Butler, who was an admirer of Adolf Hitler and Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy

It’s always nice when you don’t have to feel mixed emotions about someone

I mean, ideally they want to stay.

I can’t tell if H is a troll or just really stupid (or both). She and I clash about several subjects and she does sometimes straight antagonize the rest of us, but she’s also weirdly ill-informed about a lot of things and 67 years old. A lot of the antagonism seems to stem from her expecting everyone to defer to her because of her age, but because she’s not very smart, she orders us to do things that don’t make sense, then gets annoyed when we don’t.

I mostly just try to ignore her and don’t accept any food from her unless it’s prepackaged and I know what it is.

Yeast is a fungus, honey is made by bees. I used to be pretty neutral about honey, but we don’t adequately protect bees from the cold and other perils when we keep them.

That’s a good law. Now if we could only enforce it.

It’s not evenly split, it’s $50/week for each week worked between 2021-2024, up to ~$7,700/worker.

It’s still not enough. Especially because that’s roughly equivalent to 200 minutes of minimum wage pay for NYC.

a “worrying escalation” of the conflict

An attack with no injuries is a worrying escalation of the full blown war in which the other party keeps vaguely (or not so vaguely) threatening nukes?

Are the soldiers obligated to rescue shipwrecked survivors? I ask because, if not, this seems bizarrely stupid (or right in line for this admin). They could just leave them in the water and it would probably accomplish the same thing (I don’t approve of it, to be clear, but it seems less shortsighted). Even if they are, they could pretend not to notice them.

Now you just sound like you’re from Delaware

The world should follow Canada’s lead and nobody should visit from anywhere.

I’m American living in Germany and married to a German. I brought him to meet my family last November, because I suspected trump would win or there would be a more significant version of January 6th. People keep asking when we’re coming back, but why the hell would I endanger my husband like that? It’s simply not safe for anyone right now, but especially for noncitizens.

I miss my family and friends, but they can come visit us. We’ll even help them get started learning German and help with their visas and housing if they want to stay.

It’s pretty concerning, you’re right. I actually wrote a list of things that are vegan and vegetarian to keep in the back because some of my coworkers would give random answers when people asked about them (and we for some reason have chicken fat in our omelettes, so they seem vegetarian but aren’t).

I work at a bakery and am vegan. Whenever we get a new cake or vegetarian sandwich, my coworkers ask me to try it. At least one of them, H, is always surprised to learn that dairy products are in fact made from milk.

On the other hand, one of my coworkers brought in sesame sweets made without dairy, eggs, or honey and H didn’t believe they were actually vegan and kept making jokes about my cheat day.

Also, it looks like the hat says “America is bad”

You should call her a doctor

Jesus Food Christ

I think footage is foliage, but I’m lost on the second “for.”

This is so cool, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a painting with this kind of focus (sharpness, not subject) and it works really well for the scene!

I could see some inverse of good tsar, bad boyars, but at this point I’m not sure how many “boyars” there are left who both support trump and weren’t placed by him in spite of their shocking incompetence.

I used to work in chemical exposure insurance and to be honest, it would be very difficult to tell because of the increased risk of cancer from chemicals used in the growing process as it is. Most of the countries that have banana plantations can’t really defend their citizens against huge fruit companies, so if something has been declared illegal in Hawaii, they just use it in their other plantations, and of course the US is dismantling the EPA and NLRB, so soon they might not even be illegal there anymore. Organic fruit is not significantly different, because there are lots of things that are allowed for them that are still carcinogenic to humans in large concentrations.

I’m really sorry to be a downer, but sometimes the world sucks, and pineapple and banana companies suck even more.

Yeah, but you tell different types of stories. The robot knows it’s supposed to respond emotionally, but doesn’t know in what direction.