Oh absolutely, even if they don't do outright wage theft, they can often find a reason (or not in right-to-work states) to dismiss any employee that won't claim sufficient tips (whether customers left those tips or not).

Face to fist style!

That's not quite how that works. The 2.13 is guaranteed. Employers are also required to bring that up to 7.25, if there aren't enough tips.

But, yeah, the first 5.10 in tips each hour really just goes to reducing the employers burden, not increasing the servers take-home.

You make it sound simple and absolute. But, our rights are severely curtailed even in the U.S. via the DMCA. If your console, or even the game code on disk, requires an okay from the manufacturer as a "copyright protection" and you bypass that in any way, you have just committed a felony and are considered by the State a valid target for violence.

Of course, simply accepting the lack of physical media doesn't help make the situation any better.

My new game is a roguevania, souls like, gothic horror version of Metroid. /s

My passion is full-stack but high-level programming.

In the apocalypse, I'll be okay at lifting and carrying things.

I think it's Zac from Earth two, where his "Knight's Concerning Oath" in started with rooster instead of goose.

Even if we got to Net Zero tomorrow, the world is going to continue to warm, and we have to develop and deploy adaptive measures.

We can both support the ending of fossil fuel AND celebrate adjustments like this.

Having worked on POS software, I can guarantee you we do not have "metadata for products on lock".

Manufacturers will sometimes reuse the same UPC even though the packaging is fairly different. The UPC doesn't contain the price, size, or any size -- it is just a convenient look up for whatever POS the retailer uses, and for systems targeting independent retailers, that might be maintained mostly manually, though some warehousing associations might provide an importable list.

In large retailers sometimes the smart tags are controlled using a system that doesn't even deal with UPCs, just images / webpages, shelf locations, and schedules.

Buyer beware, indeed.

Phoenix exists as a monument to human hubris. You aren't actually supposed to live there. /s

Came here to say this. Everyone I've ever talked to that worked at a food pantry has guaranteed me that they can get more food from $$$ than you can donate for the same $$$.

I'm sure that the economics could change, so if you can engage with you local food pantry and confirm their preference, that would be best. But, if you just want to drive-by donate $$$ > food >>> nothing.

No.

That is a separate and still valid point. Even if you are visiting a food bank, you still have all your same allergies, sensitivities, and preferences. The food bank itself will have a better idea of what they need to hand out.

I'm saying that even if the food bank needs 20 cans of cranberry sauce, instead of you buying for $$$ and donating them, it is better for you to donate $$$. The food bank can then buy the cranberry sauce for $$, and also buy some green beans for the leftover $. Your dollars buy more of everything when you give them to the food bank instead of buying the products yourself.

What's the cut-off for "nature"? I mean, it's not like DNA tests grow wild on the PCR plains, and it seems to me that the DNA test was the "tattle tale".

Ask for Jenny.

It's not clear that photo has anything to do with the headline. Several others in the thread have found that photo attached to other, similar events.

From 1975 to 2015 "deaths are down 92 percent among children ages 15 and under, and down 44 percent annually across all cyclists." -- https://www.bicycling.com/news/a20043115/kids-bike-fatalities-down-92-percent-but-theres-a-catch/

"You" personally might have survived, but about 12-13 times as many kids died from "No helmet, no fear". (At least very least, 2x as many did.)

As wish many things American, it goes back to slavery. Tipped workers were a way for employers to avoid paying (mostly black) workers, effectively providing slavery-lite even after slavery had ended (Happy Juneteenth).

In any case, current U.S. labor law has specific carve-outs for certain tipped jobs that allow the minimal wage to be not the already unlivable $7.25/hr but the unsustainable $2.15/hr. Technically, employers are required to bring a tipped workers pay up to $7.25/hr if they do not report enough tips, but in practice employers encourage reporting incorrect tips and find reasons (if needed) to dismiss employees that do not report enough tips.

Fisherman, Sailor, Teamster, and Chef are not tipped positions. Waitstaff is a tipped position.

WTF. Didn't we decide that was way over the line like... 14 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Davis_pepper_spray_incident

They won't do it, but it would be baller to set it up like a debate, and have the moderator prompt the empty Trump lecturn and have the camera hold on it for 5-10 seconds each time. It would effectively just be a Kamala campaign interview, but with a bit of shade casting between each question.

If the guys that frequently move furniture describe you are "strong for your size", that is a powerful compliment.