would they sell Cuban rum at this Walmart in Pinar del Rio?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:35 (nine years ago) link
Starbucks brownies are good
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
they pay shit (but who doesn't). can't remember if they offer any kind of insurance or benefits. ime the worst aspect of working there was dealing w/ the preening fussiness of the customers.
― (曇り) (clouds), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
iirc they are known for offering pretty good insurance/benefits
― iatee, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
the left-wing critique is usually on fair trade stuff / killing small businesses
― iatee, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
They paid a total of $15m in tax over the course of 14 years in the UK, despite sales of about $750m a year.
Also known for predatory / anti-competitive tactics that haven't really worked very well.
Frappes are good, though.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
http://neilyoung.com/?frontpage=true
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:54 (nine years ago) link
people fretting about this stuff at this moment need to take a seat imo
that said i've heard there's almost no coastline in jamaica that doesn't have a resort on it
― goole, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link
No Starbucks though. Have to give them that.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:00 (nine years ago) link
actual facebook post in my news feed today from a HS acquintance:
"Cozumel is the only place I can get Starbucks in the Caribbean. Hence, my favorite port. #itsthelittlethings"
― marcos, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
I think Starbucks could also stand for wealth inequality and/or a kind of tourists/natives divide, IDK, do they have Starbucks in like tourist areas of DR?
But yeah concerns about capitalism and consumerism entering Cuba address more than just the sense that we'll lose photogenic old cars and rustic weather-beaten houses and buena vista social club or whatever
― man alive, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:03 (nine years ago) link
kinda depends on what you mean "on it" re jamaica and resorts
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:03 (nine years ago) link
*should address
― man alive, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:04 (nine years ago) link
ha marcos answered my question I guess
Cafe con leche, cortadito (especialmente con espumita) are the best ever -- Cuba don't need no Starbucks
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
I don't really have a good sense of how much, say, Riviera Maya development really benefits *The Local Economy* as opposed to putting money in international investors' pockets while providing shit jobs to people who lost their fishing docks or whatever.
― man alive, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
There's an unbelievably huge tourist / resident divide and dozens of large resorts in Cuba already. The tourists just aren't American.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link
most ppl prob rather work at a resort than fish tho obvs thats not nearly the whole picture, the characterization of them at "shit jobs" is certainly debatable too
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:08 (nine years ago) link
Those who can stay thanks to wet foot/dry foot often travel back and forth and leave relatives money (e.g. my abuela's caretaker).
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
went to cuba on a very brief trip (10 days or so) about a decade ago, it was very fascinating. this is otm:
There's an unbelievably huge tourist / resident divide and dozens of large resorts in Cuba already. The tourists just aren't American.― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Wednesday, December 17, 2014 5:06 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Wednesday, December 17, 2014 5:06 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― marcos, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
also what specifically is being changed - diplomatic relations or the entirety of the economic embargo?
― marcos, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
both supposedly, see what happens with the republican hissfit
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:19 (nine years ago) link
everything I saw said the embargo is very much still in place
― anonanon, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link
well the president cant lift the embargo unilaterally but restoring diplomatic relations is an obvs step in that direction and an indication of a desire to do so
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 22:26 (nine years ago) link
am i the only one that feels like 'oh no american tourists turning cuba into cancun' is more trenchant social commentary than truth bomb
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 18 December 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
did you read any posts after that one
― tl;dr, gukbar, morbis detrius (wins), Thursday, 18 December 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
i sort of tuned out after i saw more than one post about starbucks
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 18 December 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
speaking of trenchant social commentary
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 18 December 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
only 90s kids will understand
― goole, Thursday, 18 December 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
i mean like genuine commercial made for your money under the indiepop glaze for people who like their starbucks iphone identity but no longer of the generation instinctively and cynically averse to blatant commercialism and instead are of the gen where identity is found within it rather than in opposition to it. Emimem's violent rap against a pop queen finds himself in a era he's not familiar with in that when he was going at pop stars in his pomp because now they curry favour in we are cool and knowledgeable circles rather than just been teen pop who you can say what you like about without anyone serious giving a sh
― tl;dr, gukbar, morbis detrius (wins), Thursday, 18 December 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/10540994_10152921772274104_623640500323819581_n.jpg?oh=f8275ad2a06c4195fb274bb0b423a424&oe=553FCFC2
― man alive, Thursday, 1 January 2015 03:33 (nine years ago) link
facebook is so boring and mundane and most people i'm very close with don't really use it. yet deleting my account seems like more effort than not deleting it. for some reason i still browse my newsfeed pretty regularly, just as a general "let me escape this present moment" thing (not dissimilar to ILX, but ILX generally has funnier or more insightful shit to say) but not because i find any great worth in it. in general "let me escape this present moment" is a net negative in my life so i can't say i gain anything worthwhile from facebook.
