i have only had one bad experience with uber, where a guy took a super long way out of coolidge corner to south station. it ended up costing me like ten bucks more than it should have or something like that. i contacted uber and they were very responsive and refunded the majority of my fare. they were like soooo sorry and i was like it's k the driver was actually really nice, it was a pleasant drive. p sure it was an honest mistake.
And you can't just go through the checkout with a bottle of bourbon at 1pm in this quaint midwestern churchy town. I'd have to get random shit to go with it. You're telling me to choose between 6.20 for bourbon chicken and 25 in liquor and probably another 14 in groceries to hide it among.
Can you put a price on happiness?
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Once a family of travelers settled down near where I lived in CT. They took over an abandoned house and tried to extort the town to get them to leave. It didn't end well, there were a lot of police.
i have only had one bad experience with uber, where a guy took a super long way out of coolidge corner to south station. it ended up costing me like ten bucks more than it should have or something like that. i contacted uber and they were very responsive and refunded the majority of my fare. they were like soooo sorry and i was like it's k the driver was actually really nice, it was a pleasant drive. p sure it was an honest mistake.
also i like dogs
I LIKE DOGS TOO
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I mean I work for a tech company startup and the work we are doing is genuinely good
But I am suspicious that a lot of these companies are well meaning or not well meaning tech bros who think they can solve a problem with an app and all the new problems the app causes are just
Well
Someone else's problem!
well let's be fair here. it's not like non-tech business owners are doing it principally out of social benevolence. they're looking to make a living out of filling a need better than it's currently being filled.
it's a mistake to regard the tech industry as benevolent saviors, but it's also unfair to hold them to a higher standard of social responsibility than we do other businesses.
That's their whole thing though! Like all companies say they're trying to make the world a better place but it's the core tenant of virtually all of these tech companies. They're super braggy and TED talky about it in a way that say, proctor and gamble certainly is not. So... I guess I do sort of expect them to maybe be slightly better than other companies?
Oh man we're changing the world! Even employees are expected to buy into this. And they aren't just another business, they're enormously profitable and powerful and a lot of them are charging head first into regulatory grey areas and they have the capital to absorb the consequences
They're doing cool stuff and I'm not exactly wringing my hands over it but they're cause for concern
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I do find it funny that if it gets them around town a little better the liberal paradise of PA turns into Galt Gulch all the sudden
i have found that the anti-uber cadre are either from NYC (which is the only city in the US with a large-scale functional taxi fleet) or from places where taking a taxi is super-uncommon.
hedgie has an enormous axe to grind with uber and really holds up the virtues of municipally-regulated taxi companies but then again he lives in bumblefuck nebraska or something and he might as well be ranking and commenting on the relative virtues of unicorns and pegasuses for all the pertinence it has to his personal life.
so i got these 'fully cooked, water-added ham steaks' from my jerb
i imagine they are mcnugget-style recombined from some slurry and then run through a uv oven or whatever other horrifying process
but they're tasty, they heat through quickly, and a half a ham steak is like 90 cals, with 60% of that being protein
sry natural world but this is my life now
Cheap ham steaks are the kind of food that I buy because of all the reasons you stated, I eat maybe two, then my body revolts hardcore like WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU DOING THIS IS NOT FOOD. And then the smell of them grosses me out and I have to wait another year before trying again.
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I do find it funny that if it gets them around town a little better the liberal paradise of PA turns into Galt Gulch all the sudden
i have found that the anti-uber cadre are either from NYC (which is the only city in the US with a large-scale functional taxi fleet) or from places where taking a taxi is super-uncommon.
hedgie has an enormous axe to grind with uber and really holds up the virtues of municipally-regulated taxi companies but then again he lives in bumblefuck nebraska or something and he might as well be ranking and commenting on the relative virtues of unicorns and pegasuses for all the pertinence it has to his personal life.
I believe the correct plural is pegasi will
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
so i got these 'fully cooked, water-added ham steaks' from my jerb
i imagine they are mcnugget-style recombined from some slurry and then run through a uv oven or whatever other horrifying process
but they're tasty, they heat through quickly, and a half a ham steak is like 90 cals, with 60% of that being protein
sry natural world but this is my life now
Cheap ham steaks are the kind of food that I buy because of all the reasons you stated, I eat maybe two, then my body revolts hardcore like WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU DOING THIS IS NOT FOOD. And then the smell of them grosses me out and I have to wait another year before trying again.
yeah i just had it for the first time with a couple over easy eggs
I don't think the yellow cab fleet would have ever done something like the uber pickup system though. They would have no reason to improve their service that much.
I do find it funny that if it gets them around town a little better the liberal paradise of PA turns into Galt Gulch all the sudden
i have found that the anti-uber cadre are either from NYC (which is the only city in the US with a large-scale functional taxi fleet) or from places where taking a taxi is super-uncommon.
hedgie has an enormous axe to grind with uber and really holds up the virtues of municipally-regulated taxi companies but then again he lives in bumblefuck nebraska or something and he might as well be ranking and commenting on the relative virtues of unicorns and pegasuses for all the pertinence it has to his personal life.
I believe the correct plural is pegasi will
Will no one think about the unicorns and pegasi?!?
water-added means you get less for your monies! my precious monies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i should eat better =/
this only helps if there's an equivalent alternative tho
for instance sometimes i can get crazy cheap boneless skinless chicken thighs (like well under 2 bucks a pound)
and they're water added which is a little bit of a rip but the only non-water added version we sell is like the free range hormonal free etc etc
and the base price is so much higher that the weight differential is shit on multiple times
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I saved a bird on friday.
It had tried to fly into a neighbor's car but their windows were up, so it landed stunned in the middle of the road. I was worried that it might have just died as it was really still, but its eyes started blinking. I carefully moved it out of traffic into my yard and watched it. About 30m later it flew off.
is there anything work seeing/doing? It'll be work related so evening activities would be cool
Here we go:
Top recommendation: Probably one of the most unique/interesting things in the city is Christiania, and entire neighbourhood squatted in the seventies and still existing on its own weird, grey-area semi-legal terms. Full of hippies and drug dealers, but no hard drugs only weed. It might feel a bit sketchy after dark but really isn't.
I don't know a lot about the purely tourist-y stuff, but if nothing else there's lots of good bars, particularly in the Nørrebro and Vesterbro neighbourhoods. (I'd probably be up for a beer or two). Bars and pubs close much later than they seem to in the anglosphere, and thus you can spend your entire night in bars without having to deal with clubs if you don't want to. Some bars are special morning bars that open at 4 am.
Lots of good cinemas, if you're into that. Everything is usually original audio plus Danish subtitles. I guess any comedy stuff is in Danish (and also, from what I've seen of Danish stand-up, pretty shit). Live music-wise you'd probably be able to find something that appealed to you. My brother works at Vega which is one of the bigger venues (I think the biggest one that isn't just a big old sports arena).
Tivoli is I think the oldest amusement park in the world and has a lot of romantic charm still. But maybe not open in March.
Nyhavn is the touristiest place of them all, and where photo illustrations for 99% of all articles about Copenhagen come from. It is quite pretty, but for a similar canal experience with slightly less tourists I recommend Christianshavn.
If you like older history (I do but I'm a nerd so) there's a bunch of castles and museums but those are easy to find. Amalienborg is where the queen lives and Rosenborg is HQ for the Royal Guard and also where the crown jewels are displayed. Christiansborg is the home of the parliament and has tours of that and of the royal suites. Tøjhusmuseet was my favourite museum when I was ten, it's 100% weapons, uniforms.
There's a bunch of quite fancy restaurants but I'm not rich or grown-up enough to know much about them.
r/denmark has some alright lists of attractions, for all that the sub is a hive of provincialness, unexamined privilege and casual sexism/racism.
But I guess I can make my own lists also(none of them are exhaustive but should give you some things to check out):
BARS I like:
Ølsnedkeren, Nørrebro. Brew their own beer,German bartender is cute in a tough way.
Mikkellers, Nørrebro. Also brew their own beer. Mikkeller is apparently an internationally renowned microbrewery although I only know them from Copenhagen.
Viking, Nørrebro. A more old school, divey place than the first two but great selection of beer.
Drone, club but rock-oriented instead of electronic.
Temple Bar, nothing particularly special though it's alright, but notable for its shameless appropriation of Irish culture. Also trivia nights.
In Vesterbro, Kødbyen is a concentrated area of hipster-y bars and clubs. It's alright. In particular I recommend Mesteren & Lærlingen.
Outside Kødbyen, Vesterbro is also full of hipsters and their bars. But also still a lot of the run down brown bars for alcoholics that used to be the norm before gentrification. It's not always easy to tell the difference from the outside.
In the inner city (Indre by, city, middelalderbyen) I like Din Nye Ven.
CONCERT VENUES
Vega
Ungdomshuset (originally a squat, still run by Anarchists. Lots of metal and punk but occasionally some other stuff too)
RUST
CultureBox
Christiania: Loppen, Operaen, Børneteatret
Pumpehuset
Forum
Operahuset
Koncerthuset
That should give you something to look into, or if nothing else something to avoid. Feel free to ask questions and if I think of more things I'll bat signal you again.
i have only had one bad experience with uber, where a guy took a super long way out of coolidge corner to south station. it ended up costing me like ten bucks more than it should have or something like that. i contacted uber and they were very responsive and refunded the majority of my fare. they were like soooo sorry and i was like it's k the driver was actually really nice, it was a pleasant drive. p sure it was an honest mistake.
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yeah, gypsy is not an acceptable term here really, either, but people use it because they don't know not to
it has taken on an imagery of being "a whimsical free-spirited person" which is problematic in and of itself
it's an attractive word but its contemporary use is pretty problematic
Uncanny Magazine!
The Mad Writers Union
also i like dogs
Looking for a municipal acronym, AMV, and all I get is fucking weeaboos talking about their "anime music videos"
u sonuva...
Can you put a price on happiness?
and that family was led by Randy Quaid.... http://www.today.com/id/39257855/ns/today-today_entertainment/t/randy-quaid-wife-free-after-squatting-arrest/
I LIKE DOGS TOO
only if it's agreed that after five pages i can ban any and all participants at my discretion.
god damn, i gotta get in on this bonanza
This is unkind.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
That's their whole thing though! Like all companies say they're trying to make the world a better place but it's the core tenant of virtually all of these tech companies. They're super braggy and TED talky about it in a way that say, proctor and gamble certainly is not. So... I guess I do sort of expect them to maybe be slightly better than other companies?
Oh man we're changing the world! Even employees are expected to buy into this. And they aren't just another business, they're enormously profitable and powerful and a lot of them are charging head first into regulatory grey areas and they have the capital to absorb the consequences
They're doing cool stuff and I'm not exactly wringing my hands over it but they're cause for concern
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se++ had an anime thread and one of the mods just kept adding anime words to the banned words list (and if you wrote them you got infracted)
I think I got infracted for "pantyshot"
i imagine they are mcnugget-style recombined from some slurry and then run through a uv oven or whatever other horrifying process
but they're tasty, they heat through quickly, and a half a ham steak is like 90 cals, with 60% of that being protein
sry natural world but this is my life now
It's usually "all of a sudden" but that is also an odd phrase really
Pfff. Galt's Gulch has nothing on PA. For one, it's not run by super-villains.
i have found that the anti-uber cadre are either from NYC (which is the only city in the US with a large-scale functional taxi fleet) or from places where taking a taxi is super-uncommon.
hedgie has an enormous axe to grind with uber and really holds up the virtues of municipally-regulated taxi companies but then again he lives in bumblefuck nebraska or something and he might as well be ranking and commenting on the relative virtues of unicorns and pegasuses for all the pertinence it has to his personal life.
Maybe Will can make the policy forum wide
flash forward
chu is backlit so we can't see his face hunched over some tiny container
close up on the container as we hear horrible gnoshing and slurping noises
i'm about to win an EGOT for this.
Cheap ham steaks are the kind of food that I buy because of all the reasons you stated, I eat maybe two, then my body revolts hardcore like WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU DOING THIS IS NOT FOOD. And then the smell of them grosses me out and I have to wait another year before trying again.
I believe the correct plural is pegasi will
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
yeah i just had it for the first time with a couple over easy eggs
i do not feel spectacular donk
this is outrageous I was caught by a technicality
MERRY CHRISTMAS
I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
probably no more than half? idk
*glares at mfp*
i should eat better =/
actually no wait all i want for christmas is the ability to ban one person at my choosing
i use those for cooking, like if i'm making beans or greens or whatever. they're cheap and convenient.
usually i'll chop them up and brown/ fry them in the bottom of the dutch oven, then deglaze and use as a base for whatever i'm cooking. works fine!
i mean it's legit pork. it's just not cured.
"pressed ham" is the mcnugget stuff you're thinking of. avoid that.
Will no one think about the unicorns and pegasi?!?
this only helps if there's an equivalent alternative tho
for instance sometimes i can get crazy cheap boneless skinless chicken thighs (like well under 2 bucks a pound)
and they're water added which is a little bit of a rip but the only non-water added version we sell is like the free range hormonal free etc etc
and the base price is so much higher that the weight differential is shit on multiple times
It had tried to fly into a neighbor's car but their windows were up, so it landed stunned in the middle of the road. I was worried that it might have just died as it was really still, but its eyes started blinking. I carefully moved it out of traffic into my yard and watched it. About 30m later it flew off.
In the 1990s it saw much use as the nick name for legendary hockey player Mats Sundin
fyi
urself???! look in mirror, goobey.
actually no wait all i want for christmas is the ability to timecop one person
Here we go:
Top recommendation: Probably one of the most unique/interesting things in the city is Christiania, and entire neighbourhood squatted in the seventies and still existing on its own weird, grey-area semi-legal terms. Full of hippies and drug dealers, but no hard drugs only weed. It might feel a bit sketchy after dark but really isn't.
Lots of good cinemas, if you're into that. Everything is usually original audio plus Danish subtitles. I guess any comedy stuff is in Danish (and also, from what I've seen of Danish stand-up, pretty shit). Live music-wise you'd probably be able to find something that appealed to you. My brother works at Vega which is one of the bigger venues (I think the biggest one that isn't just a big old sports arena).
Tivoli is I think the oldest amusement park in the world and has a lot of romantic charm still. But maybe not open in March.
Nyhavn is the touristiest place of them all, and where photo illustrations for 99% of all articles about Copenhagen come from. It is quite pretty, but for a similar canal experience with slightly less tourists I recommend Christianshavn.
If you like older history (I do but I'm a nerd so) there's a bunch of castles and museums but those are easy to find. Amalienborg is where the queen lives and Rosenborg is HQ for the Royal Guard and also where the crown jewels are displayed. Christiansborg is the home of the parliament and has tours of that and of the royal suites. Tøjhusmuseet was my favourite museum when I was ten, it's 100% weapons, uniforms.
There's a bunch of quite fancy restaurants but I'm not rich or grown-up enough to know much about them.
But I guess I can make my own lists also(none of them are exhaustive but should give you some things to check out):
BARS I like:
Mikkellers, Nørrebro. Also brew their own beer. Mikkeller is apparently an internationally renowned microbrewery although I only know them from Copenhagen.
Viking, Nørrebro. A more old school, divey place than the first two but great selection of beer.
Drone, club but rock-oriented instead of electronic.
Temple Bar, nothing particularly special though it's alright, but notable for its shameless appropriation of Irish culture. Also trivia nights.
In Vesterbro, Kødbyen is a concentrated area of hipster-y bars and clubs. It's alright. In particular I recommend Mesteren & Lærlingen.
Outside Kødbyen, Vesterbro is also full of hipsters and their bars. But also still a lot of the run down brown bars for alcoholics that used to be the norm before gentrification. It's not always easy to tell the difference from the outside.
In the inner city (Indre by, city, middelalderbyen) I like Din Nye Ven.
CONCERT VENUES
Ungdomshuset (originally a squat, still run by Anarchists. Lots of metal and punk but occasionally some other stuff too)
RUST
CultureBox
Christiania: Loppen, Operaen, Børneteatret
Pumpehuset
Forum
Operahuset
Koncerthuset
That should give you something to look into, or if nothing else something to avoid. Feel free to ask questions and if I think of more things I'll bat signal you again.
@Tav
But they are all secretly giant robots now.