I need to see Italians with deep (and silly) beliefs about authenticity react to this. I once worked with an Italian that got very angry about American pizza. Pizza with tomatoes didn’t even exist until nearly 1900 and wasn’t popular in Italy until it was already popular in the US.
Perfect your pasta soup recipe, comrade.
True professionals would save Presentation-2025-05-20–v7-final-2.pdf to a thumb drive.
Jk OneDrive is terrible and it’s not your fault for expecting it to do the only thing it is supposedly good for. Sounds like everyone was understanding so it is all good! And your boss is on board, so everything considered that’s a pretty good work situation.
Sometimes what the world needs is guillotines.
Rho here, I’m just built different
The title is actually true. The Chinese diaspora in the US preceded the Italian by decades. While the Chinese diaspora faced segregation and then mass deportation, Americanized versions of its food - and basically just enough people to run the restaurants - remained. At first, Italian food was considered exotic and vulgar by white Americans, a category that did not include Italians.
The negative effects of this are the axe constantly held over those countries via US “aid”. All it takes is the stroke of a pen to starve large populations. Better not step out of line.
If there is any silver lining I hope that countries can become morr food sovereign from this. I hope that they will receive multipolar aid to bridge them to food sovereignty.
And then his son Guaidito will take his rightful place at the throne.
That’s awful. I hate roaches.
Since this is the room you sleep in, be careful about using sprays, borax, and diatomaceous earth there. All of those things are also bad for you if yoi breathe them in. So you would want to apply them, open a window, and leave thw room for a while. And diatomaceous earth creates dust that is not great for you, so set up an air filter and vacuum + reapply regularly if you use it.
If the entire unit starts doing something about the roaches, then you’ll want to make your place inhospitable and hard to get to for roaches. All food secured in glass or hard plastic. Water sources plugged up when not in use. Clean and vacuum every day. No crumbs! Treat the area by the refrigerator condenser (in the back) with roach killer. And seal up little cracks everywhere, especially under doors.
Hell yeah bicycles are great.
I definitely recommending getting a tune-up or, if you are a nerd like me, some basic tools to do it yourself. Make sure that thing is safe! Bicycle co-ops will often offer free or reduced cost tune-ups and have cool people to talk to.
What kind of saddle is it? Saddles are a personal preference thing but some are still better than others.
Aluminum cranks are really common and should be okay as a material. I would guess that that particular one is old and/or busted assuming it isn’t the pedal. Replacing a crank requires a special tool called a crank puller so you might be able to get this all done in one go going to a co-op. That would also be a good opportunity to see how the bottom brackey is doing because bottom brackets can be a nightmare to remove if you don’t have penetrating oil and a huge wrench in addition to the special tool for bottom brackets.
Liberals when they don’t know something: “I do know and it’s [racist lies]”.
This is the electoral guy that DSAers have been most excited about for like 4 years
Some teachers / professors are criminally unfair and lazy when it comes to grading. Most are dealing with their own very unfair situations and are trying their best but some are just selfish jerks.
Be sarcastic and never take them seriously unless they are harassing someone. They want to feel smarmy and knowledgable and waste time and make people upset. “Yeah, sure, okay champ” is more devastating than trying to explain things to them.
No jokes this might mean you need to work on your core strength, particularly abs, and maybe glutes. Back problems are usually due to the back doing work it isn’t supposed to because the other muscles aren’t pulling their weight.
Here are some signs of a weak core that leads to back problems:
Hips are anteriorally rotated when standing (very common and corresponds to many muscles being weak).
Your lower belly (the very lowest part) sticks out a little while standing (this is usually from weak inner abdominals).
Your default stance has your lega pointing outwards, like the opposite of pigeon-toed (this is related to hips / lower abs, e.g. psoas)
Don’t feel pressured to confirm or deny or share details. Just wanted to drop this info in case it is helpful. For most people all of this can be addressed with pretty easy physical therapy.
Not me but I have had friends ask for a reduced increase and had it work. I think it is basically petitioning a lord to takw pity, not really a negotiation. I’m sorry this is happening to you.
He is probably just lying using PR nonsense speak. But I wouldn’t be surprised if they used some tortured definition of homelessness that meant if they can’t track a person for X consecutive nights they won’t be included in the statistica.
Issuing debt is an important part of MMT but it needs a way to keep creating it / printing money to service old debt / create new debt. Municipalities don’t control their own money supply so I imagine the only way they could pay up on bonds is by basically doing a Ponzi scheme. Either that or raising taxes to compensate, which will still be a zero-sum game (it’s how municipalities already fund big projects and they end up passing quite a lot of losn interest downstream).
The key to MMT is that the state needs to be “good for it” via printing money and similar tools.
Build an organizing committee first. Use a small agitation that is not about unionization to figure out who you want for the OC.
Do not let management know you are trying to unionize until at least 3 people have your back.