As a teenager I once slowed down and drove through a roadblock because I thought it was the scene of a wreck. All the cops yelled and I stopped, and the cop at my window immediately asked how much weed I had smoked.
Midnight trip to McDonald’s didn’t work out that night
I love how they mention it isn’t just a Jackson problem. I grew up in MS - several hours away from Jackson - and the water often wasn’t clean, either due to it literally being dirty or having some issue from the treatment facility. Boil water notices were common, and I was from a nicer area. I never realized that wasn’t the standard of living until I moved away.
In MS, especially in Jackson, there was a lot of blame being thrown around and broken promises made while the residents literally bathed in brown water. Combine this with the fact MS has critically underfunded many services in general, and seldom offers sustainable public options, it was a recipe for disaster. I’m hopeful change actually happens this time, because the people there desperately need it. The State has neglected them at every turn, but they’ve generally been conditioned to believe there are no viable alternatives to the current styles of leadership.
The Mississippi Delta is no better, and they vote similarly to Jackson. The state’s government thrives on depriving its people to bolster their own interests.
I work in frontline management and make sure my morning staff meetings are always 5 minutes. I keep them concise because I even hate them, and I really only need 5 minutes to convey the daily goals and improvements.
Also I live in a legal State, so if any of my team members smell like weed, it was because their roommate did morning bong rips. No questions asked.
I distinctly remember the same sentiment in 2015 and 2016. Don’t listen to what anything or anyone says. Just vote, and get people you know to vote, because Trump’s supporters certainly will.
Either you weren’t contributing for decades, or you literally only contributed $10-$20/mo for ~30 years. If your job provides a 401k option, with tax write-offs and everything else you should have been contributing a lot more to maximize its future utility. This is assuming your employer wasn’t even matching.
Either you aren’t telling us the full details, or you haven’t fully been contributing for decades.
While shopping on Amazon for my usual old spice bearglove smelling system, I’ve gotten burned with what I’m getting. I want the blue stuff and I keep getting this white stuff. I don’t care if they took the aluminum off, I’m not willing to try that again. Last time I tried it my armpits got extremely irritated. I’m not...
Love to see these guys getting some recognition! Please check out “Kai Tangata” if you haven’t heard it. It’s not as heavy as some of their works - and I prefer heavier forms of metal - but that’s probably my favorite song of theirs.
They do. In fact, guns were initially invented by modifying fireworks. Obviously some guns and some fireworks are very distinctive, but generally they sound very similar
I had some friends in Munich who were brothers, just two or three years apart. They both grew up learning British English, but one eventually participated in an exchange program in Canada while the other participated in one in Australia. When they came back, their English accents were completely different from each other - no matter how hard they tried to sound similar to each other. In the end, everyone though it was unique and kind of fun since one brother would sometimes use slang the other didn’t understand.
Point being, OP, is to do what feels natural. Ultimately, it’s your voice, but you’ll pick up certain things here and there that naturally change your way of speaking over time.
This sounds like it could work well, just hope they aren’t given short or unrealistic deadlines by NetEase. The people he’s assembled thus far have released amazing material during their careers when they were given enough time.
I’ll bite. I had a brother with special needs pass away a year ago next week. He was born with cerebral palsy, was blind, nonverbal, totally dependent on caretakers (myself, my siblings and mother, his nurses) for literally everything since he didn’t have functionally-independent motor control. We were told he’d live to 10, and he lived to 29; he was a bundle of joy and loved going out when he could. People would stare and kids would ask questions, but we loved sharing his story and my brother liked when people were curious about it.
But, his health started declining in 2014. He had several close calls, and we told doctors each time to try their best with the circumstances they were given. On more than one occasion, his nurses or our mother would actually be with the doctors during hospital stays to assist with him since he was case they didn’t have much experience in and didn’t want to make his issues worse. That said, he had a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) since he had a trache, and was brittle enough to die from chest compressions.
I prepped for my brother’s death countless times over 8 years. We all did. When he passed, we were so obviously distraught. But we were also relieved, in a way, that he wasn’t in pain anymore in the end. We let out our emotions that had been stored for those years, and the grieving process is still continuing. We all put our lives on hold to help him, and he just became our lives; our goal simply was to make him comfortable and let him know he was loved, knowing we couldn’t realistically do more. We spent years watching him in pain, watching him gradually lose his fervor and personality.
If you read this far, thank you. Not really sure what else to say, I just want to share this since it’s occupied my mind a lot.
TLDR; Preparing for the worst outcomes, coupled with grief, over prolonged periods of time really disrupt your emotions and outlooks. Needless to say, my family became stronger proponents of state-assisted suicide after this experience. It couldn’t be granted to my brother, but maybe we can help people in the future that coupd really use it. People understand, but not nearly as many are truly empathetic because they can’t be - they’ve never been through a similar experience. I simply ask that people try to be sympathetic rather than to pass judgement on others.
They have different studios working on different projects, in the same sense that the teams that created Red Dead have relatively little overlap with the GTA teams within Rockstar
The crop makes him look fat, too. In the original pictures, he literally looks like a relatively slim middle-aged man - which is exactly what is he when he isn’t training for a movie. Too many people forget that very few celebrities are consistently pumping iron to the extent that they have a perfect body throughout the year. Rob McElhenney goes into detail about this topic, I recommend everyone watch it when they get a chance
Face of 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman revealed (www.bbc.com)
Just jaw-dropping to me....
New US climate rules for pollution cuts ‘probably terminal’ for coal-fired plants | Experts say only ‘handful of plants’ will likely survive, and only Trump and lawsuits could save them (www.theguardian.com)
that place is more and more shitty all the time (lemmy.world)
"Why do you need my license for a combo meal?" (lemmy.world)
Since when did DoorDash drivers get so tactical? (lemmy.world)
A water crisis in Mississippi turns into a fight against privatization (grist.org)
i dont miss pointless early morning meetings (sh.itjust.works)
Al Gore Thinks Trump Will Lose and Climate Activists Will Triumph (www.nytimes.com)
Senator Bernie Sanders Report Warns Nearly Half of Older Americans 'Have No Retirement Savings' (www.commondreams.org)
Old spice Blue vs White stuff (lemmy.world)
While shopping on Amazon for my usual old spice bearglove smelling system, I’ve gotten burned with what I’m getting. I want the blue stuff and I keep getting this white stuff. I don’t care if they took the aluminum off, I’m not willing to try that again. Last time I tried it my armpits got extremely irritated. I’m not...
morning. (lemmy.world)
Alien weaponry, ru ana te whenua (youtu.be)
And this is metal as fuck, no matter what language it’s in.
depends on the neighborhood (lemmy.world)
purrrfectly normal (lemmy.ml)
I want to talk in an American accent but how can I transition into it slowly for people who know me without them noticing a sudden change?
As strange as it may seem, I hate my accent and want to speak like an American because I think it sounds cooler and more like how I want to sound....
Former Mass Effect lead writer says new narrative-focused studio will "avoid painting ourselves in a corner" (www.eurogamer.net)
It's almost like a zombie movie for them (startrek.website)
[DALLE] Commence the jigglin’ (lemmy.world)
What’s something on your mind lately that nobody else would understand?
Rumour: Assassins Creed Red could go head-to-head with Rise of the Ronin on PS5 in 2024 (www.pushsquare.com)
You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next?
(Idea taken from a similar post I saw in Reddit a longer time ago)...
A King regardless (sh.itjust.works)
Let’s not body shame