Promiseland

[Fetian]

Class done! (And lunch done.) She kept us after for like ten minutes past class is supposed to end and only stopped because several students just left because they had work and classes to get to.

Let's see, we went over a translation exercise ('On Friday, Mary went to the park with a japanese friend. They talked at the park. And then they went to a restaurant. They ate a lot. As for Saturday, Mary went to the temple alone. There were a lot of shops. She bought a sweet bun at a shop. On Sunday, Mary got up late. Her mother also got up late. Mary read a magazine in the morning. And then she and her mother ate lunch. That afternoon, Mary studied Japanese. She also wrote a report.') Then we started chapter 5 and went over a powerpoint on conjugating adjectives, and then she explained some of the assigned homework and that lasted until (after the) end of class.

There is indeed a quiz on chapter 4 kanji this weekend and I think she said there'll also be a quiz on chapter four but not this week. And a two-page homework assignment that she didn't want to release on monday because we hadn't covered the material for it yet and she didn't want us to get confused, which makes sense. Chapter 5 is our last chapter for the class (obviously, since we now have three weeks left) but she recommended studying chapter 6 on our own if we plan on continuing classes (specifically if we plan on transferring to sac state, I think, but possibly it'll also be useful for the next class at sac city).

Anyway! Not a lot to do for it.

I'm waiting for pool guy to come so I can do my gardening and walk, in the meantime I'm going to watch some youtube and decompress. After all that I'll see about working on the homework

[Fetian]

In January 2018, Nestlé announced plans to sell over twenty of its US confectionery brands (including Butterfinger) to Italian chocolatier Ferrero SpA, for $2.8 billion.[11] The deal was finalized in March 2018, and the newly acquired brands were folded into the operations of the Ferrero Candy Company.[12]

WAIT

2023: Ferrara Candy Company acquires Jelly Belly Candy Company.

So are they still homophobic??

[Fetian]

Alas it looks like Herman Rowland Sr. is still the CEO, but that sale is recent so maybe that'll change

I'd love to do the factory tour again

[Fetian]

Once the acquisition closes, nearly 800 global Jelly Belly employees and its facilities in California, Illinois, and Thailand will join the Ferrara organization. Jeff Brown, who is currently the Executive Vice President of Global Operations and Distribution of Jelly Belly, will become its Chief Executive Officer.

[Fetian]

Like it's really uncool for one corporation to be sucking up a bunch of other corporations, but a. nestle was already doing that, and b. it's okay if it benefits me and my morals personally actually

[Fetian]

I have not done a deep dive into Ferrara (and I shouldn't have to! PLEASE regulate corporations more!!) but Ferrero is a private company so at least it's got that going for it. I'm sure they're using slave labor like every other candy company, though.

[Fetian]

Just want to take a minute to revisit the channels in the class discord, now that class is almost done-

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We've used basically none of these, 'general', 'study and help', and 'class and homework' are the only ones that ever see any use at this point, and none of the voice channels have seen any use at all

[Fetian]

Tonight is gonna be a youtube-and-video-games kinda night

[Fetian]

Alright, have we all just, forgotten that John Mulaney had Dave Chappelle as a surprise opener while Chappelle was deep in his transphobic nonsense? Kind of feel like some people have forgotten about that one

[Fetian]

Going to try teaching Cael to fetch, and maybe in the process encourage him to play with his toys for more than three seconds before getting bored