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4 days agoHistorical blessings from the internet of yore.
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211·4 days agoI chatted with Boeing strikers about this.
The contract proposal was announced on Halloween, with the strikers getting contract details in a conference call that night (while many were either out trick or treating with their kids or otherwise having fun). The vote was scheduled for Monday, the day before a massively monumental election.
They didn’t get the pensions they wanted most. This entire thing was timed for maximum anxiety and distraction.
70·9 days agoThis is what voter suppression looks like.
I grew up in Missouri before moving to Washington state. When I reached voting age, it was (and still is) ridiculously common to see polling places in rural and suburban areas with no waiting to vote. Meanwhile, in the cities (which happen to vote more democratic), you’ll see loooong lines extending outside. When voting facilities and staff are not proportionally distributed to accommodate voter density, you get shit like this; voters in different districts receiving different treatment. And people who live there never know any better to ask for something different.
This all blew my mind after living first in a suburban area, then an urban one, and now living in a state that has done voting my mail for decades. I love voting by mail. It’s unconcionable to me at this point for people to stand for in-person voting anymore.
I see Pitch; I up-vote.
Classic “the sweetness” era Ze Frank.
Seattle started the movement for a $15 minimum wage in 2014. It passed and was slowly phased in, finishing the rollout in 2021. It’s also aligned to inflation, so the current minimum wage (in 2024) is $20.76 per hour.
Any minimum wage legislation not tied to inflation is a half measure. Demand what you deserve.
8·18 days agoObligatory:
I’m Comic Sans, Asshole by Mike Lacher from McSweeney’s Short Imagined Monologues June 15, 2010
3·19 days agoHere’s the spotify link for the full album: https://open.spotify.com/album/4wtt08wXfDLUecMnqdZQsF
6·21 days agoDo the studios just hate the US exhibition industry now? There’s no way movie theaters can survive this kind of home viewing turn-around.
Or is it simply our inability to function like reasonable people in large groups, making it impossible to assume you’re going to be able to watch a movie in a theater all the way through without being disturbed by phones, talking, screaming children or whatever else people do in theaters?
As someone who studied Latin based on the Cambridge Latin book series, I wouldn’t mind seeing a disaster movie about Pompeii featuring Caecilius, the banker at the center of the training course (and a real person whose home and records were discovered by archeologists).
He popped up in the Doctor Who episode The Fires of Pompeii, but that’s not quote the same as a legitimate Hollywood disaster movie treatment.
I also can’t tell what is in the bowls beside Roy and his sons - to the top left of Roy’s plate, right hand side of Toby and top right of Brad’s plate. Maybe Ronnie and Silvia have one of these bowls too but I can’t tell. You can see Brad eat out of his bowl at one point and it looks like something pale (I wondered coleslaw or macaroni).
It looks like everyone at the table has a bowl on one side or the other. This was a time when a common middle-class American family dinnerware place-setting might include a salad bowl with a simple salad: chopped iceberg or romaine lettuce with a store-bough salad dressing (ranch, blue cheese, 1000 island, etc). Probably not the most appetizing thing in the world, but totally legit given the era and setting (with Roy being a electrical line worker).
2·28 days agoacrypol-pasta
Agreed. The days of Warners being a destination for auteur directors died when David Sazlav wound up in charge. All the talent is bailing.
Consider also meat floss: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_floss
It’s legit, just super desiccated. Babish made some while recreating Khlav Kalash from The Simpsons.
10·1 month agoI listened to the 404 Media podcast about this yesterday and the author argues that the subject of the article’s ire is intended to be the researchers themselves. Specifically, the bad ethics of testing this integration on non-consenting individuals (even though it was seemingly done with good intent).
Luckily the researchers realized what the fuck they had just made and pivoted the project to being about how to break the integration (ie: opt out of facial recognition systems and freeze your credit score).
296·1 month agoSNL has their own writers and creative staff. If Weird Al were to be a guest host, he would need to play by their rules and perform their material. And SNL’s comedy style isn’t really congruent with what Weird Al does.
I wouldn’t want to see him on SNL unless he and his people got to work with the creative staff from top to bottom.
No mention of The 4:30 Movie in here at all.
Heely-haws.
Curious.
I keep a close eye on the job listings posted to Mozilla’s job board. They don’t post new job openings very often, so I always want to be tuned in when new listing pop up. All of a sudden, a lot of new job openings have appeared for a company that just laid off 36 people…
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