Kura Sushi is fun and I enjoy the food, the drink robot, and the prizes.
The one I went to when I was in DC had Spy x Family prizes, but the machine was all jammed up. I talked to the person at the register and she just let me grab a handful out of her refill bin. She said they get paid crap so she didn't care. I thought that was nice, but now I also feel a little bad about the place.
I imagine so. Everyone is looking to "see results," but for the majority that is just going to mean make them invisible, while for the actual homeless, the answer is much more complicated and less popular with a lot of other people.
It's very disappointing, but I don't know how you get good people in a job like that. With so much responsibility, up to having people's lives in your hands, while having to usually reach some type of consensus with other people, half of whom act like it's their job to make you fail, and having the majority of the population second guess you on every action you take or don't take, I'd never want that job.
With power consolidated into so few people in a top down power structure, it may only leave bull headed know it alls and egomaniacs in those positions. Add in our current technocrats pushing AI and this is the slop I think we're going to start seeing much more often.
I commented in another post today about San Francisco's mayor canceling his personal plan to address homelessness because after starting it against the advice of the actual people working to address homelessness, he tried a quick fix to Steve money to make the problem go away, he found the exact same issues those volunteers told him he was going to have. I know if I were stuck in the job, I'd be wanting to solicit experts for everything like this, but at the same time, your term would probably be over before you got anywhere.
Perhaps we're just reaching the limits of what our current power structures can handle? It feels like everywhere is in just about the same mess these days.
Other than learning the difference, I learned why people started wearing them, why they stopped, and even what that white fur with the black spots is on your classic royal robe, which I'd also always wondered but never had looked up before.
The owl may or may not be a wizard, but you sent me on a magical and educational quest! 😀
I took an adults only late night cave tour where we navigated the cave using lights made of candles inside coffee cans.
I definitely let out a few "hey you guyyyyys!" during that. Very fun in a shadowy and dark cave. There was even an underground boat ride. It felt like there would never be a more appropriate moment to shout it out.
This was a good supplement to OPs article, thanks.
I'm not sure why governments seem so willing to meet with commercial solutions who profit off these building projects, but not volunteer organizations that are out there working with the people who need these benefits and resources. The quotes from the workers seem to make it really clear how just making beds for individuals with no privacy or safety for their stuff doesn't really draw in the people that need help. The homeless have families and pets and precious possessions they can't give up to stay in shelters. A one size fits all approach isn't going to work while not ending up being something cruel.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Media has always made hatching look so quick and simple, but it's such an epic task for those little hatchlings!