Not really, at least not on a national level in the US. Closest I've seen are some regional chains, but even then they tend to follow the same format as most non-chain Indian restaurants in the US (buffet or sit down restaurant with a good deal of takeout business).
Edit: Apparently there is a chain called "Curry Up Now" which has ~19 locations across 4 states, but I have not encountered one in my travels across the US.
jericho
2yr ago
If the teacher "had 0 actual fear of getting fired" why would the joke ever occur to them? It's the joke of someone who is aware of the hazard, or there is no joke.
My chemistry teacher made the same joke a couple decades ago about not telling our parents we were playing with fire when we first got to use Bunsen burners. I guess I can't entirely rule out that she genuinely thought there was a .0000000001% chance of her getting fired for having us use them, but come on.
I'll grant that in his current environment he would have a better idea of things on the ground, but prior to this I really thought the level of antagonism towards teachers was mostly just getting played up by teachers who were pushing borderline pornographic shit in the name of inclusivity (and God knows this place opened my eyes up to some of the things some teachers were putting in their curriculums) and they were bullshitting about the degree to which they were constrained in terms of teaching normal stuff to get other teachers and average people to fall in line on their side.
jericho
2yr ago
Alas, only ancient Greece. From my experience modern Greeks favor biggus dickus as much as the next person.
jericho
2yr ago
An old Italian statue isn’t controversial as porn.
Multiple commenters here seem to disagree, and I would be very surprised if they were all false flags.
jericho
2yr ago
Genuinely, a similar thought in my youth is why I started to study history + geography as a hobby. I realized that given I had an interest in learning place names, cultures, the course of different wars, the lineage of different monarchs, etc, I really ought to put that drive towards things that actually existed.
This certainly hasn't stopped me from being a "lore nerd" for different games and series, but it at least keeps a little voice in my head to spend at least as much time on reading about actual nations as I do about fictional ones.
In theory yes, since they could just buy the one pass and have it cheaper on the per ride basis.
Practically, I don't think that would be the case. Homeless drug addicts are not known for their ability for long-term planning of finances and so would have a hard time getting the lump sum together (well, getting the lump sum and not then using that money for drugs), while having a few bucks leftover on a daily basis is easier for them.
Edit: My thoughts go to the "boots theory" of poverty, taken up to 11.
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
jericho
2yr ago
Thank you for explaining, that makes a lot of sense and I can see how it was very helpful to your situation.
jericho
2yr ago
I think the issue there is that theoretically you are doing this for the sake of the people using the system, and I don't know if most of them would be willing to pay 5x to 10x the current cost of the ticket.
Might be a work around where single tickets are much more expensive but an annual pass or something can be bought at a more reasonable rate. Could also do some kind of partnership with hotels and/or airlines to provide discounted tickets so that tourists could still utilize the system.
Though the biggest practical obstacle would still be that
(assuming enforcement of having a ticket)
Is a big assumption. I think if you could get policy in place to enforce that, you could probably just take the next step and get policy in place to get the people causing problems off the public transportation and not need to bother with too many pricing adjustments.
Could you expand a bit on how MLP helped you?
I must admit my impression of connection between watching MLP (well, as an adult male) and social obliviousness is not a positive one, but I also admit there is a heavy selection effect there (in the same way that my impression of people on anti-anxiety medication would likely be them being more anxious than the average person, even if the medication is quite effective).
jericho
2yr ago
Yes, the NYC subway is a completely different animal from any other public transit system in the US. Numbers kind of speak for themselves on this one.
jericho
2yr ago
There are anthologies available collecting different novellas + short stories on the same theme.
I know for sure most of the Ciaphas Cain and Gaunt's Ghosts books are covered by omnibus versions, would assume others as well. For those their wikipedia pages include book order + which books are included in which omnibus, hopefully same for the others.
jericho
2yr ago
I hear people really like the new world, and the games are even legit good?
Friends who actually play tabletop still don't like the new lore as much, but begrudgingly agree that the gameplay for AoS is much improved.
If by games you're also including the Total War Warhammer ones, they're set in the Old World pre-nuking, albeit with a kind of anachronistic hodgepodge of what units and leaders are included.
jericho
2yr ago
Good luck and Godspeed.
