fishtacos

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by fishtacos 3y ago
I waited tables before, during and slighly after college, in TX. This was well-known, but am glad it's at least reported, even if not addressed. The entitled replies here are embarrassing.
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by fishtacos 3y ago
Read above.
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by fishtacos 3y ago
TX still pays 2.13/h for wait staff + tips, with a guarantee of bi-weekly guarantee of 7.35/h if tips don't make up for it. 2023 is still the same.
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by fishtacos 3y ago
What's the difference? The end result is the same for the worker.
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by fishtacos 3y ago
What is funny about it? He's reflecting on the low wages v. amount of work involved to make those wages worth his time. Every one has their limits, but well-to-do people working low paying jobs (in his case, personal and external facto
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by fishtacos 3y ago
Half Life 2 was not only mind-blowing, but also my introduction to a relatively newfangled thing called Steam that I was NOT a fan of at first (DRM-wise). Through the years I acquired 2800+ games on the platform, as a sort of digital hoarde
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by fishtacos 3y ago
Slightly related, but one of my favorite personal achievements in high school was replicating the first year's final exam C++ project on a TI-89's Basic interpreter. Spent hours ignoring lessons in other classes while I perfected
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by fishtacos 3y ago
I was working (very recently, during the 5000+ companies that were hacked via some what I presume were zero day hacks) for an MSP. 600 GB of data were exfiltrated from a law firm with several terabytes of storage of customer data kept due t
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by fishtacos 3y ago
Exactly - we need transparency so the public does not feel threatened by unknowns, has trust in general governance, has trust in the economic system, political system, criminal system... Democratic secular republics haven't been around
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by fishtacos 3y ago
That's a socio-cultural issue, not something related to what the law requires because it's the just thing to do. Otherwise, we'd have no knowledge of anything. We fought so hard (US-specific) for the FOIA and that barely even
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by fishtacos 3y ago
Yet what? It's still public record, like anything should be when charged by the state. Transparency is key. Otherwise, we live in an Orwellian quasi-something.
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by fishtacos 3y ago
To echo the previous reply, it's a ridiculous stance to defend absolving of documentation of their presence when all these situations involved taxpayer money. Whether it's an officer, a congressman,Trump under subpoena, or a rando
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by fishtacos 3y ago
No one in China was able to make a 360 controller bypass Microsoft's digital signature driver controls for their dongle for 18 years now. I think we're past the point of "someone will just hack it". Not going to hack it.
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by fishtacos 3y ago
Auto aim with a mouse is indeed a hindrance, yet auto aim with a controller is something necessary in many cases, especially as one gets older or brain gets cat hair in it.
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by fishtacos 3y ago
It's huge in many countries where Internet service has been expensive or difficult to come by. Case in point, all my relatives in Eastern Europe use WhatsApp, and with better bandwidth options, some are using FB Messenger for video cal
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by fishtacos 3y ago
How does one understand something that is immeasurable? It's a confounding anomaly in logic for those who aren't privy to your subjective interpretations... As in, what are you talking about? It's nonsense from an outsider&#x
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by fishtacos 3y ago
Quantity is "qualitatively" measurable. As is gravity, light, music, etc. That is something we can ascribe methods of discovery toward, we can measure, we can collectively, as human beings, or even otherwise (a cat has instincts t
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by fishtacos 3y ago
Like you, I've managed to navigate myself through the minefield of various activist groups I also subscribed to, at least in concept... It appears, to me, that one's alliances are teaching moments (months, years) that lead to a ra
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by fishtacos 3y ago
Separating this question from the rest of the conversation: Do you think it's plausible we live in a simulated existence? If so, how? If not, why not? (very broad questions, am aware; simply wanted to get an input on your perspective).
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by fishtacos 3y ago
If I could, I would. Most of what you wrote is anathema to evidential scientific conversation. If you've got no evidence for it besides the subjective, then it's not provable. I've no idea who Tom is, so I followed up on what
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by fishtacos 3y ago
Chomsky has missed the mark more than once. His response to the NATO campaign against Serbia during the Kosovo war was what clinched it for me. He's come back to apologize about being misunderstood in that he was only opposing NATO int
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by fishtacos 3y ago
Windows 11 task scheduler talks directly to the Thread Director, a microcontroller added added on gen 12+ CPUs, while Windows 10 scheduler was modified after release to account for them through collaboration with Intel. According to both MS
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by fishtacos 4y ago
Reddit's dead and HN is super-slow. Took about 10 clicks and a couple of mins to even get a reply box going.
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by fishtacos 4y ago
About to turn 40 here, for context. In my early 20s I worked with a fellow who was 60 yo. Something I'll never forget was when he told me, while in a relatively introspective conversation during down time at work, that he doesn't
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by fishtacos 4y ago
There is no little switch. Keto has been around millennia in various forms. Atkins' diet is well-known. That you took the time to test these various dietary restrictions and found no result until you landed on what is effectively a lop
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by fishtacos 4y ago
You know why.
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by fishtacos 4y ago
>> Not from the perspective of the people who made this church. Clearly. That is the position I'm opposing. No evidence = just that. >>What's so discomforting about embracing that? Embracing death is discomforting for
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by fishtacos 4y ago
To add to your unmentioned editing, since you rewrote it completely: >>Does a student looking forward to graduation and their life afterward make you uncomfortable, too? Same answer as below.
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by fishtacos 4y ago
>>Does a child looking forward to adulthood make you uncomfortable, too? Adulthood is a known and documented expectation of childhood. Life after death is not. Not sure what analogy you think you're making here.
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by fishtacos 4y ago
>>That's because you (presumably not a Catholic or, like most, a poorly catechized one) are projecting your values and view points onto a faith you don't understand. I'm atheist. Was born one, will die one, so you are c

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