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new places tips are asked for

We are not talking about those places. They can fuck off and I don’t tip there.

We are talking about wait staff who get the exceptionally low base pay where the majority of their income is expected to be from tips.

Guess every Tesla and anyone with a dashcam will be automatically in violation.

Have you met cats before?

The death start leaning out of the way is just perfect.

TIL thin window fans are a thing!

I’m not surprised they exist, just had not noticed one before. Will probably see them all around now that I’m aware they exist.

The association between AI use and laziness perceptions is dependent upon the evaluators’ own AI use, and perceptions of laziness can be offset for tasks in which AI is clearly useful.

This work demonstrated that the use of productivity-enhancing tools can, paradoxically, erode social evaluations of their operators’ competence and motivation.

I do remember calculators being referred to as a crutch in the context of learning mathematics because doing the work was part of learning. The expectation was that harder work would be suitable after learning how to do the work first, so you knew if the output matched what you intended to input. There has always been concerns about over reliance on automation of any type.

But AI is so unreliable that a calculator is not a good comparison. It often is being used as a crutch as well, since everyone who openly talks about using AI at my office seem to just copy/paste the output and don’t do anything to clean up the incorrect parts. That is what gives the appearance of being lazy or less competent to those of us who see the downsides as outweighing the benefits. Those that are all in on AI sure do like patting each other on the back about using the hot new tools though!

The film was meant to be played in theaters in 3-D, with Tom Cruise tentatively attached for some much-needed star power.

I’m completely fine with it not happening if Tom Cruise had a role. Also the script had very little time allocated for the exploration of the city.

I would love an adaptation with a better script and Del Toro’s visual style.

$100k a year at 40 hours a week is $48.08 an hour, which might be even easier to see how far off of reality they are.

Why bother when there is so little time left?

All my Gen X homies knew what enshittification was before it had a fun name.

We already did, but we will again too!

That implies that having data be harvested for companies to make profits should be the default.

I sure hope those studies are not being done by for profit companies!

They are tied to the pole, not holding it.

Send me your name, birthdate, web browsing history, online spending history, real time location, and a list of people you know and I will explain it to you.

No, it would be horrible for that because it is in one location and would become risky any time it was busy. Plus most of the outlets would be blocked by nearby power plugs.

If it was intended for a large number of low draw stuff through USB then having a ton of USB plugs would make sense.

There is a reason that businesses of that type add lots of permanent outlets to plug power strips into.

An individual not tipping has no impact on the status quo because the system doesn’t care about the reason people don’t tip.

A large number of people choosing not to purchase goods and services from businesses that rely on tipping could possibly have an impact, although it would probably be easier to get the laws changed than organize that many people.

They are not wearing the rope or pole any more than they are wearing the platform they are standing on.

I disagree with the base premise that being opt out needs to be a right. That implies that having data be harvested for companies to make profits should be the default.

We should have the right to not have our data harvested by default. Requiring companies to have an opt in process with no coercion or other methods of making people feel obligated to opt in is our right.

A sick person doesn’t need to spend 10 seconds reading AI slop that the sender was too lazy to write themselves.

No, it would be called complying with the system that exists.