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So I was just out skating with my posse of mismatched queers and one of them ran ahead to go down this railing but he got jumped by some guy so I ran ahead to fight the guy off my buddy and then I felt this bad pain in my chest (found out later that he stabbed me) and then I woke up in this freaky church in front two honestly pretty shitty witches and one of them was holding this really important necklace which someone tethered my spirit (oh by the way I was dead at that point) and the shitty witch tried to release my soul but it didn't work so I struck a deal with him to keep me around and he had to sneak me past his whole witchy family and stowed me in his room until we had to go to school next morning before going to see my friends which didn't go well and then we went to see my idiot brother and him and the shitty witch who is actually pretty hot got in this big fight and I stole a shirt that led some dogs to my old burritos. Anyway I was kinda starting to like my shitty witch warden so I said he could release my soul now but he didn't want to so we spent the day together and I peer pressured him into going to a party and robbing my brother's car and then he went to visit his dead mom but his evil uncle (that's the guy who stabbed me fwy) started using me and some other dead people to summon this death god but my witchy bf (we kissed so I'm pretty sure we're dating now) stopped his evil uncle and also resurrected me and like three other people from the dead. I'm pretty sure the whole thing traumatised me for life but I got a cool magic boyfriend out of it so I can't really complain.

anichanchu

Not me having emotions over the scene in #no6 where they're in the truck with the West Block people heading to the correctional facility and Nezumi starts singing, bless him, but I only just realized he starts singing bc he KNOWS THEY'RE GOING TO DIE SO HE'S SINGING FOR THEIR SOULS

zenopic

Furuba sketch dump because heck dey cute

Happy holidays

matsuropalette

eldest daughter syndrome and gifted kid syndrome are some great examples of phrases used to talk about specific kinds of trauma that the internet has taken and turned into "boo hoo these people arent special anymore so theyre lashing out!!" it was never about that you fucking cunts

matsuropalette

eldest daughter sydrome is about a very specific trauma that comes with being expected to parent for younger siblings and even your parents as a literal child and how badly it fucks you and your perception of yourself and what you're capable of doing up. gifted kid syndrome is about how a "smart" label is slapped onto kids at a horribly young age and then they are repeatedly denied help forced to do more and more work never taught socialization or study skills and then berated and treated like a disappointment when they're human beings instead of little intelligence machines. god.

matsuropalette

i was fucking right about this honestly. most phrases like this are about certain kinds of trauma people have faced not about some kind of fucking superiority complex

seer-of-mind

astraldemise

theres too many pokemon games where you play as a kid whos full of life and full of potential. there needs to be a pokemon game where you play as a college dropout who lives in a shitty apartment

astraldemise

your starter pokemon are trubbish, rattata and glameow. which symbolise the trash you keep forgetting to take out, the rats living in your walls and the stray cat you keep trying to befriend but it keeps hissing at you.

astraldemise

you guys dont get it its not supposed to be dark and edgy its supposed to be living in a mundane setting and slowly rediscovering the wonder in the world by going on a journey with a magical trash bag that is your friend, its about love and recovery and coping with the stress of your adult life with your friend who is made of sentient garbage

lmaonade

i am not joking we need to force teach cooking in schools. like. it is an essential thing for survival. do you know how easy it is to make things if you know even the bare bones shit about how cooking works. we need to teach teenagers how far you can take an onion and some other veggies it''s sad that people grow up not knowing how to prepare literally anything. and i'm not talking about oh this home ed class taught me how to make chicken nuggets at home i'm talking about learning the balancing of sweetness and acidity and saltiness and bitterness and shit like that and techniques and oil temperatures and how meats cook. it needs to be taught because it's literally not even that difficult and it matters so much

