Their veg options are some of the better ones in fast food if they haven’t jacked up their prices around you. Potato taco, cheese quesadilla, bean and rice burrito are all good enough options for fast food

Frozen pierogi boiled then fried with a little butter & eaten with sour cream is a classic

I’ve used Dia for years, great simple tool for diagramming & if I need something more I’ll switch to graphviz dot files

The games are a bit buggy but pillars of eternity and dead fire have awesome stories and characters. Then classic crpgs like bg2, planescape torment. And the reboot tides of numenera.

I have a few meditations but usually hobbies like playing video games for a bit or reading or practicing/playing music can provide a similar effect.

Just one person’s perspective but I spent 10’s of thousands on a stem degree at a mid tier public university and did some research during undergrad. The program i was in dropped by over 2/3 the number of students from first year to fourth as people changed degrees or dropped out so there was some challenge. I could have stayed in academia to do grad/post grad work for about half the starting pay as working in the public sector or non profits, and higher for corpos. The prospects were non competitive pay for about twice the work to stay in academia at least when I was looking around a decade ago. If I didn’t have to take on so much debt for tuition I probably would have stayed.

If you’re in Michigan the secretary of state website has a registration check and sample ballots but other sites have sample ballots too. That allows time to look into candidates, review voting history, maybe watch an interview or two, before going to vote.

Some in my podcasts app:

• Hospital records
• Dan Carlin’s hardcore history
• comedy bang bang
• startalk
• Jeff gerstmann
• waking up with Sam Harris

Also have nightvale and wtf marc maron but haven’t listened to those in a long time.

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Won’t be seeing pictures or video evidence of any of that on corporate news, censorship does people a disservice

IT PR good managers do to sell the team and keep them off the block when layoffs happen because of say poor investment decisions like commercial real estate as that market plummets

I had this happen years ago for a part time job, hired and trained showed up on day 1 they said they overhired for a new store and didn’t need me, it was awkward but I stuck around a few hours letting them know I am still ready to work until they reassigned me to another nearby store until a spot did open up.

Books and authorship in general. To make a living these days many feel pressured into using closed source corpo messaging systems like tiktok, twitter, instagram, etc to promote some bs brand to sell books because the market is flooded with so much garbage from AI generated to auto translates to just poorly written unedited gibberish.

I’d be cautious that behavior, common experienced events, technology shifts, etc define categories and not the other way around. If the boundaries for generations are arbitrary then inclusion is just as arbitrary and not defined by behavior since behaviors can spread across multiple labels. We all want to belong, but tribalism can be a useful tool to divide humanity against itself. Historic generation labels where distinct boundaries can be observed and defined in an historic context makes sense to me, contemporary generational labels seem like divisive nonsense to me.

One track lover

I’m usually pretty good with Tuesdays

Crime rates dropping in US, multiple companies working with NASA for ISS access, direct observation of gravitational waves, left reddit for Lemmy, multiple COVID vaccines in like a year from outbreak, more usage of renewable energy sources, etc. There are some obvious problems we need to get together and address as communities, countries, and species, but there are a bunch of improvements and advancements being made too.

Probably take a break for a month or two then look for some oss project or activism to participate in, play more music and video games, etc.

Meanwhile the governor of Texas is pardoning jury convicted murderers like Daniel Perry for political gain.

No love for paleolithic design?