Drusas @ Drusas @kbin.run

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Commander 2024

Workers said they were harassed and even threatened with violence.

This is what happens when people are literally starving because you're not fulfilling your duty.

But it appears that she sure has tried to distance herself from that fact.

Growing up in New Jersey, where we had Wawa everywhere, 7-Eleven was the "dirt convenience store" like how some towns back then had the good mall and the dirt mall. I was shocked when I moved to another state and found out that 7-Eleven was considered the good convenience store.

I spent a bit of time living in Japan, and to this day, years later, I still frequently dream of visiting Japan and one of my top priorities being going to kombini (convenience stores). They're amazing. I hope 7-Eleven is able to transform the convenience store experience in the US into a kombini experience.

The politicians who are against it are the vast minority, they're just extremely vocal and irritating.

I don't work in the field, but I follow it a bit. I live in Washington and we get tons of dogs imported from Texas.

You completely missed the point.

Summertime before a fall election? Yeah, that's a bad excuse. I was called by a local non-profit I occasionally donate to just today in order for them to be able to ramp up operations in advance of the election. It's prime donation seeking season.

I am feeling a lot more optimistic about Harris as the presidential candidate than I was a week ago.

I've seen a couple taxidermied ones. They are big cats indeed.

There was some sort of problem which caused the touch sensors to just go haywire. It was years ago now. The phone didn't last terribly long for me.

It started bugging out in, initially, unpredictable ways. It would open and close apps almost at random, as well as interact with them, but only while or right after you were touching the screen. Sometimes it would freeze. Of course I restored the thing to factory settings, but it didn't make a difference. It was unusable.

That's the one. It's a shame to have to know it, but I'm glad I do now.

The Luddites weren't wrong. Their name has been badly misused. They were skilled professionals who were concerned that they would no longer have work as a result of the industrial revolution. They were largely right in that assessment. That doesn't mean you should try to hold up societal/technological progress like they did, but their concerns were valid. They weren't just afraid of technology as they are generally portrayed.

Horror tends to be "slow" because you need to build an immersive experience for the audience in order for the horror elements to have their intended effect.

I find it a bit amusing that you chose two horror films which I have always found to be not remotely scary as your go-to horror examples. I enjoyed them growing up, but I think they were only scary to older generations (I am an older Millennial).

A llama spat in my general direction at a zoo once when I was a kid, so I have known never to trust them since.

Thanks for teaching me a new word today!

Apparently she hit her head during the fall, so in this case it was really the fall that killed her.

I wish mine hadn't died on me a couple years ago. The newer a models are so much bigger.