine, and the (smaller, but still substantial) beer cooler that again, you could walk into. You can’t buy alcohol after midnight, but there’s pretty much no limitations otherwise.
The city fathers of Mesa, however, absolutely drew the line on cannabis dispensaries within the city limits. All the ones that look like that they’re in Mesa are actually in what are called “county islands” and they do a brisk business.
ETA: In Utah, you could only buy 3.2% beer at the convenience store or grocery. (The percentage has changed since 3.2% beer is no longer brewed.) You had to go to the state store for anything harder, and they were closed on Sundays. In Texas, beer and wine were available during certain hours at the supermarket, but harder liquor could only be obtained at actual (non-state owned) liquor stores. So moving to Arizona with this alcoholic free for all was astonishing.
Cryptic notes from a cereal killer…
Pennsylvania residents have been left petrified after finding terrifying notes inside sealed food packages that reference JFK, terror-riots, SS and Lord of the Rings.
The cryptic notes have been discovered in ordinary grocery items, including Lucky Charms, Lindt Chocolate and Chai tea, bought from multiple stores in Northeastern Pennsylvania and across the state.
Joe Miller, from Sugarloaf Township, couldn’t believe his eyes when he found a folded piece of paper containing secret society messages in a box of Lucky Charm’s S’mores cereal that he purchased last week.
Andy Timmons: “On Your Way Sweet Soul”
Really like his touch - the way he gets-on-and-off the strings.
re: #11 Shropshire Slasher
Hmm. I just looked up Sugarloaf Township PA. That is is Luzerne County in PA. Here is the Wiki entry for that county.
en.wikipedia.org
It could also be this county too:
en.wikipedia.org
re: #7 Dangerman
cabinet maybe
but she has to drop out soon and 100% endorse him
or he’ll definitely hold a grudge, like he does*however* if he taps her for VP (which i highly doubt), then guaranteed he will lose votes.
She was already a cabinet member—lasted less than 2 years as UN ambassador.
He is never going to pick her as VP—“Birdbrain”; “Nikki New Taxes”; “Sellout to lobbyist parasites” are not nicknames you give your potential VP.
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
Liquor store owners around here are pissed. Per state law, they can’t sell on Sundays (thanks, Republicans!) so they won’t make a penny on NYE this year.
In Texas, they’re not able to open on Sundays, or New Years Day. Closed 61 straight hours.
re: #14 BeachDem
She was already a cabinet member—lasted less than 2 years as UN ambassador.
He is never going to pick her as VP—“Birdbrain”; “Nikki New Taxes”; “Sellout to lobbyist parasites” are not nicknames you give your potential VP.
that was before committing the ultimate sin of running against him
More damage than Dresden
The Financial Times did a statistical analysis that compared Gaza to the Allied bombing campaign over Germany during the Second World War.Three cities in Germany were effectively destroyed from the air during that war: Cologne, Hamburg and Dresden. In Hamburg and Dresden, a mix of high explosives and incendiary bombs created the notorious “firestorm” conditions that caused streets to melt.
Data analyzed by Scher and Van Den Hoek shows that by Dec. 5, the percentage of Gaza’s buildings that had been damaged or destroyed already had surpassed the destruction in Cologne and Dresden, and was approaching the level of Hamburg.
Israel Defence Forces (IDF) dropped around 1,000 bombs a day in the first week of the campaign and said that it had conducted more than 10,000 airstrikes on Gaza as of Dec. 10. The number of aircraft involved or bombs dropped on each mission is unknown, but Israel’s main strike aircraft are capable of carrying six tons of bombs each.
For context, London was hit with an estimated 19,000 tons of bombs during the eight months of the Blitz, and the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima was equivalent to 15,000 tons of high explosive.
The figures for airstrikes do not take into account the many thousands of artillery shells fired into Gaza since Oct. 7.
re: #3 mmmirele
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re: #18 Unabogie
Managers can’t lord over you if you’re at home.
re: #19 Eclectic Cyborg
Managers can’t lord over you if you’re at home.
