This is great! Checking out Blame! now.

I've had it!

It's bad!

Taste is very strong extract, no actual pepper flavor. That's on top of a pretty bland chicken noodle. It had some heat, nothing crazy but more than nothing, but without the flavor it just felt completely separate from the soup. Like you just did a shooter of Da Bomb and then ate some (very mid) soup back to back.

As an aside, I feel like Ghost Pepper is going pretty mainstream right now, and there's some great stuff out there. Melinda's Creamy Ghost Pepper Wing Sauce is amaaaaazing, I go through practically a bottle a week; pretty hot for normies but sooo much flavor that I got acclimatized very quickly and it's pretty much my baseline now. Great for sandwiches/wraps or mixing with other sauces to pump up the heat (I put a bunch in all my Cane's sauces these days).

As an aside to the aside, Tobasco is no pepper-head's favorite, but their Scorpion sauce is actually pretty dang good. Flavor is decent, heat is awesome; very sharp and electric, gives very much the ouchie. Great for soups and chilis.

Yeah I feel this. My dreams are usually very realistic and very mundane. It fucka me up because I'll dream about planning an event or doing a project at work or something, and then I wake up and feel like I have a bunch of stuff on my todo list, but none of it is actually real. It's not nightmare-bad, but it is goddamn annoying.

When I was a much more regular user, that mostly went away and it was great. Now I only rarely get to have any and it's boring-town dream city, basically every night. Looking forward to recreational sales in this area soon.

Seriously, I'm always telling people about this. The most adament speeders are always the "fuck the government", you can't tell me what to do, come-and-take-it types, and it just baffles me because like, yeah, they will come and take it; in fact they love to!

You are giving the pigs a free pass to fully legally and justifiably pull you over any time they feel like it.

Obviously they'll still pull over anyone at any time and retroactively make up a reason, but at least then they are starting on shaky ground, and you've got a way better chance of beating any charges later.

If you hate the pigs so much, why would you make their job so easy? Especially if you're riding dirty in any way, then that just multiplies everything above a thousand times. And naturally, those that are the most cavalier about doing that always seems to be the ones that love speeding the most.

This guy does a pretty good breakdown of the concept. Basically he says it's not a competition style, but a "survival" style. So much like Krav Maga, actual execution is a lot about using things like surprise and dirty shots to end the fight as quickly as possible.

https://youtu.be/PtibobLK56I

Bonus: This channel also does a pretty good interview with Akkido Master Steven Segal, and he comes out sounding... reasonable and kinda normal?

(ignore the very clickbaity title, at no point does he "confront" him in any way) https://youtu.be/7Gt-7U1ctao

This one for sure. There's a movie that features the style, "Only the Strong", and while it was cool to see it featured, the movie is pretty meh and doesn't have nearly as much fighting as you'd want to see a crazy and rarely shown style in action.

This was (and is) always my dream car as a ignorant but car-loving little burglerite. Just so cool and fast and nothing else.

I think that terrible short-lived show of the same name probably planted a worm pretty deep in my tiny child brain, so that might be part of it.

Yeah I can't really stand the guy, haven't really like him since anything after "Snowball Fight", but I gotta admit his late night show is easily the best out of any of them right now. Notwithstanding of course previous goats like Conan (or Ferguson a little).

Congratulations, you have a conscience, and are therefore unsuited for management.

Also the confrontation thing, yeah big time. Moving up means more crushing downwards, which feels bad no matter what. Either somebody genuinely fucked up, and it's some degree of your fault for not training them right or catching it sooner, or they really did what they thought was right (and may have actually been the right thing) but a customer is mad or your bosses are mad or another department is mad, and you have to discipline them anyways.

You also have to fire people, which is probably the worst interpersonal interaction you can ever have at work, let alone in most areas of life. Again sometimes it's fully justified, and it still sucks, but plenty of times it's something like a layoff where it's "nothing personal, just the bottom line ya know", or it's that the bosses decided that this person needs to be fired for some arbitrary reason you may not even agree with, but you still have to be the one to pull the trigger and ruin this person's day/year. Additionally, you usually can't talk about the reasons with anyone else, so you have to field questions from the rest of your team that are usually good and valid, but you have to explain the away with vague corpo-speak and can't really tell them what's up.

So ya know, if any of that sounds fun, I mean, get checked out, because yikes.

I could have written this exact post, down to most of the same numbers lol.

If you think you'll actually like management (which probably means a lot more meetings, reviewing other people's work and time sheets, and making high-level decisions instead of actually doing any of the work involved) (and also means taking the flak for any screw-ups your subordinates make, trying to implement new procedures in a desperate attempt to make things better but your underlings hate the changes and your bosses are never as impressed as you thought they'd be, and watching other people excel and grow and learn new things doing the stuff you probably got into your industry to do in the first place), then by all means go for it.

I fell for this trap a few times. I was desperate for the pay increase at the time, which go figure never feels like as much as it looked like on paper, but I still needed it anyways.

These days, I keep it very explicit with my bosses that I have no interest whatsoever in doing those roles any more. It might make me a slightly less attractive employee, and it might hamper my career growth to some extent, but it means I get to actually do the thing I've always wanted to do every single day, instead of getting sucked into a bullshit-conjuration position vaguely adjacent to that thing, and I am grateful every day for that.

I was just listening to this today! It's really good!

They'll tell you at the beginning to go back and listen to the introductory episode, and if you're someone like me that doesn't have a strong background in Chinese history, I agree that it's really worth doing, since they give kind of a high-level overview of the whole thing, and then this series really dives in deep.