PvP? No way, this is TvP! SK will just send Flash and Russia will be forced to gg immediately!

A higher minimum wage for restaurant staff is going straight onto the menu prices anyway. But then customers weary of expensive restaurant food stop showing up.

Restaurants are pretty much the toughest industry to be in. The vast majority of them fail. And the ones that really succeed (fast food) don’t have tipping anyway.

The ones who are making all the money are the landlords who own the land the restaurants lease from. They don’t care if 7 tenants restaurants go out of business in 5 years. They can always find more.

Why, mother, you are an odd fellow but you steam a good ham!

Don’t think about how the average person acts towards insects, think about how a farmer does. Plow the field, plant crops, fertilize, spray pesticides.

An alien civilization far in advance of our own which has travelled the stars and colonized millions of planets would just scour all life from the planet (while perhaps sucking up the genetic information into a database) and then reform the biosphere to suit their own needs, siphoning up all the mineral and energy resources they need as well.

Putin has been in power for 25 years. He arguably has more enemies than anyone else on the planet. I’d say the deterrent factor is pretty strong with this one.

It’s not perfect though. When you’re destroying your own country with the most disastrous war in living memory then you need stronger deterrents.

My question is: why?

I’ve tried shrooms but not LSD. It was a weird experience but not unpleasant. I don’t feel any desire to repeat it though.

To me it just seems like something people try once or twice and then move on from.

Food was great but still only 1 star? That must’ve been some really horrible service. After all, I think we learned from this guy that if the food is really good it’s still worth it:

Suppose you’re wearing cloth armour and using studded gloves (both tier 1). With this talent at level 3 you’ll get the maximum benefit.

Now suppose you equip a ring of force. Note that equipping a ring of force while using a weapon does not immediately count as “attacking with a ring of force.”

Now notice that the ring of force has a Duelist ability called brawler’s stance. When you activate it (takes no time and costs nothing) you will switch to attacking with your ring of force instead of your gloves. Now if you kill an enemy you’ll only get the benefit of your armour, not your gloves.

But here’s the thing! You can toggle brawler’s stance on and off any time at no cost and no time. So you can use it to soften up an enemy with your ring of force and then turn it off and finish them using a flurry of blows or a regular punch from the gloves. As long as the enemy dies with brawler’s stance toggled off you’ll get the benefit of your gloves for extra energy!

Same story in Canada. A big decline in total farmland (decline of 13.1 million acres or 7.9%) but an increase of 3.6 million acres in crop land. This represents an increase in intensity and density of farmland and a decrease in farmland used for non productive applications.

One of the big differences recorded in this report is a 62% decrease in the number of people living on farms from 1971-2021. A decrease in the amount of farmland used for living spaces (farmhouse, garden, garage) may be a big factor in the above crop:farmland ratio changes, as would a consolidation of farms (total number of farms decreased from 246K to 189K from 2001-2021).

What this all says to me is that economies of scale play a huge role in North American farming, and that our subsidy structures do not favour small farms.

How deep is that pot? To me it looks way too large for a tiny plant. I assume by first time grower you mean you’ve never grown any plants, cannabis or otherwise.

The worst thing you can do to any plant is to overwater it. When a plant is in a pot full of soil and its root system is very small it cannot absorb water quickly enough from the soil to prevent anaerobic conditions developing in the root zone. Anaerobic conditions cause root rot which will stunt and eventually kill a plant.

It’s much better to have a small plant in a tiny pot than a small plant in a giant pot. A plant that has overgrown its pot will demand more frequent watering but is not in danger of root rot. Plus it’s much easier to transplant a plant with a dense root ball than one with a ton of soil but sparse roots.

Anyway you should check the bottom of the pot to see if the soil is waterlogged. If there are any bad smells emanating from the soil at the bottom then you might need to do an emergency transplant into fresh soil in a smaller container, ideally with lots of perlite in the mix to promote drainage and aeration. During the transplant you’d want to remove all the soil from the roots and even rinse them off to get them relatively clean. Any roots that feel soft, dark brown and slimy should be pruned off so that only firm, light/white roots remain.

Yeah so the feature actually sounds completely useless against a determined adversarytiser. At the very least, apps should have no way of knowing whether notifications are turned on, including no means of knowing whether a notification was displayed or not.

App stores should also make a policy of banning apps that don’t explicitly keep all their ads in an advertising channel.

These people have a mental illness. They’re being taken advantage of by unscrupulous companies. They’re in exactly the same boat as people with gambling addictions. We should feel bad for them, but not (always*) as bad as homeless folks, who are still worse off.

*One of my elementary school teachers was married to a gambling addict. The guy was secretly hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and had stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of heavy construction equipment to pay off some of his loans. The guy ended up in a police chase and took his own life before he could be arrested. His wife, the teacher, was left massively in debt (he had secretly remortgaged the family house to pay for gambling debts) and grieving the loss of her husband but also in shock at discovering the extent of his crimes and debts. Really awful situation and nothing but profits for the casinos!

Are apps able to lie though? Say, by putting ads into the same channel as essential notifications?

They get more viewers when they do. Streamers do exist who don’t use a webcam, don’t talk to viewers at all, and only show gameplay. They get some viewers but not nearly as many as they would otherwise.

People like interacting with streamers. They especially like seeing the streamer get excited when they donate a bunch of subscriptions or send a bunch of money. Popular streamers will even have animations and sound to make a big deal out of this.

The truth is that full time streamers are supported by a small minority of viewers who donate large amounts of money. This makes streaming somewhat akin to prostitution in my view. But there you have it!

The worst is when an otherwise great app does that! And they also send really important notifications too, so you can’t just disable notifications!

And I’m sure the discount varies based on how much of a risk there is with each work environment. Low risk workplaces like software companies are going to have much less of a difference in risk between drug-using and non.

The thing is, it’s almost never going to be zero. And if employers and insurance companies can save a few bucks by getting everyone to pee in a cup, they will!

Personally, I don’t have an issue with cannabis use. It’s legal here in Canada and I’ve even grown it myself. But I don’t think people should be getting high at work, just as I don’t think people should drink at work (despite how amusing it is on Mad Men).

Having said that, I’ve never had a drug test in my life. Maybe it’s not a thing for most jobs in Canada.

I for one wouldn’t want to shop at a Home Depot with employees operating tow motors and other heavy equipment while high. If a customer gets killed by falling equipment while shopping then the lawsuit would be enormous. It would make the McDonald’s hot coffee lawsuit look like chump change.

When insurance companies aren’t allowed to mandate drug tests then they’re going to charge the store premiums commensurate with the assumption that all employees are on drugs. This would make it extremely expensive to run these stores and they’d pass the costs on to employees. This would paradoxically create an incentive for only drug-test-positive (drug using) people to work there! This phenomenon is known as adverse selection.

Really cool! I won’t be able to tune in live but I’m looking forward to watching the talks on VOD afterwards.

I really enjoyed your talks in prior years, Evan! I don’t know the speakers this year, apart from John Harris (from Roguelike Radio). Should be great though!

I wonder if they’re afraid of Eternal September’ing the service. A lot of people on Lemmy were upset when a bunch of people on Reddit joined. I can’t imagine what it would be like to have millions join in one day. I doubt it would be good for the culture of the community!

What city do you live in? That makes a big difference in terms of overhead.