I live in Aus and haven’t seen it. Restaurants will usually have a tip option on the eftpos machine but it is very optional and if it was mandatory, they would loose repeat business.
And there is nowhere else I’ve seen tipping.
Minimum casual wage is now almost $32/hr ($21USD)
Since COVID though cost of living has skyrocketed, so I do feel for the restaurants.
Society: trending down.
Schools are just too big. More local schools with smaller buildings and a hell of a lot less administration department. All this weapon detection and eyes everywhere just says school buildings have become too big to manage in any reasonable way. I'm not saying we should go back to the little schoolhouse in every neighborhood, but almost.
I don't disagree, but all that ignores the fact the the problem with schools is the student body itself: there are too many walking the halls that belong in reform school instead of real school.
Imagine if those millions of dollars were spent on teaching students.
I'm sure the district would love to spend the money that way, but we live in a society that values easy access to guns more than it values safety, so the district's hand is forced.
We've had "easy access to guns" for 250 years. High Schools used to have firing ranges and shooting teams (including girls shooting teams). It was not uncommon to see rifle racks in the back windows of trucks in my high school parking lot. Somehow we managed to not shoot anyone. What's changed is the introduction of ghetto thug culture into schools. If you had a problem with a guy when I was in school, you arranged to meet out back after 3 PM and settle it with fists. Now kids "pop a cap" into students and teachers for "dissing" them. Then there's the constant, roving gang fights in schools, typically with a bunch of kids cornering one kid and beating him bloody, all while recording it on their phones and bragging.
It's ironic, because in the 1970's, French philosopher Michel Foucault kicked up a storm when he wrote that, architecturally, schools looked like prisons because they served a similar function. Modern school systems are buying mass surveillance systems precisely because modern students act like prison gangs, and have to be managed the same way.
Underserved market
It'll be a dying market in 20 years. AI doesn't need Christmas gifts.
Maybe geek nostalgia gifts will replace it. Shirts with a pic of a Bash script with "This used to be my job".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Very fitting, don't you think?
As a reply to my comment, I'm gonna be notified, so I read it.
Alas, I understand CMB, fortunately I don't operate on and amateur band that would possibly be affected by CMB interference, which is minimal by any measure.
But I'll read up on how CMB is employed as a reference.
That doesn't make as much sense as other concepts, but hey, physics didn't always make sense...
Distracting from what exactly? Breathtaking CGI is the whole point of the Avatar movies.
Nope. they store that tape in a climate-controlled environment...
OK, so if you disagree with 99.9% of what I write, tell me do you agree or disagree with this thesis I wrote a year ago about Islam being at war with the rest of Civilization:
https://slashdot.org/journal/3...
this position on the government being 'necessary' evil that needs to be controlled because left to its own devices it causes millions of deaths by war and other means:
https://slashdot.org/comments....
this position that government promoting consumption rather than production with 0% interest rate policies, getting off gold standard, laws and taxes leads to economic destruction, that there are no savings anymore
https://slashdot.org/comments....
position that government selecting losers and winners by choosing businesses to fund ends up creating inefficient monopolies (space x comes to mind, but this comment is from 2010)
https://science.slashdot.org/c...
position that USA is printing the dollar into oblivion, gold is real money and should be used as standard to prevent countries from inflating the money supply, that USA bonds are junk, of-course this was 2013 when USA's debt was around 16Trillion, today it is over 38Trillion, things have gotten worse by a factor greater than 2, the world is getting off the USD standard, using other currencies more, bond yields have at least doubled due to the falling bond price:
https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...
You can say whatever you like about my intelligence but if you disagree with 99.9% of my comments you are quite a bit off.
And that makes sense to me. Relative to things nearby. Fine.
well clearly many of your positions are incorrect if you disagree with me 99.9% of the time as you said, that is because it is impossible statistically for me to be incorrect 99.9% of the time, I couldn't achieve that result if I put all my effort into it.
disagreeing with me on anything does not invalidate my positions nor does it make you right in any way, I do not know why it was important for you to add that to your reply, it actually implies that many of your positions are incorrect and it does not increase the chances that my position on flock cameras is more or less valid. My positions pretty much always align with each other because they are all derived from the assertion that maximizing individual freedoms is the most important goal for human life.
I bet the human brain is a kludge. -- Marvin Minsky
