That $150 isn’t going straight to the mechanic, they get a fraction of that. Rest goes to the support staff, keeping the lights on, and general profits.

Mechanics, especially at dealership, get what’s called flat rate set by the how long manufactures expects a job to take.

For an oil changes, if the mfq estimates 30min, the mechanic gets paid for 30min regardless if the job takes 10 minutes or 2 hours. Guess what they’re incentivized to do? Rush jobs and finding excuses to do shit that doesn’t need to be done.

Need someone else’s help with something? That person doesn’t get paid for helping you out, so guess who doesn’t want to help/train the new guys.

How about tools? Most mechanics are expected to supply their own tool, minus the big shop wide stuff, so most spend tens of thousands of dollars over the years.

I remember a job add on the radio “guaranteed 60 hours and work on saturdays”.

Realistically I’d love “mandatory tips” to go away all together. People who are hired to a job, do their job and get paid by their employer. Anything on top is extra. Both the mechanic and baritsa should be paid proper wages from the start.

Yes it is, I’ll type out your password and you’ll see its now hashed out on your end

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Hmm, that is true.

I always just pressed the shutdown button if I was putting it in a bag. If I was only moving from one place to another, then I wouldn’t want it turn off for just closing it.

Yeah, that’s a cursed setup, must be set to shutdown on lid close, but also it doesn’t hang if there is an unsaved document like every other time?

And no habitual Ctrl+s after every sentence or two? If the kid didn’t wipe her work, a random windows crash or forced update would have.

The second to last kid might be a girl, but that’s just going by the long hair and pink shirt…they’re too far back and we can’t see the face to make any real determination.

Wait until you here about the hidden mesh networks they create with other iot shit

Expectations vs reality

“Grandma why did you wreck your computer??!!”

Oh hey be reasonable now, those jackasses wouldn’t go anywhere near a ball crushing factory in fear of the association with balls turning them gay.

That was 9 years ago!!!

I’ve been through booth, Overall nothing I’d ever plan a trip specifically for, but everyone has their own interests.

Ithaca - the town itself; no. There’s a lot of cool hiking trails, and some water falls/scenic views nearby if you’re into that. Cornell University is also there, if you like exploring old architecture there’s some neat buildings.

Troy also no, unless you want to visit a town that looks like it hasn’t changed since 1980. It is right next to Albany, the state capitol, so there’s that.

Unfortunately until they are no longer “vital infrastructure” to governments, they will just get bailed out. I guess the best we can hope for is they disappear into obscurity as just another corporate software package that could easily be replaced by a spreadsheet.

Nah, the fake trees are getting better at blending into the forest.

This images has some tells that is was generated, it’s possible some post clean up was done but when’s the last time you’ve seen a mug with two handles? I’ll admit those do exists, so it could be the artist’s choice. On the painting on the book case, splitting the mouse’s head in half is also certainly a choice…

Looking at the “game” it self, someone else mentioned the mouse doesn’t fit in the tunnels. The gaps are inconsistent as well, some areas of the map are inaccessible, regardless of the characters Sir. The big cheeses are all different, and some of the cheese dots go over the green walls. Those aren’t mistakes someone would make by hand, especially considering the amount of detail in the rest of the image. If it was a kid’s doodle, I’d be a bit more forgiving.

AI is getting better, it’s hard to tell what is and what isn’t AI at a glance, especially when a human cleans up some of the obvious mistakes. These days you really have to scrutinize an image on the technical details/logic of it to decide.

Ooo so wiping data is destruction of property now? That means data is property.

Let’s apply that to Microsoft for the times their updates wiped user data, to apple when you take the phone in for a screen repair and they “had” to wipe your data, to Sony for deleting movie collections, and all the data collectors for stealing property…

Or plan your kitchen remodel to not have that stupid corner.

Incognito is only good for local privacy like clearing history when closed. Websites will still track everything, and through fingerprinting, there’s a very good chance they still know its you.

Not really, I know nothing about the channel. It’s just the songs rhythm lacks any real variance and emotion, something that AI could replicate.

If they teach kids that’s how to sing/talk, then the AI voices will suddenly sound “human”.

T-U-Ved, W-X-Y-Zed

Seems alright to me.

Jeez, they can’t make the AI sound human, so now they’re trying to make the kids sound like AI.

The awkward rests between Q and W are terrible.