Estradiol Enjoyer

Literally my friend was killed on his bike by a tow truck driver. The driver got like probation or something, maybe. And the company he works for has “move over and slow down, it’s the law Tow Lives Matter”

Leverage was kinda like this but they didn’t kill them

Yep. Telehealth often involves me or partner wearing headphones too in order to make sure we don’t overhear the other’s session

Try living here without one lol it’s quite difficult and we try for years to get to a point where we can be free of the car

it’s one of the best sources in Myanmar

It’s all profit making in a capitalist system. There is in home care but that’s still really expensive for people. I am an in home caregiver for the state funded by Medicaid and as an “individual provider” my client supervises me and the company that does nothing but provide a website to clock in and out with gets $15 from the state for every hour that I work. If it were just directly operated by the government it would be far more efficient, and clients would be able to get more care hours (the max is a bit less than 5 hours a day, or 123 a month) but capitalism says someone has got to make a profit. It’s still a lot better than working at a care facility for an agency that sets my hours. I really like my client and they like me and it works great. I’m even able to help my client get more social services like electricity assistance and advocate for them at the doctor. The facilities are truly awful and there is no way to really make them better under the current system.

I used to be a department manager in the GM side and had to do a lot of price increases for my toys due to supply chain issues in 2020. this kind of price change is crazy and I am glad they fired me for being a fag. I would hate to still be working there

this Chud is like proven to be wrong by math and science so we could just tell him that facts don’t care about his feelings

wow that overlook neighborhood you’re in is especially bad to have a brodozer like that in. I bet the asshole bought a foreclosure from a displaced Black family, what with how the area has been brutally gentrified

Because Portland, OR traffic enforcement doesn’t really exist and if they did see this they would just be amused because Portland LEOs are all CHUDs who live in the southwest Washington suburbs

am transfem, can barely drive a stick, but you get a pass from me

to be fair its function is to make people in 1800s-platted, narrow downtown Portland streets afraid that they’ll be run down by this idiot who can’t see where he’s going. If he actually went out with his vehicle he’d probably own a Land Cruiser like the rest of the Portland off-road bros

most of the wankers literally climb up a step

Compelled to compensate for their insecurities about their masculinity

I bet PPB doesn’t mind, if they were called about it they’d be like high fiving the owner like “hell yeah brother that’s how we do it in Battle Ground fuck these Portland libs!”

someone should have stolen this meme for my intro computer architecture course it would have helped

it would be amusing to bring back the fail whale

Starbucks positions itself internationally as an ultra premium brand. I remember visiting one in Thailand and being astounded that the prices were the same as the USA, just converted to bhat. This meant that a single drink could cost like half a day’s wages for a poor Thai person. I imagine the situation in China used to be similar before wages and purchasing power caught up. Now that consumers in China know enough about coffee to tell that Starbucks is crap, they won’t pay American prices for it any more, and it’s got Starbucks sweating.

lol, Starbucks laments that people actually know about coffee there now.

Nowadays people in China have access to amazingly cheap coffee grinders, because many great ones are made there (DF series, Timemore). Their colonial projects in Africa have resulted in relationships with lots of African coffee farmers. The Chinese province of Yunnan has coffee farming in the mountains and I really want to try some, one of these days. I think burman coffee has some green from there. They also have access to lots of coffee grown in Vietnam where the historical patron client relationship of tribute and suzerainty between the two countries has resulted in lasting coffee relationships. I find that Chinese roasteries I have seen online tend to have a lot of information about their beans published, as well as extensive cupping notes.

Specialty coffee in China is probably a more innovative scene than the West Coast USA one but I don’t have access to everything they’ve got in terms of beans and equipment and vice versa.

nobody is forcing you to use the far superior operating system. it’s funny because I’m pretty sure most Android developers use Macs, as do many developers, but everyone who likes to use FOSS and have control of their device uses an AOSP based OS on their device.