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LeeMajors posted:When you’re definitely not corrupt loving incredible. Apparently there is a stipulation that you had to be selling bread as a stand-alone item prior to September of last year to qualify for the exemption, but I'm sure what "bread" is going to horribly defined and fast food chains are going to be arguing what counts as bread in court for the next several years. Pizza chains are going to argue breadsticks count, just you watch
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Shinji2015 posted:loving incredible. Love to add in loopholes that defeat the purpose. Also breadsticks are absolutely bread. They’re like 80% bread 20% butter
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LeeMajors posted:On a side note, if the immolation of the video game industry fucks up the NCAA and/or the GTA VI release I might become the joker. It sounds like EA is focusing on sports, so no issue. And GTA is the biggest thing that isn’t a pure gacha game, that’ll be fine.
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FizFashizzle posted:https://x.com/formerlyfiz/status/1762925936456921154?s=46&t=JBd6ZXmGQ3LmWL-ineTnAA Looks familiar… Is that the new Bergman bowl at keystone?
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Shinji2015 posted:loving incredible. Why though? Why is selling bread a thing the exempts you from minimum wage to begin with?
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Feb 29, 2024 14:34
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The Big Jesus posted:Looks familiar… Is that the new Bergman bowl at keystone? Nah that’s copper bowl.
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swickles posted:Why though? Why is selling bread a thing the exempts you from minimum wage to begin with? Gavin's donors are in the entire business to make bread and they don't want him making that more expensive, duh the Dems with any national profile are self enriching assholes
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Hot Diggity! posted:Love having a local bar within walking distance that has a beer + special once a week. Cheap beer and cheap whiskey or Malort on the way home from work before working more from home...it's good. I've got a bar with a huge selection of tequilas 300m from my front door, they even have great happy hour all day - it's the best place for killing 30 mins while waiting for friends to show up/spend 30 minutes having some tacos and a beer between meetings since I am full time WFH. Android Apocalypse posted:Buying things at Target is now an unpleasant experience. It's real weird how the well-run store (Pavilions) on my block never cries about CRIME ISSUES and is perfectly clean and lovely and the only thing locked up is alcohol that costs more than $75 and the completely poo poo run store (CVS) on my block staffs the entire rundown 6500 square foot dump with 2 people overnight and then locks up the deodorant and threatens to close stores in LA because of THE CRIME WAVE. These two stores are 1 block apart. LeeMajors posted:When you’re definitely not corrupt The union (SEIU) that pushed for the bill changed it to accommodate this Fast-Casual/Bakery exemption, not Newsom. the story posted:The backstory: Last year the California Legislature passed Assembly Bill 1228, which was signed by Newsom last September.
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Feb 29, 2024 14:43
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I don't understand how that'll help Panera anyway.... It's retail, there's a billion of them, who'd stay there when you can make more flipping burgers or stocking shelves?
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Feb 29, 2024 14:54
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SEIU is also kind of a weird union, like they’re so drat big their priorities are all over the place, they also represent state government workers where I’m at.
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Feb 29, 2024 15:00
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Panera is such unbelievably overpriced garbage as well, I can't believe they still exist tbh.
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Feb 29, 2024 15:04
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swickles posted:Self checkout is also highly dependent on the system. I refuse to use our local grocery store unless I run in for like a single item or two. Its one of those where you have to scan it, put it in the bag, then wait for it to register the "proper" weight, then it lets you dcan another item. God forbid if you decide to rearrange something or have more groceries than the two bags allotted. That machine will bitch and moan the whole time and then you have to call someone over to be like "it didn't register the weight of the birthday card I bought". Oh yeah, we have one of those and it sucks. I primarily use the ones at Walmart and they have 4 bag spots and a big area to put larger items. I don't mind bagging my own stuff because cashiers usually just throw poo poo in a bag without any rhyme or reason and that bugs me for some reason.
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FizFashizzle posted:Nah that’s copper bowl. Ah. I jumped in around where the guy in the yellow is a handful of days ago. This trip was copper, Loveland, then keystone 2x. It was my first time at Loveland which was great. Independent, so you have to buy lift tickets but they aren’t bad if you get a four pack when they first come out. Food and drinks are (relatively) super cheap there. Free parking and shuttles. The lots were pretty much full on a Saturday and it still didn’t feel too busy. I hit my top speed of the season on my last day, which is nice. Only got one real shot at it but hit 62mph off of the Ruby lift at Keystone.
