My family saw a Missouri licence plate and I asked if it was parked beside another car because Missouri loves company and I frankly didn’t get nearly the recognition I deserve for that.
Something I encounter occasionally in a story and have yet to come up with an elegant way of describing: What would you call what this woman is doing, with her hand and head in particular?
“She rested her head on her open hand, arm raised, elbow propped on the table” is agonizingly verbose for such a common, casual thing. But cutting it down opens it up to ambiguity.
Is that action called something specific?
Suggestions for re-phrasing?
We had a lot — A… LOT — of kids zigzagging across our street tonight, rather than going up one side and down the other.
A coupe of times they did it in front of cars that were coming. More times than that they didn’t even bother looking either way, just walked out to the other side.
Parents, relatives, friends of anyone with kids: PLEASE explain to them basic safety like not doing this, ever.
The more it happens, the more kids will get hurt. And some will get killed.
@reay Makes me think of the classic SNL skit "Consumer Probe" where Dan Aykroyd plays a toy company executive defending his dangerous products, one of which is a Halloween costume entitled "invisible pedestrian" that's just a black cloak. It's fine, though, because it clearly has a warning label "not for blind kids".
To whoever thinks that people lean more to the political right as they get older: Im over 50 and bust my butt at work for $3/hr over minimum wage, where even if I worked full time hours (not often scheduled), I couldn’t afford the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in my city, let alone eating or paying any other bills.
If anything, I’m seeing the downside of capitalism better as I age and thinking that our union isn’t doing enough.
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I think that used to be true because by 40 or 60 a lot (but not all) of people used to get to a place where they have a big house and a big paycheck, and having so much to lose, having worked so hard and long for, people develop a "Now that I'm safe, pull the ladder up" mentality. Protect what is MINE at all costs, hypocrisy be damned.
But rampant greed has ruined that self-justifying cycle in capitalism.
Same! If anything I’ve moved to the far left as I’ve lived and seen enough of the abuses and exploitation of the marginalized, poor and working class by the Capital class.
@reay@lukem I used to work on concrete factory floors wearing safety toe boots.
I tried cheaper shoes and never found anything that wasn’t murder on my feet either. I bought a pair of Chippewa boots that we’re comfortable for years until I literally wore through the leather. Then I bought a pair of Ariats and found those great as well.
I have worn Blundstones daily for 5 years and they’re exceedingly comfortable but I’ve never tried any of theirs with a safety toe.
And yes, my work will compensate for I think up to $100 or something for such footwear, but that’s per year, and I don’t know if that’s calendar year (maaaaaybe passed that now?) or personal year from the first purchase (for sure not past that yet).
Gotta clear that up with my manager.
But regardless, I can’t keep using these. If I need to eat the full cost, so be it. I can’t hold out another X months in that pain over $100.
Looking like I’m going to have to bail on my current web hosting service because they renew at too steep a price than I can afford for a little blog site and two domains.
I keep seeing HostGator, inmotion and DreamHost show up as well-rated sites with really affordable (introduction) packages.
Does anyone have any experience with any of those services? Good/bad/ugly?
@reay I've used InMotion's shared hosting for a friend's WordPress site and generally not had problems. Sometimes it can be a bit slow but for the price that's kind of to be expected tbh.