I’m not aware of anywhere that pays (or is even allowed to pay) baristas what waiters and bartenders get. There may be exceptions. This post seems to be about literally anyplace with a new POS having basically options for 20-30% tips, despite the person behind it making like $15 an hour (at least where I live). Fortunately, lately, I’ll have the person reach around and press the “no tip” button often enough, since it’s usually the least obvious option available.

Damn, thank you. We’re snowed in AF here in Jersey (New), and I needed a good family flick, the kids are shit at helping me pick.

Nothing, now.

I had to double check the post, but I’ve concluded that what you said has nothing to do with if.

Yeah, my 8-year-old has the chrome book, but also gets physical homework, paper and pencil. Dunno how it’ll be as she gets older, but I like how it is so far.

I was thinking about trying to find Mavis Beacon and somehow getting it to function on Windows 11. No idea if there’s compatible versions. But I used Mavis Beacon all the time growing up and enjoyed the games, made learning to type (properly) fun.

Right? I’ve seen plenty of people who don’t know how to swing a hammer.

The laptops should be a tool, in addition to other tools. Being well rounded is the best thing you can be.

I learned the Vail/Morse thing from a Jon Bois video. His videos have taught me a lot of things, some useful, most trivial, but all stuff.

I dunno, if the vaccine was “safe,” and it really comes down to will this stop me getting a cold, I’d take one for the team. Maybe not the flu or COVID, although COVID never affected me so maybe I wouldn’t be a good candidate.

We just need an island of clones that we can test on, because clones aren’t real!

Avoid it, because it was so good.

Yeah, I’m 38 and remember red pistachios. Also remember finding some sort of worm thing burrowed into one of those red pistachios, while I was sitting at my grandfather’s kitchen table eating pistachios. Didn’t stop me. Well, it stopped me from eating that one. But I’m always leery if a pistachio has a hole in it.

Yeah, agree with everything you said. I let my kids play Roblox. I play with them sometimes, been playing some silly Shawarma game, it freaks them out.

So far, the biggest thing we talk about is this desire of every game to enter your wallet, and I tell them that a game shouldn’t be asking you for money, and now they both get annoyed at games that ask for money. I like to think I’ve created a safe environment for them to play in, and when the environment becomes something else, they ask me about it.

So mainly right now the worst that happens is the game is bullshit and they get mad, and I say hey, this game is bullshit (in more PG language), and we move on.

I firmly believe that prohibition just leads to curiosity. I think it’s impossible to insulate them from shit these days, so I’ll be part of their exposure, and hopefully I can help them learn.

Thanks for giving me a reason to go look at the picture again. I enjoyed the joke, and then you had me enter a second dimension. Meme recycling.

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

These things were gold in boot camp. I’m sure they had them in college but I have no recall of them from my brief time there. But the three months I was at Parris Island, and the fact that dudes stole some from the chow hall and the whole platoon had to pay for it, will have me remember them forever.

I like it, because as a kid I wanted to be Peter Pan, and I can feel the same way for different reasons as and adult with a son and daughter.

Just watched Hook with my daughter this weekend, so glad to see some obscure reference to it being made. Great flick, unfairly panned by critics, I won’t stand for it. Bad form.

But Lemmy told me it’s a simple thing to do.

Yeah, I guess I’m missing the point. You said only high value cases get lawyers, and I just knew that to not be true, and so that’s what I said. Yeah, are people with 50/50 cases getting representation? Probably not. I certainly see enough pro se plaintiffs though, and from my perspective I understand why they can’t find lawyers.

I see lawyers do it for anywhere from 10-50k settlements all the time. There’s law offices that just deal in volume PI settlements.