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LeeMajors posted:On a side note, if the immolation of the video game industry fucks up the NCAA and/or the GTA VI release I might become the joker. I've fallen way off of video game industry news since giving up on Giant Bomb, what happened
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Self checkouts fuckin suck because you’re supposed to go to an actual human cashier when you have more than like 10 items, but when I run in for three things and want to just self checkout, every fuckin old rear end decrepit boomer in town is gleefully ignorant of the item limit and are all clogging up the self checkouts with their carts full of two weeks worth of groceries and are all hounding the attendant because they can’t figure out how to look up a tomato Also I used a self checkout to grab a couple of Coho salmon filets that were on sale on Monday and didn’t realize until I was thirsty several hours later that I had also bought a case of seltzer water and left it sitting at the self checkout 
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C-Euro posted:I've fallen way off of video game industry news since giving up on Giant Bomb, what happened Everywhere is doing a billion layoffs and cancelling games. Essentially all the investment money is gone, non-Nintendo AAA games don't sell enough to justify their stupid budgets and everything else is stagnant, so a ton of studios are going to close.
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The Big Jesus posted:Ah. I jumped in around where the guy in the yellow is a handful of days ago. This trip was copper, Loveland, then keystone 2x. It was my first time at Loveland which was great. Independent, so you have to buy lift tickets but they aren’t bad if you get a four pack when they first come out. Food and drinks are (relatively) super cheap there. Free parking and shuttles. The lots were pretty much full on a Saturday and it still didn’t feel too busy. we really overdid it the first day (monday) and im not the most elegant skiier. "Fighting the mountain" etc. My quads and hips are completely shot and I just don't have the confidence to cut aggressively. I wish we'd gone to the bowl on the first day. Still got a double black diamond in the first day. Like my top speed on Slopes is only 42mph, and that was my first day. Yesterday was gorgeous but humbling. Also got thrown out of the ski lift at the bottom of the hill when the person didn't time it right. That was fun.
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Honestly this year has some of the most interesting looking new game ideas/concepts coming out in the past 15 years, instead of every game being a direct ripoff of Call of Duty/Fortnite. The recent Steam NEXT fest had a ton of demos of actually worthwhile stuff coming this year, and I played maybe 8-10 games (mostly recommended from game industry insider friends) that all look novel and promising. Some of these demos are still available on Steam. Brief list of what seems to be getting most hyped in the insider circles at the moment, I think all of these are 2024 releases. I've played all of these at least in demo form and they are all fresh feeling and sort of a throwback to when more randomly odd games came out. Helldivers 2 (already out, amazing) Last Epoch - ARPG in the Diablo/Titan Quest genre (already out) Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown - Medieval citybuilder with empire/ruler decision making included The Planet Crafter - (already out, not 1.0 yet) Peaceful Mars-type planet terraforming with focus on crafting/exploring and not combat Millenia - Civilization clone, with some really impactful looking empire/ruler decisions to be made Lightyear Frontier - Stardew Valley but you use a giant Mech to garden Soulsmask - Valheim clone Enshrouded - Valheim clone Obviously not all of these are AAA games, but GTA and NCAA will be 100% perfectly fine.
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Ether Frenzy posted:Panera is such unbelievably overpriced garbage as well, I can't believe they still exist tbh. I feel like they're moving into spots where they have less competition. From what I've seen, they seem to be taking over the hospital cafe market. They purchased Au Bon Pain, who seemed to only exist inside hospitals, and are now replacing them with Paneras.
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Ether Frenzy posted:Panera is such unbelievably overpriced garbage as well, I can't believe they still exist tbh. I had the Coffee Club which was like 12 bucks a month and worth every penny. You got unlimited coffee or sodas or killer lemonades (well, one every 2 hours). So for like 3 years I didn't pay for coffee. Just walked by the Panera in front of the hospital that was on the ground floor of my parking garage for coffee and the a lemonade/fountain drink/iced coffee at lunch. Now, I would have to drive for Panera so its not worth it. Despite having that club and going every day, I can count on one hand the number of times I got food there over the course of the three years. Edit:^^^ yup, ABP was so much better too.
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Thaddius the Large posted:SEIU is also kind of a weird union, like they’re so drat big their priorities are all over the place, they also represent state government workers where I’m at. Yeah, medical residents in Miami were part of the SEIU, but not really. They had some kind of partnership with them, but no real contractual power.
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I used to enjoy their food years ago but I got burned 2-3 times in a row at the one near my office ten+ years ago, and by the time I got to "I'm paying $15+ for half a mediocre turkey sandwich on par with the premade stuff at the grocery store but made with less care, and a cup of canned soup?" I decided that was enough. That one is right next to a Chipotle, and about 10 other small-local chains/decent one-off lunch spots so I have no idea how it remains in business. I can definitely see it being the perfect style of horrible captive market option inside hospitals.
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Kalli posted:Everywhere is doing a billion layoffs and cancelling games. Does this mean I can blame VC ghouls when Silksong is finally cancelled? I had a loose New Year's resolution of not buying any new games (or content in general) this year, anything to make that easier I suppose. And no that's not just a joke about getting into piracy.
