Actually, I’ve always had a rather extensive vocabulary, not to mention a phenomenal grasp of grammar and a superlative command of syntax. I simply chose not to employ them.
A four-hour system interruption in September at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri has been attributed to a cat jumping on a technician’s keyboard.
I didn’t care the character was gay. It just felt like it was heavy handed to point out he was gay. His relationship, and by extension his sexuality, had no impact on the story. Why even bring it up?
His sexuality and his relationship felt like it was shoe horned into the script so Disney could say they had a gay character.
He’s signed with Fox. It’s very strange when I realized the scripting, narrating, and editing for his shows had the same hyperbolic comments that Trump does.
“Most extreme”
“Worst”
“Greatest challenge”
“First time in Hells Kitchen/Kitchen Nightmare/random show history”
I hate his American shows. I want to see the actual food, not the bullshit manufactured drama.
His American shows are all ego stroking. Lots of nonsequitor comments from contestants and guests on how incredible he is. How sexy (which is very awkward) he is. Omg I can’t believe he’s right here.
Then the damn search bugs out and doesn’t search when I finish typing and either displays searches only on the first letter or I have to wait, delete a letter and then retype it.
Here’s a part of a cabinet in my wardrobe where my printer lives. It’s a bit noisy with all those hard surfaces so I am just about to put up some foam padding on all 5 sides....
A Texas grandfather who was about to officiate a wedding in Nebraska errantly shot and wounded his own 12-year-old grandson when he tried to fire a gun in the air to get the attention of guests Saturday, according to authorities....
Yea, I wouldn’t say “magically go off” but this isn’t the gun misbehaving. It was a negligent discharge through improper operation. Its not a malfunction of the gun.
And to the people who don’t get how old revolvers operate, they can go off without the trigger pulled in a very specific manner that isn’t going to occur without someone actively getting the gun ready to fire. It’s the manual operation of the firing action.
Some newer revolvers will have a mechanism that doesn’t allow the hammer to swing all the way forward without the trigger being in the pulled position, but not all of them so.
And for an example of how dangerous blanks can be, the actor Jon-Erik Hexum during filming took a gun with a blank, held it to his temple and pulled the trigger. The force of the blank killed him.
My present theory is that dreaming is an active, tho unconscious, deed. So step 1 is to make the unconscious, conscious. And then step 2 is to stop dreaming....
Well–well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don’t have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can’t you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?
What do you mean charge 20%? How sure is the consumer to be that that 20% goes to the employees?
Are they just tacking on 20% because they realize they can get that extra fee for no reason? It’s bullshit and predatory. People are looking at prices to judge where they want to/can afford to eat at and this behavior makes the business look cheaper at first glance.
No, fuck that shit. No tipping and no “service fee” bullshit. Just give us normal, straight prices on the menu. If you cannot afford to pay your staff at the prices for the meals, raise the prices.
I’ve seen places that even write on the menu “to pay our employees a living wage” or similar to justify the fee. Which again, is fucking bullshit! A businesses inability to price its product is no reason for me to deal with fees.
My point is that if someone leaves a 20% tip, that goes to the server and whoever they need to tip out like bartender and busboys. But it goes directly to them. When a business implements a service fee, that direct line to the service worker goes away. If I’m told there is a 20% fee to pay staff, I expect it to go directly to staff.
I’m all for dropping tips and paying living wages. But a “service fee” isn’t the way to do it. Just raise the damn prices.
A mandatory 20% fee is just the business saying that everyone has to tip 20%, and trust us that it actually goes to the servers/staff. There is functionally no difference culture-wise between giving consumers the choice to tip 20% and mandating a 20% service fee. It’s the same as the “gratuity added to parties over 8.”
As funnystuff stated in the other reply, since food prices have gone up, tip amounts have gone up as well.
The two main reasons I see that tip percentages have crept up is the social pressure to not be the one that tips “poorly” and that automated prompt with suggested tips.
