Taking a trip by train to Seattle... if you're going to the Pax West conference I might see you there, but I won't say hi unless I hear someone holler Beeeeeeehawwwwwww really loudly 😆
I swear, are we going to see the 200-year "remastered in HD" version of the Underground Railroad? Ordinances like these are going to cause people to find "safe access routes" out of those states if we don't get action to reinstate national abortion protection or another solution relatively soon.
I can hardly wait for these kinds of projects to come to fruition! Hopefully investment transitions away from building new and bigger roads to bigger, better and faster railway infrastructure.
Blunt take: Bands that stay real good til the end of their career break up or end with a drug problem.
Honest take: A lot of young bands have a passion, energy and sound because they like playing or have real struggles, people listen to it and they become famous. A record label buys them up and now they are trying to follow up on their success. They can ride on their same music making creativity but eventually it just becomes business for many of them. Touring is fun and profitable, recording is neat but often is like trying to forcibly draw blood from a stone.
For some bands their change in style becomes a trademark element. For example, you could probably guess the part of decade of a Beatles' song you've never heard before just from listening to it a couple times.
Try other sports, competitive or not. Disc golf, tennis, basketball, volleyball, jogging, swimming, hiking, cycling, badminton, lawn bowling, skiing, surfing, and more... so much to choose from.
I think part of it is whether you win or lose if you go too hard you earn a prize of a sore back/arm/legs. Remember to always pace yourself, know your limits, and stretch lightly before, between breaks and after when you have time.
"Once we head out, you won't be able to return to your hometown for a while. Are you ready to leave?"
Yes
No
So many moments like this in RPGs that make it hard to leave just by saying that. I get so sad and I have to walk around saying goodbye to everyone in the whole area before I depart.
Yeah the job market is so fucked up, being told everywhere needs people, except for every company you just applied for lol.
On one end you have HR sitting on their ass for months, advertising for jobs already filled (only finding out weeks later), go through 2/3 interviews to not be picked or put on hold even following up for a couple months, random filters that screen out proper candidates while keeping ones who bloated it with keywords... long lines to even speak to someone at career events. Been through it all. I picked up every single god-damn call and still it took 10 months. The whole process is so denigrating and it makes it easy to fault yourself for it. (Lesson learned: don't do that!). Other thing I learned is many companies for some fucked up reason like to hire around the same time so often it was 3 interviews 1 month, 0 interviews for the next two.
On the other hand, from recruiting side you have an avalanche of applications to sift through, many of them AI garbage nowadays, and if you interview someone that can't say much about a project they put on their resume, what can you do?
With inflation at the level it is, and salary offers not keeping up either, even if you can land something it's not quite a golden ticket on its own.
Same here. The limey taste of hops makes the beer for me, when I get a lighter beer I'm more often than not left disappointed, like I'm drinking bubbly water that's been sitting in a pipe for 25 years. Craft IPAs on the other hand range from "meh it's alright" to "this is amazing".
Well thanks, guess I'm insane for not having $25k Canadian to my name, parking spots cost C$250k and only a handful of listings for condos within a 90 minute car commute from Vancouver costs under C$300k, which come with their own mini-rent anyway in the form of condo fees.
Where I am, I pay about the same as the example scenario except in Canadian dollars, and it gives me easy access to public transit so I don't need a car to commute around. I think this is a better deal.
Functionally you can't do duties regulated by ITAR without authorization from the U.S. Department of State... so effectively you can't fill that position. While looking for jobs I've applied to some US companies who are involved in defense contracting before for a non-defense position and they basically label me (a Canadian) as a foreign person at the first screening and they don't call me back.
For practical purposes, ITAR regulations dictate that information and material pertaining to defense and military-related technologies (items listed on the U.S. Munitions List) may only be shared with US persons unless authorization from the Department of State is received to export the material or information to a foreign person. US persons (including organizations; see legal personality) can face heavy fines if they have, without authorization or the use of an exemption, provided foreign persons with access to ITAR-protected defense articles, services or technical data.
Rentlar @ Rentlar @beehaw.org Posts 12Comments 388Joined 2 yr. ago
If you have a toilet that doesn't flush, then it's not too far-fetched.