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6·2 days ago20 years ago I worked at a shitty chocolate shop in a tourist town that put up a massive banner over the front of the building, opposing the effort to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
These assholes would have literal temper tantrums if I wasn’t running at full speed through the back of the shop with knee-high sugar boilers cranked full bore, which I could have easily fallen face first into, to fetch whatever the customers wanted in that moment.
Like, you fuckers want maximum effort from me, while actively opposing an increase in the minimum that you are allowed to pay me? Fuck all the way off.
I would sometimes pick up lunch at the Taco Bell across the street and do my best to keep the total below the $6.75 per hour I was being paid. That wasn’t a lot of Taco Bell in 2005.
Did he get a bee sting on his snoot in picture number three?
2·5 days agoDo you mean like a fecal transplant? I don’t think it would work well.
For me, there is kind of default neutral sounding voice for comments, but as soon as I get some kind of clue as to the speaker, either from language or punctuation patterns or if they say something about who they are- age, gender, nationality, etc., then the voice gets some more distinctive sound to it.
For instance, @ickplant@lemmy.world, who is the main poster in several communities I subscribe to, has a picture of Leela from Futurama as her profile pic, and she has mentioned that she’s a she. So obviously when I read a comment or a title she wrote, it’s in Leela’s voice.
Your comment seems energetic and friendly, so the voice is genderless and with a neutral (to me) accent, but with an energetic, friendly tone and cadence.
If I’ve been listening to an audio book, or a tv series my inner monologue can take on the voice of the narrator or main character. I’m always afraid I’m going actually speak out loud like them, but it’s never happened.
342·6 days agoIt has been proven time and again that adding lanes does not reduce traffic, but reducing number of lanes actually can.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/adding-freeway-lanes-traffic-20390021.php
4·7 days agoOklahoma Governor, Kevin Stitt
I just did a batch of lactofermented cherry tomatoes, and the one out of four jars that didn’t get moldy just tastes a bit salty, not really fermented. Not sure what I did wrong.
Yeah, I love sweet gherkins, and when there is an unlabeled dish of cornichons I get very upset at the surprise sour/bitter/black pepper flavors. Give me that DelMonte high fructose corn syrup sweet pickle!
Most places where I am in California have outdoor seating options, but it’s more common to have it behind the restaurant in a little courtyard than in front right next to the street.
What the actual fuck? He’s putting Iowa farmers in charge of immigration now?
How about we expand and update the H-2A/ H-2B program to actually meet the needs of farmers/hospitality businesses and protect workers. Instead of opening the door (even wider) to human trafficking and exploitation.
But after hearing concerns that farmers were losing migrant workers they depend on, Trump outlined how Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was developing legislation to effectively allow farmers to vouch for their workers to allow them to stay.
Trump said similar lenience would be extended to hotel and leisure industries.
“We don’t want to take all of the workers off the farms," Trump said. “We’ve got to work with the farmers.”
“We’re going to put you in charge," Trump told the crowd.
2·12 days agoTop right reminds me of a hat I got as part of a happy meal in the ‘80s. I wore it for like, a decade.
Do the hats have breakaway neck ties? This makes me nervous.
When I had a kitty that slept on me, if I wanted to turn over, I would put my arms under the blanket and lift her up in a sort of makeshift cat-hammock and turn my body underneath, then set her back down. She didn’t mind it. But if I moved in a way that she wasn’t sure was intentional, she would firmly tap the body part in question with her paw, three times. I miss that girl so much.
“If they want people to work 80 hours a month, they’d need to bring in a lot more jobs,” he says.
Who is exactly is the “they” in this sentence?
If you want the government to provide you with employment opportunities and free healthcare, then you should consider not voting for the team that is privatizing every public (government) sector.
It should be doing the weird Trump Lean
“deflaming”