that would drive up the price of ram in China too, which would likely make the CCP quite cross with them. Electronics are a huge export and the Chinese government has to worry about entire cities going offline or having to pivot their entire industrial sectors if the shortage lasts too long.

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The answer to the riddle is teapot, but I have no idea what JOB could possibly mean

i am going to laugh my ass off if he gets heatstroke and passes out on live national television

DRAM is a global commodity. Kind of like how Iran selling oil to China affects the price of WTI crude.

i think. I’m not a fuckin economist I just like to sound smart

Truly, once you pass a certain threshold of capital accumulation nothing can dethrone you. Not even your brain being turned to mush. The things Thiel says are the ravings of a lunatic. If he weren’t an oligarch they’d put him away. And obviously he’s not the only one. One has to wonder if perhaps it is the power itself that drives a man mad. There ought to be a marginal wealth tax that starts wherever the gains to happiness begin to diminish and build exponentially towards 100% at, say, 1000x the median net worth of a single individual. The way things are isn’t good for us or them.

Dog people are special. I could never.

While this doesn’t happen often, it’s not unheard of. You might remember an outbreak from 2018 linked to salads sold by McDonald’s.

See? Not the first time. Last time it happened was 2 years into-

He’s stupid, but in this instance I think he’s just bullshitting for spacex’s sake. Even he is capable of putting together the fact that the costs required to build (not to mention service) an orbital data center far outweigh the costs of swapping out the genset for the same exact solar panels you would have otherwise put on the rocket. Maybe you need more panels to make up for atmospheric transmission and the day/night cycle but he (or let’s be real, grok) has ready access to the cost of a single starship launch and a calculator.

If and only if someone is insane enough to develop off-planet manufacturing with the bulk of the raw materials originating from somewhere in deep space, e.g. asteroid mining, putting data centers in space might be useful for problems that demand intensive compute and can work with extreme latency.

Then again that’s like saying inventing the airplane would have been a good strategy for Neanderthals to find better firewood.

does anyone else smell burning toast

50k was for the level though

I don’t understand

Also how big is your steam library if you don’t mind me asking? I’m not up on my conversion rates but €100k is in the realm of house money

downdooting you for dooting dootdoot

ah fuck, time to get paralyzed and give up I suppose. I’m never going to solve my problems in time.

yknow who else hates France? The ruling class

https://the-toast.archive.town/2015/07/15/the-pitch-meeting-for-wishbone/

Yeah, but you said you tip 5% for below average service. Are you aware of the state of the kitchen, the state of the dish pit, or the state of the running side work at all times? Because if you’re not, you have, at some point, stiffed a competent somebody doing their level best to keep the establishment from burning to the ground.

Depends on the pay structure. Tip outs at some places get high, maybe even 10% of total sales. Which would mean 2/3 of your generous 15% tip goes to the kitchen, or the busboy, or whoever, regardless of how much your server had to harangue them into doing their jobs or how much verbal abuse everyone had to endure in the process. Which, as a former server, yes, is part of the job.

If you tip 5% at a place that tips out higher than 5%, guess where the difference comes from. If you guessed the server’s own share of the tip pool, you get a cookie. Sometimes, nothing is in fact better than something.

So why don’t they just get another job? It’s fuckin hard out there, man, maybe they’re trying. You don’t know. It took yours truly 2 years to escape the industry, and I still have a foot planted there because i took a pay cut to do it. I can almost guarantee I make less money than you if you can afford to eat out more than, like, once a month.

And don’t even get me started on the servers who do make beaucoup bucks. They don’t get there on their own, they do it by shirking their side duties, taking a bigger slice of the pie, and “delegating” to their peers, which management loves because it’s “team service.” Granted, the restaurant I worked at was a shitty place to work, but that’s not exactly rare.

So what does this all point to? Tipping sucks, but trying to fight it by tipping less really only hurts the face you see.

As someone who’s worked in a restaurant, they probably wouldn’t fuck with your food. You might end up waiting a while for drinks, though.

a while ago, I wanna say 2010ish, the new CEO of JCPenney had a bold new vision for the brand. Instead of things being marked up and then perpetually “on sale,” what if they just… marked things as the price they are? Sales collapsed by 25% and the company lost a billion dollars in a single year.

There is a reason things are the way they are, no matter how stupid they look. Consumer psychology is a trip.

Edit: and the thing is this probably works on the reader of this comment as well. Consumers, when asked, will say they prefer transparent pricing structures. But their real world behavior is the exact opposite.