That begs a larger conversation about what is and isn’t ok to say informally at work.

Certainly “wheelchair” is not itself malicious and is less likely to be mistake prone than Seat 34a, especially if there’s only one patron in the room seated in a wheelchair. At the same time, the affected person might not enjoy being referred to by their disability.

I’m honestly not sure what the best solution is. Certainly, “red sweater” is less likely to cause offense than “black dude,” and 99% of the time these won’t be customer facing. I’m torn on whether the mistake was purely in writing it in the wrong location vs. whether the company as a whole should do better.

I know in the corporate world you typically don’t write down anything you don’t want read back to you later, and the fact that they realize the patron could be offended suggests that maybe they should adopt a similar policy of “never write down anything you wouldn’t want a customer to see.” At the same time, I’m aware most restaurants are not corporate culture and aren’t trying to be.

That’s just standard hub and spoke shipping.

The extended look will also be available at 9pm ET on YouTube, but for six hours, it will essentially be paywalled behind a Netflix subscription.

Um… ok

1. Who cares? It’s a trailer.
2. Most of the people complaining probably already have a Netflix subscription
3. It’s 6 hours after you’ve already waited 4 years, chill out
4. Someone’s going to rip it after 10 minutes away
5. Vice City was the most fun, SA broke your childhood, IV had the best story, V had heists. There’s no way VI is going to top all those, we’ll be lucky if it makes top 3.

Yeah, it’s super difficult. /s

The hardest part is remembering to uncheck Debian DE if you don’t want GNOME.

A betting app where you gamble video game points instead of money. So missing the entire reason betting apps exist.

Well this article is about 15 years late.

Why not cheap SSD for OS and then 1-2 TB HDD for storage?

$300? I found a bunch on Amazon just now for under $30.

What’s stopping you so far?

No we didn’t. Blockbuster was the soulless corporation that killed all the smaller stores, which were actually good. Fuck Blockbuster.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/blockbuster-sued-over-late-fees/

“It was $2.99 when I picked it up.”

Watch a product for a minutes, clock the lowest it displays in that time, run in and grab it, “It was $2.99.”

Repeat for all 30 items in your cart just to annoy the store.

“…Employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day, often without being asked to do so,” Ye and Ranganathan wrote of their in-progress research.

Every boss: $$$$$$$$

The year of the AI PC comes immediately after the year of the linux desktop.

1:1:1

What the fuck is this stupid law? An actress can consent to film a nude scene, but if you share the scene she filmed for you to watch, you’ve somehow violated her moral rights?

That’s a bit like asking, “Can you point me toward a beginner friendly car that has air conditioning and a radio?” You’re going to get 100 different answers because there are a hundred different distros that do all the things. The differences between them are small and not really of interest to a new user.

So I’ll give you a general rundown of the names you’ll probably see:

• Ubuntu: The classic recommended option and the most used worldwide. Though they’re corporate run and occasionally makes weird decisions that piss off the linux community, so you won’t see it mentioned as much as it was 10 years ago.
• Kubuntu: An Ubuntu flavor with a very customizable Windows-like desktop that should feel very comfortable for new users.
• Linux Mint: Essentially decorporatized Ubuntu with their own custom Windows-like desktop. It’s often the go-to recommendation to new users now, though I’ve personally never tried it.
• Pop!_OS: Basically Ubuntu with NVIDIA drivers enabled by default, so it positions itself as a gaming distro.
• Zorin: Another Ubuntu clone that tries to look as much like Windows as possible for new users.
• Fedora: A more frequently updated distro, which is appealing to those with newer hardware. A little less straightforward for new users but still not super challenging.
• Nobara: Pop!_OS except for Fedora.
• Bazzite: An immutable Fedora distro (meaning you can’t edit the underlying filesystem,) making it behave more like a consoles. Honestly, immutable distros are a niche in linux so you should probably avoid it as a new user, but you’ll see it listed as it has some diehard fans.
• Arch: A DIY distro for enthusiasts and tinkerers with very frequent updates, so good for newer hardware.

But again, they’re all like 95% the same as each other. I’d just pick between Kubuntu or Mint, maybe Pop!_OS if you don’t feel like going into a menu and enabling NVIDIA drivers.

80% of government “debt” is actually in the form of bonds. People voluntarily give the government more money than they’re required in taxes because they believe the government will be strong enough to pay them back interest later. The government does not have to pay down all that debt because the bonds are being cashed out at a predictable rate and people are buying new bonds all the time, so the new bonds finance the old ones.

For example, someone in 1995 buys a series EE bond at $100. It’ll be worth roughly $200-215 now, which is 30 year maturation. But due to inflation, $100 in 1995 is worth $212 today. So even though the US government paid out over $100 in interest, due to inflation it was basically a wash, and they had 30 years to invest that money in infrastructure. Meanwhile, since $100 is not worth as much now, people in the same social class are likely now buying $200 bonds, so really the US is on the hook for the last $15 or so. In short, this “debt” was actually a good deal for the US government.

The short version is the government is fine as long as it can pay the interest on its loans without needing to print so much money to do so that it causes hyperinflation. You don’t have the ability to do that with your personal debt.

Sure, but it’s not hard to install widevine in Chromium and it’ll be auto updated through whatever package manager you use to install it.

Why not just use Chromium?

Stablecoins are not better, they’re different.

If you’re on a trading platform, you have a cash account. You use the cash account to buy stocks, options, etc. When you sell these, they credit your cash account. You only actually get the money if you cash out your account, which most people who are actively trading don’t because it takes time to transfer out.

Stablecoins are like cash accounts for crypto. You can use them to buy and sell coins like Bitcoin or Ethereum. Then you can eventually cash them out, which takes more time.