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I've been vegan for 8+ years and am a fan of the Impossible Burger. I'm vegan for ethical reasons but certainly remember how good burgers/cheese/etc. tasted, so the closer vegan alternatives can get, the better!


The kinds of jobs available to typical high school students such as food service work and babysitting tend to start earlier in the day (in my experience). Food service jobs often start around 4:00 to beat the evening rush, and babysitting can start whenever the kids get out of school.


Well, then in the babysitting case, the solution is clearly to have school ALSO start later. Might be a bit impractical to coordinate that.


Have you looked into Jama software? It is customizable and very user-friendly. I use it for requirement management but imagine it would be good for document management as well.


By asking/telling someone to smile, one is basically saying, "You should look more pleasant for my benefit." I can't see asking someone to smile being appropriate in a workplace setting unless the person is in a customer-facing role and it affects job performance. The sexist part is that it seems to happen far more often to women than to men.


Or maybe you just want to actually cheer up that person? Not everyone follows the sociopathic line of thinking you presented.


How does telling someone to smile cheer them up? Besides, you can be cheerful but not smile.


I mean kids will typically end up laughing if you tell them to smile.


> bascially saying "You should look more pleasant for my benefit."

Perhaps not.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/smile-it-could-mak...

Tone of voice and mannerisms tell a much fuller story, though.


Exactly this. Context is everything. Human communication is very nuanced.


That's quite an assumption (that it has anything to do with physical appearance).

It's equally possible that it was intended as a shorthand for "cheer up, it's not that bad" or "try to keep your chin up". Both of which actually indicate that the speaker cares about their colleague.

Sure, I can see contexts where it would be inappropriate to say but that doesn't make it always inappropriate to say.


I haven't tried Gardein's burgers, but their faux chicken products are excellent so I would expect their burgers to be good too.


Are you eating enough? Faux meats tend to have fewer calories than the meats they are replacing. Boca burgers only have 70 calories each (according to Google... I never eat those). That is hardly anything!


I keep a close eye on calories (used to be very overweight) as a rule, and comparing days I eat meat and days I don't, even when calories are the same, I end up much hungrier.


NASA specifically wanted people right out of college to do operations so that they would not have to unlearn bad habits and since everyone would have to learn new skills for the moon landing to be successful.

http://history.nasa.gov/monograph14.pdf (see p. 17)


I grew up in Silver Spring and was allowed to walk to nearby parks and friends' houses alone or with other friends starting around kindergarten. If I had kids and lived there now, I would definitely allow them to walk around the neighborhood.


$200-$300/month from ebook sales on Amazon. It was more ($600-$700/month) when I was releasing ebooks more frequently, but I haven't written any since July.


As a vegan, sometimes it's nice to eat at a restaurant and not have to go through the whole 20 questions with the server about whether food has animal products. So I may weigh other factors (like service or presentation or how "nice" a place is) as less important than when going to a restaurant with only one or two vegan options.

Though taste is the most important thing to me!


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