If I'm searching for Instagram, it takes 4-5 seconds to show up.
Also, occasionally my phone screen flickers. I'm a bit worried that it's reaching the end of its life at almost a year in. Pretty disappointing, since I'd like for at least two.
I will not take it any other way. If MTG wants to grow as a person, she should take cues from Ashley.
Don't get me wrong, I gave good service. I made good in tips on busy days.
But holy shit was it not worth it.
For starters, I barely made money because it was slow and we'd get small hours. I'm talking 4 hour shifts with 4 tables or something. Then if be scheduled 4 days
There was a manager who was so awful and nasty. She had favorites and had people she hated.
The refills. Omg the refills. Normal restaurants, you take the order, get some drinks, apps, entre, desert, check, and whatever refill drinks there may be
Holy shit at Starbucks one table can ask for constant soup, bread, and salad refills. Not only that, but many will only get the soup/salad meal. Which means their total is low and the tip is low after so much work.
This is probably the worst company I've ever worked at. Servers should get more pay. Do not work here.
At 14 he tried to die from suicide. This month his school flagged him for searching ways to die. He's been in therapy the entire time, has group therapy, family therapy, a psychiatrist, etc.
But it seems like things are taking a turn for the worst. His parents may kick him out when he's 18 and cut him out of their lives. He's been having issues with violent outbursts.
But he's still my cousin. I would take care of him when he was little. I'm 27, and while I'm not making a lot of money, I'm independent. I'm thinking of finding a place to live where he can stay. I'm doing what I can to support him by taking him out to do things. But part of me wants to reach out to our other cousins.
They're in their 30s. Real nice people. They live across America. Part of me wonders if I should let them know the situation. But part of me also worries it's not my place, since I'm not his mom and I'm not trying to cause family drama.
If another cousin was suicidal and I had a chance to help, I'd hope someone would tell me. Who knows if there was more I could have done if I had known. But is it my place?
Published today.
>According to the research, in an average area, approximately six undocumented immigrants dropped out of the labor force for every one ICE arrest. That may help explain why employers often express difficulties in finding workers well beyond the number of people arrested or deported.
>The research finds ICE arrests have not helped and, indeed, likely harmed U.S.-born workers, including those with a high school education or less. “There is a negative and significant impact on employment of U.S.-born male workers with at most a high-school education, who work in likely affected sectors,” according to the study. “This is consistent with a model where undocumented immigrants and U.S.-born workers are complements, rather than substitutes for each other in the labor market.”
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Can you imagine for a second if Trump was a black woman? If he were to perform a blow job on a mic? Or an Asian American saying there are black people eating pets in ohio?
What about all the divorces Trump has had? Kamala is already slut shamed for dating a man after separating from her husband. No cheating was involved whatsoever. Not to mention comments about how she's "not really black." She would be black regardless, but she literally went to an HBCU.
There are many other facts as well of course. There's no one thing. The economy is likely one of the strongest factors. As the age old adage goes, "it's the economy, stupid." Globally incumbents have been getting the boot because of post-covid inflation.
I know many on the left say
She lost because of Palestine
She lost because she wasn't left enough
I'm not certain those are the only reasons. Kamala had an upward hill to climb.
He's 16. He's been having some issues at home, which I can't deny, sounds worrisome.
But he adores me and my siblings. None of us are Black. I've been thinking about taking him to a Black church and going to African restaurants. Though he's a picky eater in general, so I'm not sure about the restaurants.
His parents are religious and trust me. Would it be ok to go to a Black church with him? I think he could use a Black community.
He has tried to die from suicide, and I want to do what I can to support him. His brother, not adopted, is his best friend. But said brother is moving for college, and I suspect he's acting out even more because he's worried about not having that support.
This makes zero sense to me. What even is the angle? I know the bar is low for stupidity in their excuses, but there is no correlation.
Also, no I don't think it's a conspiracy. We have leaks about Patel being drunk TF up to the point of almost needing to break into the room because he wouldn't wake up. I don't believe a massive conspiracy would go under cover without any verifiable leaks. But that's a tangent from the question.
I was actually surprised to hear Natalie push back when talking about Hillary and Bernie, where she subtly defended Hillary's win in the primary.
I've heard many people say, "stop relitigating the past, move on" etc, but I think Bernie losing in 2016 was a radicalizing moment for new voters.
They heard a narrative, and they've held on to that grudge ever since. Just anecdotally, I know people IRL whose entire political view is based on "Bernie was stolen the election by Democrats."
What are your thoughts?
Look at the margins Hillary won in the primaries, and look at the demographics who supported her. She won the nomination mostly because of Black voters and women.
Hillary was leaked two debate questions for one debate: the flint water crisis, and the death penalty. That's it. Those were the two debate topics given to Hillary ahead of time by someone on the DNC chair. The woman who leaked them was later fired.
Meanwhile, Bernie actually *improperly accessed Clinton campaign's proprietary voter information that was housed at the DNC.* So if you want to look at who is playing fair, I think you should look both ways.
And of course, Trump has been stoking this division as well. Trump loves to talk about how awful the Democrat party is because of how they treated Bernie. But were they really? I don't think so. I think the primaries are a democracy and the democracy voted for Hillary in the primaries.
Ultimately, my concern is that Bernie supporters in 2016 have been radicalized against liberals over an issue that really is not that significant. Hillary won the primaries by large margins. I do not believe the DNC had the ability to simply tank Bernie. They don't have that power, nor did the GOP when they did try to tank Trump in 2016 before the primaries.
I used Procreate from 2020-2025 quite often. The iPad carried me through so much. The iPad served me well.
But then I got a Samsung tab S9 ultra. And I struggled to adapt to the art flow of it. I found the android art apps cumbersome and none of the brushes appealed to me on Infinite Painter. On Procreate I could import Photoshop brushes (I also used Photoshop a ton on desktop).
Then, I finally got around to recreating the brush from PC and Photoshop to Infinite painter, and the change was fantastic. I finally figured out what settings worked best for my workflow, and it had more advanced options.
Procreate is often seen as the go-to app for tablet devices. It's so well known that many artists get iPads just for artwork. But between the two devices, IP has shown to be superior. It's a little more intimidating with the UI, but having more features is always better.
I have not tried the new Apple Pencil Pro, but the S Pen is clearly superior to the original Apple Pen.
The art direction and animation is so good in Korra. But then you look at Invincible, arguably a more popular show, and the animating is just them dragging flat pngs across the screen as they fly.
Korra had so many dynamic shots and each scene there seems to be movement. Meanwhile Invincible cuts down by panning across scenes with very few frames animated besides some tweening.
Thoughts?