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scoobford ,

As a service person, this sounds great. You actually tip your barber more than I do.

The only thing I think you didn’t account for is fancier bars with elaborate cocktails, which tbf most people do not frequent. I’d do 15-20% for those, simply because it’s more involved service and more involved drinks.

scoobford ,

Not necessarily. You can live outside your means at any income level.

Also, children are fucking expensive.

scoobford ,

9-5 is definitely no longer standard, although traffic does get noticeably worse here after 8am.

That being said, what is their justification for 7-5? Unless you’re taking a 2 hour unpaid lunch, that’s mandatory overtime, which most companies aren’t super fond of paying.

A synthetic drug ravages youth in Sierra Leone. There's little help, and some people are chained (apnews.com)

In Sierra Leone, a cheap, synthetic drug is ravaging youth. Trash-strewn alleys are lined with boys and young men slumped in addiction. Healthcare services are severely limited. One frustrated community has set up what it calls a treatment center, run by volunteers. But harsh measures can be used....

scoobford ,

Unfortunately, cutting drugs with things to make them either cheaper or stronger is pretty common most places, in fact it’s basically universal here. Some weed dealers have relatively uncontaminated stock, but most don’t.

And good fucking luck if you buy any kind of pills or anything.

scoobford ,

Not proper cooking to a well temp, but you never really know if proper food safety practices were observed or not.

scoobford ,

Well they said “all”, so more like " the gang causes a massive global financial collapse."

scoobford ,

Not all economic problems are a recession. Consumers are facing significant issues right now, but the overall economy is doing well.

Our issue is that all that wealth is mysteriously staying in the hands of large corporations.

scoobford ,

Disagree with your underlying assertion that students do not read nonfiction books. Your textbooks are nonfiction.

In terms of more “classic” nonfiction materials, j don’t think it’s a very important skill. Something like Anne Frank’s diary or Night can definitely be powerful, but I don’t think reading a secondary source on the American civil war has any more value for a student than a chapter in a textbook.

scoobford ,

Sort of. I’m glad we are wasting less in terms of automobile manufacture, but this is caused by price gouging on the part of automakers more than anything.

That means when we all eventually have to buy another car, we’re just going to get fucked.

scoobford ,

That’s been the case for at least the past couple of decades. The massive price increases have been over the past 4 years.

scoobford ,

Average car price before the pandemic was about $38k. By 2023, it was $49k.

The trend has been ongoing for a long time due to general inflation and a growing preference for SUVs, but it went fucking bananas during the pandemic, and auto manufacturers have taken advantage.

scoobford ,

That’s good, it means the cap won’t restrict what you can save for your children.

scoobford ,

That would mean you need to enforce the law for whoever built the model. If the original creator has 100TB of cheese pizza, then they should be the one who gets arrested.

Otherwise you’re busting random customers at a pizza shop for possession of the meth the cook smoked before his shift.

scoobford ,

Isn’t mumble hot garbage? My planet side outfit memes on it whenever it gets brought up.

Exclusive: Bank of America banker who died had sought to leave, citing long hours, recruiter says (www.reuters.com)

The 35-year-old Bank of America (BAC.N) investment banker who died from a blood clot earlier this month wanted to leave the U.S. bank because he was working more than 100 hours a week, according to an executive recruiter who spoke with him about seeking a new job.

scoobford ,

It is disappointing to me that these hours are legal, but this guy was an analyst at a major financial institution.

Mandatory overtime wouldn’t surprise me at all, it is fairly common and something I am subjected to as well. But I can almost guarantee nobody else forced him into 100 hour weeks.

scoobford ,

It supposedly tastes much better. I’m sure there’s also a few conspiracy nuts who think pasteurization makes you weaker for the jewish takeover or something.

It’s also a personal liberty issue. People don’t like being told they can’t do something, and while I agree with bans on consumption of raw milk, we should critically analyze any law where the government tells private citizens what to do or not do. Especially when there isn’t clear harm being done to another person.

scoobford ,

That’s actually exactly my point. We should carefully examine whether the infringement is worth the benefit before blindly letting the government do whatever.

