Dan Kim (김명준)

Pretty much any holiday

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I know of no one in my industry who looks forward to amateur night - I mean, Valentines Day - falling on a Saturday. It’s great for business on Friday & Sunday as well, but we’re already seeing folks who act like they’ve never been to a restaurant without paper napkins before.

One of my neighbors broke out the 40” Tonka truck tires & extra gas cans because they enjoy getting only 8 miles a gallon while driving in one of the densest cities in the country. Man, if you need to hot refuel in (checks notes) a residential part of Queens…

Damned if I know the answer to either question

The last time I saw a dishwasher, car wash dryer, janitor, or landscaper who wasn’t a recent immigrant, it was in a small town in WV with few immigrants. Even then, those jobs were predominately held by Blacks because even that town’s wypypo felt that menial jobs were somehow beneath them.

New York leaders re-raise pride flag at Stonewall National Monument Local leaders plan have re-raised the Pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument on Thursday afternoon after the Trump administration replaced it with an American flag this week.

Some good news out of NYC, the Pride flag is flying again at its rightful home at Stonewall, after the regime took it down earlier this week. “Today, the LGBTQ+ community and its allies took their power back.” abc7ny.com/post/officia...

My guys are way too busy for that kind of fuckery

Just do the right goddamn thing. Do it for Renee. Do it for Alex. Blow a whistle. Risk arrest. Because that cause is on the right side of history. I’m mentally exhausted but can’t allow this to happen again. No one should. “Never again” means we won’t be silent or docile or compliant.
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As my partner has told me repeatedly, & I do agree begrudgingly, I’m no longer a soldier. But you don’t have to be a former soldier to do what is morally right. You don’t have to be a Soros funded Antifa revolutionary to take action to protect vulnerable neighbors in your communities.
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When is “never again” going to mean anything if we don’t fight? I’m not saying take up arms as if Revere is riding up the Charles River again, but fight using the Constitutionally protected rights of Amendments 1/4/5. Fight in the courts. Look out for neighbors. Is this so damn hard for people?
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slats that supposedly met the “food/clothing/shelter” requirement. But it didn’t meet any requirement for humane treatment because then, as now, the government didn’t see those prisoners as human… much less American, though conservatively 75% of those prisoners were U.S. citizens.
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Sure, the War Relocation Authority eventually allowed veg gardens to supplement the bad food it gave prisoners, but it also “lent” workers from those camps to farms whose workforce had left to fight the war. Basic sanitation didn’t exist. Sunlight, cold desert wind, & dust leaked between wooden
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History rhymes. At the beginning of the Japanese American incarceration- I’ll never call it an “internment” again because fuck euphemisms - the WRA camps weren’t prepared to feed/house not just the sheer # of people, but whole families. Many prisoners had to plant illicit gardens for sustenance. 1/x

The song is more subtle than when I used to tend bar at a college dive, flip all the lights on, & yell “if you don’t work here or fuck someone who does, you gotta go!”

That’s generous. My expectation for the team is 90 minutes flat.

I’m in favor of any move that gets me that table back quicker. This weekend, all my seats are at a premium.

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Pre-bus (verb): the act of slowly but deliberately removing empty glasses, plates, and/or silverware at the end of a meal until all the guest has in front of them is a napkin & a water glass. One of our unspoken signals that we need the table back. Maybe 1/4 of our guests get the hint.

Trump’s Department of the Interior took the Pride flag down at Stonewall. They. Took. The. Pride. Flag. Down. At. Stonewall.
As if to confirm, for the few who weren’t already aware, that this regime considers you an unperson if you aren’t white, male, cis, straight, & evangelical Christian.

To be fair, though, he represents a very liberal & very queer slice of the west side of Manhattan. I’m surprised any Republican won 8.2%. I’d be more interested in races outside the blue bubbles of NYC, Rochester, Albany, etc., to see how the anti-mango message is catching on.

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No Mr. Pibb?

Delete the entire department, let the chips fall where they may, anyone employed by DHS* as of, say, 1 July 2025 or after gets blacklisted to an extent that would make Joe McCarthy blush

*less USCG, FEMA, CISA, … maybe TSA

I have never seen a more unserious take on food, the nutritional necessity of it, or the preparation of it. Food, when done right, is not merely fuel for manosphere Tiktokers. It’s a conversation. It’s an exchange of views/ideas. Not this bullshit.

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The former NCO in me & our long lost cousin Mr. Knife Hand are twitching, even 20 years removed

In the waiting room with other patients who are reading the AARP Bulletin, complaining about the high cost of retiring to Florida, & adjusting their walkers. I damn near feel spry in comparison. Ope, they called my name. Morituri te salutant ✊🏽

Not to gross anybody out, but when you get to be “of a certain age,” as my gastroenterologist delicately said, 50 years of potty training seem to magically disappear after you take the pre-colonoscopy meds. NGL I was having flashbacks to having dysentery.

Blues are the superior North American crab.

By this logic, someone who is trilingual (e.g., I dunno, just throwing this out there, Korean & Spanish & English) is potentially mentally ill?

Thanks Tom