Will Li

All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip. For the first time in its 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized.

Williams’s book is impaired by slapdash prose. His writing abounds with interminable, convoluted sentences that teem with digressions and then awkwardly limp toward disorienting conclusions. Here is one from the prologue: For non-whites, even though the mixed-race population has become the fastest-growing segment of the American demos and, in real terms, a disproportionate but statistically small and decreasing number of unarmed Black civilians were killed by police annually (typically between 15 and 25 per year from a population exceeding 40 million, according to The Washington Post’s “Fatal Force” database) — and indeed other quality-of-life markers have been equalizing for significant numbers of Black people since the civil rights movement — the death of [Trayvon] Martin followed by [Michael] Brown (regardless of the specific contingencies of that case), and a high-profile slate of videotaped police and vigilante killings that converged with the proliferation of camera-equipped smartphones and the pervasiveness of social media, thwarted any self-congratulatory sense of the inevitability of social progress still alive in the first half of Obama’s second administration. Huh? In addition to such passages, “Summer of Our Discontent” includes many distended excerpts — some spanning three pages — from not-so-obscure sources, including The Times. Midway through the book, Williams chides another writer on the race beat for propounding “an excruciatingly simplistic tale, fueled by a powerful unwillingness and incapacity to grapple with contemporary American racial and social complexity.” Regrettably, I know the feeling.

jesus christ this is an actual fisking

Anecdotes are not data, but as someone who reads and buys and sometimes sells comic books, I see a lot more sellers in my forums and on eBay right now.

Anyone else notice this in their hobbies?

Even a lot of the parents I know who are very aware of how terrible JKR is, have taken their kids to her theme park.

I think some, maybe most of them will come around, but it’s probably a kind of circuitous path, like encouraging their kids to read other books.

I like Wontondon better but I think they can coexist

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Need to go make myself a guotiesaurus now

At a conference and in this conference space there are restaurants and stores.

There’s a store called Studio, and they also have a big sign under the store name that says Shoes and I want to be like, “y’all, Shoes Shoes Studio” was right there…

Fonthill is a large concrete castle

The Mercer Museum / Fonthill in Doylestown PA. It’s weird (complimentary, I think)!!

www.mercermuseum.org

Flatulent felicitations!

FIND BATMAN. A drawing of dozens of closely packed cats, all with pointy ears. Somewhere in there is Batman.

Everything sucks today.

Let's play Find Batman.

No spoiling it for anyone else!

Page of the Federal Register notices for public inspection. The entries for the FCC both start with “Delete, Delete, Delete.”

Have any of my fellow Federal Register watchers seen something like this before? I wonder if this will get fixed before tomorrow when this is published (this is a public inspection notice announcing publication the next business day)

Weird reply accounts were up working early, I see. Banner or profile picture using AI continues to be a reliable indicator of accounts to avoid

I translated for the Chinese guy and he just went “ahhhhh!!” and started nodding furiously at the Americans like “100%, Chow Yun Fat is amazing and a treasure.”

I once facilitated a cultural connection moment in DC’s Chinatown when two white guys were trying to explain to a Chinese guy a certain Chinese actor they liked, and were having issues because the way Americans and Chinese people pronounce Chow Yun Fat are so different.

Chow Yun Fat Holds a shotgun and a huge baby. Behind him the words "FRIED GREEN TOMATOES" written in block letters filled with fire.

Fine. And if you've never seen it, you might not know that Fried Green Tomatoes gets into some really creepy areas.

I’d read it

The Sisko family probably cleans up here, don’t they?

“This weeks discourse bores me lets discuss which Star Trek characters would do the best on Hot Ones” Q, as Picard and others find themselves in a strangely cold black room, eating progressively hotter wings, in the TNG episode “The Last Dab”

I have always signed my emails Will. In the past month, my autocorrect has been autocorrecting it to Williams. Not William. Williams. Why?!

They’re never gonna find Clint

Jean-Luc Picard

The vibes online this week have been so bad even unfollowing and blocking people isn’t cutting it. I’m just going to log off for a week.

there is a lunch place near my work that sells $16-20 poke bowls, but also sells spam musubi for $3.00 apiece ($3.50 if you get the spicy one), and I'm shocked how many people don't just go in and buy two musubi for lunch.

The bottom right picture is a battle between the breakfast tacos and the chicken and waffles for which dish can offend the most minorities

there is a reason none of the people I play with use it...

there are dozens of us! dozens!

Vibes are bad but this gif makes it better, in part because I’ve seen multiple threads of musicians try to figure out what tf beat Tendi is playing

I hated having to do the flexed arm hang because I couldn’t do a pull up.

Jfc she actually said the words