In the case of seatbelt laws, it is worth it because people are really bad at understanding inertia, and wearing a seatbelt isn’t a burden to anyone. In the case of raw milk, it’s worth it because tuberculosis is fucking horrifying and very contagious.

scoobford ,

The democrats are the liberal party. They support abortion, religious freedom, police reform, civil rights (sometimes), drug decriminalization, etc.

That being said, they are trying to encapsulate and entire half of the political spectrum. There’s going to be gaps, disagreements between individual party members, and places where one policy or value has to override another.

Do you leave a tip for housekeeping if you're only staying one night in a hotel?

Is it a ‘thank you for prepping my room’ or ‘please clean my room today’? If you tip post cleaning, it’s likely going to someone else the next day. Many hotels now only do housekeeping on demand. How do employees feel about this - do they miss the tips or are they happy for a less stressful workday?...

scoobford ,

It’s a percentage because the $60 steak was assumably at a nicer restaurant where you received more in depth service.

Fine dining servers may only have a couple of tables at once, or even for the entire night. You’re paying more for more individual attention.

It also scales in reverse. A server on a shift with a $10 blue plate special will probably have 10 tables before things go off the rails. They’ll also put serious work into getting your ass off that table the minute your plate is clean.

scoobford ,

Its a retirement vehicle in that it prevents future rent raises from threatening your retirement, not in that you can/should live off of your home’s equity. Nobody wants to go back to work at 85 because their rent doubled.

scoobford ,

It’s about making it more palatable for observers.

Lethal injection was much, much less humane than the guillotine, but it wasn’t as pretty so that’s what we switched to.

scoobford ,

It likely isn’t any different in imported models, flame retardant materials are a very basic and very important safety feature.

Also, it is surprisingly hard to import a car in the US. I’d kill for decent hot hatch that wasn’t $40k.

scoobford ,

Pretty sure that was illegal at the time…

scoobford ,

There isn’t much of an alternative. All major manufacturers have been doing this for a while, we are approaching the point where you’ll need to buy and maintain a classic car to avoid this type of data collection. Unfortunately, most people simply do not have the time, money, and expertise to do that. Nor should they have to.

scoobford ,

Putting down a dog without a good reason isn’t animal cruelty most places if you put it down humanely.

This weird and gross and downright disturbing, but it isn’t animal cruelty unless she shot it in the stomach to watch it bleed out or something. Which honestly, she may have for all we know, she’s obviously unhinged or very, very dumb.

scoobford ,

I enjoyed it, but not a lot. It very clearly panders to former drama kids and fanfiction.net readers. Overall, I think helluva boss is better.

I’m also not super into musical numbers in general though, which is a big part of the show.

The Louisiana Town Where a Traffic Stop Can Lead to One Charge After Another (www.propublica.org)

The city of Gretna, Louisiana, in the shadow of New Orleans, brings in more money through fines and related fees than some larger cities in the state. An investigation by WVUE-TV and ProPublica shows that much of that money comes from drivers who rack up multiple violations and hefty fines....

scoobford ,

We have plenty of speed trap towns like that around here. They want lower property taxes, so they augment their income using bullshit fines they give to out of towners. I’m sure they’re shittier to poor people and people of color like all cops are, but really they want someone who will pay the fine and lives far enough that they won’t go to court.

It is just one of several reasons traffic fines should go to the state or federal government.

scoobford ,

People who prefer android because it’s open source usually use open source android because that’s what they want.

That being said, proprietary blobs and black boxes are a pox on basically every usable device these days. I hate it.

scoobford ,

SMS piggybacks on existing signals to and from your phone. They are entirely free, and have been in a lot of places for a long time.

You’re getting screwed. At least it’s a good reason for your contacts to switch to signal or simpleX?

scoobford ,

Huh, TIL. Thanks!

scoobford ,

No reason they should exist in any day and age.

