I visited the US 3 years ago and tipping was a bloody pain in the bum. It added probably 20min to our meal as the waiters took a while to get change. Further, asking every 15 minutes how our meal was going was quite exhausting; mainly because we knew it was performative for more tips. We tipped 20% each time but it's really, really frustrating not knowing the price up front.

Back home, I'm used to paying up front and then leaving as soon as we're done. Waiters leave you alone, unless you're a regular, and ask you how the meal was at the till if you pay after.

My take is that capitalism is the cause.

That photo has a really nice composition

The cost keeps increasing. That's hilarious.

But of course he was building a bunker. There's literally no surprises there. It'll be the new den of rape for sure.

I think this question pits parents and others against each other, when it shouldn't. Parental leave is necessary to raise a child. But at the same time, workers in general need leave for mental health among other things.

I also think this is more of a problem for places like America where leave is really, really unfairly distributed and there's basically no worker protections. There should be plenty of medical and annual leave, as well as government support in case medical leave isn't enough to get better.

And this is why indie games will probably have a second golden age.

I've been there. Beautiful building with so much history. Definitely NOT located in South Carolina.

I'm painting an iron maiden for my misbehaving dice. Had to share it with my TTRPG group.

I hope this is the tip of the iceberg for what's to come.

Seize your country back!!

The first step is always the hardest after decades of oppression and misinformation!

They fact that America has no avenue for 'vote of no confidence' and government dissolution is astounding. Still, it's a good wake up call for the rest of the world to break ties and rethink alliances.

No, it actually doesn't. How LLMs work is that it takes in written words and makes a sentence based on the likelihood of what the next word will be based on human readable text. That's literally it.

Hence, there's absolutely no guarantee that ChatGPT's 'review' of your homework will always be 100% correct because it is probable that the answer was written incorrectly in the billions of lines of text it has been fed.

On the other hand, a calculator has been superficially wired for it's purpose to process an input. 1 + 1 will always equal 2.

I'd wager your supervisor will be horrified to learn that you're getting an LLM to learn from rather than your peers. This is why i absolutely hate that it's being used as a substitute what essentially makes us human: art, music, research, learning etc.

It's a tool that needs a licence because you need to know how to use it to complement your existing skills, not supplement it.

Good grief. Who cares about porn?

Why not address government lobbying, for starters? Or how about the housing crisis/tax incentives that encourage wealth hoarding?

Been on Linux for gaming for almost a year now and completely windows free since November last year. It's glorious.

I use Arch, btw.

Disco Elysium for me! Didn't understand it and thought it was weird. On the third try, it was amazing. I finally understood what it was trying to do. It was an art piece and I don't think I'll ever have that same journey again for a long while.

Talk to your PC is just going to be Denholm Reynholm from IT Crowd.

My husband was extremely drunk and cycling home at 3am. Fell off his bike, smacked his face on the road and fell unconscious. Was picked up by an ambulance called by a good Samaritan who found him.

They put him on a drip, ran an MRI scan, found a fracture on his eye socket, told him he had a concussion, found some fibroids in his lungs (unrelated to the accident) etc. Was in the emergency ward for probably 12 hours until he was able to be discharged.

Got follow up scans and appointments looking at the lung, eye and concussion issue over two years until they gave him the all clear.

We paid not a cent for the whole thing. He did get a verbal lashing from me though.

On the flip side, I had to have elective surgery to remove a 17cm cyst because it was really, really uncomfortable. Because it's elective, it's not covered by Medicare. The quote from the hospital came to $22K and we had to pull it out of the home loan.

Location: Australia

Forgot to say that we both have ambulance membership which costs us $70/year. Without it, the ambulance cost would've been around $3.5K.

Only works if you have a functional and fair justice system (which you don't).

Tools should be provided if you want to do that but shouldn't be standard. People should have freedom of choice on how to use their own property, in terms of computers, and how they manage/raise their children.

Some of my friends have registered on Flux but still use discord. It's sort of just there until discord makes it unbearable for them to use but discord will never do that. They'll just slowly tighten the noose until you get comfortable.

They pay for nitro, which to me is bonkers.