BarneyPiccolo
@BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
- Comment on Dogs need love too 21 hours ago:
We don’t tend to make our best decisions under the influence.
- Comment on Dogs need love too 21 hours ago:
That’s a pretty majestic looking goat. He’s as good as any dog.
- Comment on Shamelessly stolen from Reddit 3 days ago:
My Dad died five years ago, and my mom will still spend 15 minutes haggling over his 10% military discount at Lowe’s over $20 worth of plants. She doesn’t do it anywhere else, just Lowe’s.
JFC, Mom, here’s two bucks, let’s move on.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 4 days ago:
Probably nothing, but it just makes sense to tip on the actual bill. Why am I tipping the government tax?
So now I have to figure the tip before tax, then after tax, then decide which I want to pay, etc. just pay the pretax bill. Why is that controversial?
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 4 days ago:
Right but the fraud is with the server, or possibly the restaurant, not the industry as a whole. I just think getting the government involved to deal with a dishonest server is going a bit far. Just make the manager and corporate aware. They’ll deal with it.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 4 days ago:
This is one server, in one restaurant, not an industry-wide issue. Expecting some kind of regulatory remedy over an anecdotal issue is not the answer. I’m not a right-winger by any means, but even I know that the government isn’t the solution to anything. There already is a law against this, so the local gendarmes are as far as this needs to go.
Remember when your mom told you “Don’t make a Federal case out of it?” This is the kind of thing she was talking about, literally.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 4 days ago:
This seems like it is probably more of a server issue, and not a restaurant issue. The server has learned how to increase their tips, I doubt that’s company policy. This is Management’s problem to solve, not the government’s.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 5 days ago:
My Dad taught me that as a kid. I’m extremely supportive of wait staff, and I’m an excellent tipper (25% is not unusual), but I’m not tipping on tax. I draw the line there.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 5 days ago:
Do a review on Google maps, and TripAdvisor, if you are in a touristy city. Warn the world, and put the ownership on notice.
- Comment on If you were born after 1990, you've never had this experience 5 days ago:
Google it. It’s pretty fascinating.
- Comment on If you were born after 1990, you've never had this experience 5 days ago:
How you doin’?
- Comment on The look you have when you realize you've made the greatest alien movie of all time 1 week ago:
Oh, so you haven’t seen it?
- Comment on The look you have when you realize you've made the greatest alien movie of all time 1 week ago:
Just watched it last night. It was definitely NOT “the greatest alien movie of all time.”
That’s the look you have when you realize that someone thinks that POS movie you shot for the paycheck during Covid is being called “the greatest alien movie of all time.”
- Comment on They even got their own island 3 weeks ago:
Not really, because guys that age are 100% INVISIBLE to females. All you got is zits and a curfew, which you can’t even violate because neither you, nor any of your friends have a driver’s license.
- Comment on Donald Trump Said He Promised Ivanka He Wouldn't Date Girls Younger Than Her | “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.” 😬 3 weeks ago:
"DADDY! STOP INVITING MY FRIENDS TO PARTIES AT YOUR FRIEND JEFFREY’S HOUSE! YOU KNOW THAT EVERYONE THINKS HE’S CREEPY! AND YOU, TOO!
- Comment on You don’t see articles like this about moms with three two jobs who still manage to take care of their kids. 3 weeks ago:
A lot of Natural Managerial types think pointing a finger and saying “Do That” is the same as actually doing it, and they take credit for it because their Natural Managerial skills made it happen, not the actual work.
This isn’t just confined to workplace environments. Lots of people are like that in home/ family environments, relationships, friendships, etc.
- Comment on See their point 3 weeks ago:
I agree. Now that I’m old, my tastes are finally starting to gel, but I’m still always looking for great new musical experiences. I’ve gravitated to LOTS of great music, and even entire new genres, that became a regular part of my listening long past 14.
I started playing the guitar again during the pandemic, after stopping for decades. Now I’ve become a good enough player, that most of the time, I’d rather just listen to my own self-played solo guitar music. That definitely wouldn’t have been on my radar in my teens.
