would be pretty great as a Halloween prop

The away game (for us) is gonna be a helluva rematch.

I know, but without the MLS involved we're looking at decades until, hopefully, we have a competitive pro/rel league on a wider scale. MLS just completely killed what could have been with their business model. I know they almost died and that dude in Dallas saved the league, but the world is different now and pro/rel would be amazing.

I love USL soccer but am super butthurt there aren't any year round teams in Seattle although my USL W Rhodies are crushing it, so that's lovely.

I know it's a dead end conversation that goes in circles, but I just don't see how the game gets fixed in the US without pro/rel.

Slice the pineapple into rings. Dip the rings into the condensed milk, then dip in a cinnamon sugar (and maybe a little cayenne) to coat it. You want a light coating. We’re not breading it.

Grill it.

When I'm baking, it's biscuits. My family loves em and it's a cheap and easy dopamine hit when I pull them out of the oven. Oh no, I slightly misshaped one and it's imperfect! Guess I need to scarf that one down right now! Also your kitchen smells amazing afterwards.

When I'm cooking for myself, it's congee. A piece of fish or fish balls, some chili crisp, green onions, and furikake and I've got a huge, warming bowl of soup that feels like so much more than the sum of its parts.

Love the look of the lattice.

There's an entire galaxy of people doing stuff in their free time to support their community, you just never see them if you aren't also participating in some sort of voluteerism.

Virtually every school in America has a PTA or PTO group of parents that volunteer to support the school. When I was on the board of a PTO, everyone else on the board had jobs but they had schedules that weren't 9-5s. One was a medical biller that had a set amount of work they had to get thru, so they could just adjust their daily schedule to the needs of the school. Another owned a small family run motel and so was able to volunteer in the mornings when the motel had little work to be done. Another was a remote worker for a company in a different time zone so their "9-5" was off hours locally.

I volunteer at an unhoused shelter now. I get there at 630am with the other volunteers. A bunch of us make breakfast, then catch the bus to downtown for the daily 9-5 (or drive, we live close to downtown). A social worker comes in on her day off on Wednesdays to volunteer as a social worker at the shelter.

I used to volunteer at a Senior Center. Volunteers were mostly college students who worked in voluteering between classes.

Youth sports coaches are mostly volunteers after their work day.

From my experience retirees generally like to support museums, art galleries, and public beautification stuff (picking up trash, planting gardens, etc).

All of them will make the time to protest. Getting motivated to start volunteering is difficult (it was for me!) but once you start to dedicate time to community building activities, you start to see protesting as just another activity that you believe in and need to make time for. For me, it was just like motivating myself to read more. I'm sitting at the house, I know I should do it, but I didn't. I forced myself to really look at my time management and realized doomscrolling and general bullshitting was taking up a ton of my day. If I just cut down on the bullshit, I had much more time for reading and volunteering and other stuff.

my profit and YoY numbers are in the fucking toilet. i'm a straight up drug abuser that's run both my own reputation and that of the company straight off a cliff by propping up racist, eugenicist, transphobic, and sexist movements around the world.

so naturally im gonna sell my company to my other company and my board (arguably the worst governance board in the US, normally you have to go overseas for this level of corruption) will rubber stamp it and some oil country will finance me again and we do it all over again

greatest capitalist of his generation. pure unadulterated bullshit to the very end.

I would crush that.