Would you like to say more about why you think that?

I bought Skyrim for $9.

To be very clear I am talking about enlisting as a means to an end, not as an embrace of militaristic ideology or worship.

I don’t know I think that’s kind of a shitty thing to generalize about. Not sure where your located, but atleast here in the US there are plenty of folks who join the military at a young age to get themselves out of bad situations and try to correct the course of their life. Obviously there are a lot of people who join because of some dangerous nationalistic or racist ideals, but that structure and purpose can help some folks.

I’m curious to know what makes this more of a comfortable ride than if the basket or rack was mounted to the handlebars and fork? I could understand the steering being less “tippy” but I would also guess that there is a reason that racks are almost always mounted to the dropouts and handlebars.

Apologies as this is off topic, but does anyone have suggestions for how to minimize the extremely intrusive advertising that kind of ruins reading articles like these? 2/3rds of my mobile screen is covered with ads. If it matters I’m on iOS and use Chrome for my default mobile browser. I’m aware of the privacy implications of those choices.

I haven’t noticed but being a Seattle fan has probably seriously desensitized me to recognizing that. Daccord really pushes the envelope in that regard.

I’m just learning about Pixelfed from your comment. Any suggestions on where to start or instances to subscribe to?

It’s definitely an issue of distracted driving rather than a lack of skills to drive adequately. Because of our lack of public transportation options compared to where I’m assuming you live, most folks have to drive to do most things. They also have to do this at the same time as everyone else, which makes driving a shitty necessity and overall poor experience. Now we have computers in our hands and can do something more enjoyable than pay attention to the road while you’re on your Thursday evening 1.5 hour commute home from work.

Personally I think that distracted driving violations should be treated the same way a DUI is.

Are you also on iPhone? I have the same issue. They’ve always been like this for me.

Anyone watching via MAX? They’re doing this AWS Data Cast thing and I’m not trying to be grouchy but I do not like it.

I don’t totally understand how this chart is segmented and I’d challenge the accuracy of it. For instance, Oreo is a brand by Nabisco which is a subsidiary of Mondelēz but the chart shows Oreo and Nabisco in separate boxes.

Out of curiosity, what would make someone’s financial situation too complex for YNAB? I understand if you don’t want to share

Fun fact - the original lesser known Snakebite is a shooter of Yukon Jack and Rosie’s Sweetened Lime. The name was assumably stolen for the Guinness/cider combo

I really love how his style has evolved since AGNB.

Do you (or anyone else reading this) have a good recommendation for a Lemmy alternative for /r/personalfinance? I learned a lot from that community and am realizing I am missing that content here.

Lots of assumptions in this comment, the biggest one is that hungry people are reasonable. They’re not. The main issue is that we never opted into this experience that we didn’t control from beginning to end. That’s kind of an important piece of service delivery. Yes, when Karen is mad about something that’s not our fault, we could just put on our customer voice disarm the situation. But there are other things we could do when we owns the entire process.

What happens when you’re sitting at a restaurant and your server accidentally rang in the wrong dish? They can bring you a new one, offer something complimentary, take it off the bill, apologize in person, buy you a drink… I realize I’m comparing an in person experience to a delivery order, but it applies there too. DoorDash had used an out of date menu for our restaurant for their website, so people had ordered one of our most popular seasonal dishes out of season. Their orders get to their house and it’s not there. They’re upset so they try and call DoorDash (good luck). That doesn’t go anywhere fast (timing is important now because some of the party has hot food they ordered and some does not). It was never communicated to them that it wasn’t actually an option, even though it was (incorrectly) listed on the website/app. So they call the restaurant, who has no idea what the customer is talking about because they don’t know anything about DoorDash being a partner and they also know for a fact that the dish in question is not on the menu. So now the manager has to get involved, unravel the entire situation because there is an upset customer on the phone during peak dinner shift and they are pulled away from their other duties (taking care of guests they know about). The restaurant is in the community (very important) and DoorDash is not. When people talk about that restaurant in conversation (or on yelp, trip advisor etc) that experience is going to come up as a reflection of the restaurant, not DoorDash because the person posting the review is posting a review of the restaurant (NOT DOORDASH).

That’s not true. I worked for a restaurant that was unwillingly put on the DoorDash site/app. Consumers put their order in through DD and DD would put it into our online ordering system. We had customers calling about delivery times and cold food, but we didn’t do delivery. This is even in the video - Chipotle sent them a Cease & Desist.

There’s more to the business than just placing an order and cooking food. The restaurants reputations are in the hands of these services because the consumer is interacting with the service, not the restaurant.

A lot of us native English speaking cyclists wonder the same thing.

This is big Tom energy.