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only mostly dead and not dead dead

Nice reference, bro. That was the second movie I ever bought, on VHS.

Man, I read these comments and I can relate to so many of them. But honestly, this year, nothing. We've recently moved to an area that's more healthy for our family. I have a partner who's not abusive. My kids and myself are getting the mental healthcare that we need. It's snowy outside! We have a Christmas tree and presents! It was not amazing; there was nothing over the top or spectacular. But there was nothing bad. Damn, that feels nice.

When I was a kid, someone gave me a Transformers toy. After I came home with it, we destroyed it ritualistically to ensure that the demons within it would not plague our home.

Or, more simply: oh you sweet summer child.

It probably doesn't help that a lot of things will take your emoticons and automatically convert them into emojis for you. Like you type :-) and it changes it to 🙂 without even asking. I've run into this in a lot of chat clients.

I just pushed a major update to prod on my QuickBooks app. I may have made a terrible mistake.

It's not the same thing, but it looks like you haven't got a match yet. I'm in my 40's and just had jaw surgery about 6 months ago. Everyone I could find seemed wildly glad they'd done it. I'm relatively early in recovery and still somewhat annoyed with the process. However, my teeth line up how they should now so that's pretty sweet. (That was the reason for it.) Also my face isn't crooked any more and my tongue has more room and apparently I don't snore any more.

It sounds like the tongue tie surgery is much less invasive and stuff in your mouth heals pretty quick. (All I'm waiting for at this point is nerves and bone.) I ultimately decided to go ahead with it even though I feel like I'm pretty old, because I figure I should live at least another 40 years, and 40 years is a long, long time. May as well make it a little better if possible.

I keep getting more and more glad that I moved here.

So the weird block character in the "see... for details" line is replacing "nitrd-switch-roo" just to shorten the line? That's what I was trying to figure out.

Woah, I grew up in Portland, do they really call it soda there now? That's wild.

Lately I've been seriously thinking about resurrecting my FidoNet node. It looks like FidoNet still exists!

I imagine to accomplish this, you would probably be trying to rotate them out rather than pulling straight up.

lol you're all over the board

Your comment has nothing to do with the comment you are replying to.

(she's a runner)

toilet paper (how is she always running out?!)

You included a question mark, but I feel like you already answered your question...

One tamales.

What do you suppose "self insured" means?

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for sticking it to big corporations, but we could just be honest about what we're saying: I don't care if shoplifting costs retailers money.

You're 100% right on the second point, though, they anticipate some amount of shrinkage when setting prices.

That's a good question, I doubt I could make a very accurate guess. Just broadly though, based mainly on the lack of an immediately obvious payoff, I'd guess less than 50%.

It amazes me when I spin up some random server on a cloud provider and it's immediately getting tons of traffic from bots searching for insecure ssh servers and default WordPress admin credentials and then like. If that's the short of stuff they're counting, I'd believe it. But yeah, it's not like all the commenters on this post are bots.

The difference I see with supersonic jets is that our hypothetical scenario is all about an instantaneous occurrence, whereas jets start at a standstill and accelerate up to that speed relatively gradually, meaning there is some opportunity for air displacement to begin before the jet arrives and occur over some marginally longer time period.

The path to change through customers decreasing their tips would be:

• Workers who rely on tips for income make a lot less money, many of them suffer. There is no impact on the companies.
• Workers who can, move to different industries. There is less competition for these roles, and they are filled with less skilled and/or more desperate workers. Companies employ more draconian tactics to compel performance, which the more desperate workers will tolerate.
• Eventually the quality of service will deteriorate to an extent that customers will start to notice. Most customers won't really care. Companies will raise prices to compensate for the few customers who leave.
• Given the money saved by not tipping, customers won't mind the higher prices. Companies will tout their record profits on earnings calls with shareholders.
• Eventually some kind of legal or political action will be mounted to challenge the minimum wage exception, now that "tipped employees" don't make minimum wage when counting their tips any more. Most people don't feel like they're affected and don't care. Companies lobby the government to ensure it is not successful, or if it is, to ensure that it is toothless and won't impact their earnings.
• Companies raise prices more with the excuse of the recent actions. Customers are now paying more than they used to when including tips. Workers are poor and abused. Shareholders think these companies are winners and invest more.
• Problem solved?