Mayonnaise

Just spend more time here. The transition isn’t as hard as you would think.

Fake but amusing.

Thank you!

Safeway? The American supermarket chain? Or does Canada coincidentally have a supermarket with the same name?

That’s already a thing in Florida.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/04/ron-desantis-anti-riot-bill

He looks twenty or thirty years older than he is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprat

He drove at low speed, so he was clearly aiming more for intimidation than injury. Sounds kind of like terrorism, but he’s right wing, so the only charge is assault.

The devil’s work was convincing people that pauses in speech are denoted by commas.

Hellmann’s/Best Foods for mayonnaise.

Out here in Seattle, if you give your two weeks notice as a tech employee to Amazon, and you tell them that you’re going to Oracle, they’ll just send you home that day. Probably not every team/manager, but it’s a thing.

Trade jobs can be surprisingly seasonal. My dad, who does mostly commercial HVAC work, works himself to the bone in early spring and fall. Plenty of downtime, usually, outside of those areas.

If you’re hourly, or laid off in the downtime, you want to work when you can. Even if it’s for 12 hours straight.

I’d have to be making well upwards of six figures to be willing to stand in the sun for 12 hours a day.

The jobs that pay the least are the ones that should pay the most.

They did this to us. The farmers. We know who they voted for, as a group. Fuck 'em. Let them reap what they sow.

It’s a religion to these people. It doesn’t matter what the policies are or what the impacts are. They need to be part of that local in-group.

To be fair, this started with millennials. We’ve known we’re fucked for many years now. But we didn’t grow up with it the same way that these kids did. We thought we had a future for a little while.

I never quite realized how long their snouts are.

That’s about what I expected.

Firefly

Raised by Wolves

Better Off Ted