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@HardwareGeek I'm actually not quite sure what the proper protocol for self-service/fast food place is. I was under the impression that typically one wouldn't tip there (e.g., if I pick something up at a panda express or whatever, there are no tips involved).
However, those technically still have all the behind-the-scenes staff that you mention. (And they're now asking for tips as well.)
Has this changed? Or is the fact that they're asking for tips nowadays just part of the aforementioned overreach?
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@cvi I have never tipped at a fast food place. Some places might have a cup or something for tips to be shared by the staff. If I've paid with cash I'll usually at least drop my coins in there (otherwise they end up getting dumped on my desk at home when I empty my pockets).
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Always tip the girl running the beer cart at the golf course.
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@boomzilla I avoid that by avoiding golf courses.
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@HardwareGeek yes, we know you're a golf-vegan. But I know that requires you to keep telling us.
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@boomzilla Ironically, omnivores mention vegans far more often than vegans do.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla Ironically, omnivores mention vegans far more often than vegans do.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla I avoid that by avoiding golf courses.
I wouldn't mind tipping the girl running the beer cart (assuming there is decent beer to be had), but I don't think I'd subject myself to golf for that.
Edit: , see below.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
the girl running the bear cart
If there's a bear cart, the girl will most likely be running, yes. If you tip her over, you're an evil bastard, though.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla I avoid that by avoiding golf courses.
I wouldn't mind tipping the girl running the bear cart (assuming there is decent beer to be had), but I don't think I'd subject myself to golf for that.
The beer cart is being pulled by a girl bear? I'd prefer a bare girl.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Always tip the girl running the beer cart at the golf course.
Since my only golf reference is this blonde bimbo popping up in my YT feed I would assume tipping is on the golf course is inversely related to the level of trouble you can get in at home.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
I'd prefer a bare girl
You really are trying to convince me to take up golf aren't you?
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
I'd prefer a bare girl
You really are trying to convince me to take up golf aren't you?
Who wouldn’t want to stroke their shaft and strike their balls in the presence of a beer girl?
Filed under: me too thread is
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@PotatoEngineer This just means the laws regarding punishments for malicious false accusations need some re-evaluation.
No, seriously. If someone could profit from falsely painting a tenant as a squatter, then this is not something that the police need to fix, but the parliament. Punishments from any kind of illegal activity need to be higher than the potential profits divided by the probability of getting caught; crime must never pay statistically.
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@acrow Bearing false witness is usually regarded as being among the most serious of crimes, with normal punishments involving significant jail time, and probably resulting in major financial problems for the convicted too (who would want to do business with that sort of liar?)
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Punishments from any kind of illegal activity need to be higher than the potential profits divided by the probability of getting caught; crime must never pay statistically.
Laughs in anti-trust / competition / privacy protection laws
Like half of the big players in IT, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc., only exist because it is highly profitable to pay the fines in return for market dominance.
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@topspin Which is where you get laws with maximum fines like "Several millions or up to 10% of gross worldwide revenue, whichever is higher".
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@acrow Bearing false witness is usually regarded as being among the most serious of crimes, with normal punishments involving significant jail time, and probably resulting in major financial problems for the convicted too (who would want to do business with that sort of liar?)
Yeah, but conviction isn't nearly as common as you'd like. The usual standard is that the prosecutor must prove that the liar deliberately lied, rather than merely being "mistaken" and pigheaded about it. It's a fairly high bar, and in a lot of real situations, there isn't enough proof.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
So you think you’re tipping the employee, the law says the employee has to get the tip, they do, and yet you’re effectively tipping the employer.
Eh, you'd just end up paying much more money for your food, assuming they got paid the same in wages as they got in tips, though of course that will vary by restaurant.
Every now and then, a restaurant tries this, and does the no-tips-higher-prices thing. But people don't have perfect information, and are bad/lazy at math. So at a quick glance, the no-tips restaurant just looks 15% more expensive, and they lose sales until they revert the policy or go out of business. It's also harder to hire good waitstaff, because servers know they can make good money on tips -- probably much more than that flat 15% if they're particularly good.
It is, unfortunately, a very difficult thing to change as a culture.
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How can they be sure that it was not a new Chinese method of bombing the US?
