Raising minimum wage or putting a social safety net in place so we have no working homeless or unfed children.

It has become a gatcha game, you put time in and you might get something worthwhile out of it, or you might get more poverty

that looks nice, we have a lower frills version of the mesh chairs at the office which are comfortable enough except that they aren't quite tall enough for me

I read this article too and I don't see where npr is saying this is ok. They are giving these workers a platform to express their side of it but what the workers are really saying is that they are being exploited financially. This main guy being interviewed says he loves doing this but the laws are allowing the business to subsidise his wages based on customer kindness. That is clearly not ok, the tipped minimum wage is clearly not ok.

"If there is some means of tipping that's available to you, that should signal to you that workers there aren't being paid enough," says Schenker.

Any suggestions on decent chairs? I'm in the market for two chairs for my wife and son doing grad school and college from home.

Everyone says they get aerons or steelcase leaps cheap but in central Texas the best I've seen are 400-600 and at least an hour drive each way. That's still kind of steep for me (especially given the two household members in university right now)

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Kurt Vonnegut, 1953

Sherlock Zen is a logic puzzle game that looks like dos shareware from the win 3.1 era.

The previous version was one of the first android games I ever installed, I played through the free levels a couple of times but never bought the unlock.

I thought about it recently when doing a grid logic puzzle in a magazine I bought at the airport and went looking for it. I was sad that it didn't seem to exist anymore and eventually went down a rabbit hole and found the creators website which gave me huge nostalgia. He is also active on mastodon. So I bought the new version finally and have been thoroughly enjoying it!

I am using jerboa but really miss redreader, the creator floated making it support lemmy and I am excited for that possibility but am sticking with jerboa for now.

What I am seeing here is that mostly people regret playing free to play games. That tells me that their business model is working as intended but we should all wise up.

My regret is spending too much time making cool mods work together and then not playing the games, oblivion was the worst because I didn't get it until skyrim was a year or two old and there were so many stupid mods out already. Most of them are janky or old and have incompatibilities with each other. I discovered pretty quickly that I need less options not more in open world rpgs because I'm an adult and don't have time to play games the way my heart wants to (look in every door, under every bush, around every corner).

every time I see this I think someone must care about this person and is missing the red flags about their crippling addiction

but if we are trying to save the world getting the lowest mpg vehicles off of the road first will have a stronger effect

if you already drive a 30mpg car and you are ready to upgrade then definitely look for better efficiency but I think we should have incentives in place to get cars that operate at for instance 16 mpg (my first car for instance, 1996 Chevy blazer, now deceased) replaced by even 10 year old models which are much more efficient

I think this is going to become a stock response for me