Thinking of this later, isn’t our English usage of ‘please’ contracted from ‘if it pleases you’ as in French "s’il vous plaît’? This would be closer to the Norwegian ‘vær så snill’ I mentioned in a previous post, I think? Looking at one source on old English, though, shows ‘Iċ þancie þē’ which looks like ‘I thank thee’ to me. It’s interesting.

Norwegian has ‘x, vær så snill’ which is functionally ‘x, please’ so far as I can tell. Adding ‘takk’ (thanks) at the end of a sentence is another way.

State has multiple meanings such as in the phrase ‘sovereign state’. It doesn’t just refer to subdivisions of other areas (which I think is what you’re thinking here?)

I guess D&D, but we never went beyond 2.5e. No critical role (or youtube) at that point.

We also played VtM and I think ran a couple other campaigns in the WoD (Mage and Changeling maybe? It’s been 25 years at this point). I was a theater kid, but didn’t really call into the rest.

My senior highschool English teacher (a somewhat precocious PHD student), assigned us basically the opposite of code golf; make the longest grammatically correct sentence you can (with some rules that basically amounted to ‘do not be boring/repetitive’). The use of semicolons was encouraged.

Mayo is a mother sauce and many others can be created from it.

Tuna-mayo onigiri. surumeika with mayo-based dipping sauce. fried potatoes with mayo (throw in some paprika or something if desired). deep fried squid and octopus actually goes well with the same. Demonstrate a pull-through mayo vs making another one. Science it up by doing two hand-made ones where one uses a copper bowl. Use mayo to coat things you’re grilling (bread and thing cabbage wedges work well for this).

I’m sure I can come up with more.

If zionism means “we have the right to live and worship in our ancestral homeland” only and has nothing to do with power, government, control, etc. then that sounds fine to me (I mostly think humans should be able to do that everywhere). I know some people believe in zionism in that sense.

As soon as it becomes exclusive/exclusionary or involves control or power, or involves “chosenness”, it’s into racist territory IMO.

edit: I can’t spell.

I mean, they had to smuggle the announcement out and there was at least one attempted coup/assassination attempt (I forget which). The ones who wanted to surrender made it happen, but barely.

There’s space. There is tons of agricultural-zoned land (and probably sanrin-zoned (literally montainforest; I don’t know what it would be in English… forestry maybe) as well) that is completely neglected. Indeed several farms near me now have solar on some or all. I haven’t personally seen any agrivoltaics with vertical panels yet which could be another option. My local has tons of farms for sale/rent that could be used since no one’s buying.

Additionally, there are plenty of areas that are monoculture cedar forests planted for lumber. I don’t buy “there’s no room”. I am, of course, glad to get rid of old eyesores and golf courses.

Do it. Show that striking is possible and has power.

TL;DR news did a video recently showing the comparative completion of requirements for countries that applied and touching on Iceland and some other things.

Good.

If a company wants to get rid of a permanent employee, they have very limited tools when it’s non-consential. If they claim it’s financial, they have to (in theory at least) prove that to unilaterally dismiss and that can come with the burden of freezing hiring and other things.

To unilaterally dismiss otherwise, they need to prove gross/malicious bad conduct, performance problems (this still requires a long PIP process), or reassign the employee somewhere and have the employee refuse. For the last one, it can’t legally be too onerous to on the employee, but case precedent is hit or miss if it makes it to court. As I understand, most prefer to settle out of court and pay the employee to go away.

In my mind, layoffs are for downsizing head count rather than firing which is targeted to that employee.

As I understand it, certain numbers of actions to reduce headcount can also trigger things like hiring freezes, but I don’t know much about that.

Open calendar, type in title, set to repeat monthly.

Pepperoni to me is crust + sauce + cheese + pepperoni and nothing else unless specified.

Same. Late '90s post-graduation trip. We got a mix of whatever peppers they had, heh.

I’m still designing and writing all code by hand. I don’t know that any of my coworkers are and know that many definitely are not. Our company does have copilot reviews built into CI and, at least for now, requires human review as well.

My solar-powered motion lights haven’t even been able to fully charge in months here, sometimes dying fully. There’s no way my tractor could survive that (I also think the battery weight required would make it unusable in my fields as it would be more prone to sinking than my current diesel one). Hopefully we get there some day.

Their civil war and Korea, I guess, though those were both a long time ago at this point. Chinese intervention pushed the US back during the Korean war

Japanese companies can’t lay off permanent employees without triggering things like hiring freezes and other consequences. They’re usually put in shit jobs to force them to quit (though this can be illegal) or are offered a buyout for several months of salary to quit.