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@TimeBandit Great business opportunity: sell cardboard AdBlock sheets
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@Applied-Mediocrity But there's also a camera integrated which will shut off the main screen when you do not often enough look at the second screen.
It's similar to an old idea, which back then was called telescreen (oh dear, did I remember that correctly?).
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Not sure if an actual scam or just a way to fool VC investors out of money.
@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity But there's also a camera integrated which will shut off the main screen when you do not often enough look at the second screen.
It's similar to an old idea, which back then was called telescreen (oh dear, did I remember that correctly?).Nothing a little bit of host file blocking or, worst case, a soldering iron, can’t fix.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
But there's also a camera integrated which will shut off the main screen when you do not often enough look at the second screen.
Simple fix: put a picture of you in front of the camera
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity But there's also a camera integrated which will shut off the main screen when you do not often enough look at the second screen.
It's similar to an old idea, which back then was called telescreen (oh dear, did I remember that correctly?).So the real alternative revenue stream is amateur porn, then.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla I avoid that by avoiding golf courses.
I wouldn't mind tipping the girl running the beer cart (assuming there is decent beer to be had), but I don't think I'd subject myself to golf for that.
Edit: , see below.
Just the tip though, right?
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
But there's also a camera integrated which will shut off the main screen when you do not often enough look at the second screen.
Simple fix: put a picture of you in front of the camera
Even simpler and less detectable fix: Cover the ad screen with something you actually like watching. Like a pair of smaller screens, for example. Just leave the camera visible so it looks like you're occasionally glancing at the ads.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Best Buy says that you'd be saving ~$260 or so. No second screen but you get your choice of built-in StupidTV platforms.
Too bad we can't watch Quibi on it.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Like a pair of smaller screens, for example.
P.S. If anyone's confused why you'd want smaller screens next to the main screen: They're for keeping tabs on when the commercials are over, so you know to switch the main screen back to the show you were watching.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
telly-free-4ktv-second-screen-advertising-ilya-pozin-1235611509/
Around the turn of the millennium, you could get free desktop computers that came loaded with adware.
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Who needs quantum computers when your benevolent Overlord will helpfully sniff your passwords from emails and decrypt them for you?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Who needs quantum computers when your benevolent Overlord will helpfully sniff your passwords from emails and decrypt them for you?
If they're doing this to look for malware, they're no doubt also scanning encrypted files for illegal content also.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Who needs quantum computers when your benevolent Overlord will helpfully sniff your passwords from emails and decrypt them for you?
If they're doing this to look for malware, they're no doubt also scanning encrypted files for illegal content also.
"illegal" Yes, for sure. Legit. Look not at the "man" behind the curtain...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Who needs quantum computers when your benevolent Overlord will helpfully sniff your passwords from emails and decrypt them for you?
He later discovered that once the files made their way to OneDrive, they were wiped off of his laptop hard drive and detected as malware in his OneDrive account.
Just shows that OneDrive is the real malware.
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@Dragoon Either someone fucked up the original measurements or there was some kind of contamination going on that produced a compound that would be of interest... if we only knew what it was.
This is why an experiment shouldn't really count until it has been independently replicated.
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@dkf since this is a repeat, it points to fucked up measurements instead of anything of interest. Or misconduct.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
there was some kind of contamination going on that produced a compound that would be of interest... if we only knew what it was.
Polywater?
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Good news for some of you, so this could actually also fit into the "Things that remind you of WTF members" thread.
Mosquitoes tend to prefer the scent of Dawn and Dial over the odour of an unwashed person.
says a news article in Nature (likely paywalled):
It also states:
An analysis of the soaps revealed four compounds that attracted mosquitos and three compounds, including a component of American bourbon, that seemed to ward off the insects.
So, better do not wash when you want to stay mosquito-free.
Better clean yourself internally with a good Bourbon.A link to the original (likely non-paywalled) article:
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(23)00744-7
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YouTube is trying hard to replace traditional TV
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@BernieTheBernie I take another approach and use soaps that don't advertise a lot. Dr Bronner's also provides me with plenty of reading material when I'm in the shower.
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@TimeBandit would have been ironic if finished in Anvil.
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@loopback0 true, Ubisoft doesn't occupy any part of the building in question.
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