THIS. Our company made permanent our pandemic work-from-home policies, because our HR department works to avoid managers who treat their departments like their own personal fiefdoms over which they rule.
Donald Trump claimed in a Truth Social post that droves of migrants are crossing the border into the U.S. to cast ballots for “crazed” Democrats, The Messenger reports.Said Trump: “It’s becoming more and more obvious to me why the ‘Crazed’ Democrats are allowing millions and millions of totally unvetted migrants into our once great Country. IT’S SO THEY CAN VOTE, VOTE, VOTE.”
He added: “They are signing them up at a rapid pace, without even knowing who the hell they are… Republicans better wake up and do something, before it is too late. Are you listening Mitch McConnell?”
he either believes this nonsense or he’s lying (yeah we know which)
Its the rubes who do believe its true.
Id like one person to ask just once, got any proof? One case you can point to? No?
re: #22 Dangerman
he either believes this nonsense or he’s lying (yeah we know which)
Its the rubes who do believe its true.
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Real talk: if you read this stuff from Trump and don’t immediately recognize this as Nazi, racist shit, and you continue to support him, you are a racist and a rotten person. There are no “good people” who support this shit.
re: #6 Nerdy Fish
We just repealed our dry Sunday law a few years ago. It amazed me that in a state as progressive and forward-thinking as Minnesota, there was still a dry Sunday law on the books.
some of that was less about religion than about trying to create one day a week where a drunk could dry out. I mean, as anyone met a drunk who wasn’t fully prepared for the world to end and them to still need liquor? Disorganization in all other things, perhaps, but prepper-level liquor hoarding.
re: #3 mmmirele
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Violating New York City’s busing rules will result in a class B misdemeanor, the order says, which is punishable by up to 3 months in jail and fines of up to $500 for individuals and up to $2,000 for corporations. In addition, bus companies could have their buses impounded by the New York City Police Department.
Cities like Chicago - and even its suburbs - have already implemented and enforced a similar ordinance. Earlier this month, a bus carrying asylum seekers was impounded and towed because the bus operators didn’t have the necessary paperwork and a permit.
I was just talking about this. There should be zero tolerance for this, and if enough bus companies lose their vehicles and their drivers spend time in jail, this will stop.
Zero. Tolerance.
re: #28 Unabogie
I was just talking about this. There should be zero tolerance for this, and if enough bus companies lose their vehicles and their drivers spend time in jail, this will stop.
Zero. Tolerance.
If Texas is unable to deal with the border crisis on its own, that’s fine. Go to the federal government, and show your work. Here’s what you don’t do:
1) Demand that the President implement your specific solution for the problem;
2) When he refuses, as he has every right to do, start shipping the migrants to random Democrat-run cities, often taking actions to make the problem more complicated to deal with before they leave.
Because that just makes you look like a petty, vindictive asshole. Doesn’t it, Governor Abbott?
re: #29 Nerdy Fish
Well, yes, but that wouldn’t help Hot Wheels hustle his dipshit base now would it?
re: #31 Ace Rothstein
Well, yes, but that wouldn’t help Hot Wheels hustle his dipshit base now would it?
The article, being a product of the mainstream media, makes it sound like Texas is being perfectly reasonable in its response to the “border crisis” by taking these actions, though. It does highlight a little bit of the cruelty involved, but generally whitewashes the whole operation to sound like it’s a valid response to inaction on the part of the federal government and Biden, specifically. It doesn’t talk at all about Republicans’ unwillingness to actually give in on border relief - lest they lose their favorite talking point - nor that all this is simply pitching a fit because Biden won’t build their godforsaken wall.