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Ether Frenzy posted:Panera is such unbelievably overpriced garbage as well, I can't believe they still exist tbh. Years ago an ex of mine loved Panera and would eat there like once a week. I wound up going with her and got food poisoning twice and haven’t eaten there since. I refuse to go to Panera
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wandler20 posted:I don't mind bagging my own stuff because cashiers usually just throw poo poo in a bag without any rhyme or reason and that bugs me for some reason. I worked retail for years so I definitely understand how much it sucks to be a cashier, but if they want to really annoy me it's when they just randomly grab anything and bag it. Listen, I put all the boxes together for a reason on the counter, I want them together in the bag  I usually bag the groceries myself for that reason. Hot Diggity! posted:Play Balatro or don't if you value your time It looks super interesting, but man did it pick a bad time to come out
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I get Panera when work buys it, because the broccoli cheddar soup isn’t bad, but yeah I won’t willingly go into one and pay for it. Been calling it overpriced hospital food for years.
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Shinji2015 posted:I worked retail for years so I definitely understand how much it sucks to be a cashier, but if they want to really annoy me it's when they just randomly grab anything and bag it. Listen, I put all the boxes together for a reason on the counter, I want them together in the bag 100% the reason why I do self-checkout myself. I also have some of my common produce codes memorized so I can be really quick at it.
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C-Euro posted:Does this mean I can blame VC ghouls when Silksong is finally cancelled? Don't crush my dreams 
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Shinji2015 posted:I worked retail for years so I definitely understand how much it sucks to be a cashier, but if they want to really annoy me it's when they just randomly grab anything and bag it. Listen, I put all the boxes together for a reason on the counter, I want them together in the bag Yep. My first ever job was bagging groceries and the way they teach you to bag stuck with me all these years later. I also group my stuff together but it usually doesn't matter to the cashier.
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wandler20 posted:Yep. My first ever job was bagging groceries and the way they teach you to bag stuck with me all these years later. I also group my stuff together but it usually doesn't matter to the cashier. OMG. My first job was also bagging and I'm so happy that more often than not I get to bag my own groceries. Faster and better groupings than the sackers do. I put all my cold stuff together for you, starting with heavier items going to lighter so you can put them all in the cold bag. I also think cashier is a great first job, you learn how to learn job skills, shift usually went by fast and most customers are p chill. My target hasn't locked everything down, thankfully, but closes self checkout lanes at 8 and then only has one register open so last minute runs for things I need the next day kinda suck.
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I promised my housemate that I'd walk the dog today. Go figure it was raining this morning. Fritha patiently waiting for our order.  I spoil bitches that I get wet.
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Ether Frenzy posted:The union (SEIU) that pushed for the bill changed it to accommodate this Fast-Casual/Bakery exemption, not Newsom. Also from the story posted:
It isn’t clear and of course they’re going to all say it wasn’t corrupt and that there’s totally a reason for a completely nebulous carve out involving bread and bakeries and why they aren’t subject to labor laws. Panera is kinda funny though, I always completely forget they even exist then I’ll run an overdose in their bathroom or some Karen will be griping about an unhoused person and call 911 to kick em out. The only time I ever remember eating there was on a trip up Columbia to watch Tebow turn the cocks inside out in 2007.
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Hot Diggity! posted:Play Balatro or don't if you value your time I was hooked before I played my first Flush House but that's when I knew it was going to be A Problem.
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wandler20 posted:Yep. My first ever job was bagging groceries and the way they teach you to bag stuck with me all these years later. I also group my stuff together but it usually doesn't matter to the cashier. Neil Armbong posted:OMG. My first job was also bagging and I'm so happy that more often than not I get to bag my own groceries. Faster and better groupings than the sackers do. I put all my cold stuff together for you, starting with heavier items going to lighter so you can put them all in the cold bag. lol bagging was my first job as well. Glad to see that I'm not the only one whose brain it poisoned
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I'm going to a soft opening of Soup n Fresh today, which, as far as I can tell, is a spiritual successor to Souplantation. Can't wait to stuff myself full of greens and carbs!
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I actually wonder if they even teach people how to bag anymore. Anytime a bagger does my groceries they absolutely demolish something. Usually bananas. To the point where I snatch up fragile things and bag them myself.
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I also bagged groceries for years as a teen. Frozen stuff together, boxy stuff at the bottom to give paper bags their shape, chips and bread always at the top, etc. Stack yogurt cups on each other instead of throwing them in like a lunatic.
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I like self checkout because I'm faster than the employees and I always bag my stuff correctly. I won't do it if I have a ton of items though, out of laziness.
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