lmaonade

i truly believe that knowing how to cook is a basic survival concept and the fact that so many people can't even make simple dishes is depressing as hell this is the sorta thing that should be taught at a young age. being able to take the ingredients you have around your home and turn them into a meal is like, essential and will make life so much better. you don't need to be a high end chef you just need to understand some things that can be easily taught... but then again maybe the education system is playing a roll against this and ultimately they want you to grow up to rely on mcdonalds for dinner. i don't know. please learn how to cook for yourself if you're able. i'm not asking you to hunt for specific ingredients to make some expensive youtuber's "best" recipe but if you know the basics of cooking you can do a lot with cheap canned ingredients. cooking can be affordable i promise you just need to learn how to make do with what you can get

eroticcannibal

Can anyone point me towards resources that teach those basics cus I would LOVE to teach my child this stuff but i dont know how to cook

loumandliker

not comprehensive but heres some:

internet shaquille's basics but especially:

making rice

making scrambled eggs

making oatmeal

levels of cooking meat

using & storing vegetables with recipes in the description (this one has a bit of Sassiness directed at people who dont like vegetables but the content is solid)

food safety + a recipe to demonstrate

how to learn to cook (just a list of subtopics, no actual tips)

cooking techniques playlist

how to cut x

basics with babish s1 & 2, but particularly:

freezer meals,

weeknight meals,

kitchen tools (although the specific suggestions are pretty expensive even with the lower end scale items the basic categories are solid, and you can evaluate what items you will realistcially need - eg. if you dont need to read temp for steaks etc the temp reader will not be relevant) &

kitchen care (mid-high advanced home cooking)

basic knife skills

picking the right pan for each recipe

j. kenji lopez-alt's tips and tricks playlist

egg recipes

a little more complicated, involved, and longer than any of the rest of these but good breakdown of flavor & how and why to use the basic seasoning/flavor profiles

and then recipe channels representing various cuisines:

j. kenji lopez-alt (various)

marion's kitchen (southeast & east asian, western/asian fusion)

maangchi (korean)

future neighbor (mostly korean)

the western supermarket playlist of chinese cooking demystified (more recipes available but these are accessible if you dont have "specialty" ingredients)

family recipes playlist by made with lau (chinese)

not another cooking show (various)

cooking with boris (bear with me here i know he does it exaggeratedly humorously but a lot of them are actually solid and beginner cook friendly. mostly slavic/russian)

you suck at cooking (also falls into the intentionally humorous category but most of the recipes are pretty solid anyway)

how to cook that (baking, also does debunking videos of viral cooking hacks - breaks down the reasons the hacks dont work, pretty important to understand those basics imo)

internet shaquille (various)

babish culinary universe (various)

i REFUSE to recommended joshua weissman because he is fucking insufferable but if you want you can try if you can deal with it, the techniques/recipes seem fine for the most part

also disclaimer: these are channels i watch and cuisines i most often cook with (save for YSAC and boris which i just find funny) - there are tons of cuisines that are missing completely but i don’t cook with them much so i don’t really know who to rec

again definitely not a comprehensive list but it touches on most of the basics

discoursedrome

nothing is worse than software that tells people when I’m online or when I read their message or when I’m typing something. I always want to be as unknowable in my silence as god

threefeline

aight its time to clock out for a bit. im tired, this has me tired. im gonna draw some dragons getting their heads stuck in things. someone give me some ideas

threefeline

what about THREE donuts

threefeline

i really liked that third one

threefeline

featuring Fowler and his slightly disappointed father

idiot

threefeline

hey guys heres some more dragons with their heads stuck in things

see you in another two years

catasters

chleopetras

naamahdarling

You laugh while he's STARVING! 😭

b-isforbitch

I need everyone to see this

kidzbopdeathgrips

i honestly think that the reason that the whole "staff shortage" thing still hasn't been resolved is because employers legitimately aren't trying to remedy it.

