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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • Only 2 weeks ive ever given was as an ultimatum to the restaurant I was working at.

    They’d just fired the chef over a dispute, and I told they had 2 weeks to fix it or id leave behind him. Besides him, I was the only other person on staff woth a food saftey cert- which our town requires someone on staff to have at all times a restaurant is open.

    I quit, walked by the next day, saw the doors were open, and called the health inspector. He closed them for 2 weeks. They decided, that since they were closed for 2 weeks, to just have the staff take a 2 week vacation. Hired another ‘chef’ (he was new to town and eventually became a colleague and friend) and told him to start the day they could reopen.

    So they all walk back into a kitchen full of rotting product,start cleaning up, and the health inspector shows back up. Closed them down for a month. They never tried to reopen.

    Meanwhile I had gotten a job at a resort in town, was actually recruited by the executive chef, who was an old coleague, that first night- he saw me out for a drink at 7pm , asked why I wasnt cooking. I told him, and he hired me on the spot, and then hired my 3 cooks when the other place folded.


  • Its probably out of character for them, but the Nobel Commitee should make an announcement of things they consider disqualifiers for the prize to see if they can push him into relenting on his fascism.

    You know, "we will not consider any leader as a candidate who imposes or utilises martial law to rule their country. We will not consider any candidate who orders international killings of civilians.
    We will not consider any candidate that ignores their own countries constitutional protections when it comes to foreign nationals living in its territories, etc.












  • It reminds me of the old reagan Soviet joke.

    A Soviet and an american are having a conversation. The American is bragging about free speech, and says:

    "our country is so free, I could go to the white house and yell ‘go to hell Ronald Reagan!’

    And nothing would happen to me.

    The Russian replies,

    “Our speech is pretty free too, I guess, I also could go to the Kremlin, shout ‘Go to hell, Ronald Reagan!’ And nothing would happen to me, either.”






  • They can be distributed though. I Install solar, most of the systems we install with batteries end up selling back a significant portion of their charge to the grid (iirc our system wide average is 40% nightly resale)

    So not only is each house with a battery not using grid power at night, its powering almost half of an equivalently sized house.

    Granted, batteries are still on the expensive side, so these systems aren’t coming enough ( I think we’re at ~10% of our systems have a battery)