Those end up in a feedback loop. If you’re standing next to someone and the tip options are 15, 18, and 20 percent, there is a social pressure not to tip the lowest amount. It’s the same where if there are 3 wines on the menu, the cheap, the reasonable, and the expensive. Most people won’t buy the cheapest option. The cheapest option is there to pressure you into the middle one. Well, now that they have that, why not slowly increase the suggested amount to 18, 20, 22. Or like we are seeing in a lot of places now. 20, 25, and 30.
What sucks is that there are no repurcussions for businesses that suggest these larger percentages. Nor are there any for businesses that traditionally are not tipped to display the screen as well. Not until we either pass legislation to regulate tipping prompts or collectively refuse to purchase services from these businesses.
Same. It gets a little skewed towards higher % at lower dollar amounts though. I might have a $8 meal with a water and leave $2. It’s worth more than $1 and I’m not messing with change.
Balancing heals, aggro, positioning, and DPS if no one is failing bad. But it’s epic to carry a team when they seem to want to suicide every chance they get.
A human, regardless of how many books they read, will have personal experiences that are undeniably unique to themselves. They will interpret the works they read differently from each other based on their worldly experiences. Their writing, no matter how many books they read and get inspired on, will always be influenced by their own personal lives. They can experience love, hate, heartbreak, empathy, sadness, and happiness.
This is something a LLM does not have, and in my opinion, is a massive distinguishing factor. So on a “fundamental” level, it is not the same. It is no where near the same.
Man used to be synonymous with human. For instance, when people talk about humans in prehistory, they might use the phrase “early man.” In that context, the word “man” is gender neutral.
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has slashed the number of people on its disinformation and election integrity team just weeks after it said it was hiring for new positions to help it guard against foreign interference....
I frequently find myself losing momentum at the end of things that I enjoy. For instance, I’ve been playing Baldur’s Gate 3 and loving it. I recently got into the last act (Act 3) of the game, and I’m finding myself a bit burned out on it and gravitating towards other games. I’m also in the last episode of Dimension...
A lot of times, I’ve mentally completed it. Even if I haven’t physically. Like video games. I usually get to the final boss, I’ve solved all the problems, done all the side quests, got all the items, upgraded all the things, leveled up to be super strong. Now it’s just… do the task. But mentally, I’ve “beaten” the game. I’m a high enough level it won’t be a challenge and I already know how the story ends.
While propaganda at home tells us how bad the Iraqis, Saudis, afghanis, Russians, etc. are and how AMAZE-BALLS the USA is. We tend to forget that other countries are spreading their own propaganda on how amazing they are and how bad the USA is.
Not everyone loves us, no matter how much the media portrays us as the “good guys.” Situations are not black and white, there is no ultimate right or wrong. There are infinite shades of gray, infinite opinions, and infinite means of achieving things. You can look at our politics are and how much discourse and compromises there are.
Though most people think they are the good guys and most people aren’t running with malicious intentions. Even doing what we do, thinking we are the good guys. Means we’ll run up against people that disagree and we are always going to make enemies.
“Nobody uses water,” one man in a Dodgers cap said in Spanish when Maria Cabrera approached, holding flyers about silicosis, an incurable and suffocating disease that has devastated dozens of workers across the state and killed men who have barely reached middle age....
When running a fireworks show, safety is by far the most important part of the job.
In the safety briefing before we start working in the morning, the one before we load shells, AND the one before we fire the show we remind them that the person most responsible for their safety is themselves. If they do not feel safe about something, anything, do not do it and come to me. I will never shame someone for wearing PPE. I will always be inspired from whatever device or tool they come up with to make the job safer or more comfortable.
Everything can wait while we sort out safety issues.
My two favorite variations to make are a s’mores old fashioned with graham cracker infused whiskey and chocolate bitters. Like the article, garnish with a roasted marshmallow. If I am willing to deal with cleaning the glasses, rimming them with melted chocolate and crushed graham crackers can really be fun.
