Skies5394 @ Skies5394 @lemmy.ml

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I was taken to a very expensive steak restaurant once, and while others got more expensive cuts I got a 10 oz California sirloin aged 8 years in house.

I love steak, I loved steak, I will always love steak, but every steak from that day has to measure up to that one and never will.

I’m so glad I had the experience, but I don’t have $280 to blow on steak each time I want it lol.

“Bumble Bee Tuna”

Love it.

It’s because infrastructure spending, especially repairs or preventative maintenance, isn’t a vote getter. It’s not flashy, so it doesn’t get the focus it should.

By the time our representatives have funded their pet projects, and their donors projects, they aren’t going to award a large chunk that’s needed for these repairs.

That is.. until there is a catastrophe close to home. Unfortunately that’s when we’ll likely see action. But it’ll be myopic, and focus only on one specific thing, leaving another unattended.

I’m not a huge conspiracy theorist, but considering the c-level execs pulled their investments before all these announcements, it’s not out of the question that they could tip people off to short the company as well.

Hell the realist in me sees the fines these guys get and they see it as a cost of doing business.

So play dirty because we have to stoop to their level?

I’m sorry, fuck no. Absolutely fuck no.

We shouldn’t have had to get here. The unwritten rules shouldn’t have had to have been broken, and they shouldn’t have to be matched.

You know what’s going to happen if we go down to match their level? They’re going to stoop lower. Then lower then lower.

Never argue with someone in the dirt because they’re drag you down and beat you with experience.

So what will be done? Due process. It’ll be slow but it’ll win. Slowly but surely the trash will be taken out. It won’t be easy and it won’t be quiet but it’ll be done.

Eh, this isn’t traditional engagement with representatives, like letters, calls, etc. This is planned and executed coercion, backhand lobbying and other tactics to get their stuff done.

If they did it correctly, sure I’d support it and ask the other side to get to it, but I can’t support underhanded tactics to get stuff done with politicians.

You don’t even have to do any of that, when it prompts for a Microsoft account put in nonsense, like fart@outmybutt.com Then whatever for password. Keep trying to sign in with it until should prompt you to put in a name instead and set up a local account.

Even better, the tickets are nowhere near $50 most of the time anymore

Elden Ring.

I didn’t love the learning/difficulty curve of Soulsborne games until this one, but it got its hooks in me hard.

I usually spammed most boss fights and played everything a certain way, but here I had to learn the boss’s moves and dodge, parry and use power ups to bring them down.

Worth it. While frustrating, it made me return to other genres and play them again but differently. Hitman, sniper elite, roguelites/likes, anything that rewards patience, really. These now had a whole new facet I didn’t see before, or I did and I was applying it to these games.

I’ve since tried other soulsborne games, and while I now appreciate the difficulty and find them a lot more fun, the exploration and world of Elden Ring was the difference maker for me. It was being able to forge my own path and choose my challenges.

Eh, there’s blind hatred, and then there’s sweeping the unsightlies under the rug.

They’re taking away rights from people who aren’t “sightly” to make the neighborhoods and country seem better.

Other countries have done the same, doesn’t make it right in the slightest.

If anything those other country leaders should know what the country they are visiting is going through, thick and thin. Everything can’t be all Sunshine and roses, fuck whatever positive posture they’re trying to put on whatever trade system.

There is a real cost to this system and these people they’re trying to sweep under the rug are that cost. They should see that. No matter how “unsightly” that is.

Let’s stop pretending we live in some magically world where we can ignore the things we don’t like. They still exist.

If it quacks like a duck…

Can’t see that word and not think of Barrett’s Privateers

That’s 20% heavier. My hands already fall asleep after longer gaming sessions with the Steam Deck.

I felt envy with the screen I was seeing here, but if I can’t even hold the damn thing then what’s the point.

This issue is that nature is going to start with the people who contribute the least to the issue.

If only the people contributing the most could actually feel the pressure.

I had a headhunter come to me with what they thought was an aggressive offer to pry me away from my current company, but they believed in full office time all the time.

I calculated the commute time + gas + wear and tear into my calculation and it came in under my existing pay.

Went back to him and said unless you’re willing to do much better or move on the remote situation I’d be losing money by taking your offer.

I’ve heard from him a few times since asking if we can discuss it and I always ask, what’s the remote situation? “Oh maybe we can do a couple days a month.” Yea. No. Thanks for the offer, not interested. I recommend your company takes a second look at their office attendance requirements to stay competitive.

I know I’m not the only one as well. And I’m really hoping people start taking the opportunity to stand up to these useless requirements.

I’m anything but a soothsayer, but we’re already seeing remote work become a pretty important factor in people choosing employers, and it seems like most of the larger players in their respective industries are the ones trying to force people back into the office.

I could see this become a huge boom for low-mid tier companies that are able to put in more affordable offer packages but with work from home options attached and pry away talent from the high tier companies.

This could go a long way towards hopefully rebalancing the scales for quite a few things and hopefully reeling in some of these companies who have been able to take so much for so long.

One of my favourite games, along with its sequel.

Just great mechanics and atmosphere. Only complaint I had were there were a touch too short.

At this point, regardless of which company it is, it’s pretty much guaranteed the big grocer chains are acting in bad faith and are at the heart of a lot of economic issues for low and mid-wage Canadians.

I think the answer starts with breaking up vertical monopolies and making sure that acquisition and distribution of goods between stores is competitive and I think it ends with parts of the supply chain becoming crown corporations.

People can sit there and complain about the LCBO ask they want, but the buying power and distribution abilities they have could go a long way for Ontario or Canadians in general for food as well. I’d rather have that savings and money going back into the our pocket then Gaven fricking Weston.

50±1.5% agree doesn’t seem like “support” to me, especially coming from Angus Reid on a conservative issue. This seems like a draw at best.

I didn’t see full results from that article but that’s a really thin platform to base this policy on.

This is the shortcut for Outlook and Thunderbird, could it have been you were using a different mail client before?