I got my food shopping list completed. I will get up early so I can get to the Acme when it opens.
re: #29 Nerdy Fish
If Texas is unable to deal with the border crisis on its own, that’s fine. Go to the federal government, and show your work. Here’s what you don’t do:
1) Demand that the President implement your specific solution for the problem;
2) When he refuses, as he has every right to do, start shipping the migrants to random Democrat-run cities, often taking actions to make the problem more complicated to deal with before they leave.Because that just makes you look like a petty, vindictive asshole. Doesn’t it, Governor Abbott?
He’s dropping destitute people in the middle of winter into cold climates. Because he’s a “Christian”
re: #32 Nerdy Fish
anything short of comprehensive and humane immigration reform and border control policies will do nothing but kick the can down the road or cause new problems to pop up elsewhere.
But we have too many vested interests in keping this rickety, destructive and inhumane system in place as it is to use as a political cudgel on one hand while still guaranteeing a steady flow of cheap, easily exploited menial labor on which entire industries base their current business model.
I have lived here in Texas all of my 52 years on this flying rock, and the rhetoric now is no different than it was 40 years ago when I started paying attention. I’m not saying it’s not an issue, but I am saying that it’s not a crisis, at least not the way Fox News defines a crisis.
re: #32 Nerdy Fish
The article, being a product of the mainstream media, makes it sound like Texas is being perfectly reasonable in its response to the “border crisis” by taking these actions, though. It does highlight a little bit of the cruelty involved, but generally whitewashes the whole operation to sound like it’s a valid response to inaction on the part of the federal government and Biden, specifically. It doesn’t talk at all about Republicans’ unwillingness to actually give in on border relief - lest they lose their favorite talking point - nor that all this is simply pitching a fit because Biden won’t build their godforsaken wall.
i posted a few days back:
R’s don’t want to fix anything
they just want issues to campaign on
re: #38 Dangerman
i posted a few days back:
R’s don’t want to fix anything
they just want issues to campaign on
Because the R’s are the party of “power for power’s sake”. They don’t want to do anything with the power they get, they just don’t want anybody else to be allowed to do anything with it, either.
re: #38 Dangerman
As Jules Winfield would say, “Exactamundo!!!”
Republicans: “Nobody wants to work anymore.”
Also Republicans: “I don’t want to govern. That takes work.”
re: #39 Nerdy Fish
Because the R’s are the party of “power for power’s sake”. They don’t want to do anything with the power they get, they just don’t want anybody else to be allowed to do anything with it, either.
They want to do something with the power they get: Make themselves and their friends rich while taking away the rights of others.
re: #17 goddamnedfrank
Old Testament God is one righteous sumabitch. I’m sure there were some decent people in Sodom other than Lot’s family, but that didn’t stop Him from calling in an airstrike.
re: #45 steve_davis
Old Testament God is one righteous sumabitch. I’m sure there were some decent people in Sodom other than Lot’s family, but that didn’t stop Him from calling in an airstrike.
If you believe the story, apparently, there weren’t. Abram got the angel of God to say he wouldn’t smite the place if he could find ten righteous people in it. Lot and his family made six; they only needed four more. And yet, God ordered the AC-130’s in.
re: #45 steve_davis
Old Testament God is one righteous sumabitch. I’m sure there were some decent people in Sodom other than Lot’s family, but that didn’t stop Him from calling in an airstrike.
Ummm, actually not: IIRC, Lot bargained The Big Guy down to *five*; but (presumably he was trying fairly hard) couldn’t even find that many in Sodom to save the place, so had to bolt PDQ….
ADD: Nope: Rev Fish was correct in epistle comment #46: it was Abraham who did the bargaining, and it was ten. Which he apparently couldn’t find either (ref. Genesis 18 & 19)
re: #47 Jay C
Ummm, actually not: IIRC, Lot bargained The Big Guy down to *five*; but (presumably he was trying fairly hard) couldn’t even find that many in Sodom to save the place, so had to bolt PDQ….
Moses comes down from the mountain:
“I’ve got some good news and some bad news!”
Israelites: “What’s the good news?”
Moses. “I got him down to only ten!”
Israelites; “What’s the bad news?”
