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I know several working class folks who grew up in the USSR who, while they admit it wasn't perfect, were very happy with how things were then and - although some of them are now onboard the Pravda train to looneyville & love Putin and believe the Russian Orthodox church line that Ukraine is led by baby-eating Nazi Pedophiles (not an exaggeration) - they admit things are much worse than they were then and place the blame squarely on moving away from communism & planned economy.

Because of strong social programs, they had access to good education, work & a high quality of life, and a level of recreation and leisure that seems wild to me as an American.

Communism is not a monolith. There are many tendencies. And YMMV depending on the folks in power, just like any system.

Imagine if we asked folks "What's your experience been like living in a capitalist regime". Most people would think thats a weird question because of how many types of capitalist regimes exist. Your experience will vary wildly if you are from like rural Kenya vs the US vs Scandinavia.

Looks like bald nathan fielder

Nice. I've been wanting to get into baguettes. I didn't realize initially how much baking stuff I'd end up "needing" to get lol.

Oh really? Thats wild - does it not rise too much? Do you live in a refrigerator?

Very cool. I've not really done poolishes before - though I've done focaccia so I guess that's similar. Any particular thing you're trying to make with the poolish? Or just trying to do different boules?

Nice. Do you have a recipe you've been liking?

Mine is a 1:2:3 ratio, 3hr rise on counter with a couple rounds of stretch and folds, then a 16ish hr cold fermentation cycle, then bake in a dutch oven on 260c for 30 minutes covered 20 uncovered.

I don't have a pic, but turns out pretty good. Trying to get it more sour, though.

Did you just make that bread? If so, how'd it turn out? If not, I want bread too.

It does not. The legal system has essentially lost the ability to be a check on the power of the executive branch. Partly because of the capture of the judiciary and regulatory bodies by right-wing extremists and partly because of the speed at which the executive branch is acting illegally - it takes time to build cases and the jsutice system can't keep up.

Recruiters specifically, yeah. Also DEI, but that cratered largely because of the US' political stance on DEI.

And marketing & sales - that was the largest change because the whole idea was to take advantage of untapped demand

Also engineering - particularly AI related. Thats a big reason the enginnering job market is hot garbage rn

During the pandemic tons of companies hired very large numbers of people in anticipation of increased consumer demand and historically high savings rates in the US and other countries. During the pandemic people counterintuitively burned through cash to the benefit of companies like amazon. When that excess demand cooled (and it still is, especially in the US due to incredibly bad economic policies) those jobs were/are not needed anymore.

Also, volunteer near you! Food distribution on-site, meal delivery, meal prep, etc. Donations are very important, but ultimately they need the labor, too.

Also, even if the volunteer sign up sheet is full, only about 60% - 80% of people show up (at least where I live). So they could likely still use your help distributing food.

muh hurruhtage

Stephen King is not a good writer. He has great story ideas; but, his actual writing is poor and he does weird things that are unsupported by the narrative - like writing sewer gangbang scenes with children so that they can defeat the bad guy with the power of underage eskimo brotherhood.

You can explain that in a less derisive way that sounds a bit more reasonable, but it doesn't make it a good narrative choice.

Another example is 11/22/63. People on reddit cream their pants over the book, but it's literally just King self-inserting as the main character so he can (totally uncritically) reminisce over how great small town America was in the 50s/60s and have a fantasy relationship with this incredibly weak/badly-written female character and repeatedly "make poundcake" with her and drink rootbeer floats in diners or whatever. It's an 800+ page book (paperback is 1049 pages) supposedly about time traveling to stop the Kennedy assassination (which is a cool story idea), but like 700+ pages are filled with asinine garbage and the actual plot is thin and pretty bad.

Qî(3)ngwù fàngshēng

請勿. 放生

(Please do not) (release captive animals)

There is a Chinese Buddhist practice (放生) of buying captive animals like fish or birds to release them. They're trying to say not to do that here, but I imagine that the concept of fàngshēng is a little complicated to convey.

Big mood

It's literally just Twinkle Twinkle Little Star with some extra notes

Twin-kle twin-kle li-i-i-tle star how. i. won.-der. what you are

POV? So someone is sitting on the cuckstoel watching this?

A radiology tech once told me that I had exceptionally long lungs. She had a hard time getting them all in the view of the radiograph

🅱️ U S S Y

Since US guys are like 68% circumcised, Jewish folks get circumcised for religious reasons, should be easy to determine that US guys and Jews are like 2x+ as autistic as guys are worldwide