Employees seemed somewhat happy too.
They pay legitimately good wages for the markets they are in. However, they also know they are paying good wages, so they make the employees earn every single penny. I understand that it’s more stressful and tiring than an average retail job, but as Don Draper would say, “That’s what the money’s for!” In reality, it almost certainly depends on the individual managers and whether the store is hitting targets.
“For the warfighter.” I suppose there’s a certain clarity of assholery, but jesus, the marketing direct to Hegseth and Trump’s 80s rom-com bully personas is nauseating.
Also, while it’s always been hypocritical to soft-pedal what the most powerful military on the planet is for, the mere act of opening yourself up to accusations of hypocrisy moves the discussion to a place that culturally asserts some level of civilian control, which also implies some limit to the barbarity. People are inherently assholes and will seek the bottom; lowering the bar in advance just encourages even worse behavior.
It may have been “designed” by this guy, who seems to be from San Antonio. He seems like a peach among peaches.
Visibly upset, Martinez told Prokopas that he previously worked for the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office in Texas. He said he had just been discharged from Critical Response Strategies, the private contractor that provides security at the detention center, after a physical altercation with another guard inside the facility.
EDIT TO ADD: In Texas, Sheriff’s offices in big counties like Bexar, Dallas, Tarrant, Travis, and Harris aren’t even regular day-to-day cops. They run the jail and serve process if the constables don’t have the manpower.
What are you talking about? It’s clearly already there! It’s all over the thing!
I particularly did this when I was in the UK or Japan, but that’s more because I have no faith that I will remember to pick the correct way.
I was around almost at the beginning of Eternal September. In December of 1994, I posted to a newsgroup that google eventually archived on the web. Beyond that, my eBay account predates y2k. The first purchase I recall was a parallel port ethernet adapter so I could use Arachne for DOS on my 386SLC33 laptop in the university library. I mailed out a money order and hoped this “buying shit on the internet” thing wasn’t going to be a scam.
Other tablets have been found in the ruins believed to be Ea-nāṣir’s dwelling. These include a letter from a man named Arbituram who complained he had not received his copper yet, while another said he was tired of receiving bad copper.
Dude saved his hate mail.
No worries. I actually liked seeing a take with fresh eyes. The co-authors were deeply involved with writing the show, and frankly they wrote the books with an eye towards suitability for TV, so the threads that you’re trying to follow now will come together in a pretty satisfying way, I think.
When they do eventually indulge in ship combat, that too comes off surprisingly solid as a spectacle.
Starfleet Academy, which has improved over the first season. I still maintain that the Galactic situation is actually insanely stable for it to be 900 years after Voyager, like to the point where it should imply a subtext about cultural and technological stagnation, but I don’t think that’s what they’re going for.
Ghosts (US) is a guilty pleasure. My wife thought I was subtly trying to get her to try it when I would say as much, but I was not. It’s my Ortolan Bunting. Andor is the show I try to get her to watch, as yet unsuccessfully.
Shrinking has settled into being wish fulfillment emotional comfort food, but it’s doing it way better than Ted Lasso season 3 did. I’m here for it.
Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is solid, mostly because the casting and chemistry is spot on. The story itself is pretty by-the-numbers.
Mighty Nein had a promising first season, and could end up better than Vox Machina.
Finally, when I really want to just watch something soothing before bed, an episode of Frieren does the trick.
I literally love hearing somebody talk about watching The Expanse for the first time. Glad you’re enjoying it, and stick with it. It’s probably the best space sci-fi series of the last 20 years, and I’m saying that trying not to exaggerate.
I’m not trapped in here with you. You’re trapped in here with me!
I liked the way they’d introduce non-dinosaurs (and sneakily, the main pterosaur family are not technically dinosaurs either) from the fossil record, like the giant snake. There were definitely WAY worse things that I sat through, but PBS kids of that era had a ton of good shows (and now too? I dunno because it doesn’t have Hatsune Miku and friends so therefore my daughter doesn’t care). She actually still has an “Odd Squad” lore book in her backpack.
I’m not sure if it’s close enough to work without mucking about, but I understand the Keychron Launcher is just a fork of VIA, which has an Electron app that basically containerizes the web app and makes it easier to have the right permissions.
I’d also suggest that if you’re not looking for any new features or having any issues or just an incorrigible tinkerer (guilty of this one myself), just leave the firmware be. As mentioned elsewhere though, if it’s QMK, the Linux QMK environment should have all the commands you need to flash the board.
This. The QMK environment flashing tools are generic and bundled for convenience, so they will work fine even with firmware files that aren’t QMK at all, so long as they’re for your keyboard or chipset. I use them to flash Soarer’s style firmwares on Tuxedo OS.
Matt Groening is his former brother-in-law. Dinosaur Train was in the rotation when mine was little. It’s not a top-tier “parents will notice the layers” one, but it’s very tolerable and a good show for the littles.
It really kicks the llama’s gnu’s ass
I received a metric fuckton of texts that were like, “ZOMG YOU GUYS WE ARE SO REPUBLICAN AND CROCKETT HATES ICE CAN YOU BELIEVE IT-ZORZ?!?!?!?” They seem to trace back to a shady republican group. Apart from a couple of milquetoast Cornyn ones, everything else I got was for various Dem candidates despite my living in a very red zip code.
The campaigns have excellent lists, and somebody on the right wanted blue voters to know how very “terrified” they were of her. The only reasonable alternative is that she ran them herself as a low-grade false-flag, and in either case it made me go ahead and decide on Talarico, though I’d have happily voted for either in the general. I think he’s made such a brand of being a blue christian that he’d probably feel obligated to make separation of church and state an important part of his brand, and he’s speaking very explicitly to the wealth divide in a way she hasn’t.
I do tend to think the dust-up over the Talarico’s Allred comment has at least some truth to it, but while I assume he’s much more calculating than his public persona, even in the worst case the story hit my (admittedly white) ears like someone who assumed that his allyship exempted him from micro-aggressions, rather than his being some cackling hypocrite. He’s got his work cut out for him, but if he can energize the base, recover Trump 2024 Hispanics, and get a couple of percentage points’ worth of red voters to flip or even just say, “meh” and stay home, he’s got a chance.
Realistically, I think the most likely scenario is that we’re looking at a pre-guns Beto campaign that comes close but can’t get over the hump versus an unpopular Republican, but I think he’s the best chance we’ve had since then to flip a seat. All of which is incumbent on elections happening semi-normally.
Imagine if that one fire were the series finale. All-time great show if you end it there.
Yes, but they also extract every penny of value from them. Minimum legal time for breaks, no visible tattoos, cell phones turned off, and broad manager discretion about things like having a stool at checkout. Apparently they are very upfront about it in interviews, at least, but they know they’re often the highest-paying employer for miles around, and they leverage that to the hilt.