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Slimy Hog posted:FWIW I tried learning Russian off and off for years with little success; there just aren't that many good English-language resources out there. You may be able to find stuff in Serbian though... You might want to try at least off and on next time.
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JesustheDarkLord posted:I got a BA in Latin a long time ago and if you post the phrase I will look at it next time I check this thread Thanks. I just sent you a PM. 
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Every place that looks remotely like foodservice is asking for a tip these days. Are those employees still paid hourly like untipped employees, or is this a way for the owners to treat them as tipped employees paying $2.75/hr or whatever it is for tipped people and then only pay them up if the tips don't get them whatever the relevant minimum hourly wage is? Or did someone just figure out if you put a tip screen on the cardreader a bunch of people will leave tips they wouldn't otherwise have left if a tip jar for cash was sitting there.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:Every place that looks remotely like foodservice is asking for a tip these days. Are those employees still paid hourly like untipped employees, or is this a way for the owners to treat them as tipped employees paying $2.75/hr or whatever it is for tipped people and then only pay them up if the tips don't get them whatever the relevant minimum hourly wage is? Or did someone just figure out if you put a tip screen on the cardreader a bunch of people will leave tips they wouldn't otherwise have left if a tip jar for cash was sitting there. It’s gross and an amalgamation of a lot of these things, different companies using different reasonings. Some it’s a clear oppo to try to pay less, some it’s discouraging unionization, some are trying to kill tipping by adding it everywhere they can, some are trying to kill the minimum wage by making everyone tipped. I know of multiple businesses where the digital tips aren’t going to the staff who help you (legal or illegal), one being a p ardent vegan spot, so as always tip if you were gonna and try to do it in cash. https://www.businessinsider.com/starbucks-worker-feels-strange-asking-for-tips-2023-5 apparently in some places it is leading to income increases but I am positive that is a temporary boost that will normalize to near-previous levels
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Just got back from a trip to England and the complete absence of a "how much ya gonna tip" screen -- even at sit-down restaurants -- was amazing in how glorious it felt. Coffee shops, restaurants, bars, nary a tip request to be found. E: and the menu prices weren't that far off what I'd expect to pay here. Manchester was cheaper than London but the London prices were certainly comparable to any reasonably sized US city, especially when you factor in that VAT was already worked into the displayed prices and US sales tax is essentially added on after the fact. Completely torpedoes the argument that menu prices would go up hugely in the US with a living wage paid to wait staff. regulargonzalez fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Oct 26, 2023 |
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Do shows like Great British Bake Off & Jeopardy have staff who do nothing but deep social media dives on prospective contestants? Guessing it would be worth it to know ahead of time if someone was a Reddit mod of an unfortunate community before he had to be told to never come back mid contest.
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Is there a pest control thread by any chance?
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Do shows like Great British Bake Off & Jeopardy have staff who do nothing but deep social media dives on prospective contestants? Guessing it would be worth it to know ahead of time if someone was a Reddit mod of an unfortunate community before he had to be told to never come back mid contest. i used to do that for a publishing house for prospective authors but it was more like "is this person popular, do people talk about their work, are they active on social media every day, will they need any handholding". also reddit accounts are completely anonymous and have no identifying info unless you go out of your way to add it. you dont even need an email address to make an account there
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DildenAnders posted:Is there a pest control thread by any chance? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3944991
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Do shows like Great British Bake Off & Jeopardy have staff who do nothing but deep social media dives on prospective contestants? Guessing it would be worth it to know ahead of time if someone was a Reddit mod of an unfortunate community before he had to be told to never come back mid contest. Hopefully they've gotten a bit better in the last few years https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-...ndroidApp_Other
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regulargonzalez posted:Just got back from a trip to England and the complete absence of a "how much ya gonna tip" screen -- even at sit-down restaurants -- was amazing in how glorious it felt. Coffee shops, restaurants, bars, nary a tip request to be found. It's glorious not having to think about tipping. I had a bit of an adjustment period moving to a country where folks didn't tip and not knowing the currency. Accidentally gave a Pizza Hut server a 70% tip and they clearly thought I was hitting on them. I've found tipping is still expected at any fine dining place I've been to in the world. But if I'm already paying for a 200 dollar meal, in for a penny in for a pound.