If anyone has suggestions for other things worth doing or being, or that satisfy that "check my phone while waiting in the line to pickup the kids" nudge that avoids my new no-nos, I'm all ears.
Lighter fiction would be my suggestion. Collections of genre short stories (lots of excellent options for sci-fi /weird fiction/horror) are good, but also most more generic fantasy or sci-fi would work. Gotrek and Felix for Warhammer Fantasy, Ciaphas Cain for 40k, Discworld series has worked for me, haven't read R.A. Salvatore's D&D stuff but I've heard it's the kind of thing you can pick up and put down as needed.
Basically just fiction that isn't literature and isn't aiming for realism. If you want to be extra careful, can exclude stuff published after a certain year, year chosen to preference.
Comics or manga could also work depending on preferences.
jericho
2yr ago
a Christian man of action tried to rally the troops our 'true Brothers in Christ' of the 1930's stopped bothering with him when the powers that be made it inconvenient to catch him on the radio.
I am unfamiliar with this specific incident, could you elaborate?
jericho
2yr ago
Rumspringa rules, so 16 or 17? Seems the closet analogy for modern life : experience machine would be Amish : modern life.
jericho
2yr ago
True, if I were trying to generate an ask for drama/engagement using blended families would help maximize the heat.
My view is that some are definitely fake, but most are merely biased/exaggerated, with an additional portion written from the perspective of another person who they feel is being an asshole in a real scenario (i.e written by a son but with the post being from the perspective of his father)
jericho
2yr ago
Even 40 something old millennials are now considered as dinosaurs, their experience of family, school, childhood or church and sexuality in their childhood let's say can be considered ancient and utterly outdated.
On this subject- I am unsure if it is a generational gap or a class one, but I noticed a strong trend when reading through the AmITheAsshole subreddit: a huge % of the questions on there are related to step- or half- family.
Obviously that place would be biased towards such questions (fair to say that familial obligations to a step-brother or half-brother are less defined than those to a full brother, so more likely to seek help defining them), but I was still rather shocked.
I'm firmly in the millennial age range, so I've always lived in a post-no-fault-divorce world, but the amount of step and half siblings among my peers was tiny.
jericho
2yr ago
Correct on the first one, I think the average 21 year old would prefer the greater quantity and the average 31 year old would prefer the greater quality.
jericho
2yr ago
Is it wrong to say it would depend on the man's age? I think the % preferring each option would be noticeability tilted in opposite directions for say 21 vs 31.
jericho
2yr ago
Is there anything better than a fine kölsch on a patio in the sunshine, with a nice book to read? I can't imagine.
I'd have to put in a good word for iced tea under the shade of an oak tree with a nice book to read. Though actually a kölsch might be even better in that scenario...
jericho
2yr ago
You're fighting an enemy that only exists in certain places and mostly in your imagination
For the people I know personally who are still very edgy atheists (admittedly not Church of Satan stuff) as fully grown adults in the year of our lord 2023, it's because they also happen to exist in those certain places. They all live in very religious areas (one in a heavily Christian part of the US, one in the Middle East and one in South America) and grew up in very religious families. On the internet their views are passé, but in their day to day lives it's still very much counter-cultural.
Basically anything "edgy" is highly context dependent- there's a big difference between burning a Quran in rural Texas, burning a Quran in London and burning a Quran in Saudi Arabia. And the internet removes local contexts, so beyond edgy stuff in all forms inevitably being kind of cringe, you end up with it being especially cringe in places where it isn't counter-cultural. An example in the opposite direction would be the South American atheist finding the "based tradcath converts" cringe beyond all belief, since basically every authority figure around him is Catholic.
jericho
2yr ago
jericho
2yr ago
Agreed. Absolutely willing to accept that I'm the outlier, but I have never had someone invite me out drinking with them with the expectation that I would be paying for their drinks (if anything the opposite, where the person inviting others out pays for the first round for everyone).
The only situations I have heard of that align at all with that are sketchy situations meeting women in East Asia where at the end of the night guys with baseball bats come out along with the bill to make sure you pay the inflated drink prices. And even then purely in a "friend of a friend heard this happened to another guy" sense.
Matt Colville did a D&D video on dead empires and quoted this bit from Elrond.
Which really drives home that the world we see is a shadow of a shadow of what it once was.
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