It has become a gatcha game, you put time in and you might get something worthwhile out of it, or you might get more poverty
It does sound simple right? I've been an avid voter and I'm in a bubble here in district 35 so it feels like everyone I know avidly votes progressive as well but obviously that's why the bubble was built.
I read this article too and I don't see where npr is saying this is ok. They are giving these workers a platform to express their side of it but what the workers are really saying is that they are being exploited financially. This main guy being interviewed says he loves doing this but the laws are allowing the business to subsidise his wages based on customer kindness. That is clearly not ok, the tipped minimum wage is clearly not ok.
"If there is some means of tipping that's available to you, that should signal to you that workers there aren't being paid enough," says Schenker.
can we do anything about it?
Any suggestions on decent chairs? I'm in the market for two chairs for my wife and son doing grad school and college from home.
Everyone says they get aerons or steelcase leaps cheap but in central Texas the best I've seen are 400-600 and at least an hour drive each way. That's still kind of steep for me (especially given the two household members in university right now)
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Kurt Vonnegut, 1953
Sherlock Zen is a logic puzzle game that looks like dos shareware from the win 3.1 era.
The previous version was one of the first android games I ever installed, I played through the free levels a couple of times but never bought the unlock.
I thought about it recently when doing a grid logic puzzle in a magazine I bought at the airport and went looking for it. I was sad that it didn't seem to exist anymore and eventually went down a rabbit hole and found the creators website which gave me huge nostalgia. He is also active on mastodon. So I bought the new version finally and have been thoroughly enjoying it!
What I am seeing here is that mostly people regret playing free to play games. That tells me that their business model is working as intended but we should all wise up.
My regret is spending too much time making cool mods work together and then not playing the games, oblivion was the worst because I didn't get it until skyrim was a year or two old and there were so many stupid mods out already. Most of them are janky or old and have incompatibilities with each other. I discovered pretty quickly that I need less options not more in open world rpgs because I'm an adult and don't have time to play games the way my heart wants to (look in every door, under every bush, around every corner).
every time I see this I think someone must care about this person and is missing the red flags about their crippling addiction
I've tried some craft non-alcoholic beers and didn't really like them. Too sweet, grainy in a weird way. It sounds hard to pull off removing the alcohol at a small scale anyway and it seems like a lot of work. I have never heard of the super low abv recipes in this thread, I'll have to look closer.
I think kombucha is going to feel the most like brewing beer in the sense that it requires sanitation, boiling, waiting. If you don't like it then probably a no go but my family is obsessed. I made it a few times but only thought it was better than store bought once, I'd like to get better at.it.
Hop water also sounds really good, I had hopped hard seltzer but the cheap alcohol in hard seltzer always tastes bad to me. Reminds me of making straight table sugar alcohol.
Craft sodas with homemade extracts would also be fun. Low sugar with steeped peach syrup and mint or strawberry basil. I have only tried root beer from extract and keg carbonated lemonade so far.
I think this is going to become a stock response for me
Raising minimum wage or putting a social safety net in place so we have no working homeless or unfed children.