hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
19hr ago
It's likely even worse than the normal premium, because a big chunk of their workforce has a curfew, either due to parole/probation or being teenagers. If you're not making a profit being open, you're not making a profit being open- especially when you add increased electrical and gas(restaurant kitchens are electricity hogs when they're in operation), and staff getting more lightfingered(all cooks use the kitchen as their personal pantry when on the clock, all the time. Good restaurant management can minimize this or limit it to cheaper items, but not get rid of it- and that's leaving out waitstaff and cashiers pocketing money directly, and the hourly workers[again, mostly kitchen] stealing time when not being watched, etc) when less senior managers are watching them(more senior ones won't take night shift).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Probably, yeah, but isn’t it an older term than Cops?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There are 100% people who, obviously, are not women and wish to be treated as such. They're called non-passing transgenders.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Fair, but the dem leadership is straight up saying they're going to defect again next time they're in power. They should stop having the house minority leader announce his intention to prosecute everyone who works for ICE as table stakes.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The Biden admin really did step way outside the post-watergate norm for domestic policy in an escalatory manner. His war on domestic terror was mostly just political harassment of dissidents, the decision to open the borders was unprecedented, and the tech censorship coercion was way out of bounds.
Yes, Trump is somewhat unique. But he's not unique in being unique.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It would have been in 2005, I'm quite sure. I remember strong disapprovals of it in the early 2010s, at least, as well.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean it's worth noting that a 'wife beater' tank top undershirt in the US has, by repute, the same etymology- it's the garment of people who beat their wives(in this case explicitly class based- it has always been associated with people who can't afford air conditioning, for perhaps understandable reasons).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Your independent diners are being pinched by inflation(egg prices, in particular, and large wage increases for lower blue collar workers like cooks etc) and changing tastes, with the younger crowd often preferring fast casual food or less greasy meals. The logical business move is to reduce hours, and overnight is the fastest axe to fall. Remember, this is, except for waffle house, a full kitchen with a full kitchen staff, so it's expensive to pay $15+ per hour 24/7. You can find a normal diner pretty easily if you go at normal breakfast or lunch hours, but independent diners are mostly not open for dinner or overnight anymore.
Waffle house is special, because they serve a restricted(and much cheaper) menu, have a business model that relies on hiring the cheapest labour possible, and specialize in selling to drunks after the bars close. It has a reputation that... reflects that.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Uh, we don't think this, though. The left is not united. In the Texas democrat senate primary they're in some hilariously petty beef over.... I don't even know, they're fighting on tiktok, I've only seen excerpts to make fun of it. Democrats fight each other over Israel, exactly how much rope to let the trans put around their neck, the progressive stack, etc.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I make a mean venison boudin. Not kosher slaughtered, but it surely counts in spirit.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
'It' is the gender neutral singular third person pronoun in English. If xe was anything other than in fringe use I would use xe, but that is not the case- and 'it' is acceptable to use as reference towards small children, who are animate and agreed on as being people. The choice to take it as intentionally offensive rather than the default when sex-correct pronouns are renounced is a choice; one made by the trans community, but a choice nonetheless.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I do not like or accept the claim of 'gender identity' but if you are not a bastard then I suppose you very well know your father's gender identity.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Accepting the metaphysical claims of transgenderism is one of the few hard lines the RCC actually maintains in practice, on par with its stance on abortion. Even Fr James Martin SJ is very very careful not to use their language in describing transgenders, despite his powerful protectors and abundant scapegoats. You cannot construct a belief system that contains Catholicism and transgenderism at the same time any more than you could construct a belief system that contains Catholicism and disbelief in the real presence at the same time.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
But having long hair, as a man, would have been a Serious Statement until quite recently, and not one that you could have in a professional white collar job.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I mean the obvious answer is that the granny rule is nice, but if you can't do the paperwork(it seems very explicitly opt-in, or at least it is for the other Euro countries which have it) then you just have to go without nice things. There's lots and lots of people who miss out on nice things by not wanting to do paperwork; someone believing fan-fiction about gender doesn't make it a special case.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The history of stasis- which is what we're going through- shows us that mutual deescalation is the only way out. Key word- mutual. Obviously Trump needs to deescalate. But so does the blue haired Karen(I thought these were different archetypes?). The Biden admin's approach to the 'war on domestic terror' was exactly wrong too.
Now this isn't, probably, going to happen, on either side. But Trump is term limited out in a way the blue-hairs(I remember a time when this meant something different) aren't. Ignoring Trump, backing down on the #resistance, running normal democrats without controversy, and letting cultural conservatives be has to be the start, simply because Trump will, for better or worse(and I suspect it will be, and can be, worse), is gone in January 2029. I don't know that they're capable of it, but it's a necessary start.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It doesn’t. Ireland would allow this trans to pass on citizenship paternally- but requires that it list itself as the father, which it doesn’t wish to do.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Of course, one of the big issues with the ‘Trump is a fascist’ narrative is that no, he’s not. Trump is not a palingenetic ultranationalist, he’s not a totalitarian, he doesn’t seem to have much ideology to begin with, really. Words have meanings.
Trump is running on economic populism, strong executive, and (in practice very mild)retrenchment from the eastern hemisphere.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Berufsschulen are the middle level of German schools?
And I take it civil servant is the equivalent of getting tenure?
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Trailers remain cheap, in general- much cheaper than houses or equivalent apartments. There may be some metros where they aren’t available- I have no doubt that in the NY metro area, you aren’t going to find a trailer park- but they’re far more available than starter homes in most of the country.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It’s not called that anymore.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
There’s plenty of illegal flophouses in US cities, where you pay cash to a landlord directly- and he in turn did not tell either the city, or his financial agency, that he intends to rent individual bedrooms out of the house.
Illegal sublets are incredibly common in both apartments and rented houses. It's pretty normal for apartments to only have one roommate's name on the lease(usually the guy with the better credit score). Lots of people do it- half a two bedroom apartment is much cheaper than one one bedroom apartment. And rented houses do the same thing all the time, only with more roommates. You can go on craigslist in your city and see examples, price range, etc, although it will also include owned homes, grouphouses, flophouses, etc.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
A trailer park. What you're describing is a trailer park, and they're still cheap and generally available.
Yes. Waffle house is rowdy and... odd, but fights turning into all out brawls is genuinely rare.
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