like as this "shortage" drags on it seems less and less like a natural phenomenon and more like excuse for employers (especially large employers like grocery store chains) to see just how few people they can have in their stores and still make money. like this pandemic has given them the perfect opportunity to see just how shit they can make the customer experience while still turning a profit

and when you look at it that way, the countless stories of people being denied jobs that were supposedly in DESPERATE need of filling totally make sense! because even if your store has ten-person lines at every cashier, if it isn't hurting your bottom line, why would you care? businesses are finding out now just how much that they can get away with before losing business, and it's WAY more than they previously thought

kidzbopdeathgrips

and i think grocery stores are such a good example because they're realizing that they can more or less do whatever the hell they want because customers essentially CAN'T choose not to shop there...people HAVE to get food and if all the stores around you are doing the same thing then there's no reason NOT to just cut staffing levels to the absolute bare minimum and secure that extra profit

thebestpersonherelovesbucky

Me and my husband both worked in retail management (big store chains) for years.

When I first started, my manager completely disregarded labor budgets. Every night (afternoon and evenings were our busiest times) there were at least 4 people scheduled (not at a big chain grocery story, but a big chain pharmacy/store). This way, if someone called out, we still had a decent sized staff to get through the night. Every Thursday, which was our truck/delivery day, everyone was scheduled so we could get through it fast and efficiently. For the seven years he was there, the store was organized, clean, fully staffed, and customers didn’t complain beyond the normal annoying customer bullshit.

When he left, the assistant manager replaced him, and this guy. Oh my god. All he wanted to do was kiss corporate ass. He would schedule two people a night and if one called out, he’d rarely call someone to cover the shift. Thursday nights made no difference. We were so backed up that our back room was actually dangerous. Crates and totes were piled up way higher than they should have been. The office was an absolute mess. The store was a disaster. There were times on a Saturday that only one person was in the store to work and when they asked how they were going to take down the sale signs, put up the new sale signs (which hadn’t been cut or sorted yet), ring, and face the store all on their own, they were told “You’ll figure it out.” (they quit on the spot and then when he spoke to me about it I got an entirely different version of the story).

The only reason I stayed as long as I did was to be there for our younger employees, and since they started quitting and he wasn’t hiring anyone to replace them...no reason to stay. Plus, I was pregnant, so fuck that. I wasn’t working sometimes 7 days a week just because he refused to schedule a full staff.

As for my husband.

The biggest store he worked in did approximately $2M a week. Obviously a store that did this much weekly revenue needed an appropriate staff to keep the building running well. Yet, every week, my husband, who ignored corporate’s labor budget in order to have the store operational, was yelled at and threatened by district managers and higher-ups. Despite the fact that he proved time and time again that he needed that labor for the store to turn the biggest profits, they were mad. Because he had the audacity to give people hours. Because he knew it was better for customers if there were people there to provide customer service.

Eventually, he left that company to work for another. He had the same problems, of course, but in addition to them, he was expected to work 50+ hours a week. He would be gone every day for at least 10 hours. Our second kid was only a few months old. Our oldest was just getting ready to start school for the first time. When he mentioned to his new boss that he wasn’t seeing his kids as much as he wanted, the fucking asshole literally said “I don’t see mine much either. That’s what we have pictures for.” Needless to say, my husband didn’t work with them very long.

So, yeah, these companies have been doing everything in the power to test these waters for years. The pandemic just gave them a perfect excuse to do it even more while whining about some fake labor shortage and claiming ‘no one actually wants to work’.

roach-works

they're already calling it 'shrinkflation': even when you're paying the same prices, you're getting worse products and less service. corporations are turning record profits while their skeleton staff suffers and dies for them, and their customers just have to put up with getting poor service by overworked workers who literally can't do any better.

like, we just had to buy three dishwashers because the first two came with defective parts. it took a month longer than we expected because of shortages in supply and labor. meanwhile i'm working so much overtime at my factory because they 'can't' hire enough people but are still taking plenty of orders.

anyway, support any and all unions. collective bargaining power is the only way to break capitalist overlords out of this insane death spiral we're all stuck in.