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 3 weeks ago:
Because spineless Establishment Dems have some obsession with “playing nice,” even with vicious MAGA Nazi enemies. I have a million questions, starting with:
Why didn’t Biden have HitlerPig and his henchmen arrested within the first 60 seconds after his Inauguration?
- Comment on Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says criminal “geoengineering and weather modification activities" could have played a role in recent Texas floods 4 weeks ago:
So fucking stupid.
- Comment on Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says criminal “geoengineering and weather modification activities" could have played a role in recent Texas floods 4 weeks ago:
And the evil scientists are all Democrats, because that’s where the money is.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
During the pandemic quarantine, I took up the guitar, but unlike most Covid hobbies, I’ve stuck with it, and gotten pretty good.
Getting good at something difficult results in great feelings, as you can imagine, but I wasn’t prepared for how much better it made me feel. My self-esteem and confidence went through the roof, and made me realize that I’ve probably been operating under a low-grade depression for my entire life.
Sometimes we’re depressed and don’t even know it. You come to accept that it’s just how you feel, and that’s your life. You don’t even know it can be better, until it is.
- Comment on Reddit bought a giant ad in Paris, urging young french people to create an account 4 weeks ago:
They are carefully curating their membership so it’s more MAGA-friendly. They’re turning it into Twitter.
- Comment on Reddit bought a giant ad in Paris, urging young french people to create an account 4 weeks ago:
Maybe they shouldn’t have permabanned thousands of active users like me, with a 12 year account and nearly 1 million Karma. People like me built Reddit, and as soon as HitlerPig was inaugurated, the DOGE Goblin demanded that Reddit purge its membership. Now they’re stuck with bots, novelty accounts, punsters, Russian Propaganda Farmers, MAGA activists, etc.
- Comment on Reality vs Fantasy 4 weeks ago:
I used to work in management for a Fortune 100 company, and they’d send people around for little afternoon management seminars on one thing or another (usually sexual harassment stuff).
One day, one of the visitors mentioned that money wasn’t even in the top 5 reasons that people work, and tried to move on from that, but I stopped them, and made them repeat it, and then said “Well that’s not true at all. It’s literally the ONLY reason ANYONE goes to work.”
They tried to argue it, but I just said "If it’s a Payday Friday, and the boss doesn’t hand out the paychecks, and tells everyone that there won’t be any future paychecks, but they’ll see everyone on Monday, the boss will walk into an empty office on Monday. Nobody works for any reason other than a paycheck "
And that was a great job, that almost everybody reading this would enthusiastically grab without thinking twice, but nobody is going to do it for free.
- Comment on VC behind ‘996’ work culture debate says 5-day weeks won't build billion-dollar startups 5 weeks ago:
We live in a world of Supply & Demand, and he won’t get the supply of labor he requires unless he meets the demand for proper compensation. It’s the simplest economics there is.
- Comment on You can only bring back one. Which do you choose? 5 weeks ago:
Tower Records and/or Borders Books & Music.
- Comment on Genius 5 weeks ago:
If you’re going to be self-employed, at least be a good boss to yourself. It doesn’t make sense to treat yourself like the worst boss you’ve ever had.
- Comment on Genius 5 weeks ago:
That’s not “Passive” income, if you have to attract 50-60 people per day, pretend to interview them, while subliminally encouraging them to use the vending machine. That’s called a full-time job, and probably illegal, too.
And that isn’t $300/day profit, he has to pay for those items in his machine. The profit is probably no more than 50%, so $150/day. For an 8 hour day, that’s $18.75 an hour. That’s a lot of work for not that much money. It certainly isn’t “Passive.”
- Comment on Thumbs up to people dying. 5 weeks ago:
Some did, but they won by cheating, and we ALL know it.
- Comment on Thumbs up to people dying. 5 weeks ago:
I’d rather a dead useless martyr, than an active live Nazi.