Companies do not pay per packet. Paying more for more bandwidth or lower latency kind of makes sense because theoretically they may be prioritizing your traffic when the network is under too much load. But sending 16 petabytes costs exactly the same as 1kb in a month, assuming your connection is fast enough to handle 16 petabytes in a month.

scoobford ,

You already buy “up to” a certain speed. When the network is congested, you just deal with it.

Trying to make people budget their internet usage is stupid and pointless.

scoobford ,

We were supposed to build one here, but AT&T basically owns our city government lol.

They announced the project wouldn’t be moving forward because they wouldn’t/couldn’t use imminent domain to lay fiber in peoples yards. They’ve used it to build 3 stadiums in the past 20 years, and knock down entire neighborhoods in the process. Literally bulldozed multiple square miles of city.

I fucking hate it here. We gave the stadium owners a bunch of money this week to renovate their stadium for some reason.

scoobford ,

They’re not actually worried about sharing power, they don’t want to be subject to additional federal regulation.

In this case, the issue is business interest in politics, not our weird toxic individualism.

scoobford ,

Ads have been known to contain drive-by malware. Even if you don’t mind seeing ads (which personally I don’t mind unless they’re very intrusive), an adblocker is important for online safety.

scoobford ,

Yeah, but it is a lining. The entire interior surface is plastic, so is the risk of chemical leeching any different?

scoobford ,

The BPA coating is what I’m referring to. A lot of people are not fond of plastic bottles because they want to avoid BPA leeching jntk their drink. Switching to a can lined with BPA doesn’t seem to help the issue at all.

scoobford ,

I hope to emigrate to the EU one day. To be blunt, we do not have our shit together over here…

scoobford ,

See, I know what you’re trying to say, but that would unironically be an improvement for most of us…

scoobford ,

I had exactly two English teachers who were good, which was all I needed.

One when I was young, taught me how to communicate and understand complex ideas properly.

Another my first year of college, who taught me that deeper meanings and subtleties in fiction wasn’t entirely bullshit. Surprisingly, she did this by making us read Frankenstein and watch Blade Runner.

Everything in the middle though…woof. Learning to write academic papers has no value unless you’re an academic, and the other 10 literature courses I took all just made me hate reading, even the year where we just read my 4 favorite books.

scoobford ,

Honestly I’m not super in love with either. The internet should be one of our greatest achievements, and while I think companies like meta and bytedance are harming it for their own profit, I definitely don’t want the government controlling it.

scoobford ,

Practically, yes. On paper though, it is a private entity owned by foreign nationals.

scoobford ,

This has been a point of contention years here. Texas in general has very “loose” attitudes towards prisoner’s rights. Even centrists and some liberals don’t care about issues like this.

I don’t think this will change unless we are forced by the federal government. Even then, the state government spent years fighting reforms to the CPS system, despite being in contempt of court the whole time.

scoobford ,

Probably? There’s a decent amount of people on reddit calling for the dissolution and expulsion of Israel. US based companies rarely censor on the whims of the feds.

scoobford ,

It is a closes source program owned by an analytics company. I don’t know if there’s a good way to conclusively tell, but why else would they have bought it?

Seattle hospital won't turn over gender-affirming care records in lawsuit settlement with Texas (apnews.com)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is dropping a request for a Seattle hospital to hand over records regarding gender-affirming treatment potentially given to children from Texas as part of a lawsuit settlement announced Monday....

scoobford ,

Yeah, I’ve always voted in Arlington. They make you go to a specific polling place (or at least they told me they do, I didn’t show up at the “wrong” one to check), but otherwise they’re perfectly nice, provided you have ID and are registered. Line usually takes at most 30m, usually 0-15.

scoobford ,

You’ll need to install the torrentio add-on.

You should use a VPN, but it will work without one.

You can use a debrid provider and remove the other stremio addons you don’t use. I’ve never bothered, and to be honest I don’t even really understand what debrid is.

scoobford ,

Marginally maybe? Installing an add-on in torrentio doesn’t take more than a second, but it isn’t a process most people are already familiar with, like entering credit card details to open an account.

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