There are a ton of parades for one nationality or another in NYC. If you accept one’s like St. Patrick’s day, which are strongly associated with one country despite not being called the “X Nationality Day Parade,” you have the Irish, Scottish, Germans, Dominicans, Panamanians, Japanese and Chinese covered, at least.
I don’t think anyone is suggesting that you should be able to work it out in your head for every single woman you see, but that makeup actually doing the thing it exists to do shouldn’t be this massive shock to anyone who has any close relationships with women in their normal lives. Acting like this app is some big gotcha moment as it’s portrayed is maybe one smidge better than being shocked to find out on your 30th birthday that women poop.
If Bob ate 29 Toblerone bars in one setting, I think it’s safe to assume he’s just chomping off each section straight from the bar.
You’re wasting your time. In their comments, Optional is more concerned with browbeating people over how they voted wrongly (often with no indication there’s any truth to their vague and spurious accusations) in the eyes of the almighty and infallible Optional than with actually winning elections. Facts don’t matter, only that people who criticize the party get put in their place and reminded that it’s not for them to rock the boat.
That was pretty much how things worked for Ticketmaster in Norway when I had someone bail on going to a festival we were planning on attending together, as I recall. So it can be addressed, just probably need to be in a country with a functional government and regulations.
why bother if that’s the case?
I always understood part of the appeal of building your own being that you could go PC of Theseus on it and upgrade parts gradually over time, rather than having to drop $1,500-$2,000 all in one go.
I get people wanting to bust their humps and do a bunch of work towards a goal. You want to spend a month just screwing around with your new jetski in the summer and doing OT every week for several months or working a second job for that time will let you do it, I get it. The thing that puts me off is the number of people who see just work and accumulation of stuff as the end goal unto itself. They’ll brag about never calling out sick or missing a single day of work, not taking their vacations (or going, but still living in their work inboxes, sending out so many emails they may as well not have gone on one), and saying stuff like “Oh, I could never retire, I wouldn’t know what to do with my time, there’s nothing to do.” And then these people are held up as models that we should aspire to.
I don’t care if a job pays me so much that I could afford a dream vacation, jetskis and all the new gadgets every year if I have to be working so much I never even get to do/use any of those things the salary makes possible. I’d much rather take a job with a salary that lets me do fewer of those things, or even having to skip years between one and the next, but lets me clock out and have enough time to myself to take care of myself and pursue hobbies and interests outside of work on a regular basis.
I can’t imagine doing it for something like the Mona Lisa, but I take plenty of other paintings to get the painting and plaque in one shot, so after I can look up the names of painters I liked and hadn’t heard of.
Munch’s The Scream actually does kind of merit taking a picture, though. At least for the Munch Museum in Oslo, he made a ton of different versions on cardboard or paper bases that can’t hold up to extended exposure to light, so the ones on display get rotated every half hour or so. There’s also another version of it a short distance away in the National Museum, so it could be fun to compare all the different versions you can catch.
I’ve bought plenty of games on Steam that weren’t on sale. Thing is, Steam has a shit ton of titles for $20 or less that aren’t just shovelware. The last several consoles and handhelds I’ve had, that’s really only been the case for rereleases of retro titles.
Honestly, from all my retail jobs between high school to now, nighs shifts were the best. They were the only time in my retail jobs where I would go to work, previous shift manager would tell me what needed to get done by the end of my shift, and just leave me to it. I was advised to bring something to read with me on my first day.
I could bang out all my work in one go, then sit and read for the rest of the night, and nobody cared. Plus, there weren’t that many customers, and most of them tended to keep to themselves, anyway.
When I did overnight grocery in another company, there was even less customer interaction, and we could bring little speakers with us to play music while we stocked our aisles, as long as we didn’t blast it crazy loud or have something playing with tons of profanity. Out of all my positions working with the public in retail, those were easily the best. Also, given the minimal staffing on the overnights, we really only saw each other when we all took our breaks, so work place drama was pretty minimal.
For long travel, like intercontinental level distances, it probably is pretty efficient with a full plane. I’ve always understood that the waste and environmental damages are more from a combination of the use of private planes, and short routes that really ought to be train trips with the infrastructure to make them a preferable option to flying.
For example, if I suddenly found out that I needed to get from NYC to Boston by midnight tonight, without using a car, it should be a no-brainer to take Amtrak up there. Yet, even with fuel costs for airlines being quite high right now, there are exactly 4 trains leaving Penn Station for Boston that are cheaper than just catching a flight from JFK, and in the best of cases, they take about 4 times as long to cover that distance. It should really be significantly cheaper than flying in order to deter the majority, if not all of those people who do not expressly need to make that trip in just over an hour, for whatever reason, from taking those sorts of flights. Cheap enough that flying simply isn’t price competitive, and that people don’t mind the extra travel time.
