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The company is called NoTip, which would have me hope that the business pays its drivers a good wage so they don’t rely on tips. Without knowing more than this one side, I can’t tell if the prices really are outrageous, or if this article is trying to draw people away from a business trying to get rid of tipping culture by wrapping it into the price of the items and paying well directly, the way it should be done.

Pancakes are great, but waffles are just the best. And they’re versatile - I’ve made my own recipe for cheesy waffles using queso dip from costco, and they’re so good with a dollop of sour cream.

I’m of the opinion that we’ve been specifically trained to be proud of our uninformed opinions, since that makes us easier to fool and exploit, but I don’t know enough to verify it.

Fresh baked bread that’s still warm enough to melt butter is my favorite, but toast is great for the rest of the loaf after that.

It took me a while, but I eventually realized that I’m not defined by my job, and I have such a rich fulfilling life outside of it, or I at least have the opportunity to build one. Once I stopped defining myself through my job, I was a lot happier and more motivated to just find another job and not worry about whether it’s something that a stranger would find impressive, since I’d be talking to them about other aspects of my life now anyway.

“Please do a wealth tax?” Who do you think taxes the wealthy? It’s certainly not the wealthy, and it’s certainly not the government, populated entirely by the wealthy. It’s the people who come to the houses and banks of the wealthy with masks, guns, and the willingness to kill and die for the sake of their country. The real soldiers - and there are scant few of them.

Yeah. For someone to be electable, they would need to get nearly 50% of the total votes, since they’d need to beat out the Republican party, which consistently gets high 40’s, but all it would take to disrupt the Democrats is to pull enough people away for them to dip below the Republicans’ number, which is usually less than 5% of the total votes. A whole order of magnitude of wiggle room between those 2 scenarios.

I plan on replacing most of my yard with native plants and getting a sign explaining the benefits, but for now I just deal with being the “bad” neighbor. I didn’t really care that much about what they think of me.

Not exactly. Plato was against books because they made it too easy to remember information - people no longer had to memorize facts, because now they could be written down, forgotten, and read later to be relearned. So it was very much someone arguing against new technology making things too easy, and whittling away at humanity’s ability to process and remember information, just like people arguing against AI today.

Ultimately, Plato was right that books made it harder for us to remember information, but the benefit of being able to share information so much more effectively outweighed that drawback, leading to books making people smarter overall even if they aren’t as good at retaining that information. The same can’t be said for AI, which further whittles away at our ability to retain information on top of limiting our ease of access to verifiably correct information, instead leading us toward assumptions and opinions, which is the real reason why this argument falls apart.

Eh, I got an electric leaf blower for $80 on sale for Father’s Day this year, just so that I could blow the leaves out from under my bushes and away from my foundation since I had ants in my house. It’s pretty quiet - far quieter than the gas lawn mowers my neighbors have running at all times of day - and gets leaves out of hard-to-reach places way better than a rake. Now the insects and I can coexist peacefully, and I get the benefits of fireflies in the summer without the drawback of ants in my house.

My neighbors always comment enviously about the amount of fireflies in my yard every year, and I always tell them it’s because I don’t rake my leaves the year before, but every year at this time my yard is the only one in the neighborhood with leaves on it.

People just can’t understand that their behavior affects the environment. Or maybe they understand that if they admit that this behavior does, they’d be forced to reassess how other behavior might be causing environmental changes, which would unravel the backwards world view they’re trying so hard to cling to.

Don’t worry, AI will still be around then to do all the thinking for us! It’ll tell us how this was all for the best, and how we should be thankful to our overlords! We’d surely be making the best of a bad situation and not following a plan for this exact thing to happen!

Reminds me of the game grumps bit where Princess Zelda was writing an overview of Hyrule Castle as an Airbnb while it was corrupted by Gannon.

Pretty sure all CEOs are hard-wired to automatically think they should get paid whenever anyone does anything.

Yeah, I’ve got a couple succulents, and leaves will fall off and propagate on their own in the pot pretty often. All they really have to do is fall stem-side down into the dirt and it’ll grow roots and form a new plant. I just gave my buddy a small jade plant that grew from my larger plant that was originally itself a small auto-propagation from my dad’s plant.

Doesn’t work. I’ve been rubbing salt and vinegar potato chips on my face every day for a week, and my acne has never been worse!

Oh, it’s the girl from the ring! I kept seeing a lady eating out some sort of bird creature.

The whole lesson here if we live to learn it should be that even when politics are boring, they’re still important. When all you see are old white dudes, it’s the people you elected that put them there - not the presidents themselves, but everyone else on the ballot in your local and state elections that you probably never even thought about, much less made an informed vote for.

If all your ever did was think about your presidential vote - or didn’t even bother to do that - then you specifically voted for the status quo, namely, the old white dudes. If you want change during the boring times you need to go and make it with your vote. I get it - I was the same “what’s the point?” voter, but I’m not anymore, and I’d hope anyone who lived through this will have grown that much at least.

Seems to me like he thought the pallet jack was meant to work like a spatula to scoop things up off the ground, and tried to force the box against something so it would stop sliding around and get on the jack.

Get this… it used to be freezing… during the day too!!