Beehaw.org is very pleasant

Ah yes… it’s crystal clear now!

Brown eye girl

profit based health care is an abomination

Here’s my analogy:

I’ve been in the culinary industry 37+ years and a lot of famous chefs have come and gone, a lot have been very disparaged by regular chefs in the industry.

But here’s the thing: those famous chefs promote your industry, which in turn offers you more opportunities. They should be embraced, and not shit on.

Anyone who shows an interest, even if it’s only ‘fashionable’ because MS fucked up again, should be given the benefit of the doubt and assisted (if that’s your thing) or encouraged to break away from the kings of enshitification.

Estoy valenciano, pero si!

37 years in the industry, I knew when I was a young cook I wouldn’t make jack shit for pay, so I always looked at places where I could enjoy life: N. Florida, Buenos Aires, Bermuda, Bonaire, Seattle, Los Angeles (ok, that was for straight up pay…never again!) now Spain. Hard work, a good partner, and dumb luck.

Sold our house at the right time (Trump presidency #1), funded a year & a half in the EU with ‘no income’ (you need to show income plus have enough funds to show independence -and family send letters of assurance & their bank statements for support, plus private insurance, etc. & patience.

Found an amazing town in 3.months and have been here for 7 years, restaurant opened 4 months before COVID lockdown, the landlord was amazing throughout the whole ordeal, didn’t charge the 3 months closure, we paid half rent for the 1st year and were able to repay it within a year). Neighbors were amazing (again) very supportive through the whole deal.

This is when we found out we can do it just by ourselves…the kids then some casual employees PT during the high season. This year we had 2 neighbors kids work with us for their first ‘real job’.

Great community, we work very hard but have some awesome quality of life (Mediterranean is 500m away) and more than anything got lucky.

I wish others the same!

There is no debate anymore, it’s just obtuse mouth hole noises

oh absolutely, had to leave the US to live the American Dream, and can’t say it was a bad decision!

Yeah detaching your cheffiness in your personal life is a job in itself, I had OJT all throughout my children’s lives until they moved out, THEN my wife and I opened a BBQ joint and it’s just her and I and HOOOOO BOY the shoe is on the other foot!!! lol…we have fun.

Well there is a reason the top American addiction specialist companies (cigarette industry PM, etc.) bought up all the processed food companies…they had the method but needed to diversity the market because of the backlash & lawsuits for cigarettes.

Now who would sue a company for producing a daily necessity? At the end of the day all they’d be required to do is soap a label on it saying ‘part of a balanced diet’ or some such bullshit.

America is driven by addiction.

because the NYT was sitting on it for 10 years…so much profit!!!

onions, potatoes, spinach, egg, done

oh absolutely…there probably won’t be an event…there hasn’t been one yet and he’s already deployed the troops

This, too, was my thought.

There won’t be a long term. The mid term would see enough people out of work or without resources for food/shelter etc that they will resort to alternative means of acquiring resources which will then give the administration the excuse it needs to enact martial law

…and that will be that

Absolutely. Got it for Xmas one year, played until there was a god awful fuck scene that was…really something, and unexpected. Like, ok, I get that there are people that this is their only sexual outlet but can you fucking warn a guy?

It really reminded me of an updated Perfect Dark (360 version), which was…just stupid.

Sure. The land of the free has become so great lately…again.

Ok, my point may have been that they can use it but don’t know how to effectively … because I’m not sure you’ve noticed how the bar has been moved so far right that Reagan is now considered a moderate centrist