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They've started adding those tipping screens for a lot of website-based food ordering stuff, including those order-off-a-qr-code-on-the-table ones. In Australia, where we have no tipping! Anyway, my small question: I have a very fluffy cat, and when I brush him it builds up a static charge and, as I stroke him with my free hand, he gets zapped. I don't think he likes it very much (heck, I don't). Would an anti-static wristband help? Now for the silly question: would it go on me, or the cat (somehow)? By brushing the cat, wouldn't I be charging his fur, rather than charging myself?
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Do shows like Great British Bake Off & Jeopardy have staff who do nothing but deep social media dives on prospective contestants? Guessing it would be worth it to know ahead of time if someone was a Reddit mod of an unfortunate community before he had to be told to never come back mid contest. I've worked for sports teams, and we would hire people to do social media background checks for that kind of stuff, people who do these kinds of checks for a living. I'm guessing it's easier to outsource this kind of work, but maybe the production companies have their own staff. I'm certain someone does background checks for these shows.
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Sounds like companies that do general background checks have expanded to also do casting focused ones. https://www.jdp.com/industries/entertainment/
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https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw0NoAFrX4x/ What is this piece being played in Anthony Hopkins' Instagram post? It's lovely.
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Qubee posted:https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw0NoAFrX4x/ Music in Twelve Parts: Part IX, by Philip Glass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgPyoHHgLfo edit: At least that's what my app said. Listening to it... no it is not. He may just be playing randomly. Yngwie Mangosteen fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Oct 26, 2023 |
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Yngwie Mangosteen posted:Music in Twelve Parts: Part IX, by Philip Glass. I don't know why I'm laughing so much. Did you Shazam the Instagram post and then immediately share the result?
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Qubee posted:I don't know why I'm laughing so much. Did you Shazam the Instagram post and then immediately share the result? yes lol, I edited too
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Oct 26, 2023 20:00
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The comments on that philip glass piece are saying that Shazam identified other stuff as that too
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That's really interesting. I would love to know what quirk in Shazam sends people to that piece in particular
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Do Millenials have a really quintessential "died too young" musician? The Gen X'ers have a smorgasboard of choice between Kurt, Buckley, Pac, Biggie, Selena, Smith, Curtis. The Zoomers big one has been SOPHIE with others being Juice WRLD and Mac Miller. For millenials though we have I think Amy Winehouse but unlike those she never seemed emblematic of Gen Y/Millenials and was also for the longest time leading up to her passing away seemed inevitable to happen. Is there anyone I'm missing? I googled first and went through lists of died too young musicians and there doesn't seem to be anyone that this generation truly mourns for musically. Most instead talk about Heath Ledger.
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Lid posted:Do Millenials have a really quintessential "died too young" musician? The Gen X'ers have a smorgasboard of choice between Kurt, Buckley, Pac, Biggie, Selena, Smith, Curtis. The Zoomers big one has been SOPHIE with others being Juice WRLD and Mac Miller. The Linkin Park guy? Chris Cornell maybe? The Sublime guy? Maybe it's just the music during that period sort of sucked. If you asked me to name iconic millennial bands, I would probably struggle.
