ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 @ Nemo @midwest.social

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Literally none. I enjoy interactive entertainment much more than passive consumption.

Depends if I know them. There's been a permanent camp around the corner from my house the last five years. My wife and I know a lot of the long-term residents and have helped them do laundry, charge phones, and file taxes. But a stranger? I'd direct them towards other local resources.

That they could get the same level of table service if waitresses were paid a flat wage.

That waitresses rely on tips to make up for a deficient wage instead of the other way around.

That less ice will mean more drink in the glass.

That the 185°F water from the coffee machine will clean the silverware better than the much hotter sterilizing rinse of the industrial dishwasher.

That they should wait to complain to a manager instead of telling me right away if something is off so I can fix it.

Honestly, most accusations of passive aggression seem to be from people used to more blunt social mores towards people with more circumspect ones.

But passive aggression IS real, and comes down to one thing: Trying to have conflict without confrontation; trying to attack or criticise others without allowing for response.

Phrasing a request by stating a desire that someone do the thing is not passive-agressive. Writing an angry anonymous note IS passive-aggressive. Criticizing a problem to someone who can fix it is not passive-agressive. Criticizing someone for a problem to a third person IS passive-aggressive.

I upvote comments that contribute to the discussion, even if I disagree. I downvote comments that detract from the discussion or use slurs. Comments that add nothing but aren't harmful I leave unvoted.

Posts are a little different. I upvote posts that are interesting (or sparked interesting comments) and on-topic for the muni. I downvote posts that are off-topic and videos posted without a text summary. Posts which don't interest me but are on-topic I leave unvoted.

Favorite movie is The Princess Bride, second is Life Is Beautiful.

Favorite genre is "space western".

I only use it in writing when making direct requests. I say it quite often.

If you want your chicken extra crispy, it takes longer.

well that's stuck in my head for life

If you can't make more money, cut expenses instead. Start by swapping your car for a bike and your apartment for a shared living situation. Go vegetarian, too: meat is expensive.

The used Commodore64 my parents bought from my cousin included a book on programming in BASIC. I wrote a few games and was hooked.

From there I moved on to ZZT and its internal scripting language, making dozens more games and sharing them with friends and Internet strangers. At the same time I was teaching myself HTML from online tutorials and making my first webpages.

By the time I was in college I was writing my own blogging software and doing freelance projects for grad students who needed specialized data-processing widgets. Also learning the more mathematical side of CS like computability theory and complexity theory and graph theory, and some boring computer engineering stuff that wasn't nearly as interesting to me.

When I left college I needed a job and stumbled into teaching, first just web design and later into to CS. The senior teachers in the CS department taught me even more about both how computers really work as well as how to talk about information and the ways we use and manipulate it. I finally understood both the Fourier transform and JavaScript.

Me, I look at the TP after to see if it's discolored.

Yes, horrible beliefs make a person horrible.

but No, I don't hate someone just because they are horrible. Horribleness is not an immutable property. People are horrible because they lack the ethical skills to be better, and those ethical skills can be taught, including the ability to examine and reject horrible beliefs.

$45/hr

They brought business into the bar but didn't source business there, always made sure to have the Johns leave a good tip, and were model patrons. As a bartender, I respected and appreciated that, one service professional to another.

Tom Swifty jokes and wild theorycrafting

pissy TP and paper-core cotton Q-tios can be composted, FYI

It's so-so. Treating people the way you want to be treated only works if you want the same things. Much better to treat others the way they want to be treated.

Sounds like you'd like to go out. Get a cheaper place and use the difference for adventures!

Lack of time. I stopped watching any TV.