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Please do not go buy a lottery ticket or play the stock market today ;-)
Please do not go buy a lottery ticket or play the stock market today ;-)
It was a risk not adding /s especially since I tried really hard to not be too absurd as to be obvious. I will take your unease as a compliment :)
A common misconception. Take the so called “light bulb” for instance. People think they emit light. They do not. They ingest darkness. They are dark suckers. They pull in all the darkness around them, but objects get in the way, and that’s why there are shadows. And when they’re full, they stop working. That’s why they have a brown spot when they stop working, they are full of dark.
Don’t fall for the light emitting conspiracy. LONG LIVE THE DARK SUCKERS!!!
Yup. I had a rental condo in Vegas I sold after 20 years because I read the writing on the wall. And Vegas is doing an amazing job of preparing for water issues.
not just any rando city, literally Austin https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/2/27/a-75-billion-boondoggle-advances-in-austin
It is not possible to explain the horribleness that is Austin road planning and the complete and utter lack of available transit. Exhibit 1 https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/2/27/a-75-billion-boondoggle-advances-in-austin
Just consider what it must mean for an average Californian to say traffic is bad. These aren’t people coming from rural Montana complaining about city traffic.
I believe this is called the Salieri zone
[face palm] that is an amazingly important point I hadn’t thought of / not heard discussed before, about the service fee vs actual increase hourly wages. I mean it’s totally obvious now that you said it.
And I really do agree with owners taking the risk if they want the reward. I will only say that there IS a place for balance, and reward for performance. I think the current tip system is tilted WAY WAY WAY too much to the server’s risk and needs to go away. I also think restaurant margins are actually too thin to go 100% wage based and put all that risk on the owners. I fear the bankruptcy churn in restaurants would be too much.
And yet it seems to work out in Europe so I’m probably wrong.
Because fuck you, that’s why. -HP
(that’s just speculation on my part though).
I see what you did there, even if you didn’t :)
or that people are only exposed to trivial/childish publicly available examples.
by that logic there was nothing novel about solid state transistors since they just did the same thing as vacuum tubes; no innovation there I guess. No new ideas came from finally having a way to pack cooler, less power hungry, smaller components together.
I think if you fed your response into ChatGPT and asked it to summarize in two words it would return,
“Regulatory Capture”
Yeah it’s painful seeing how low it is. I lived there back in '99 which meant I also got to drive/ride over the damn itself. Good times.
Well there are plenty of reasons to throw shade at Vegas, but one thing they are doing well is water management.
https://www.fox5vegas.com/2023/06/13/new-law-limits-household-water-usage/
Interesting take; now do the Jan 6 rioters.
So you admit conservatives love authoritarian regimes?
I probably won’t use this because I’m lazy. But still want to say thank you for your efforts to support the community.
Hate the faith, love the faithful