[kscherer]

Originally Posted by pscates2.0 Dumb ass.

"I identify as a rug, so I had all my limbs surgically removed and now people just walk all over me."

[psmith2.0]

I just thought this sort of thing was frowned upon.

People lose their shit over who can rightfully sport dreads or cornrows, but this guy goes and gets his eyes all done, and is claiming race/heritage that isn't his. That trounces hairdo choices/preferences all to hell, IMO.

[kscherer]

I've got my popcorn ready.

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[psmith2.0]

No need. I've just never seen someone go to such lengths. I didn't know doctors would do those kinds of procedures, but that's part of what the article is about (the ethics of such work).

Hair isn't permanent, and, IMO, no one group/culture has dibs on hairstyles. Plenty of crossover/sharing/blending/borrowing going on out there, in all directions. A glance at Pinterest or any hair/beauty blog or YouTube channel will prove that. Rational people have no issue with any of it. Keeps stylists busy and companies like Clairol and L'Oréal in business.

But permanently altering your face to take on the appearance of another race/group is pretty out there! That's movie-level craziness.

[kscherer]

Originally Posted by pscates2.0 the ethics of such procedures).

They're reaching. Ethics are what we make them on any given day, and how much it's gonna pay.

[PB PM]

Originally Posted by pscates2.0 I just thought this sort of thing was frowned upon. People lose their shit over who can rightfully sport dreads or cornrows, but this guy goes and gets his eyes all done, and is claiming race/heritage that isn't his. That trounces hairdo choices/preferences all to hell, IMO.

Yeah kind of is. I'm not seeing any reaction on Korean sites, so either they haven't heard about it, or just don't care. I'm guessing the former, because Koreans tend to be very protective of their culture and national identity. Fans of BTS are, well scary to say the least. Last time something like this happened the person's account was hacked and many of their life secrets were revealed to world. Not that anyone cares, but as I said Koreans tend to be aggressive about this kind of stuff.

[drewprops]

Yeah, it's totally nuts, but the commitment to the change implies that it's more than being merely a dumbass; it's a weird mental condition. The worst part is this will bite him in the ass, as a lot people are not equipped to approach this as the mental issue that it is. I worry for his safety from self harm. What a rotten way to let an obsession overtake the cautions of common sense.


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[psmith2.0]

On a lighter, more run-of-the-mill-dumb-ass note.

Everything about this story is wrong and stupid.

[PB PM]

Just when you thought people couldn’t be any dumber. Then again if you’ve been on YouTube in the 15 years you have likely seen a video of people blowing up toilets with firecrackers, so I guess it shouldn’t be a surprise.

Of course the on going legacy/tragedy of what happened to the indigenous people here in Canada continues.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...hool-1.6100201

[psmith2.0]

Re: the Taco Bell idiots, two things stuck out to me:

- They had to lock the doors to the dining room to keep customers from coming in, meaning this was done during operating hours. “Hey, let’s close a business down and set off fireworks instead!”

- There were 8-9 employees involved/participating. Not the expected 1-2 weirdos/outliers every workplace has, but the entire crew. It’s this kind of thing that explains why I’ve never received a correct order from this stupid restaurant (and have waited forever to get it). Apparently they’re in the back shooting dice (or amateur workplace porn).

Fast food joints, after a year of all this stuff, will - and do - hire anyone. If you can stand mostly upright, exhibit a pulse and know a minimum of 25 words, the gig is yours.

[Ryan]

I worked for a fast-casual place in high school and the boss's hiring method was literally just calling the next application on the stack.

So yeah, you are correct.

[psmith2.0]

I knew it!

[kscherer]

Originally Posted by pscates2.0 Fast food joints, after a year of all this stuff, will - and do - hire anyone. If you can stand mostly upright, exhibit a pulse and know a minimum of 25 words, the gig is yours.

Funny thing, fast-food joints here in Boise can't get any staff, because even the dimwits think they're worth $25/hour. None of the 24-hour joints are open past 10, anymore, because no one wants to work. Lots of reasons, including kids at home, government handouts, ain't wanna, etc. Even the low-yard-stick dimwits are "above" fast-food, which leaves us with the desperate, angry people who just want to destroy stuff. Granted, there are lots of people who still want to work, just not enough of them to staff even the best fast-food places.

FWIW, that person should get strapped to a rocket and turned into a satellite.
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Now, about those fireworks. Here's the fun part: Unemployment benefits for these clowns will be contested, so none of those who are getting fired get to eat. And you wanna know how hard it is to find work once you have a felony on your record, let alone an employee file that says "not rehire-able; reason: intentionally set off explosives inside business"?

[Ryan]

Originally Posted by pscates2.0 I knew it!

I vividly remember one guy who worked there, just out on parole for dealing meth. About a month after he was hired, he didn't show up on time for a shift. An hour into it, he walks through the dining area shirtless, cigarette dangling from his mouth. Walks through the restaurant and kitchen, clocks in, then heads out back to finish his smoke.

The manager followed him and fired him on the spot, so this clown reverses his journey and heads back out the front door, swearing as he goes. Two weeks later, his paycheck shows up for 27 cents or whatever for the five minutes he was there. It went straight into the shredder.

I wound up head cook through the process of elimination. I'd been working there for two or three months when the current head cook found out his girlfriend, one of the hostesses, was cheating on him. He picked up a fresh chicken wing and through it so hard it went straight through the wall.

He was fired and as the next-most-senior cook, I was put in charge. At 17. My sole qualification was "shows up on time sober".

[psmith2.0]

...and sometimes that's all it really takes. It's amazing the number of fools who can't seem to manage that simple thing.

[Ryan]

One night only three of us showed up. Myself, the dishwasher who spoke almost no English, and a completely drunk waitress.

