TootSweet

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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

If you like that, I highly recommend perusing the Hacker Jargon File, home of such gems as:

  • wetware - [prob.: from the novels of Rudy Rucker] 1. The human nervous system, as opposed to computer hardware or software. “Wetware has 7 plus or minus 2 temporary registers.” 2. Human beings (programmers, operators, administrators) attached to a computer system, as opposed to the system's hardware or software. See liveware, meatware.
  • splork! - [Usenet; common] The sound of coffee (or other beverage) hitting the monitor and/or keyboard after being forced out of the mouth via the nose. It usually follows an unexpectedly funny thing in a Usenet post. Compare snarf.
  • bag on the side - [prob. originally related to a colostomy bag] An extension to an established hack that is supposed to add some functionality to the original. Usually derogatory, implying that the original was being overextended and should have been thrown away, and the new product is ugly, inelegant, or bloated. Also v. phrase, “to hang a bag on the side [of]”. “C++? That's just a bag on the side of C ....” “They want me to hang a bag on the side of the accounting system.”
[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Fuckin' magnets. How do they work?

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Eagles. Duh.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

We need to advocate for better pay

Yes.

and stop taking tipped jobs.

If people could just "stop taking tipped jobs" you really think they wouldn't have been doing that already?

Your post kinda has "have you tried just not being depressed?" energy.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (11 children)

Are you thinking not tipping would magically transform a "tipped" position (that was subject to the minimum tipped wage) into a non-tipped position (that was subject to the normal minimum wage)? What's the threshold? A particular percentage of transactions refraining from tipping? Under a specific dollar amount of tips per worker? The employer having to supplement the tips to get it up to the minimum tipped wage more than a certain percentage of the time? Are you sure "yeah, but there's a blank on the receipt labeled 'tip', so theoretically the workers could get tips" isn't enough to make the minimum tipped wage apply? Does it vary by jurisdiction?

Meanwhile, the real person behind the real counter of the real coffee shop you like probably regularly skips meals to afford rent.

Even if what you're suggesting could work, who's to say they wouldn't immediately replace it with some "gig economy" sort of alternative that would turn the workers into freelancers to whom no minimum wage applied?

Yes, advocate for worker rights, but don't kid yourself that not tipping your servers is somehow doing them a favor.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (47 children)

I mean, you should tip the barista, though.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

"Fuckin'."

"The Fantastic Fuckin' Four."

(I mean, if I hadn't posted this, someone would have.)

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

Grikug's little helper.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago

There's civilized humans? Where?

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Yeah, that's super shitty. I can just hear the Christian missionaries now. "They're outlawing the Bible."

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 60 points 4 days ago (6 children)

OP what the hell is wrong with you

That's never a question you have to ask of a 4channer.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago

everybody walk the dinosaur

 

Or anything else concerning, for that matter. (BPA, maybe?)

I eat a tin of these basically every day. Have been doing so for well over a year now.

No, I'm not doing the whole "sardine diet" or whatever it's called where you eat nothing but sardines. I'm proud to say I started eating sardines daily before that fad came up. And I eat a lot more than just sardines.

Anyway, I know "fish" in general tends to have high levels of mercury, but I've heard that basically the amount of harmful heavy metal sort of toxins in fish generally varies directly with the lifespan of the particular type of fish in question. (The longer it's been swimming around in mercury-laden (or whatever-laden) water and eating mercury-laden (or whatever-laden) stuff, the more mercury will build up in its system by the time its caught, cooked, put on a table, and consumed by a human.) And I've heard that sardines in particular are quite low in such harmful toxins. (Maybe anchovies would be even lower? Not sure.)

My googling for an answer to the question of whether the level of harmful stuff in sardines is so low that eating them daily wouldn't be an issue hasn't really yielded helpful results. So, why not ask here?

(I have heard that EVOO is "better for you" (whatever that means, specifically) than non-virgin olive oil. And the particular brand of sardines in "olive oil" I get don't say "virgin" anywhere on the packaging, so that might be a reason to switch brands. Not sure whether it's really worth it or not. And the other brands are always way more expensive.)

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