Proper back bacon instead of that crispy streaky shit Americans eat,
This is the only part I’ll push back on being better, and even then, it’s with some qualifications. Rashers are fine, and I think I even prefer them if it’s on a sandwich or burger, but just sat on a plate? Slab bacon beats it every time for me. A nice, thick cut piece of streaky bacon is just more tasty to me, though you need the right balance of lean and streaky bits. Honestly, I think that’s where rashers lose me at breakfast, they’re just too far on the lean side, so you hardly get any of the nice, crispy fat bits, just a little strip of it at the edges.
Then again, I have no complaints with an Irish breakfast roll for breakfast if I’m feeling lazy, which, around here, gets you some sausage links, rasher, and a couple pieces of black and white pudding, wrapped up in the same sort of pastry you’d make a sausage roll with. Not the healthiest of breakfasts, but it certainly does the job when you’re hungry and tastes great with some brown sauce on it.
It’s fine, they’ve sorted out sleep mode on most hardware a while ago
Cheaper to build, and probably also significantly cheaper to change or expand routes if needs change in the future, I would think.
At best, it sounds vaguely like marica, which is another common slur, but just like my reply ti some dumbass claiming veado and viado are the same in Portuguese, you would have to have some sort of developmental disorder to think Marieke and marica sound the same, or completely ignore Spanish orthography.
It’s only the same if you ignore Portuguese pronunciation, though, this is still some rightwing snowflake shit. Veado and viado will only sound the same if you speak some ignorant, backwater version of Brazilian Portuguese, so I’m not sure what you’re talking about.
Viado e veado não soam igual, mano, esse é coisa de homens frágeis, eu não sei de que você tá falando. Deixe essa porra pros Bolsonaristas. Nem os tugas falam assim.
Pretty sure their point is that, in aggregate, trains are a much more fuel efficient and cost effective than transporting the same goods a comparable distance in trucks. The amount that some people burn idling is insignificant in comparison to these savings over longer distances and higher volumes of goods transported. Given this, the transportation companies are unlikely to switch away from rail transport any time soon.
Honestly, your problem is just shitty planning by your local community if you can get trapped without means of escape while freight moves through, and they are suggesting you guys might want to invest in building a way around this with some of that fancy bridge, overpass or tunnel technology we have these days. Why would anyone else involved inconvenience themselves and others that rely on the rail to do business, just because your locality refuses to address an issue that just impacts you and the folks that live around you?
This is like arguing against having an electric grid anywhere, just because you frequently lose power in hurricanes when trees knock down the power lines, while ignoring the fact your town could literally just bury them, as they do to address this problem in many other places.
You can do this to an extent with kanji, as well, it’s just something that really only gets easier the more you study Japanese, though. When you start getting more proficient, you can usually have a pretty good shot at guessing the pronunciation and something of the meaning in context, but the difficulty is certainly really front-loaded.
Of course, then you have some kanji that just have 100 different readings and you just have to go memorize those, so there’s certainly room for improvement.
3 seems pretty reasonable to me, assuming you start the lessons much earlier in schooling than we currently do now. Perhaps not mandatory, but I think requiring 2 and having the option for more is reasonable enough. There are plenty of countries that begin English lessons in what would be elementary schools, then add a second European language in middle school alongside continued English classes, and have the option to do a 3 language for students who are interested/would need them for their academic plans.
Of course, if it was just two years of four different languages, that would be a waste of money, IMO. If kids started doing Spanish in 4th grade and were expected to keep that up through high school graduation, and could add German or Russian or something in middle school, it seems reasonable enough to me. You won’t be cranking out kids fluent in several languages that way, but I would expect you could get much better results than we currently do in the first foreign language, plus give them a decent foundation in the second, should they need it/decide to continue learning after 6 years of classes.
Nobody said phonics is a perfect method, but against evidence showing it does substantially better at getting kids to learn how to read, you rocked up to contribute what amounts to “This is bullshit, because I didn’t like it as a kid.” We aren’t discussing how private tutors work, but how to get the public school system to get the best results in aggregate.
Every kid learns differently, sure. But we can’t even staff schools at adequate levels to hold decent group instruction, much less provide tailored education for each student, so your reply about everything being wrong until every every child has their unique idiosyncrasies accounted for comes across as a bit daft in the context of the discussion.