KevonLooney @ KevonLooney @lemm.ee

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Nope.

• Pay the Uber driver based on whether they get out of the car and help you with bags. $1 or $2 per bag. I used to do that job. Driving the car is not that hard. Everything else needs a tip.
• To go orders get 5%. They are doing something for you. It's not fast food.
• Sit down food should be 20% minimum. Adjust based on the service, or the worst employees are getting paid the same as the best.
• The other guy is right. You should tip based on the skill involved. Pouring a beer: $1. Making a mixed drink: $2 to $3.
• You are tipping your barber too much. Avoid the chain and go to the local place where the barber gets 100% of the money, they just rent the chair. Tip 20% like normal.
• Delivery apps are totally fine in areas with lots of delivery drivers.

Basically, tip based on effort. Or you will end up with people who do not put in effort. It's true they don't tip in Europe. But it's much harder to get the attention of a waiter there. "Oh I'm sorry, am I interrupting your coordinated smoke break with all the other waiters? I just wanted to exchange money for food if that's ok with you."

Alvin Bragg is the Manhattan District Attorney like on Law and Order. They deal with a lot of financial crimes because a ton of financial things happen on Manhattan. Also, a lot of famous people visit Manhattan, so a lot of famous crime happens to be committed there.

That's the funny thing about Trump acting like he's being targeted by the NYC legal system. He is just one in a long line of famous people convicted by NYC prosecutors. They have P Diddy coming up next and Giuliani later this year. Sprinkle in some organized crime and some standard homicide, and the Trump trial is honestly small potatoes.

Italians, or at least Sardinians, already eat bugs. As expected, they make it into something delicious.

Casu martzu[1] (Sardinian: [ˈkazu ˈmaɾtsu]; lit. 'rotten/putrid cheese'), sometimes spelled casu marzu, and also called casu modde, casu cundídu and casu fràzigu in Sardinian, is a traditional Sardinian sheep milk cheese that contains live insect larvae (maggots).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_martzu

But humans have literally millions of years of social and cultural development in our brains. You think babies are a blank slate, but they are hardwired to be social and learn whatever their parents teach them.

You don't have to teach a baby what a human face is. You don't have to do anything but talk to a baby, or talk near them, to teach them language. Their brain automatically makes connections and creates new sentences.

Humans are experts at inference (moving from specific examples to general rules). That's why a child will learn what a "doggy" is, and then refer to a cow as a "big doggy". They've already internalized that a dog is an animal that walks on four legs. If you tell them 'It's a cow. The cow says "moo".' they will quickly get the idea.

I think the main problem with AI is we try to train it in a few months. Humans are experts at making connections and we expect it takes decades to train them.

You are still acting like there's some change that Biden could make fix this. He can't. This is a diplomatic apology, not a personal one. He's saying "I'm sorry, this is the best America can do." That's an apology, whether you think it is or not. If it wasn't, then countries would rarely ever apologize for things they can't fix.

You're also assuming that Zelenskyy doesn't understand this, or would be insulted by this. You call it "useless". As the leader of another democratic nation, Zelenskyy understands it very well and most likely receives it in the way it was intended.

Your comment is just wrong, and I expect an apology illustrating how you will change your ways.

I think you should have given them a three day ban earlier as a warning. Three day bans are nothing. I used to be a moderator and have been banned myself. Three days is like a timeout, and no one is hurt. It just says "cut it out".

exposing customer names, phone numbers, email addresses, login IP addresses, home addresses, and order details.

So, nothing important? You know what else has names, phone numbers, home addresses, etc? Publicly available databases. It's called a phone book. IP addresses? Please. It's not static anyway and it might just lead to a VPN.

Plus y’know the unreal amount of money it pays for work that isn’t even that hard once you’ve built the muscles.

Don't sell yourself short. Pay isn't about how hard your work is. It's about how much money the company makes off of you and how quickly they can replace you.

This was obvious during the pandemic when all the "low skill" jobs hiked their wages. It turned out most office jobs were not as important as retail work, so lots of people in retail got raises for the same work.

All I know is, this dude sounds half asleep. Nothing he said makes sense.

He's probably just playing with words, trying to score meaningless points. Ignore people like that. They will never be convinced because they just playing around.

Oh, he joined 4 days ago... Block and ignore.

This is the exact point. He was banned for spamming the same thing over and over. It was boring!

After I blocked him myself I realized he contributed nothing but drama. Go on Twitter if you want to create drama

I'm saying that Beijing has legitimacy in the eyes of the people of China, and has had that legitimacy for at least 1700 years. Forget Albany. You have to look at this from the point of view of a country that thinks it's thousands of years old (rightly or wrongly). The capital of Italy is Rome, and it will always be Rome.

That's a rule that should stay. They are literally no qualified candidates under 35. There are barely any qualified candidates over 35! There needs to be an upper limit though. At 70 IRAs force you to take withdrawals; it should be the same for the president.

And how good is your marksmanship with the weights in the way,?

Don't these guns kick up anyway? Wouldn't you need to hold them down?

Europe has a lot of things that are not reflected in GDP: health outcomes, good food, nice places to live, etc. There's a reason why it's a top vacation destination. China is not really comparable as most people would choose to live in Europe over China.

The US is more comparable, and is a better place to invest than Europe. But "competitiveness" is usually a euphemism for "cut wages and benefits". I am skeptical about this.

No, it would have to be Beijing, or at least Nanjing. The name "Beijing" literally means "northern capital". Nanjing means "southern capital". Other cities do not have the cultural cache to be the capital of China. It would be like France having a capital other than Paris.

Exactly, also the expert in the article says basically the same thing in more diplomatic language:

However, speaking to Newsweek Todd Landman, a professor of political science at Nottingham University in the U.K., said it was "still too far out from the election" to read much into swing state polls.

He said: "The race remains highly volatile, and it is still too far out from the election to make any firm conclusion from changing polls across these swing states."

New Mexico is 90% going for Biden. It's not a swing state.

Ah, then it makes sense that Iran provides no real support to the Palestinians. They're a different religion, so the Iranian regime only has an interest in using them against Israel.

Ok but you said "there's no excuse for driving in a city". There are a million excuses. You're obviously not disabled, but many people are. You're obviously younger, but many people are older. You are obviously okay with the cold. Many people are not.

Why don't you try imagining biking to work in 50°C heat, with a bad knee and a migraine? Plus asthma or anxiety, your choice. Also, put your kid and some groceries on the bike and see how easy it is.