Where I live (Philly suburbs) you always used to see people playing organized soccer on all the local fields early Sunday mornings yelling in Spanish. Now those fields are always empty.
School bus driver here. Depending on the district you drive for, it can be stable. At mine, we make over $30/hr and get benefits like health insurance and a small pension (after ten years on the job). However, you don't get a lot of hours (typically 4-5 a day, although the most senior drivers can get 8+ hours a day) and generally no (or very little) work in the summers - for me, this is part of the job's appeal. We are a union shop, which is pretty important to the situation.
The lack of stability comes from the fact that there's a strong tendency for school districts to privatize and hand over transportation responsibilities to private bus companies, which generally use older poorly-maintained buses, and hire any creatures that seem to be alive and have CDLs to drive while not doing criminal background checks on them or testing for drugs and alcohol and paying them a lot less with no benefits. The advantage of privatization is that it ends up costing school districts more because of the much higher accident rates.
However, I don't think the meme here is referring to a school bus driver. School buses are expensive, but nowhere near $400K.
I think if you put actual rice through a ricer, it would turn it into potato.
Anything that happened in Alaska was solely for show ~~and for Trump to get his updated marching orders from Putin.~~
Trump and Putin both know how to use the phone. This shit was 100% theater. Of the absurd.
cowardice or just loyalty to the Republican party
They're the same picture.
533 businesses and trade organizations didn't kill themselves.
Do you think you use a ricer on rice? To turn rice into ... rice?
diplomatic immunity
I can never read this phrase without saying "has just been REVOKED!" in my head.
Tell me you use a ricer.
I guess he really needed the $1.39 he was getting every year from them.
My best friend had this (1980s) and he also had something I've never seen before or since: an 8-track recorder. We would make mix tapes on the thing and take them to parties - where we were extremely, extremely unpopular because our 8-track mix tapes had shit like Laurie Anderson and Ultravox and Jon and Vangelis songs on them. Also the tapes played back at 125% speed so everybody sounded a bit like the Chipmunks.
Personally, I find the current vinyl craze kind of amusing. I spent the first ten years of my listening life with LPs and the moment I got my first CD player that was the end of that shit forever. The clicks and pops and the physical PITA of taking records out of their sleeves and setting the stylus down somewhere to hear a particular song and then cleaning the record and putting it back was just so incredibly annoying. The only good thing about LPs was (is) the cover art; as a huge Yes fan growing up I should perhaps appreciate that more, but it wasn't enough to offset the negatives.