Moses: “Adultery is still in there!”
re: #21 Nerdy Fish
THIS. Our company made permanent our pandemic work-from-home policies, because our HR department works to avoid managers who treat their departments like their own personal fiefdoms over which they rule.
If you can’t remotely manage people, you just aren’t a very good manager. All of my teams were remote during my 25 years with Sprint, and they complained when I didn’t visit *them* enough. ( I would schlep into town, inspect the call centers, meet with the vendors, wine and dine the techs who were mixed in office & W@H & generally tell them how great a job they were doing because I got lucky with mostly really super workaholic people.)
re: #48 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
re: #33 Eventual Carrion
And with the coming new year remember, Jesus is watching you.
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OK Jesus! Which Only Fans site do you want to check out?
re: #45 steve_davis
Old Testament God is one righteous sumabitch. I’m sure there were some decent people in Sodom other than Lot’s family, but that didn’t stop Him from calling in an airstrike.
One town is nothing after you’ve wiped out humanity (*except for one family) in a flood, and killed all those firstborn sons (and cattle strangely enough) in Egypt.
re: #21 Nerdy Fish
THIS. Our company made permanent our pandemic work-from-home policies, because our HR department works to avoid managers who treat their departments like their own personal fiefdoms over which they rule.
My previous job was 100% in office *during* the pandemic. When I resigned post-pandemic, they scrambled to get someone to backfill my position. Every one of the half-dozen candidates who applied ended the interview after they learned it was 100% in office. I have to laugh as they’re advertising my old job for the 5th time in 2 years, which tells me management at my old job still sucks.
My new job took the same approach after the pandemic. Some sale positions had to go into the office…the entire IT staff is remote (and spread across 12 different time zones).
re: #25 steve_davis
some of that was less about religion than about trying to create one day a week where a drunk could dry out. I mean, as anyone met a drunk who wasn’t fully prepared for the world to end and them to still need liquor? Disorganization in all other things, perhaps, but prepper-level liquor hoarding.
Maybe we should require some medical training before a person gets to make a law. Withdrawl is a killer.
Off-Brand Orbán posted a New Year’s greeting…
“As the New Year fast approaches, I would like to wish an early New Year’s salutation to Crooked Joe Biden and his group of Radical Left Misfits & Thugs on their never ending attempt to DESTROY OUR NATION through Lawfare, Invasion, and Rigging Elections,” the ex-president wrote on his own social media site, Truth Social.
“They are now scrambling to sign up as many of those millions of people they are illegally allowing into sour Country, in order that they will be ready to VOTE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2024.
well, assholes gotta asshole!
re: #42 Eclectic Cyborg
“General Sherman” would have been even better…
re: #47 Jay C
Ummm, actually not: IIRC, Lot bargained The Big Guy down to *five*; but (presumably he was trying fairly hard) couldn’t even find that many in Sodom to save the place, so had to bolt PDQ….
ADD: Nope: Rev Fish was correct in
epistlecomment #46: it was Abraham who did the bargaining, and it was ten. Which he apparently couldn’t find either (ref. Genesis 18 & 19)
maybe they just didn’t look hard enough
re: #57 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“General Sherman” would have been even better…
He got his own tank.
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The series Fellow Travelers, does a good job highlighting the cruel and despicable nature of McCarthyism and the Red/Lavender scare. It also makes it clear to me, that Trump may have been influenced by his father in real estate, but, his political style is all Roy Cohn.
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Afternoon Lizards.
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re: #69 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
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re: #70 sizzzzlerz
The waves went off this weekend at Maverick’s, near Half Moon Bay, drawing in the elite big wave surfers from around the world. It’s reportedly the best surf there in years.
Wax your boards, put gas in the Woodie, and get there!
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“If you want the ultimate…..”
I would definitely want it evaluated somewhere else, but he Chinese company Nio is claiming to have developed a 1000km battery.
re: #69 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Afternoon Lizards.