― marcos, Monday, February 23, 2015 12:41 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Monday, 23 February 2015 17:46 (nine years ago) link
I was not 15 when I was in college, but really, I kind of was.― mh, Wednesday, April 1, 2015 7:48 PM
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 21:22 (nine years ago) link
You're essentially internet bullies. I mention that I'm British and you and your cronies spend your whole time using it as an insult, we all know in your rl you aren't so confident with the insults.
― Arctic Noon Auk, Wednesday, April 1, 2015 1:25 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― pimento is a cheese, some call it the caviar of the south (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 21:25 (nine years ago) link
People get a lot more confident with their insults when they are directed against British people irl or not.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 23:23 (nine years ago) link
missed the og thread but in their defense Arctic Noon Auk as a username sounds like a deleted Frank Zappa track title.
― chaki wite (sanskrit), Thursday, 2 April 2015 01:27 (nine years ago) link
it is a bad dn and a worse poster
― pimento is a cheese, some call it the caviar of the south (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 2 April 2015 01:51 (nine years ago) link
http://images.esellerpro.com/2152/I/487/07/medscaleWKDAC-9142_KIT_FRONT_800.jpg
― scott seward, Thursday, 2 April 2015 02:15 (nine years ago) link
um jeez offensive
― clouds, Thursday, 2 April 2015 02:20 (nine years ago) link
u can tell ilx is an indie fan site cause any time u make a post about pavement 3 people pop up to say "pavement is a mythical beast both large and small, dumb and wise, ironic and true"
― flopson, Sunday, April 5, 2015 11:03 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
― 龜, Sunday, 5 April 2015 15:05 (nine years ago) link
When I become Emperor I will ban all songwriting credits from ever being published
― 龜, Sunday, April 5, 2015 11:05 AM
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 April 2015 15:11 (nine years ago) link
but then we'd have no Alexander Nevermind!
― clouds, Sunday, 5 April 2015 15:11 (nine years ago) link
songwriting credits are the most valuable part of music
― example (crüt), Sunday, 5 April 2015 15:40 (nine years ago) link
^ truth bomb
Songwriting is important, though, so if I were dayo's vizier I'd impose a tax on listeners requests for credits, with the revenue going to the songwriters.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 April 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link
This thread is going to hell. It's not a debate team, it's a thread of truth bombs. Truth Bombs: behaviors or events that repeat themselves in a sincere and sometimes surprising.
Forks following post may not be the king of truth bombs but. Sirs, it's is, without a doubt a Truth Bomb.
This British bullying needs to be taken elsewhere NOW.
― smoochy-woochy touchy-wouchy, (sunny successor), Monday, 6 April 2015 02:56 (nine years ago) link
wat
― mh, Monday, 6 April 2015 02:58 (nine years ago) link
love you sunny
When dayo is emperor, it is a truth bomb that he's liable to ban songwriting credits
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 9 April 2015 23:08 (nine years ago) link
when people seem to disapprove so much of sites that are basically just people talking to each other, i wonder what kind of peaceful, uneventful, unfailingly polite human interaction they expect millions of people to maintain every single day of their lives
― some dude, Thursday, 16 April 2015 17:14 (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Thursday, 16 April 2015 17:51 (nine years ago) link