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Douche4Sale posted:The Linkin Park guy? Chris Cornell maybe? The Sublime guy? Aaliyah was 100% the biggest one at the time Dimebag Darrell- I was in Columbus when it happened and a kid from school was actually at that show post facto maybe Elliott Smith, DJ Screw, Nujabes? (none mainstream enough at time of death) a few really fat rappers nice obelisk idiot fucked around with this message at 07:09 on Oct 27, 2023 |
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Douche4Sale posted:The Linkin Park guy? Chris Cornell maybe? The Sublime guy? The thing with two of those guys is they didn't die young. Cornell was 52, Chester Bennington was 41. Sublime guy was 28 but like Sublime were a part of the ska wave which never took off greatly, and while their last album before Bradley Nowell died I don't think 99% of people could name him in a line up, nor realise he was dead, and he died in 1996 amongst the rest of the Gen X'ers listed. I'd disagree on the suck motion too, as the thing is there was so much good music during that period for a long time. The thing is more to do with that most of them, well, lived. They're emblematic now as they're still around. nice obelisk idiot posted:post facto maybe Elliott Smith, DJ Screw, Nujabes? (none mainstream enough at time of death) listed Elliot under X'ers, died 1998 and he was mainstreamish, he performed at the Oscars even. It is however one of the most depressing sights ever, and plays into how he, like Ian Curtis, retroactively have a career of songs that sound like suicide notes set to music. Lid fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Oct 27, 2023 |
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Lid posted:I googled first and went through lists of died too young musicians and there doesn't seem to be anyone that this generation truly mourns for musically. I did a search now too and Avicii stood out as the most well known name to me so maybe he counts?
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Lid posted:Do Millenials have a really quintessential "died too young" musician? The Gen X'ers have a smorgasboard of choice between Kurt, Buckley, Pac, Biggie, Selena, Smith, Curtis. The Zoomers big one has been SOPHIE with others being Juice WRLD and Mac Miller. Lorde ne: wait it's still 2023, ignore that it won't happen for a year yet.
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Lid posted:Do Millenials have a really quintessential "died too young" musician? The Gen X'ers have a smorgasboard of choice between Kurt, Buckley, Pac, Biggie, Selena, Smith, Curtis. The Zoomers big one has been SOPHIE with others being Juice WRLD and Mac Miller. Aaliyah counts. Winehouse counts. Mitch Hedberg isn’t a musician but he counts too.
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Lowtax is the millennial Kurt Cobain
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Grassy Knowles posted:Aaliyah counts. Winehouse counts. Mitch Hedberg isn’t a musician but he counts too. Ernest Borgnine. Although I'm not sure if he counts as millennial. He was born in 1917.
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lobsterminator posted:Ernest Borgnine. Although I'm not sure if he counts as millennial. He was born in 1917. Ernest P Worrell died too soon in 2000
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How can we change the names of generations. Millennials is stupid. We were born in the loving 80s. And we had a goddamn perfectly good letter right there, gen Y. You know, the one after X. It even almost caught on for a second. Then gen Z is for kids born in the 90's, THEN we have millennials. People who were loving born in the millenium. The oldest "Millenial" should be 23. And before you start with the "oh it refers when you came of age" bullshit, gently caress off, ok. Don't be bringing your wishy-washy bullshit into a taxonomic discussion when we have hard data like actual birth dates to work with, which are also intuitive and clean. Kids born 2010-2020 are back to gen A, or alpha if you want to jazz it up a little. And then kids born after 2020 are just hosed, doesn't matter. It is supposed to be about the different experiences of life though, what world you're native to. 70's: electronics. 80's: computers. 90's: internet. 2000: smartphones 2010s: full on social media stuff. Or "what can you remember living without", if you shift it to the left. So lumping people born in 1981-1996 together is not only ugly as hell, it's also pointless, since those are such wildly different life experiences that it defeats the entire purpose. Anyway yes it's Amy Winehouse and Ryan Dunn, next question.
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Actually, millennial just means those drat kids with their skateboards and TikToks and whatever
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BonHair posted:Actually, millennial just means those drat kids with their skateboards and TikToks and whatever millennial means young people you hate just like boomer means old people you hate and yes, there can be overlap
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Bucky Fullminster posted:How can we change the names of generations. why say all this stupid generation name bullshit instead of just "90s kids" etc
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I'm a somethingawful kid 😎
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I was raised by the timeless stewards of anime. I transcend generations
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Douche4Sale posted:The Linkin Park guy? Chris Cornell maybe? The Sublime guy? Chris Cornell and Bradley Nowell are as Gen X as it gets and the latter even died in 1996 before anyone even thought of "millenials"
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