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- Comment on The heart wants what the heart wants 4 days ago:
The power bowl is nice combined with other stuff. During Hatch chili season, I roasted up some Hatch chilies and removed the skin, stem, and seeds. Chop one or two up and stick them in the bowl. Combine with a heated tortilla.
- Comment on The heart wants what the heart wants 4 days ago:
Though that varies by country. It is also maybe not meat based but milk based.
- Comment on The heart wants what the heart wants 4 days ago:
And many items can be customized to be vegan or vegetarian with some simple substitutions or exclusions. The only problem is when the kitchen makes a mistake. Not a calamity for someone who is just trying to get a lot less meat in their diet, but a reason to be pissed when a vegan wanders into a region of reduced fat sour cream.
- Comment on Regain Control in my ass 1 week ago:
Well, it’s going through my head right now, so I will count it.
Ceilings in my ass
- Comment on Seriously. 1 week ago:
I just started looking up the different ways to order beers. Wow. Even if it’s based on the metric system, each country really did go and reinvent the wheel.
- Comment on Coming up with new names is hard 2 weeks ago:
Place names in general in the Pacific Northwest. Alaska is from an Aleut phrase. Out of the 36 Oregon counties, 10 have roots in indigenous language or culture.
- Comment on Amazon Contractors can't even sing in their cars now. Unions protect against this micromanagement. 3 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, that’s too much mouth movement. You are now on probation.
- Comment on I'm so sorry 3 weeks ago:
This truly is the strangest timeline, where Serious Journalists write about rumors of JD Vance having sex with a couch.
- Comment on I'm so sorry 3 weeks ago:
Because we are in the weirdest timeline.
- Comment on I'm so sorry 3 weeks ago:
Merry Christmas!
- Comment on I'm so sorry 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Inflation? 3 weeks ago:
There is that, but the larger explosion in housing prices can be largely chalked up to under supply in popular markets.
- Comment on Inflation? 3 weeks ago:
Car prices: supply is constrained because of supply chain issues where often just a small handful of the myriad of chips in the car are unavailable.
Housing: supply is artificially constrained by various laws, often of the NIMBY type.
- Comment on Anon is a soyboy 4 weeks ago:
Portland has oodles of places that serve good tofu. Fried, marinated, sauce, and so on.
- Comment on Centipedes Don't Fuck 4 weeks ago:
Legistics?
- Comment on Oregonian driving 1 month ago:
Among us bicyclists, they’re called niceholes. They’re just trying to be nice to the bicyclist, but we would rather they just follow the traffic law so that they’re predictable.
- Comment on Paid Leave Olympics 1 month ago:
Mannnnn, I hate it when I get those flags mixed up, and I think Russia was being discussed as well. Thanks.
- Comment on Paid Leave Olympics 1 month ago:
At the place that I interned in software development, there was a period of time before I was there where the hours were starting to creep to long enough that the workers (salaried) were effectively being paid less than minimum wage. Legend has it that there was a mention of a lawsuit if the company didn’t shape up. One coworker who had been there at that point described it as a dark point in the company’s history. In response, they temporarily switched to hourly and 40 hours a week.
Later, some people apparently started working over 40 hours a week of their own volition. Workaholics, I guess. At the behest of one of the people on my team, the CIO talked to them about sticking to normal hours. Part of it was that people just aren’t great developers after already working a long day. The other part was that no one else wanted to slide back into those long working hours. A few people also had had kids in the intervening years, so I don’t think they wanted to see their hours eaten by work.
- Comment on Paid Leave Olympics 1 month ago:
I work in IT at a university. There is a state parental leave program, but above that the union bargained for additional parental leave.
The US has a significant separation between the federal and state levels. For a policy like this, you usually would find some of the more progressive states trying out different programs. Some more backward states will take a long time to come round. It really is more like a bunch of small to medium sized countries in that respect.
Russia is also working under very different demographics, which is probably driving at least the maternity leave. Birth rates are low and net migration, while positive, is not enough to keep up. The US has a birth rate that is closer to replacement and much higher net migration. That would mean lagging states would have less pressure to reform.
- Comment on Paid Leave Olympics 1 month ago:
Yikes, that’s lawsuit territory in the US. Like, my uncle was a lawyer on a lawsuit with similar facts.