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re: #76 Joe Bacon ✅
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I got to get one and ask JC what Pat Robertson’s up to! 😈
Ask Rush how hot it is down there.
Rush Limbaugh and Roger Ailes are still dead.
re: #77 Ace Rothstein
And so is Henry Kissinger.
re: #79 PhillyPretzel ✅
And so is Henry Kissinger.
In the town I grew up in, they have a display billboard near I-45. Last week, they had a tribute to Kissinger and I wanted to vomit.
re: #32 Nerdy Fish
Why didn’t Trump build the wall? For at least two years, his party controlled Congress while he was in power, if my memory serves me right.
re: #83 Patricia Kayden
Why didn’t Trump build the wall? For at least two years, his party controlled Congress while he was in power, if my memory serves me right.
Something something something DEEP STATE something.
re: #83 Patricia Kayden
Why didn’t Trump build the wall? For at least two years, his party controlled Congress while he was in power, if my memory serves me right.
You can’t hustle your rubes if you actually do what you say you will do.
re: #90 Ace Rothstein
You can’t hustle your rubes if you actually do what you say you will do.
See also: Infrastructure Week.
re: #91 Nerdy Fish
See also: Infrastructure Week.
Also see: the new and better health insurance plan.
re: #93 Eventual Carrion
Perfect cat response.
If you feel you need to carry a gun to go out in public then you probably shouldn’t be out in public.
re: #96 Joe Bacon ✅
Bacon on a board….
re: #98 Backwoods Sleuth
Okay. That works for me.
re: #83 Patricia Kayden
Why didn’t Trump build the wall? For at least two years, his party controlled Congress while he was in power, if my memory serves me right.
You mean besides the reason that “Build The Wall!” was, as noted elsewhere here, basically a campaign slogan for the red-hat rubes?
And that, once it was blatantly obvious that Mexico wasn’t going to “pay for it”, the whole project got bogged down in the usual swamp of appropriations, planning, design, procurement, contracting, etc. - scarcely a bit of which the Trump Admin went into - or even wanted to get into - so what we ended up with were a few bolsterings of some existing barriers, miles and miles of cheap, ineffective fencing (most of which has fallen down by now, probably): a lot of grift and waste for Republicans’ cronies, and - as usual - loudly blaming Somebody Else when The Wall didn’t happen.
That said, I have the unfortunate feeling that “border issues” are going to be a major factor in next year’s election campaign(s). Mainly because Trump (and Republicans in general) have virtually nothing else to run on (and very little/nothing positive in any case)…
Republicans: “Why do these people keep having kids they can’t afford?!”
Also Republicans: “Let’s force these people to have more kids they can’t afford!”— Kyle Keegan (@realKyleKeegan) December 26, 2023
First Nikki and now…
Ron DeSantis Commits to Pardoning Trump as President
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said if he became president he would pardon Donald Trump should the former president be convicted on any of the dozens of charges he faces, NBC News reported. “I think we got to move on as a country and, you know, like Ford did to Nixon, because the divisions are just not in the country’s interest,” DeSantis said. Earlier this year, DeSantis voiced an openness to such a pardon but his comments on Tuesday marked the first time he committed to rescuing Trump from the charges he faces. The extent to which a DeSantis presidency could come to Trump’s aid has limits; if convicted in Georgia where he faces racketeering charges Trump would need to appeal to the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles panel.
Ramadamadingdong next?????
re: #102 Joe Bacon ✅
First Nikki and now…
Ron DeSantis Commits to Pardoning Trump as President
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said if he became president he would pardon Donald Trump should the former president be convicted on any of the dozens of charges he faces, NBC News reported. “I think we got to move on as a country and, you know, like Ford did to Nixon, because the divisions are just not in the country’s interest,” DeSantis said. Earlier this year, DeSantis voiced an openness to such a pardon but his comments on Tuesday marked the first time he committed to rescuing Trump from the charges he faces. The extent to which a DeSantis presidency could come to Trump’s aid has limits; if convicted in Georgia where he faces racketeering charges Trump would need to appeal to the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles panel.
Ramadamadingdong next?????
Ron will double pardon him.
re: #96 Joe Bacon ✅
Next week, Kama the three legged surfing pig…because you don’t eat a pig like that all at once.
re: #100 Jay C
Democrats need to push back heavily when Republicans cynically bring up a border wall. Even if Trump wins again (God forbid), we all know that there will never be a wall between Mexico and the U.S.
Republicans need to be deprived of this talking point. It’s beyond ridiculous.
it could be an indie album cover and the cat is terrified.
re: #108 HRH Stanley Sea
Hooked up. Downloaded the app. They ask you to name it. Give you suggestions in case you need help.
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re: #54 coin operated
My previous job was 100% in office *during* the pandemic. When I resigned post-pandemic, they scrambled to get someone to backfill my position. Every one of the half-dozen candidates who applied ended the interview after they learned it was 100% in office. I have to laugh as they’re advertising my old job for the 5th time in 2 years, which tells me management at my old job still sucks.
My new job took the same approach after the pandemic. Some sale positions had to go into the office…the entire IT staff is remote (and spread across 12 different time zones).
Credit where credit is due: when it became clear COVID was a genuine threat, my company sent everybody home for two-plus years. They made a genuine effort to comply with the law and protect people.
They then wanted people to start coming back into the office two days a week (with no COVID vaccine mandate; thanks, antivax freaks in the OH office). The story was “productivity” was down and was improving as more people came back into the office. My boss says she saw the numbers. I’m personally skeptical because my job involves end-of-day deadlines and I’m generating the same results, regardless of location. But, whatever.
That then got upped to three days a week in the office. The rumor was the big wigs had a board meeting at our office and were pissed off because all they saw was empty desks. I don’t really get that because, if you’re letting people only come in only two days a week, the place is going to be empty.
And then there’s the issue of why they’re empty. In the art department, three cubes that directly share a wall with me are empty because they fired the people. One across the aisle from me is empty because they let that guy move to outside of Gettysburg but remote in five days a week (more on that in a minute).
Another cube is empty because the woman who sat there fucking died and they never replaced her. And the corner office is empty because they created a Diversity department for my former boss and then fired her when apparently racism was solved in the US.
There were already a bunch of empty desks from earlier layoffs and attrition. But, yeah, WFH is the issue. There were also the noises about company culture and face-to-face collaboration and what not. I’m not going to dismiss that out of hand, but I feel that’s overblown and I, personally, don’t want to ever be in an office again. YMMV.
As alluded to earlier: four people in my department, including my current boss, all moved hundreds of miles away from any NJ or MD office and were allowed to keep their job. Like, working from fucking FL or MN. Literally over a thousand miles in those cases.
And you know what? We’re getting the job done. My boss is managing all these people from FL and doing a great job.
Then, on top of all of that, the heat no longer works in our section of the building. Literally half the company has heat, half doesn’t. The company resigned the lease during COVID. And now, it’s apparently in receivership and getting maintenance done is in the “We’ll get around to it” ballpark.
Again, the company was like WFH until it’s fixed. Which, fine, but if I’m asked to go back in and it’s not fixed? Fuck that. That’s a call to whatever NJ labor relations board handles that kind of stuff. I went in once three weeks ago because my boss was in town hand to wear my heavy leather jacket for the full eight hours.
Like, I understand the bind the company is in, and I’m sympathetic to a degree. It’s like they can’t just come in on a Friday, go “Okay, clear out all the servers; we’re full time WFH on Monday”.
Having said that, we’re getting shit done without having to commute anymore. Like, open your eyes, quasi-benevolent overlords. Embrace the change.
re: #98 Backwoods Sleuth
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re: #109 Backwoods Sleuth
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re: #106 Backwoods Sleuth
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They’re going to sacrifice it.
re: #111 Mattand
One quick follow up: when my partner was really sick last year and we were officially back at the office, but not quite done with masking, I was allowed to keep working from home until she got the okay from the doc.
