Anyone read Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler? I read it earlier this year, and it kinda nailed how people in gated communities view the outside world (in the novel it’s mostly justified but…). It’s fantastic, go read it.

I just did some searching and apparently Lime and Spin are trying year round rentals this year according to MPR.

Every time I’ve rented a Lime bike I’ve missed my personal ebike though because it feels like I’m capped at like 12 mph on them, I’ve been frequently commuting to St Paul, I wonder if Spin operates there?

I live in Minneapolis too, and I’ve seen the scooters migrating in truck beds for the winter already, and I know in previous years the bikes have also gone away once the snow starts. Sorry.

Porn.

40, it took me ten minutes to grab my stuff and actually leave. And yeah, unpaid, commutes aren’t usually paid in the US.

I hate how early it gets dark, but I did get the third shift achievement of clocking out at 1:30 am and getting home at 1:20 am this morning, so that’s kinda neat.

Wait, what happened to chubby emu and medlife crisis?

Last Christmas is also in the all-surrounding Christmas playlist, I’m in the US and I’ve got friends who play Whamageddon every year. I’m reminded that they play by their posts on socials about when they inevitably lose the game.

I love how so many people clearly didn’t read the entire post, lol.

That’s $125/hr. That’s a hell of a lot more than I get paid, but at least I get breaks. And most of the time I’m not called slurs.

I think they’ve gotten better, or the ones a lot of people are familiar with are just kinda miserable. I’m most familiar with the ones from when I worked at Disney’s Animal Kingdom like fifteen years ago. They were texturally kinda strange and would get mushy at the top partway through an American-sized soda. They used those straws because the regular plastic ones could have been harmful to some of the animals in the park and I was lead to believe that those straws were pretty common in zoos in general.

Hooters’ wing sauce is actually pretty good. I used to be able to buy it in my local grocery store and I’d toss veggie nuggets in it. And I suspect as long as it’s still hot by the time you get it (bit of a gamble I know) buffalo wings probably do better with delivery than a lot of other options.

My roommate does this with their cat. Now whenever anyone operates a can opener the cat comes running and MEOWS, even though in my case it’s never tuna.

No kitty, you don’t want my black beans. Stop.

There’s a new history memes community, [email protected], and the breathing-challenged Jesus is active there.

Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the bus and when I saw this I had to start furiously masturbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this comment. Now there is a whole train of men masturbating together at this one comment. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW

You assume they wiped. Touching your asshole is gay or something.

Might be the real reason the Uber driver bright it to work, seems like an okay job if you’re someone who fosters orphaned kittens.

Sounds like the Texas of Canada.

I’ve done some stuff through Appen before, it’s AI training projects mostly, it’s not well paid and the projects I’ve been on became a slog after a few weeks but it’s work from home and you don’t really have a boss. You’re just expected to do your x hours of work on your project(s) per week.

I just did a bit of searching and apparently they lost their contact with Google and they got a lot of people during the pandemic (some have stuck around) so maybe not viable anymore.