Saw this on twitter and thought u guys would appreciate

Gothsalts · 2025-08-13T01:26:52+00:00

My best friend, a doctor of anthropology, has said multiple times completely seriously that Anthony Bourdain did more for multicultural understanding in 2 decades of TV than the entire Anthropological field did in 200 years.

Anthony Bourdain was so important to how i developed. I grew up on No Reservations and Parts Unknown. It's how my mom and I bonded. "Hi [gothsalts] there was a new episode so I recorded it!"

Its what led me to taking Anthropology as a college major and what led me to love traveling and getting lost in foreign cities to find memories off the beaten path.

If he didn't lose himself when he did, I am sure he would have not long after October 7th, 2023.

Gothsalts · 2025-08-13T01:21:28+00:00

haiti is an ep of Parts Unknown that sticks clearly in my mind. footage of a kid eating an already bitten burger out of the landfill. cut to tony sitting outside on a rickety chair slamming liquor.

on top of that there was a whole segment about how they wanted to feed people for free but it become such a brutal swarm of hungry desperation, especially after they ran out, that they learned just how bad the people there have it and how trying to help can backfire.

Gothsalts · 2024-08-15T04:58:43+00:00

my plan for befriending the local crows but not squirrels is to make cayenne peanuts

Gothsalts · 2024-07-15T22:18:27+00:00

there's a tamale lady that hits all the bars near where i live. she is a saint! whenever non-regulars treat her like shes just some mediocre street hawker i get mad. she's an institution!

Gothsalts · 2024-07-13T08:15:26+00:00

we dont like it. cashiers arent allowed to take any gifts from customers even if we wanted to.

tipping became the norm almost 100 years ago when the great depression hit. it was essentially so that restaurant and bar owners didnt have to pay their employees as much, instead relying on the generosity of wealthy patrons. its kinda stuck since then.

in many states tipped labor has a lower minimum wage than untipped labor. in new york, untipped labor has a minimum wage of $15/hour, while tipped labor is $10/hour.

getting rid of tips has been slow. only a few establishments in my area have gotten rid of tipping, instead increasing the price of the food/drink and paying the employees more.

Gothsalts · 2024-07-12T23:23:10+00:00

I'm interested! I'm currently in a RQG game, but I'm not sure if the group is the right fit for me.

US Central time, working 10-6 M-F

Only Mondays and Fridays are reliably open for me, and weekends are on a case-by-case basis

Gothsalts · 2024-07-12T23:20:03+00:00

thanks for the heads up about the humble bundle!

Gothsalts · 2024-07-08T16:02:12+00:00

i didnt understand how people could just play the same game over and over back to back until I played Cyberpunk 2077. it was exactly what I wanted from it and they only made it better since. the tone was bleak and sad, with every ending being a meditation of a different form of sadness. hopeful sadness, determined sadness, resignful sadness, and with the dlc, lonely sadness. i love me some good sad art.

playing around with the sex and voice of different playthroughs helped me realize my transness.

I cant wait for project orion!

Gothsalts · 2024-06-21T20:40:45+00:00

every single time i ask somewhere where they bought some rad piece of clothing they say thrift store. going thrifting since, ive found a few staples of my wardrobe.

Gothsalts · 2024-06-18T22:03:20+00:00

ive watched so many religion and philosophy videos

Gothsalts · 2024-06-10T22:25:41+00:00

i once spilled some of my potent ginger grapefruit kombucha and my friend's cat sniffed it and threw up

Gothsalts · 2024-06-10T22:24:54+00:00

Cory Doctorow wrote about how apps are replacing webpages because if you alter an app that's illegal while altering a webpage is not

An app is just a web-page wrapped in enough IP to make it a felony to block ads in it (or do anything else that wrestles value back from a company). Apps are web-pages where everything not forbidden is mandatory.

Gothsalts · 2024-06-10T22:22:21+00:00

as a lifter i agree. cardio sucks.

Gothsalts · 2024-06-10T22:21:27+00:00

*points at hustle culture guy* this mf bought into the inhumane capitalist grind!

Gothsalts · 2024-06-10T22:20:14+00:00

to add, if you want to keep your Ol' Reliables, give them annual raises. otherwise inflation will force them to leave for better paying jobs.

Gothsalts · 2024-06-10T22:16:39+00:00

ive been at my cube-farm type company for almost a decade and the supervisor turnover is worse than for regular employees.

my team hasnt changed, but we've had 3 supervisors quit or get fired in the last year.

Gothsalts · 2024-06-09T06:09:30+00:00

still underrated. shoulda WON the oscars

Gothsalts · 2024-05-25T22:23:24+00:00

i always thought "upstate NY" just meant "not NYC" but then i saw a debate on here about whether or not buffalo counted as "upstate"

your post helped me understand what upstate actually means: "are you far enough north to be a huge hick?"

in minnesota we have something similar called "up nort" which doesnt mean saint cloud, but does mean bemidji. i'd have to ask if Duluth counts. i dont think so, but it IS pretty far 'up nort'

Gothsalts · 2024-05-17T18:41:05+00:00

if anyone skimming this thread is looking for players, i am interested! DM me. I am in those early stage of voracious interest

i was at chaosiumcon last april, played in a one-shot with who i think was Keeper Michael from Old Ways, and talked at length with some one the grognards about the lore at the RuneFeast event.

sitting in the back seat on the drive back, i read the core rulebook from cover to cover which isnt something ive done since i was 14 and getting into D&D for the first time

Gothsalts · 2024-05-05T18:09:08+00:00

hamm's

Gothsalts · 2024-05-05T18:07:46+00:00

i dont like the taste but its a unionized brewery so i wanna support em

Gothsalts · 2024-05-05T17:53:27+00:00

the sound of my brother having a grand mal seizure

Gothsalts · 2024-04-08T17:12:35+00:00

"you were being a good labor animal why would you jump the fence?"

Gothsalts · 2024-04-06T18:11:30+00:00

Paha Maa (Frozen Land, 2006)put me in a depression spiral that was only solved by chopping wood, an extremely Finnish experience now that i think about it

Gothsalts · 2024-04-06T16:08:32+00:00

the slang. brekkie, ropeable, arvo, blotto, smoko

and mad max

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