Poik

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

We don't even get this memo. I thought it was still 15, 18, and 20. And I'm wholey against mandatory tipping, but always do so because I don't want the underpaid staff to starve. I have enough friends in food service who can barely pay their rent with multiple roommates.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

And minimum wage isn't a liveable wage in most of the US now. Well, unless you split rent amongst 4 working people in a single bedroom apartment. That's only an exaggeration in some of the US.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

I only really saw that in grade school. And it was a Red Scare thing. Super culty, but so is all the McCarthy stuff.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (4 children)

They say it's to prevent crime. Same as a lot of the awful things we come to expect. I'm willing to bet it doesn't do anything noticeable with respect to crime.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

There's a health food craze in the US that stemmed out of rampant body shaming. Which might be largely because of American portion sizes. And they think that nutritional fat makes you fat. It doesn't. Excessive calories make you fat. And even that has caveats, but it's the best rule of thumb.

When did we start splitting milk? I know part of it is to make cream and high fat stuff while repurposing the skimmed off grass water. ::Googles:: WWII as a means of selling the byproduct of butter. Okay. Then in the 50s physicians started calling it health food despite the fact that the fat is used in your body during the digestion of many fat soluble vitamins such as A, D, E, and K, and thus skim milk is pretty close to the opposite of health food.


And the money thing is kind of rampant. It's a big reason why things with larger price tags, like Rolex watches, are thought to more impressive by Americans than equivalent or better watches. Rolexes do have a very high quality, but then the mark up on top makes it strictly something I do not respect, and others do not share that opinion with me. Same for a lot of things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I sit corrected. It's used as an arbitrary singular value within the proof, so for any always felt more appropriate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Nope, it means "for any" as in no matter which one you choose it will be correct.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Any upsidedown A in the set of all real characters used in academia would immediately illicit mathematical memories.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (6 children)

əəəə... What do you mean? /j

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Strokes, by definition, involve the death of neurons in the brain. So no, not particularly good. Seizures can be very similar without actual tissue death.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Even if it was (a lot of similar designs are due to common inspirations such as folk tales, but also a lot are direct parodies, and parodies can be made legally distinct) (but also, the Pokemon team itself rejected the copyright suit suggested by the public in their own public statement a while ago) the lawsuit is over parents, not copyright. Patents implies technological theft. Or bogus patent claims, more often than not. (Patenting math should be illegal, for instance.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't believe I've read either. I'll put those on my list. I'd love to be proven wrong. Usually I'm more into light hearted things, which doesn't necessarily seem to be Steinbeck's wheelhouse (I can be sad in real life, after all), but that doesn't mean I can't enjoy more down to earth or down right depressing works.

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