CoderKat

I disagree that customers are happier. People constantly complain about tipping. Those people are clearly not happy. Much of the world doesn't do the tipping model, so it doesn't seem like it is worthwhile for quality of service.

I do agree that staff are happier because they on average would make more (at least more than the paltry minimum wage most states have). But it comes at the cost of taking advantage of customers (basically trying to guilt trip them into paying more). I don't support such business practices. Not to mention it's not actually fair pay. You're not actually being paid for quality of service. You're paid for how much they like you, which leads to racial and gender pay disparities.

And the real winner? The business that gets to pay pennies to wait staff. They could incorporate the average tip into their prices and maintain the same pay. But they don't want to. They want to advertise low prices so that they can get the full value from low tippers. They often even outright push mandatory tipping with auto gratuities, which is peak sleazeball behavior.

The pre installation also means the OEM will verify compatibility, a common complaint.

I'll have you know I get better reception when it's up my ass!

This is the first thing that came to my mind, too. I'm a omnivore myself and admittedly love my meat, but it's very bad for the environment and I can't deny the ethical concerns are there. At the very least, I can see low key vegetarianism being the norm in 20 years, where the norm would simply be to not have meat products, and meat might instead be a more niche diet or simply not the norm.

If lab grown meat manages to become scalable enough, I can also see that nearly completely replacing "real" meat. Once it's at least as affordable, I think "real" meat's days would be numbered. It'd become a thing only for purists/elitists/exotic diners. I would even expect that lab grown meat would eventually become cheaper than "real" meat simply because it would be far faster to grow and take fewer resources than to grow an entire animal to adulthood.

As an aside, would labe grown meat be considered vegan? I think it would be since no animal is harmed in the making of it. I imagine many existing vegans wouldn't want to eat something that tastes like meat, but it would be the thing that converts practically everyone else. I sure don't see why I'd ever want to eat "real" meat again if I could get a comparable lab grown meat that doesn't harm animals and is better for the environment. That's just a win win.

Also, has anyone tried to tell a kid not to do something? It doesn't work lol. What kinda childhood did y'all have? Cause I very distinctly remember how kids were constantly getting around my school's filters. I remember how many people got stuff like alcohol and tobacco from their friends. Every kid figured out how to watch porn from an early age, too, despite the fact that all these arguments against social media apply to porn (and arguably porn is worse for people simply because of the unrealistic and unhealthy expectations it sets).

I'm not saying don't have rules just because your kids will break them. But accessing social media is such a hilariously easy rule to break. And kids won't respect you if they disagree strongly with your rules. Setting a "no alcohol" rule is socially acceptable, but a "no social media" rule is just gonna breed rebellion. Unlike alcohol, they're gonna be exposed to it every day through their friends. Their friends will send them links in chats. They will find ways around your rules and they'll resent you for them.

At best, you can just delay how long before kids get exposed to social media and how long before they figure out how to get around your rules. But the last one won't take long. My parents had stupid rules surrounding the internet and I learned fast how to get around them.

The much better approach is to talk to your kids. Teach them the dangers. Build a good rapport with them so that they trust you and will talk to you if they're being bullied or the likes. If you just ban something, your kids are gonna use it anyway but without any knowledge of the dangers and they will not come to you if something goes wrong. This is the exact same issue that comes up with alcohol and sex. It's not a new problem. Just a new thing being banned by a new generation.

Well, obviously you put sauce on it. A nice mayo goes great with post its. But if you're using the premium cardstock, may I recommend pairing it with a sparkling ranch?

But how will CEO types pay for the yacht and fourth house that way??

I think those in charge often don't care. A lot of them don't actually have any incentive for long term performance. They just need a short/medium term stock performance and later they can sell. Heck, they'll even get cash bonuses based solely on short term performance. Many C-secs aren't in for the long haul. They'll stay for maybe 5-10 years tops and then switch jobs, possibly when they see the writing on the wall.

Even the owners are often hoping to just survive until some bigger company buys their business.

And when the company does explode... They'll just declare bankruptcy and later make a new company. The kinds of people who created companies rarely do it just once. They do it over and over, somehow managing to convince investors every time.

The "not willing to train" thing is one of the biggest problems IMO. But also not a new one. It's rampant in my field of software dev.

Most people coming out of university aren't very qualified. Most have no understanding of how to actually program real world software, because they've only ever done university classes where their environments are usually nice and easy (possibly already setup), projects are super tiny, they can actually read all the code in the project (you cannot do that in real projects -- there's far too much code), and usually problems are kept minimal with no red herrings, unclear legacy code, etc.

Needless to say, most new grads just aren't that good at programming in a real project. Everyone in the field knows this. As a result, many companies don't hire new grads. Their advertised "entry level" position is actually more of a mid level position because they don't want to deal with this painful training period (which takes a lot of their senior devs time!). But it ends up making the field painful to enter. Reddit would constantly have threads from people lamenting that the field must be dying and every time it's some new grad or junior. IMO it's because they face this extra barrier. By comparison, senior devs will get daily emails from recruiters asking if they want a job.

It's very unsustainable.

Do you know how many people literally die every summer because they don't have AC (let alone simply suffer)? AC is becoming a growing necessity.

Besides, AC is pretty small game compared to the big polluters.

I also love the Automate mod for letting me focus on the interesting stuff and not the boring stuff.

Stardew is a true labour of love. The dev is a good dude and one I'm happy to give my money (multiple times for different platforms and people, in my case).