She kept a handle of Malibu rum in the trunk of her car, which says everything you need to know.

She was too plastered to do her job, so I had to throw on a waiter uniform and give the dishwasher a five minute crash course in how to man the kitchen. To his credit, he rocked that sudden promotion.

I do not miss that job. I only worked there for maybe 7-8 months before heading off to college.

[PB PM]

Originally Posted by kscherer Funny thing, fast-food joints here in Boise can't get any staff, because even the dimwits think they're worth $25/hour. None of the 24-hour joints are open past 10, anymore, because no one wants to work. Lots of reasons, including kids at home, government handouts, ain't wanna, etc. Even the low-yard-stick dimwits are "above" fast-food, which leaves us with the desperate, angry people who just want to destroy stuff. Granted, there are lots of people who still want to work, just not enough of them to staff even the best fast-food places. FWIW, that person should get strapped to a rocket and turned into a satellite. — Now, about those fireworks. Here's the fun part: Unemployment benefits for these clowns will be contested, so none of those who are getting fired get to eat. And you wanna know how hard it is to find work once you have a felony on your record, let alone an employee file that says "not rehire-able; reason: intentionally set off explosives inside business"?

Working fast food is the modern equivalent of digging ditches, nobody wants to do it. Okay, nobody wants to work at all, even the ones with jobs. Our company has been trying to hire for the last three years without a bite. Of course the unemployment rate here is under 7%. Most of the people not working are at stay at home moms, injured workers, and homeless people.

I for one made myself a promise in high school that I would never work in a fast food joint, even if it meant being unemployed for a while.

[psmith2.0]

Upthread I touched on this, but it's very true...once things started opening up and returning more to "normal", I'd venture out a bit throughout 2021...Subway, Taco Bell, Burger King, etc. a handful of times, as the mood hit.

Night and day, these places. I truly think they're pulling in anyone who'll show up. They all, even now, have big signs/banners up about "hiring now", etc. But this particular BK on the main drag in my part of town, I've been there twice since January and it is a shithole-and-a-half, staffed with some of Cops finest guest stars/feature players.

It wasn't that way before. I mean, it's never been great (it's Burger King, ffs). But the employees were reasonably friendly, efficient, accurate, etc. The dining area would stay swept up, tables clean, etc.

These two visits it was like two grenades went off in the dining area (food, napkins, ketchup, straws, etc. all over the floor, crumbs and opened ketchup packets on the tables, etc. The employees are screaming and swearing at each other (and it's audible), the piped-in music is not what BK corporate signed off on/provides, the people taking my order would rather see me just keel over and die so they didn't have to do anything (apparently I interrupted their phone time), etc.

Just a grim situation all around. I've learned to cook more/better the past year or so, for sure. Now that everything's kinda opened back up I just really don't go. Not because of the food, but the employees/service.

Cheap, accurate, fast...pick one, because you ain't gonna get all three. Or even two.

[Ryan]

Originally Posted by PB PM Working fast food is the modern equivalent of digging ditches, nobody wants to do it. Okay, nobody wants to work at all, even the ones with jobs. Our company has been trying to hire for the last three years without a bite. Of course the unemployment rate here is under 7%. Most of the people not working are at stay at home moms, injured workers, and homeless people. I for one made myself a promise in high school that I would never work in a fast food joint, even if it meant being unemployed for a while.

We've added 1500 positions during the pandemic, and now we're adding another 4000.

Hiring in tech is insane right now, just showering money on anyone we can find.

[psmith2.0]

I want to believe.

[drewprops]

Y'all ordered them damn seeds all along!


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[PB PM]

Figured. What is one long winded story though, they need an abridged version. I noticed the same thing when I was looking for seeds a few years ago. I avoided the ones on Amazon, because I could tell from the seller names that they would come from overseas, found local suppliers instead.

[Frank777]

There seems to be a coordinated campaign against free expression taking place around the world.

Acting as if on cue, the US White House spokesperson is calling for coordinated bans from social media for problematic people, the Canadian Heritage Minister is saying that Twitter posts can "undermine democracy" while legislating against content that promotes “detestation or vilification” with house arrest or $70,000 fines.

The New Zealand Prime Minister went one gigantic step further, declaring that her government was the citizen's "single source of truth".
I am not kidding. She actually said that.
No one can rise to the level of PM of a modern democratic country and not understand the implications of those words.

Online trolls have certainly been a problem for decades now, but three major left-of-center Western governments stepping out on a censorship ledge simultaneously does seem to me like a global Order 66 has been activated.

[tomoe]

I would not consider the US “left of center”.

[Frank777]

I think the US populace in general is centre-right. But I would characterize the current US administration as left of center.

[Kickaha]

Originally Posted by tomoe I would not consider the US “left of center”.

RIGHT??

My god, that's the biggest fiction running these days. It's positively laughable.

[PB PM]

Yup, not my experience either. I hear about all the evil left wingers from many people, but the vast majority of the people I know are either right of centre, or hard core right wing. I know many people who are morally leftist, but oddly are very politically right wing. Strange world we are in. Then again I live outside of the down town core, so maybe that's were all the lefties hang out?

[turtle]

Generally speaking urban areas are more left leaning than the rural counterparts. That is how, in the US, some states end up being "blue states" even though the bulk of the districts are VERY red.

[PB PM]

That was kind of what I was getting at, even in the city that's not always the case. What is important to note is how people vote, vs how they actually act in reality. I know plenty of people who are just right of center who won't vote for a right wing party because they feel the right wing party does not cover how they view things. More specifically because they feel the right wing leader/party is too far off on the right side, or lacks the ability to recognize that right isn't always right. If that makes any sense. In politics balance is key, as in all aspects of life.

[chucker]

Most Americans I know personally are quite left.

A few are right.