Well, if we’re already positing I’m connected enough to be getting Taylor Swift Christmas presents, a weekend vacation in Palm Springs with Jenny Lewis.
For curiosity and someone’s suggestion, I tried foregoing creatine and taking ketone esters today and yes, that does instead work to return me to 100% available power, we’ll see how long
Every year I have to fear this is my mimosa tree’s last
Like it would be a problem coming down and also it wouldn’t make my sidewalk a mess for 3 months of the year anymore but also it would open space for a tree to define the property’s character
you were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, so was I, that’s how we met
both of us were paying our way through blade school
we weren’t partying exactly, just serving drinks
Something that threw me off knowing The Locked Tomb’s reputation was that the pun lines were delivered straight, like the “studied the blade” bit was actually in the context of Gideon’s swordsmanship training
For the purposes of this poll, “Harry Potter” does NOT COUNT as a valid answer. If it is the media that introduced dragons into your life, ignore it and please enter the next media with dragons that came into your life after HP.
IF you first heard of dragons somewhere else, please SPECIFY the name of that media IN THE NOTES. I was going to add an “Other (please specify in notes/tags)” but I have apparently run out of available answers. Also it seems I’m only able to run the poll for a week maximum, so that’s how long it’ll run. I hope to have fun with your answers :)
I may have heard of them first from a Russian fairytale we had, Vassily the Unlucky. But if so he was a very unusual dragon that looked like a gluttonous yellow dragonfly.
But yeah, fairytales should maybe be an option. And Puff the Magic Dragon!
I don’t remember if it was the first, but Dealing With Dragons had such a huge & early impact on my life that i think it should count for this.
Why are all the media on here for at least eight-year-olds and up, if not adults? Fairy tales have dragons in them, Disney and Dreamworks movies have dragons in them, Dragon Tales was a popular preschool show. I don’t remember first learning about dragons but it sure wasn’t from any of the listed media.
I mean the never-ending story came out in ‘79 (the movie in ‘84) and although the site is aging, I don’t think a majority has reached their fifties yet. I also don’t really remember when I first encountered the concept of dragons, but given that I watched the movie pretty early on it might well have been.
All those posts like ::video of employee in a low-prestige job accomplishing a lot of stuff really efficiently from experience:: “you call this unskilled labor?” like, yes, it doesn’t matter how effectively you can execute the role but whether a rando could execute it at all.
“I can do this at 5X speed!”
Okay, that means your employer could replace you with 5 guys off the street, and will if he thinks that’ll cost less (in direct wages and say your ability to leverage your position in labor conflict). So your job security and labor power still ultimately fluctuates with the market and the unemployment rate.
(“Semiskilled” labor is stuff that requires training but any given laborer can be trained for. Basically anyone can be trained to drive trucks, so that’s semiskilled. Even if many people could be trained for it [and thus guild restrictions on intake are critical to maintaining labor power] not everyone in a lineup could be turned into an electrician, so that’s skilled)
Who can be trained to drive trucks, but can’t be trained to be an electrician, though? Unskilled-semiskilled-skilled seems more like a spectrum than a ternary. Probably defined as “% of training on the job/in the classroom” and a modifier for length of training.
Yeah, there’s ambiguities. Like nursing, is an LPN semiskilled and an RN skilled? (Do they still have unskilled/intern “candy-stripers”?)
All those posts like ::video of employee in a low-prestige job accomplishing a lot of stuff really efficiently from experience:: “you call this unskilled labor?” like, yes, it doesn’t matter how effectively you can execute the role but whether a rando could execute it at all.
“I can do this at 5X speed!”
Okay, that means your employer could replace you with 5 guys off the street, and will if he thinks that’ll cost less (in direct wages and say your ability to leverage your position in labor conflict). So your job security and labor power still ultimately fluctuates with the market and the unemployment rate.
(“Semiskilled” labor is stuff that requires training but any given laborer can be trained for. Basically anyone can be trained to drive trucks, so that’s semiskilled. Even if many people could be trained for it [and thus guild restrictions on intake are critical to maintaining labor power] not everyone in a lineup could be turned into an electrician, so that’s skilled)