So, they’re not utterly out to lunch on this stuff. I think about the other studios/agencies I’ve worked at and it would have been “Fuck your health, get in the office or fuck off.”
Again, credit where it’s due.
Why yes, that is the smell of bacon baking.
Or baking bacon, if you prefer
re: #112 sagehen
is that building someone’s house? Or maybe a customs office?
The boundary agreement that was drafted between Canada and the United States declares that no island can be split into two territories. Two-thirds of the islands in this bunch, the Thousand Islands, belong to Canada, but the total area of the Canadian islands is roughly equal to the other one-third, which are considered to be American territory.
It just so happens that these two islands were joined by a bridge because the smaller island is owned by the same person who owns the house on the larger, Canadian island (at left in the accompanying photographs). They use the smaller island as a backyard. However, the truth of this has been questioned as a tourist ploy since the 1880s, with both islands being in Canada according to some sources.
re: #6 Nerdy Fish
We just repealed our dry Sunday law a few years ago. It amazed me that in a state as progressive and forward-thinking as Minnesota, there was still a dry Sunday law on the books.
CT was the same way until 2012. Lots of blue laws in once puritan states.
re: #6 Nerdy Fish
We just repealed our dry Sunday law a few years ago. It amazed me that in a state as progressive and forward-thinking as Minnesota, there was still a dry Sunday law on the books.
There’s quite a few towns around here that still have vestiges of blue laws on the books. It’s mostly due to the Quaker influence of their foundings 200+ years ago and is mostly limited to them being dry.
IIRC, one town until fairly recently forbade restaurants from being open on Sunday mornings, but grocery stores were fine. Or something weird like that.
It’s also weird that the by-far biggest Quaker-founded town in the area (and probably the country), Philly, hasn’t had blue laws for decades and possibly over a century.
re: #112 sagehen
is that building someone’s house? Or maybe a customs office?
The next post on that thread quotes the Wiki entry, that both islands are in Canada, and other international borders have shorter bridges.
I have no knowledge of anything, so just saying!
re: #116 Dangerman
Why yes, that is the smell of bacon baking.
Or baking bacon, if you prefer
…Sauteing onions
Colorado is very close to California when it comes to liquor laws. Full strength beer and wine is sold in grocery stores and gas stations, you still have to go to an actual liquor store for the hard stuff. We’ve come a long way, 15 years ago you could only buy 3.2% beer at grocery stores and gas stations and all liquor stores were closed on Sundays.
I remember visiting my sister in the Bay Area for my 18th birthday. We went grocery shopping, and I was stunned, shocked I tellz ya! that a whole damn aisle at the grocery store was just booze.
re: #122 Dangerman
…Sauteing onions
Scrambling up eggs, heavy cream and salt
Oh, bacon’s ready and it’s perfect (ask me how I know)
re: #126 Dangerman
Oh, bacon’s ready and it’s perfect (ask me how I know)
Don’t need to, I know what you did.
I’ve ran ski area kitchens. The only way to cook a bunch a bacon perfectly is with an oven.
re: #128 teleskiguy
I’ve ran ski area kitchens. The only way to cook a bunch a bacon perfectly is with an oven.
If memory serves me right, a hot air oven works the best for that purpose.
re: #126 Dangerman
Scrambling up eggs, heavy cream and salt
Oh, bacon’s ready and it’s perfect (ask me how I know)
Lemonade for me, rooibos tea for she
re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg
I read this post and mentioned it to my wife.
Apparently, it depends on which Parish. Ouachita Parish doesn’t sell liquor on Sundays. Neighbouring Richland Parish does. So might need to check first.
re: #129 Teukka
If memory serves me right, a hot air oven works the best for that purpose.
Convection ovens do work best as you don’t have to flip the bacon mid cook.
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