This isn’t about immediately filtered content, like the disgusting DuffMan George Floyd meme, or Holocaust denial. That’s pretty well kept in check by mod tools. I’m also not talking about cogent or even pointed political discussion....
There are laws in place for service workers related to minimum wage. The employers have to make up the difference if tips don’t meet the rate for hours worked. It seems to me that’s not sufficient for the times....
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, an employer has to pay each employee the minimum wage, unless the employee is “engaged in an occupation in which the employee customarily and regularly receives more than $30 a month in tips”. If the employee’s wage does not equal minimum wage, including tips, the employer must make up the difference.
If an employee’s tips combined with the employer’s direct wages of at least $2.13 an hour do not equal the federal minimum hourly wage, the employer must make up the difference.
There are certain talking heads on TV that can only be explained by the theory that there’s no such thing as bad publicity. He gets people talking, even if it’s usually only about how bad he is.
Outrage media works. Sports commentary especially seems to depend on it.
Links that open natively in Sync (like news articles) are often riddled with ads. Is there any way for the Sync shell to open through a Firefox based browser, which includes native ad block?...
Browsing Reddit at work like I’ve literally done every work day for the last six years, suddenly Reddit won’t let me vote. Says my account has been suspended, but all I have to do is reset my password, using the email address I have on file. I don’t have one. Can’t get the email to reset the password, can’t add an...
It wasn’t compromised. If you can’t be tracked and cross referenced with all the other data that brokers have, your activities aren’t worth anything to reddit and they don’t care about that account.
I was talking about bg3 and how a certain part could be changed to be much darker, and it occurred to me that it possibly could affect the rating of the game if they did (being vague purposely to avoid spoilers). But then I wondered “do things like that even have to be reviewed by the rating boards?” Because Larian has made...
The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge....
In your case, I’m guessing lots of people have heard the horror stories of shitty, scammy repair techs in various fields (automobiles being one prominent example). The good ones have to deal with the occupational reputation driven by the worst of them.
For me, I don’t consider myself a real expert in any specific subject, but I’m adjacent to a number of financial areas. I try not to delve into the weeds of those internet discussions too often (like I said, not an ironclad expert), and even when I do, it’s only to address the most egregious errors. Money can be an emotional topic, and many of those opinions are based on the way people want the world to be rather than the way it is, so show up with facts and references and they tend to understand.
It’s always been a race to gobble up the handful of whales that keep the mobile game industry alive. Now add hundreds more desktop and console games to that list. Sure, there are lots of people that will happily spend thousands of dollars on any shitty game, but once you’ve got the entire industry spending billions fighting over those players, the well runs dry eventually.
OP did the right thing by using the linked headline, but that headline is incoherent.
It cost an extra $200m in expense due to impairment (it wasn’t worth as much as they originally put on the books, so they had to write it down).
The only revenue impact is a note that it didn’t sell as well as Hogwarts Legacy, which was released in the same quarter last year. The article conflates those two things into one for the headline, which is just wrong.
I almost bought myself a SCUF controller until I realized it’s all run through iCue. Even if they made the best hardware, the experience will suffer until they get some decent software.
I (20m) am 6’5" tall. One of my female friends who’s 5’5" told me that my height makes my belly particularly vulnerable in case if I get attacked with a pocket knife, for example. Why is it so?
Santa himself has been described as a “jolly old elf.”
I’m no lore expert, but it makes me wonder if the original Santa (human) passed the title to one of his former underlings. The Dread Pirate Roberts of the North Pole, perhaps.
Has anyone else noticed a large influx of Trolls lately?
This isn’t about immediately filtered content, like the disgusting DuffMan George Floyd meme, or Holocaust denial. That’s pretty well kept in check by mod tools. I’m also not talking about cogent or even pointed political discussion....
TNG v DS9 (startrek.website)
Please no more (lemmy.world)
Gamers Are Becoming Less Interested in Games With Deep Strategy, Study Finds (www.ign.com)
Handcuffs in Hallways: Hundreds of elementary students arrested at U.S. schools (www.cbsnews.com)
“Don’t make a wrong move,” the officer said as he pinned the struggling subject to the ground. “Period.”...
Putin Sends US Signal on Ukraine Talks, Sensing Advantage in War (www.bloomberg.com)
"Vladimir Putin is testing the waters on whether the U.S. is ready to engage in talks for ending Russia’s war in Ukraine,” Bloomberg reports....
Tipping culture in U.S.
There are laws in place for service workers related to minimum wage. The employers have to make up the difference if tips don’t meet the rate for hours worked. It seems to me that’s not sufficient for the times....
What do you think of Stephen A Smith ?
County sheriffs wield lethal power, face little accountability: "A failure of democracy" (www.cbsnews.com)
More people were killed by U.S. law enforcement in 2023 than any other year in the past decade, outpacing population growth eightfold.
Getting Sync's internal browser to default to Firefox?
Links that open natively in Sync (like news articles) are often riddled with ads. Is there any way for the Sync shell to open through a Firefox based browser, which includes native ad block?...
Which types of work suit those that prefer to work alone, or with smaller teams?
Account suspended
Browsing Reddit at work like I’ve literally done every work day for the last six years, suddenly Reddit won’t let me vote. Says my account has been suspended, but all I have to do is reset my password, using the email address I have on file. I don’t have one. Can’t get the email to reset the password, can’t add an...
If a game adds or changes content outside of extra add-ons like DLC (such as a free update) does that content have to be reviewed by ratings boards and risk changing the rating of the game?
I was talking about bg3 and how a certain part could be changed to be much darker, and it occurred to me that it possibly could affect the rating of the game if they did (being vague purposely to avoid spoilers). But then I wondered “do things like that even have to be reviewed by the rating boards?” Because Larian has made...
Qualified experts of Lemmy, do people believe you when you answer questions in your field?
The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge....
Some disaster has befallen society: you have to secure a month of food for you and three other people. How do you do it?
Let’s assume no zombies or other supernatural occurrences, but could be plenty of people being shitty, consequences thereof, or natural disasters...
70 percent of devs unsure of live-service games sustainability (www.gamedeveloper.com)
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xkcd #2936: Exponential Growth (imgs.xkcd.com)
xkcd.com/2936...
I feel this in my soul. Warp core, rather (lemmy.world)
The Fast and the Honorable 2375 - Living Life One Quarter Light-Year at a Time (lemmy.world)
I don’t have friends. I have House.
NFL Speaks Out Against Harrison Butker's Controversial Speech (www.etonline.com)
Suicide Squad Cost Warner Bros. $200 Million In Revenue (insider-gaming.com)
Corsair to go all in on sim racing with plans to acquire Fanatec and help with its €70 million debt (www.pcgamer.com)
Why does being tall make your belly more vulnerable in case of an attack?
I (20m) am 6’5" tall. One of my female friends who’s 5’5" told me that my height makes my belly particularly vulnerable in case if I get attacked with a pocket knife, for example. Why is it so?
a 320 year old elf marries an 80 year old human: Is the elf robbing the cradle, or the grave?