I took a huge loss in the turnip market this week. Checked twice every day and the sell price was always lower than purchase price. Daisy Mae should go to jail over this. I demand Tom Nook enact consumer financial protections. #ACNH
Incredible power of labor unions: what happened when McDonald’s came to Danmark
https://mattbruenig.com/2021/09/20/when-mcdonalds-came-to-denmark/
I now refer to offices as “work cages”.
Stripe is growing its engineering, sales, operations, legal, and finance teams in Europe (remote or officed).
It's hosting a virtual event on Sept 15 to share more about Stripe’s growth in EMEA and the problems it's trying to solve.
“Diversity contains as many treasures as those waiting for us on other worlds. We will find it impossible to fear diversity and to enter the future at the same time.”
—Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek creator
I am tired of dystopian, vigilante justice, physical violence-for-good narratives. Where are the optimistic, diplomacy promoting, and emotionally mature storylines, Hollywood?
I want Captain Planet for adults. #solarpunk
TIL about solarpunk and I like it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarpunk
A year ago, I hit the button to #DeleteFacebook.
Here are some reflections on this good decision.
Listening to Savage Garden made me want to find the origin of the “chic-a-cherry cola” in “I Want You”.
Someone in 2004 answered, “It's an artificial food product related to Chickity China (the Chinese chicken), but with less MSG.” 🤣
https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=9685579#p9685579
The line “I believe you can’t control or choose your sexuality” in Savage Garden’s “Affirmation” hit me so hard the first time I heard it I nearly cried. This was 4 years after the album was released, but I didn’t listen to "secular" music until I was 19.
I enjoyed a nice vacation instead of posting the other 9 reasons to #DeleteFacebook.
Read the rest at https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/delete-facebook-campaign/
I work in tech, fight for digital rights and the environment, kiss dudes, cycle, lift heavy things, and don’t eat animals. Swedish immigrant, US American emigrant. Occasionally shirtless.
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