Weirdly, Alaska, California, Guam, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and in the vast majority of cases Montana have no exemptions for tipped employees, and shockingly they still have restaurants. And customers aren’t paying exorbitant prices for food (except where I live in middle-of-nowhere island Alaska) compared to the rest of the country.

It’s almost like their entire argument of not being able to keep their business if they have to actually pay their employees is either nonsense or a skill issue.

I think people haven’t gotten to the point of arguing with you because they have no idea what you’re trying to say.

To be clear, I’m not arguing with you either.

I feel like “render unto caesar what is caesar’s” to mean “pay your taxes. The money you’re using is theirs. Your faith and beliefs aren’t really part of that.”

Which is really funny in the current political context.

The moon base (and/or moon orbit base) isn’t just cool, it would facilitate building ships in space that don’t have to escape the gravity well. That and asteroid mining (to get materials for ship building) would be such a huge step to having a real presence off-planet.

Mine materials on asteroids, send them to the moon refinery and manufacturing facility, send parts up to lunar orbital ship building facility, send ships to Europa, Ganymede, etc.

Alaska was full of libertarian “I came out here so I can live as I please” types, but a lot of them have shifted over to the crazy.

I think with the right-wing media being severed (with regulations around honesty in news and a more publicly funded system, not particularly with censorship), those types would go back to their “just leave me alone” ways.

Bad Moon Rising by Creedence.

It’s about the apocalypse, but you wouldn’t know it from how upbeat it is.

In a practical sense, identifying as lesbian makes it clear who they are interested in. Who they are should already be understood.

Honestly, non-binary hetero would be considerably more confusing. I at least know with a non-binary lesbian that they like women.

I haven’t seen anything related to Biden, but I haven’t heard a single person, on any side if any aisle, defending Clinton. It’s always just seemed like a failed “gotcha” attempt on the right, because most everyone to the left of “I’ll vote for anything with an R next to their name” would have no issue throwing offenders from their own side in jail along with the others.

I still use PCMCIAs at my job. Had to order a reader. It has been… challenging (particularly getting permissions to connect it to the system, but even finding them is not super easy).

As your comment when on, it slowly shifted in accent in my mind until you were full-blown Scottish at the end. Really a delight.

So both are wrong.

The one on the left is too low. It needs to be, at the minimum, at about the rim.

The one on the right is too high. You can’t put a flat lid on it, and if you put a tall lid and it melts even a little, you end up with a mess on your hands. Blizzards aren’t cones with drip rings (the holes in the top of the wafers, which is why they shouldn’t be covered up), they’re supposed to stay in the cup.

Source: was a DQ Store Manager 20 years ago, went to DQ School (yes that’s real… or at least it was).

When we had our first, there was a military spouse who would take old uniforms and turn them into really cool diaper bags (the side was the front of the shirt with name and service tapes). It wasn’t camo, because my service just wears blue, but they ended up being effective and unique.

“Well, I used to run cross-country and long-distance track. No need for that face, close your mouth, or you’ll start catching flies.”

I’m at “iPad and enormous curved monitor connected to a laptop” so I guess I average out to upper-middle management. Which is shockingly accurate.

I was mad the whole episode except when they mentioned it was affecting the Klingons, and basically finished the episode in the hopes that they would show that.

And it more than paid off. That scene was magical.

I’m no pacifist, but a post like this, implying this very specific action, is a terrible idea. Either you’re serious, and broadcasting intent is incredibly stupid, or you’re joking about something that will be taken very seriously.

Attack the Capitol and kill a cop in an act of sedition: they sleep.

Drive a teenager to a woman-friendly state to get an abortion: real shit.

BC seems like it has more in common with the rest of the west coast than Alberta.

So when slavery for non-criminals ended, they just started making more black criminals (and criminals in general).

I don’t think it’s pedantic to say that slavery is still legal when there is an entire industry built around that currently legal slave labor.

An “in-law suite” is different from renting a room. It generally has its own entrance, and a devoted kitchen and bathroom. It’s an entire 1-bedroom apartment built into the house or property (often above a garage, for example).

And it’s not slang, it’s a term that’s been used since the early 1900s, and as the term suggests, it has historically been used to be able to care for elderly parents (so they can maintain their independence while still living with family). It’s not like you can sell an in-law suite separately, and selling one’s house while a parent doesn’t need that and expecting to not only buy another house and having one available with an in-law suite when a parent does need it is a pretty extreme expectation. So it really does come down to rent the room or leave it empty.

And plenty of people want that kind of temporary rental, if they don’t want to be tied to a particular spot for long or don’t want the responsibility of owning.