Exactly.

Its applying leverage to the party saying meet these criteria or get spoiled. It’s basically a union for protest votes, and it’s effective. Which makes it extremely important in the current two party system because it’s the only way certain issues will get addressed.

Where did I try to act smart? What are you talking about?

Water is in fact use, very often. I said it’s not “the best”. You yourself said it’s not ideal, completely agreeing with me.

Can you make clear your point other that picking fights on the Internet?

Maybe I’d even consider answering if you show my where I said that. And don’t count that quote of the first google response, that was just an example of how easy stuff is to look up.

Not my responsibility to educate those too stupid to Google stuff.

How about a google search then you dunce:

“water should not be used on fires involving electrical equipment, grease, or certain types of chemicals.”

It absolutely isn’t.

Get some smart bulbs and set them to a timer. The lights coming on helps wake you up naturally since your body thinks the sun is coming up.

Makes sense. Most of the millennial grads I know, are bartending or waiting tables. I know I did till I learned to code.

They are identical, it’s the same thing from opposite sides.

So you’re saying that buying one means that the American working class is extracting value from the Chinese government? Sounds great to me.

Shoot them down baby!

The industry absolutely dodges taxes on tips. It’s well known that you need to report 8% of your sales to avoid an audit, so that’s what you report. As a server I’d make 15 - 18%. So I’m paying taxes on only half my tips, which make up the majority of my income.

Tips are a weird issue here. You can see why employees in this industry want to keep them, but also why it’s problematic when talking about liveable wages.

I worked for tips for years. Bartending and serving from my first job at 16, all through my 20s. Let me give an example of when this became an issue.

I’m waiting tables at a restaurant. Make minimum wage in CA which is like $10 I think? Doesn’t matter most of my income is tips. I’m realisticly making closer to $30 - 40 with tips. We share some with bussers / dishwashers because they support us. Kitchen staff is making like 25 an hour. More than twice our wage but still less than us accounting for tips. Kitchen wants a raise, restaurant makes us share tips with kitchen too to make it “fair”. We’re upset.

New CA minimum wage passes. $15 minimum wage, includes tip protection stating you cannot oblige servers to share tips. Servers got a raise twice, our hourly wage went up from 10 to 15 and we stopped sharing tips with the kitchen. Huge boon. Kitchen staff now making less, just the $25 no shared tips. Kitchen staff decries bullshit, demands a raise, restaurant says no way I can give you a raise now that I have to pay all the servers, bussers, and bartenders more.

Then you realize the serving staff / kitchen staff, at least in CA, is almost perfectly split racially. Mexicans, Latinx, and Black folks in the kitchen, white folks serving and bartending. It’s already an issue of fairness, just adding the additional racial observation which makes it downright problematic.

What are you talking about? I take hour long video game breaks and nap breaks in addition to lunch. I probably actually code for like 3 hours a day, but I get more done in those 3 hours after charging up than if I’d sit there staring at code for 3 hours.

I don’t think they were talking about most of the NT world, just the sociopaths running things. They might be in to something.

I met a guy like this. He just changed jobs every year. His past employers said they never got any work out of him, but he just kept leapfrogging, getting better and better jobs at each company advancing his career.

What’s funny is when I space out looking at my other monitor folks in the meeting just assume I’m working.

I schedule an hour for lunch and play video games during meetings.

I wish I was

Where I was

When I was wishing

I was here