Most people who work the service industry don’t claim cash tips, but credit tips are required to be claimed due to the whole being electronic and traceable thing.

If, as a service person, most or all tips are in cash, you just claim whatever brings you to minimum wage for that pay period.

This is obviously heavily dependent upon where you work - some places want you to claim all tips (but you still don’t claim cash usually) others, especially if you make above min wage like most bartenders, don’t care.

However, if you don’t claim those tips you can’t use that as income when taking out loans and applying for housing and whatever else. So it’s fucks people over pretty regularly.

Carrier pigeons make an excellent bandwidth benchmark though.

Sneaker networks (flash drives stores in sneakers) are still some of the highest bandwidth out there.

I don’t know anything about it, so hopefully someone else has more experience, but I found this, so I assume the answer is yes.

https://pigeonpedia.com/how-to-train-a-carrier-pigeon/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwdweif1YI0

Honestly there’s several weird pseudo-deep lyrics in that song so… maybe. He does use graying to describe the tower at the start. I think it’s probably just happenstance and pronunciation tho.

I mean it’s literally shrinking over time… deteriorating. It will very likely eventually become useless, and die out.

I guess you can call that evolution if you want… it’s certainly a selection pressure, anyway.

https://www.earth.com/news/will-men-disappear-the-y-chromosome-is-constantly-shrinking/

The Y chromosome is also deteriorating over time as it gets passed down with errors and doesn’t have a backup copy nor relevant genes to swap with, and men have less robust immune systems (iirc partially because of testosterone). So that’s fun.

I had a similar training selling stuff for a remodeling company.

I quit on the second day of training. It felt gross, and I told them I was really uncomfortable with their tactics and that’s 100% why I was quitting…

I also don’t watch tv and go out of my way to avoid ads :) pihole on the network, Plex and physical media for media needs.

When I was young we averaged moving every 4.5 years, but for reasons, I got very accustomed to changing environments every year or so, and as an adult I’ve struggled to stay in one place for the clean start it offers, but moving is so expensive now, and I don’t like driving anywhere near enough to be a nomad van dweller type.

I can maybe do it one more time in the near future, assuming money and housing values don’t tank first, but that’s probably it for the rest of my days. I hope it really scratches the anxious itch for change, cuz if not…

This must be how Oscar Meyer wienermobiles are made. I mean I don’t see a buncar anywhere, but all the same.

I’d rather not have robot bees. I’ve seen hated in the nation (black mirror episode).

https://www.wikihow.com/Boil-Sweet-Potatoes

I think I might be going on a quest in middle earth…

I used to think I was in the former camp but it turns out I’m in the latter!

And that realization is fucking powerful.

Fuck it, do something!

I’ve only used genAI once, to re-write my resume. (And I played with image generation to sort of see what it can do and be a muse for me because I’m aphantasic, but I was wiiiiiildly disappointed.)

It spit out something less good than what I fed into it, hallucinated a ton of skills and experience I don’t have, and it looked like AI slop when it was done. So a lose-lose.

Might be good for people who don’t know things or who can’t write for shit (so your average first year college student, IME) but… honestly it’s garbage if you aren’t average or below already. So I’m not surprised it’s ruining people’s ability to function.

Ai is a tool for dumb people (sorry. not sorry.) to land good jobs that dumb people shouldn’t hold or be hiring for, and that’s about it.

Hahaha I had the same experience learning Russian. It’s so hard to find simple stuff like dick and Jane, but in another language.

Interestingly, comic books, especially those which have been translated into multiple languages (marvel, dc, etc) are almost easier. They usually have short, less-complicated sentences, and the context is pictorial. Plus it’s not boring af to read, which is ultra-helpful. Maybe that’s why people like manga and anime so much…? Idk.

Can they buy Wisconsin (with the UP, because Michigan has no business having that anyway), and Minnesota, instead?

The terrain of the areas blends very nicely and just sort of continues north, and I feel like Canada deserves a whole Great Lake of their own for having to deal with American bullshit.