homes

well, it wasn’t a ‘sit right’ issue, as I hadn’t the chance to swallow it. I had barely begun to chew it before it provoked a response.

under normal circumstances with normal drinkers, probably, but I’m what you might call a… veteran drinker. I’m not one to puke unless… “especially provoked”. for example, I don’t puke from drinking too much (well, not for decades); I’ll certainly pass out first, and that’s after a couple of liters of whiskey over 3-5 hours-- after which point my tongue is typically pretty numb, so it takes a lot to break through that.

I will say that the level of my drunkenness it probably why I puked as much as did, but I wouldn’t have puked in the first place had it not been for the foulness of what I ate.

tl:dr: the answer is that I don’t think so, but it’s possible

I will say this was long enough ago that, if I were to have a different reaction today, I’d have to replicate the experiment to find out, and I only have 750ml of bourbon to test it. if I remember, I’ll wait till I finish and dab a bit of PB+mayo on my finger and taste it to see what happens ;)

Oh, I have to disagree with you there. I was trying to make fluffernutter (peanut butter + fluff) when I was drunk, and accidentally made peanut butter with mayo. It took me half an hour to stop vomiting after a single bite.

obviously, he’s full of shit

ok, to untangle this a bit because it’s not very clear for some:

• Iran has opened a specific route of passage through the Strait of Hormuz
• The US is maintaining the blockade specifically on Iranian ports until certain conditions are met, including:
  • the clearing of mines from the Strait, assisted by Iran
  • something involving the transfer of unspecified nuclear materials from Iran to the US, although exactly what/when/how remains unclear
  • likely other unmentioned conditions
  • further negotiations

but just imagine if Iran bit Trump’s dick

At least we knew that those required some effort…

Ironically, it would actually be worse if JD Vance were president

I can’t tell what’s real anymore

ugh, I miss halloween in nyc

who got 5 members of the fuckbag express to stand still for long enough to photograph them?

like, congratulations, but, still, how did this happen?

why?

and what did it cost?

“Don’t worry about your taxes this year ;)”

— tedk@umontana.edu

well… not exactly?

ok, so, the headline directly addresses the pay rate, the workers, and a direct affect, but the article focuses almost entirely on the corporations and consumerist element of the story, only mentioning the workers as a statistic until the end, where a worker experience is only passingly mentioned for those who may have actually bothered to stick around to the end of the article, with no commentary or context offered afterward.

it’s from Reuters, which is a well-reputed news source from Germany. I don’t dispute the facts in the article. But it feels very… sterile and clinical? Maybe that’s a cultural thing. I’m American and I expect a bit more humanism in my reporting. But for a story that’s supposed to be about how people are being affected by some new service, the article surprisingly avoids much of any reporting on those very pekoe and how they’re being affected by this new service that they are, themselves, now running. Instead, it focuses on (generally) the companies that run the services and the users of those services.

But, beyond simply the coldness of the reporting (which, again, maybe that just a cultural thing), I find it kind of disturbing how much it seems to ignore the workers involved, an entire class of people, and the people who should really be the focus of the whole story.

yes, there’s some context, but I think it would be helpful if there was a bit finer context than just an annual income statement-- if they were more granular.

These kind of articles feel sort of… dehumanizing? I mean, the whole thing is supposed to be about how these gig jobs are possibly changing these peoples’ lives, but it talks mostly about the companies themselves and how they work, and the people who use the services, hardly mentioning the actual workers, referring to them mostly as statistics.

I dunno, maybe it’s just me.

Articles like this make it difficult to understand when the don’t explain the context. How far does one US dollar actually go in India? I mean, I can look up the conversion rate, but I don’t know how much it’s actually worth to a person there.

Like, what’s the average weekly or monthly living cost for someone in India?

Such a boring crime shouldn’t sound so cool

“hey, kids! wanna know what my favorite part of the 80s was?”

Money for lawyers

“threw the bastard newborn he killed into Lake Michigan in front of the underage mother he’s been raping, and that’s just what they released”

k, uhhh… I think I missed that part

sounds like local twin cities morning news that maybe had nothing to do with trump?

(I used to live I mpls)

no

even accusing AI of theft is a puerile misattribution of copyright infringement that was tossed aside in the late 90s, so let’s just get over that bullshit right now.

“If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing”