DharmaCurious

Try it first, then report back. If you despise it, I'll willingly give it up.

It's fantastic. For extra good good add some cayenne and really double down on the curry. OMG.

whinnies, nickers

I've been a very good boy!

Y'know, I genuinely thought I was gonna be the weirdest one here, but now I'm not so sure. There's at least competition.

My two favorite foods:

"Tuna" casserole that is refrigerator cold. Tuna in quotes because I rarely ever actually add the tuna. It's just egg noodles, cheese, cream of mushroom soup, normally with broccoli or peas in it.

Ramen Noodle Garbage Bowl: ramen noodles, drained, with cheese, mustard, curry, smoked paprika, blackened kielbasa/smoked sausage, and diced fresh tomatoes or halved cherry tomatoes. Often has other random ingredients. Add just enough boiling water to get everything to mix well.

Stuff is fantastic. I've never felt like I had such a luxurious mane before. ... The constant cravings for sugar cubes have become problematic, but that may just be from being raised in the south. Lol

IC.org is pretty good, and it allows searching with filters. Pretty easy to spot the cults.

Also, if anyone is interested in doing a land trust cooperative in East TN, lemme know. 6 acres.

Gif is broken, but my mom was a pet groomer for 25 years, and Mane and tail is still our go to. Shit is amazing.

Holy shit. I wasn't even aware noncompete debated hin, tbh. I dropped out of basically everything for a few years there.

Nope, he's a leftist. He just feels like a right wing nut.

Hey hey hey now, I'll not have you disparaging the asspullers by suggesting the shitpissers could ever beat them!

in my best Karen voice

Oh he's always been controversial. Constantly tipping over the water bowl, peeing on the bed, chewing up slippers. If you ask me, he should never have been asked to perform at the puppy bowl, but what can you expect from this culture of tabloids and extreme headlines. The 24 hour news cycle demands their clowns, and this is what happens when you let them run amok, you get one of them shitting during the national anthem of all things! I don't know what this country has come to!

/k

It's not being jaded. It's a reality. The employers base interest is creating wealth for the company, the employees base interest is generating income for themselves. These two conditions are fundamentally at odds. That's why we speak about "negotiations" when it comes to wages. We are attempting to balance the two sides. The employer wants the employee to perform the most amount of labor for the smallest possible compensation, the employee wants the largest compensation for the least amount of labor.

I'm not suggesting all employers are bad people, or that there aren't people who are employers who are friends with their employees. I am saying the employer, in their role as employer, is not a friend to the employee. Their interests do not align, and if they did, either you have a masochistic boot licking employee, or an employer who is going to fail and take their business down with them.

My mom ran a successful business for 25 years, was good friends with her employees outside of work, but in her role as the employer occasionally had to do things that went against her nature, by the simple fact that her business needed to survive more than her friendship did.

I ran a successful business for 5 years before illness took it from, and likewise, in my role as employer, I could not make the decisions I wished I could have. Had I known about worker's cooperatives at the time, I likely would have transitioned it to that to save the company when we were no longer able to do the work in the same way. C'est la vie.

This isn't about being jaded, it's about understanding how our economic system works at it's core. A small, but significantly powerful group on one side, a large but mostly powerless group on the other. Each has their own interest, and the balancing act is figuring out how to get the most out of the other.