Throw in another leap day every 12 years and we’ve got a system.

Dude had 60 eggs every morning. That means there’s basically an entire henhouse dedicated to his breakfast.

Meanwhile, in town there’s a woman panicking to get just a few eggs, and the rest of the food in town seems overpriced.

Gaston was wrecking the local economy with his appetite.

We also had the food pyramid, which said we should eat tons and tons of bread and grain.

I’m just saying that I’m heavily armed even for a Texan. Do with that information what you will.

The rub is which to go with. Some people want the extra hour of daylight after work in the winter. Others want it in the summer because it will maximize their after-hours sunlight in the season when being outside is more realistic.

The reasonable position I take is that, if you inflict a Spring Forward on me, I’m owed a goddamned Fall Back and I’ll go to war with any government who tries to keep that hour indefinitely.

We paid decently for retail. It was a few years back, but it looks like they pay about 40-50k now for floor-level staff. It’s not amazing, but way better than others.

What hurt more with the corporate buyout was the number of employees let go and the end of some truly great perks. Manufacturers had programs to get us credit towards free products in return for selling their stuff, and since almost all the companies had the programs we didn’t even have to shill one brand over another.

My better salespeople bcame experts in their products because they didn’t just see all the products as things they’d never be able to afford, which helped both our sales and helped inform the customers. And they’d get 10k+ of high-end products a year. In my best year as an underling, I got over 20 grand in freebies. But the new corporate overlords banned employees taking part in those programs because they were afraid staff may sell the freebies on the aftermarket.

Come on time. And if someone stays late they should be paid for staying late 100% of the time.

But they also shouldn’t have to stay late. People work jobs so they can afford life outside of work. Making people stay late is stealing from their life outside of work no matter how much they’re paid.

When I was a retail manager, I was a hardass on people coming in so late that it would impact coworkers. I covered the floor in those situations, but I couldn’t cover multiple departments, but when 3 people are out sick and 4 are late, I can’t do it all.

I also fought corporate to authorize more hours so I could have coverage for people to get sick or stuck in traffic, but corporate were a bunch of assholes after our chief competition bought us out and slashed staffing.

Like most statements about work, it really depends on the job.

For shift work without overlapping shifts, being late keeps someone else on duty after their shift is up.

But if you’re working an office gig and your work is getting done, it’s fine. There’s a reason I don’t schedule any meetings within an hour of the start or end of the day.

It’ll be handy to have a tool that makes things up that they can use an an excuse to arrest you.

Lots of single-use plastics are years old by the time they make it to the end user.

The logistics of a plastic that degrades that quickly are difficult.

We don’t have any F-350s in my household…

We have 2 F-150s, a Nissan NV200 Cargo van, an RV built off an E-450, and a Ford C-Max plug in hybrid.

Yeah - I sold zero augers, and ended up calling a location in Minnesota land they were sold out, so we transferred them along with some rifles some of their customers had ordered from our used gun department that had to go through their store for the background check.

I’m an American worker. Bitching is pretty much the only benefit we get.

A few years ago my local Home Depot was clearancing out Haloween stuff to make room for Christmas stuff the last week of September.

I also used to work for a large destination outdoors retail chain. They held their big sales events at the same time nationwide whether or not it made sense regionally. I was in Texas, and we had a big flannel sales event for the clothing department in August when it was 110 degrees outside.

I ran the marine electronics department, and in 2018 they sent me 3 dozen ice augers for a sale. When I bitched to corporate they said Texas people vacation up North, and didn’t answer when I asked how many people they’d seen pack a 30-pound gas motor and 3-ft drill bit in their carry-on.

That’s the beauty of AI. It can look everywhere without requiring additional manpower.

What makes thela5 work so well is that the twist works because of the format.

It wasn’t mind control of the main character. It was mind control on the person holding the controller, and it WORKED.

My favoriteturret quote:

“Prometheus was punished by the gods for giving the gift of knowledge to man. He was cast into the bowels of the Earth and pecked by birds.”

I do like Inkscape a lot, but GIMP simply isn’t a viable alternative for photoshop for most users. The interface is horrid and the capabilities are limited. Adobe knew what they were doing with their strategic buyouts of developers.

Google is ending AOSP support and has announced they’re gonna stop allowing sideloading.

They shouldn’t be. My internet comes from a WISP antenna network that I help manage connected to Fiberlight.

We’re a small neighborhood across a lake from any meaningful cities, so we have a 150-ft tower on either side of the lake. One side is connected to the fiber and the other has directional antennas aimed at receivers for each house.