The next is a Reese’s old fashioned. Again using chocolate bitters but this time with peanut butter whiskey like screwball. Personally, I find screwball tastes sweet enough that it doesn’t need much, if anything, to sweeten it more. You can also rim this glass with melted chocolate.
I have seen a few of these with similar story lines and realized we are living it right now. They have the best healthcare, the best food, the best everything and most of us are a few dollars from disaster. That scares some of us to death literally from all the stress it causes.
Feels like a dumb question, but I haven’t ever worn a pair of boots that didn’t hurt in some way. Is this just a feature of boots, or am I doing something wrong?
Jackson soon discovered that Amazon suspended his account because a Black delivery driver who’d come to his house the previous day had reported hearing racist remarks from his video doorbell. In a brief email sent to Jackson at 3 a.m., the company explained how it unilaterally placed all of his linked devices and services on...
I’ve never smoked, but I’ve been around people that do. What do people feel during/after smoking? It doesn’t seem to make people high or hallucinate or anything. It maybe mildly relaxes them?
During the trial it was revealed that McDonald’s knew that heating their coffee to this temperature would be dangerous, but they did it anyways because it would save them money. When you serve coffee that is too hot to drink, it will take much longer for a person to drink their coffee, which means that McDonald’s will not...
Are people seriously bitching that a handhelds performance doesn’t match current PlayStation or Xbox specs which are ten times it’s size?
If the switch 2 is a handheld, it has so many more physical, power, and heat constraints and I am impressed that it even matches the previous gens consoles.
The same week his state outlawed racial discrimination based on hairstyles, a Black high school student in Texas was suspended because school officials said his locs violated the district’s dress code....
There is another quote from him saying it’s a rule that’s been on the books for 30 years. As if that’s a good enough reason to keep it rather than actually being a reason to reexamine it’s worth in today’s society.
It gets worse when I start trying to organize them by material and head shape as well.
Do I keep the identical ones together? Sure there are only 5 of them, but does that need it’s own bin or baggie? I go back and forth, sometimes I’ll organize them separately and then a month or two later I’ll think that’s crazy and combine them. Then I’ll look for a few identical screws and decide I should separate them again. The most minor differences in screws in the same project will annoy me so much.
xkcd: Language Acquisition (imgs.xkcd.com)
Source: xkcd.com/2839/...
Whole blu-ray disks of movies site/tracker
Hallo guys,...
Brought my Chromecast with Google TV to a Hotel, TV is framed. (lemmy.world)
Fuck my prior preparation day with the Chromecast with Google TV before the hotel checking…...
Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard (www.theregister.com)
A four-hour system interruption in September at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri has been attributed to a cat jumping on a technician’s keyboard.
Technically it's always the first in China until they get removed from the movie (startrek.website)
people that use reddit repost bots- are you okay? why do you suck?
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Today is about to become unpleasant (startrek.website)
What UI design trend do you hate the most?
I personally hate rounded corners and shadows added everywhere. Makes most things look crappy and smudged.
What is your ringtone?
I feel like changing my ringtone....
Am I building a fire hazard? (lemmy.world)
Here’s a part of a cabinet in my wardrobe where my printer lives. It’s a bit noisy with all those hard surfaces so I am just about to put up some foam padding on all 5 sides....
Wedding officiant accidentally shoots own grandson after trying to get guests’ attention (nypost.com)
A Texas grandfather who was about to officiate a wedding in Nebraska errantly shot and wounded his own 12-year-old grandson when he tried to fire a gun in the air to get the attention of guests Saturday, according to authorities....
The unemployment cycle (lemmy.world)
How do you exit a dream?
My present theory is that dreaming is an active, tho unconscious, deed. So step 1 is to make the unconscious, conscious. And then step 2 is to stop dreaming....
What's the cheapest online storage that you know of?
