CloutAtlas [he/him]
Thrice a year was actually above average for certain parts.
My grandfather recounted having to eat boiled grass to survive winters during the occupation after my great grandfather died (in a Japanese occupied coal mine). His family would eat offal once a year during spring festival as their only indulgence.
You rarely see men that excited to be presented with liver and stomach lining, a Pavlovian response to the dishes from when he was a child. His memory of 疙瘩湯 was just boiled bits of dough seasoned with salt.
These people have no idea what type of material conditions we came from and the suffering we endured on our way to building socialism.
You watch interviews with people who participated in the Long March and it’s not people filled with regret that they didn’t become millionaires. It’s people who are grateful that their efforts, sacrifices, dealing with starvation, exhaustion, disease and death every day to preserve the nascent Communist Party as resulted in a better life for the people
Apropos of nothing, CrowdStrike Chief Security Officer since 2012 Shawn Henry has sold 85,986 shares in CrowdStrike in the last year, including 4,000 shares a couple days ago on July 15th
My fucking god. I picked up a co-workers shift this afternoon because she received a relatively minor injury but would prefer not to work, and I was thinking it would be a regular Friday afternoon.
Half the other cafes, restaurants and pubs in the vicinity lost their card payment systems and some even their ability to take cash (windows OS cash registers I guess??).
We got away from issues because our boss is cheap and has a cheaper point of sale system with a cheaper bank and a cheaper cash regjster that apparently never bought whatever Office/CrowdStrike thing that causes instant, looping BSODs and so we were operating as normal.
Imagine the amount of people that come in because our shit was working.
There is a bit of humour that my particular small business tyrant boss being a stingy capitalist avoided the fallout of the large business tyrants being stingy capitalists.
Biden dies of old age at 5:28 PM on election day
