What a mindfuck. At one point you/I/we are blindly making assumptions about what the human on the other side of the counter is thinking - or being egotistical enough to believe the employee’s transaction with me (and the potential $1) was of any significance to them.

My guess is that the decision makers/consultants at that business are aware of these potential reactions - if they’re any good at being greedy, they’ve dug far deeper. They just play the game of guilt to get the patron to subsidize employee wages.

Because if the tips aren’t enough to make ends meet for the employee, it’s the customer’s fault.

Sometimes I disengage from my personal viewpoint and marvel at the complexity of it all. Using humanity against itself for personal profit without incurring a proportional amount of public disdain. Then I resume being disgusted.

We have sooooo much potential as a community. I would give literally anything (of myself - not of the ones I care about) for a star trek future. But I also like Dune, The Expanse, Foundation…

Final thought - I’m rewatching 2000’s battlestar atm and it made me wonder:

If humanity has an AI war and we won - how could we ever prevent someone/some thing creating a new homegrown AI later? We almost have to merge at some level?

Anyways, sorry if you read this. Be well

Fo sho. Temporary things can and should be low cost/quick. Getting a hammer drill and tap-cons that aren’t required for the end product may just serve to degrade the existing structure in the long run.

Also- we just had our steep ass roof reshingled and were getting water in the attic along the chimney after installation. The 30 year warranty got us two dudes back on the roof with three tubes of caulk… 30 year caulk?

We called a manager back over to inspect the work. He gave us a quote on siding, because he believed that was the issue. There is no siding between the roof and chimney… Can’t quite afford the lawyer without a guarantee we would win and get our money back.

I try not to think about it. We’ll live in this house until we die because dishing it off to some other unsuspecting fool would haunt me afterwards. That - and the black mold will probably speed things up a bit.

Hard to say what is what these days.

Enough darkness. Hope y’all enjoy some quality time with loved ones (or whatever works for you) this weekend!

So true. I try to think in these terms when it comes to issues at work that folk can’t find a workable solution to. Not quite creativity, just approaching the problem from a different angle.

Exactly. Not to mention all the exhaust I have to breathe when I bike to work.

This stogie sized covert camera. The photos looked like a screenshot of the game snake.

Perfectly to what end? Is this a teaser for season two of “three body problem”?

Yeah- if this was previously possible, I would have expected it many times over

I wish everyone treated that as a matter of fact like you all did.

Two of the many possible scenarios:

Grampy set up a timer for these shots. Creative, intelligent, sweet gramps.

Grandkid helped with the project. Which led to grandparent sex.

I prefer this second situation. It’s either a sweet kid who created unintended consequences - or (please let this one be true) - such a loving act that the grandkid isn’t concerned with the idea of their grandparents going at it all sloppy and passionate as a result of their creativity.

Sorry for being crass. In all honesty, it appears there is a lot of love in their lives and I’m happy for them. This kind of good comes from the actions of quality folk, not by accident. Just good things happening to good people.

<3

Flex that chaotic good!

I like how they only hide their own name

Yeah, I tend to think the first one to posit a statement should also be the first to supply evidence

My lists only serve to briefly pause the stress

I agree with your point - they’ll hold on to all data bc it’ll be useful in some context some day.

But as a ~40 y.o. U.S. citizen, I also share the previous viewpoint. My economic outlook has been downgraded several times due to external political factors and I’m (internally, at least) jaded and cynical as all hell. The best uses of my personal data would be to steal my loose ~$200 or to jail me and profit off my slave labor.

I still use privacy apps to mitigate unpleasant surprises and am against mass surveillance in all forms, but fuck the bottom feeders at the top of the economic food chain. I hope they are supremely bored when sifting through my bland porn tastes, i.e. - “boobies”.

I like to chase my floaters around when I’m bored. Scares the coworkers.

And Don is the one without a trekking pole. Smh my damn head

Def has its own vibe. As long as I don’t try to entertain the driver who undoubtedly wants to hear none of it.

Shit him out!

Too much or too little?

It happens. I didn’t notice much bias