Foodtok makes things sooooo much harder for the service industry. If you aren’t waiting tables whilst a loud party of ten records you with their phones FLASH ON then you’re serving them the food that isn’t to their liking.

A new trend is chipotle cheaping out on the fillings and I can verify that this is 100% a fact as we’ve been given smaller sizes of ladles to dish out a smaller amount of the meats, but I have no control over this it’s a company decision… “The bowls are smaller than they were last week, can you get me a bigger one?”

THATS NOT HOW THIS WORKS AHHHHH

People in the west have been so used to having things their way that any sort of change is obviously the workers fault because IM the one keeping the large bowls to myself IM the one who is skimping out on portion sizes so I can goblin mode the fillings when my shift ends IM the one who increases the prices and all that.

I’m definitely going to look into unionizing because I can’t deal with any set back or pay cut because I’m sure something like that is coming round the corner. I don’t think chipotle is doing too good and the store a walk away from my location shut its doors down for good.

I just don’t want another customer to record me saying I’m not giving them enough filling just so they can refuse to pay, walk out, and upload to their millions of followers.

dunno, feel like structural level issues (unresponsiveness of lower level cadres to dismal thinking at the top and no feedback to the top) has more to do with disintegration of culture in ussr, than the culture being primal force.

it's at 17:00

"I get it, because society is like a Van, because a Van is a car you put a bunch of people in to move them forward."

"What? No not..."

"And we are the Guards of the Van."

"No it doesn't mean guardians of a van."

"We Guard the Van as it moves forward, to keep the people inside safe on their journey to their final destination!"

"Tha... Okay, actually that's not a terrible analogy to what I'm saying."

https://subium.com/profile/onestpress.onestnetwork.com/post/3lp2lz5lndc2y

O.J. Simpson’s Freeway Chase: What Happened to the White Ford Bronco

No need for speed: One of the most-watched live television events was also the slowest moving. On the evening of Friday, June 17, 1994, a white Ford Bronco with California plate 3DHY503 traveled down southern California’s freeways driven by former football player Al Cowlings. In the backseat: O.J. Simpson, the football legend known as “The Juice,” who reportedly had a gun to his own head.

Nearly 100 million people tuned into the live chase

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The Man Who Named Cyberspace - An interview with William Gibson

August 4, 1994

"The world is really so surreal these days that it's necessary for us to blunt it somehow in order to stay sane. But I think it then becomes one of the artist's functions to short-circuit the buffering mechanism, so that people can occasionally perceive the weirdness of things as they are.

"We have these moments spontaneously - I think of them as CNN moments. The last one I had, probably most people had, was watching that weirdly Ballardian slow-motion freeway pursuit (of O.J. Simpson). Which was on every channel. That's as strange as it gets."

Apparently Elon edited whatever prompt his AI Grok uses to specifically address "white genocide" and the song Kill the Boers, so it now brings them up in random unrelated requests

Where did things go wrong?

I’m not a woo type person but my mom was and she was into a thing called “karmic debt” or karma “whatever goes around comes around” stuff. At the time I didn’t really put into thought into it and I’ve always felt the need to put some distance between myself and my moms beliefs because they all stem from instagram so it just feels disingenuous and a way for people to market faith. But I won’t tell them not to practice whatever they want too and if it helps then I’m not one to judge.

Maybe it’s because I’m deep in thought and maintain a lot of guilt and because I’m so used to blaming myself that I’m at fault for my wife’s passing, my therapist and I have discussed this and I understand I have no control over what happens especially when it cane down to her health. Bodies get cancer, that’s the most of it. But the irrational part of me still tries to take responsibility even on some sort of ethereal level like karma where the way I’ve treated other people, even myself, has made my wife’s death materialize.

I’m already a piece of shit and I know this. I’m extremely envious that my nephew is a cancer survivor but he’s just a kid and I love him… but it comes back to that anger where I start to feel like my wife didn’t deserve to die and other people “just get lucky.” My nephew is also a reminder of the child me and my wife couldn’t have but always wanted, by the time we agreed it was too late and we decided to stop trying because we thought it unethical to raise a child without its mother. She also didn’t want to leave me with that pain. I’m alone now but I still see why we shouldn’t have had children. It was for the best.

I don’t know what I’ve done wrong, ideologically I’m fully aware of the world. I condemn Israel’s genocide, I condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I was very critical of Biden, we voted Kamala over trump, we used to go to protests together, we went to a few organizations and volunteered together… we did all these good things for the community but her life was still taken. I think maybe it lies deeper somewhere and I blame the way I’ve removed myself from everyone in my life when they didn’t deserve it. Like my family who aren’t on the same ideological framework as me I’ve pretty much avoided contact with them, so in a way I’m somewhat dead to them.

I’ll probably make a post about my resentment for my nephew sometime this week. My therapist said it’s good to post about my thoughts online and encouraged it because it’s all anonymous. Thanks for reading and sorry for rambling.

"Oh, you may have 6 years of experience with IT support, using various different ticketing systems, worked in environments using all the major operating systems, and have done some system and network administrative work, as well as multiple certifications indicating that you know everything we're looking for and then some, but you've never worked with the ticketing system that we use? OK, bye! You're useless to us! Your resume is going on the bottom of the pile!"

That's like throwing away an application because they didn't use the same ticketing system is like refusing to hire a highly-experienced pilot because the seats on the planes they've flown aren't the same model as the plane the airline flies.