Bailey makes an excellent post about empathy and compassion and how 'there but for the grace of God go I' in our dog eat dog capitalist system with its overwhelming financial burdens on those who get sick. And UA ignores it, and redlines everything past the first sentence because he perceives it as an admission of weakness being rubbed in his nose. When in reality it was just an example of how precarious it is for the vast majority of our population in the richest nation in the history of the world. Same as it ever was. You'd think at some point he'd learn. But that, too, would be taken as an admission of weakness - that his dogma is flawed, and therefore he himself was lesser.
Gotta have rents be affordable for small mom-and-pop places for that. Which means reducing land use regulations to increase density, or else sprawl.
Cali REALLY needs to pass Weiner’s SB 50 (or whatever it is labeled now). Both for itself and also because we need one state to go first. WA would follow within 5 years (hopefully sooner, but it would be a lift).
I'm so glad this bit of australian culture made it to our shores. No part of the US is complete without an outback steakhouse serving deep fried batter encrusted onions.
What economists objecting to “fair wages” are missing is that if you increase everyone’s wages, then more people would be paying into the tax base, lowering everyone’s taxable wages meaning everyone can afford to spend a bit more, and restauranteurs would be able to raise their prices enough to cover any additional expenses. Just because there is a probable jump in prices, doesn’t mean no one will be able to afford the product. It just means the gap between poor and wealthy will decrease.
Speaking about Olive Garden, in 2011 they were paying their employees $2.13 an hour, unfuckingbelievable! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Garden
Yeah, but at least their food is recognizable as a bastardized version of the original. There isn't even an original cuisine for Outback Steakhouse to be trying to copy.
Kangaroo yes, you can find it at any supermarket. I've never tried it (been vegetarian for 20 years) but apparently it's a very lean meat, easy to overcook, and works well as thin strips stir fried in sauce, or minced and combined with some other fats. Koala heck no. The things live a sedentary life exclusively eating eucalyptus leaves. Plus it's illegal to hunt them other than for the rare authorized cull.
Yeah i had kangaroo at a restaurant in The Rocks in Sydney, it was delicious. Kind of reminded me of venison
Venison also needs to be cooked very carefully, too. But, most Americans just eat it like .... like ... Red Lobster's calamari - tough and chewy and no flavor at all.
Venison should be seared lightly if you want it quick or slow-cooked if you don't (a wine marinade doesn't hurt either).
Tens or hundreds of thousands of others are currently chilling in cemeteries as a direct result of their recent president's anti-leadership regarding a pandemic, but that's all water under the bridge, right oldfella?
