Well, are they made of wood?

With some rocks inside to make sure it sinks to the bottom of a lake

Endeavour is fantastic. I’ve been using Arch since high school, but hung it up for a few years until last year when I’d had enough of Windows’ shit. EOS takes the PITA out of the install process (I just don’t have the time these days to dig as deep as I used to), but is the same Arch experience in usage.

You’d think that the customs rule would be an aggregate value from one shipper, and that it couldn’t be circumvented by dicing them up into smaller parcels.

But of course

And capitalize random words because how else would readers know which words are important

One of the best ways someone can make a good living for themselves is to run their own business. Not that it’s for everyone, but being in the driver’s seat of your own income instead of depending on someone else for a wage is very much the definition of American individualism, even if an individual is simply contracting for a larger firm.

I don’t think there’s necessarily a shortage of workers, but I think there’s a shortage of people willing to work for the peanuts these conglomerates are offering. Competition is severely hampered when large firms corner their respective markets and drive out smaller competitors, because now they are the ones in charge of the respective workforces and are calling the shots, including how much an individual is allowed to make. Smaller firms with lower overhead are able to disrupt them, as long as the playing field is level and the barriers aren’t the Dover cliffs.

I mean, I had a mainline kernel update bork my system last month

Is it really a spoiler if it’s been 5 years?

I’m really curious which traits are being suppressed here. Being a dick to everyone while flexing went out of fashion a while ago because most of mainstream society started valuing intelligence over brawn. Masculinity isn’t being suppressed, but toxic masculinity is being frowned up. I wish these chucklefucks would elaborate more often.

What hardware are you running your truenas setup on? I have an old computer that I’ve had freenas on that finally died.

Yeah but kids also take much smaller sips than adults. That said, last time I drank a Capri Sun, I downed it in one squeeze and was super disappointed.

Timeshift has been huge for this

That would require taking the time to actually go out and do the shopping, as opposed to filling out an order sheet and having it brought to their door. Don’t get me wrong, I’m with you, I just don’t see many of the chefs/restaurant owners I know having that kind of time. Margins are already razor thin in that industry as it is, thus why they’re all so crazy about labor costs, and they’re already wearing so many hats to not have to hire someone to do things because they’d end up in the red. It’s not a great business to be in as an independent unless you can manage stupid low rent. But this is also why the chains/corps can thrive the way they do, they have the buying power to actually squeeze out a profit.

It’s only fraud when the plebs do it, to business owners it’s “strategy” /s

It’s bait and switch. You display prices to attract customers (think how restaurants display their menus out front or online) and then raid them with add-ons at bill time.

Yup, at this point it’s just false advertising. Per the article, restaurant owners are saying they want to keep menu prices low as to not scare off customers, which is really just a fancy way of saying they’d rather bait them on the promise of low prices, and then ram the full cost of the meal up their asses at the end of it.

Just roll everything (cost/taxes/tips/fees) into the menu price. This constant bait and switch in the US needs to finally die. If you won’t survive by showing the true costs your customers need to pay, maybe you need to rethink your business model or find a new profession.

I get for vacation areas this is less of an issue

Nope, this is the issue for housing in small towns/touristy areas. Most of the housing stock in our town has been scooped up for Airbnb/VRBO/etc, and has 1) limited housing stock for locals, 2) has raised housing purchase prices to unaffordable levels because of “profit potential”, and 3) limited availability of long term rentals that has also shot rental rates through the roof. In small towns, housing is already limited by geography, and so it just exacerbates an existing problem and completely screws local who likely don’t make a lot to begin with, because generally tourism and tourism-adjacent industries makes up the bulk of the available jobs.

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