I’m looking for a diskspace of possibly 1TB online...
They Need To Stop Doing This (kerala.party)
Not today, sorry. (startrek.website)
Anon loses respect for her boyfriend (sh.itjust.works)
Anon is dating too young (sh.itjust.works)
Authors Are Furious After Finding Their Works on List of Books Used To Train AI (www.themarysue.com)
Authors using a new tool to search a list of 183,000 books used to train AI are furious to find their works on the list.
Gimme some of that Bay Leaf confidence (i.postimg.cc)
Reddit is dead. Long live the Fediverse. (lemmy.ml)
They're human, not a child-eating clown (startrek.website)
X makes cuts to disinformation and election integrity team (www.nbcnews.com)
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has slashed the number of people on its disinformation and election integrity team just weeks after it said it was hiring for new positions to help it guard against foreign interference....
How to say the number 92 (i.imgur.com)
Fake Tiananmen "tank man" photo shows up as first result on Google (sh.itjust.works)
Source: www.404media.co/first-google-search-result-for-ti…
Losing momentum at the end of things
I frequently find myself losing momentum at the end of things that I enjoy. For instance, I’ve been playing Baldur’s Gate 3 and loving it. I recently got into the last act (Act 3) of the game, and I’m finding myself a bit burned out on it and gravitating towards other games. I’m also in the last episode of Dimension...
Don't ask me which ones tho, cuz I'm an old (lemmy.world)
California workers who cut countertops are dying of an incurable disease (www.latimes.com)
“Nobody uses water,” one man in a Dodgers cap said in Spanish when Maria Cabrera approached, holding flyers about silicosis, an incurable and suffocating disease that has devastated dozens of workers across the state and killed men who have barely reached middle age....
Punch - three variations on an Old Fashioned (punchdrink.com)
This was a delightful read.
I feel like we're all stuck in a movie where all the rich people live on some kind of floating island or satellite with everything they need to live well, and all of us have zero chance of going there
I have seen a few of these with similar story lines and realized we are living it right now. They have the best healthcare, the best food, the best everything and most of us are a few dollars from disaster. That scares some of us to death literally from all the stress it causes.
Do you have boots that are comfortable?
Feels like a dumb question, but I haven’t ever worn a pair of boots that didn’t hurt in some way. Is this just a feature of boots, or am I doing something wrong?
If you had access to a scifi-level artificial super intelligence that could simulate anything perfectly at unimaginable speeds, what experiments would you want to run that would be unethical otherwise
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The Man Amazon Erased (www.tabletmag.com)
Jackson soon discovered that Amazon suspended his account because a Black delivery driver who’d come to his house the previous day had reported hearing racist remarks from his video doorbell. In a brief email sent to Jackson at 3 a.m., the company explained how it unilaterally placed all of his linked devices and services on...
What book do you feel is/was kinda overhyped?
Like books that got very popular but you never really could get into.
What does cigarette smoking do for people?
I’ve never smoked, but I’ve been around people that do. What do people feel during/after smoking? It doesn’t seem to make people high or hallucinate or anything. It maybe mildly relaxes them?
TIL In the Hot Coffee lawsuit against McDonalds,punitive damages were given due to McDonalds intentionally overheating coffee to save money on refills (www.poolelg.com)
During the trial it was revealed that McDonald’s knew that heating their coffee to this temperature would be dangerous, but they did it anyways because it would save them money. When you serve coffee that is too hot to drink, it will take much longer for a person to drink their coffee, which means that McDonald’s will not...
Nintendo switch 2 akin to PS4/XBO power (kotaku.com)
Nintendo, one generation behind once again.
A Black student was suspended for his hairstyle. The school says it wasn’t discrimination (apnews.com)
The same week his state outlawed racial discrimination based on hairstyles, a Black high school student in Texas was suspended because school officials said his locs violated the district’s dress code....
Screw storage for 3D prints. Still need to extend for more stuff. (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/5201970