Drive-thru surgery.
Drive-thru surgery.
The mayor’s job is to co-ordinate public information and make press releases during an emergency. He’s an authoritative source. Better for people to get info from him than from rumours and hearsay.
Our current mayor complained bitterly because voters expected him to be at his office during a flooding emergency that affected swathes of the city, even though he had a tennis match scheduled. Pretty sure he’s not getting a second term.
The process of choosing government officials at random is called sortition. It’s certainly not the worst method.
It starts out feeling like you’re driving a two-tonne weapon in a world full of drunk people driving two-tonne weapons. You’re nervous and hypervigilant.
After a while your driving instincts develop and becomes less of a problem. And on days when the sun is shining and your favourite song is playing, it begins to seem like driving isn’t so bad after all.
And someone to write to. That might actually be the most important component.
Once I went on leave and the fella who filled in for me got a few complaints that he was slow. He said it was because I hadn’t labelled my store room properly. I added a few dymo labels around the place. The next time I went on leave he got a few more complaints and gave the same explanation, so I added a few more. After the third time I left the room looking like this picture and he shut up.
I bought a power supply for a second hand monitor and found that the 90-degree angle on the plug meant it couldn’t actually go into the socket. I took it back to the shop and the owner offered to solder a straight plug onto the adaptor for me - but couldn’t find one to use, so he gave me my money back.
Probably the closest I’ve come is recognising the same user name from one thread to the next. So I guess… not very close at all.
None. I’ve tried everything from Mozart to Metallica, and any kind of music playing while I’m trying to concentrate is more of a distraction than a help.
I cut 'em in half, then scoop the flesh out with a spoon. I’ve tried biting through the skin, but I don’t like the fuzz.
If they’re intergalactic explorers, why would they care about the plane of our ordinary galaxy?
Because it’s a convenient navigational system. If everything outside your home is arbitrary, may as well keep using landmarks you’re familiar with.
Being unnecessarily rude, or arguing in bad faith. Got about a dozen people on my block list.
I’m Gen X and I agree with OP.
Is that your own layout, or is it a scheme like QWERTY or DVORAK that I haven’t heard about?
The oldest building in this city is a two-room (originally) cottage that dates back to 1841. It’s not the first permanent structure built here, but it’s the oldest still standing.
“the police have no duty to protect you.”
I think it may be time to re-think how you do your nation-state-ing.
All this time we’ve been keeping our true power hidden.
Also, if you mention Zealandia in New Zealand, people will look at you blankly and say “The bird sanctuary?”
It was a panama hat woven from bamboo fibre that I bought at a fair to keep from getting sunburned.
Praise You by Fatboy Slim. I hate that song so much I have to turn it off whenever I happen to come across it. It’s the drawn-out repetitive tones.