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  • Knowing if you are picking up food from a tiny place where one of two people do everything, or a big one with full kitchen staff, is calculus? Around me you can tell by the size of the parking lot so it’s dead simple. But even if not you can absolutely tell when you walk in to pick it up.

    I agree that tipping shouldn’t exist, I hate working for tips. But since I do, there are things I won’t do because they don’t pay. Like going above and beyond for to-go orders.





  • You made me curious so I looked it up. Apparently there’s several things classified as “pope’s hat”.

    So the specific one you are asking about is called a mitre, and not just the pope wears them I guess? Abbots, cardinals, bishops, and whomever else do as well, and there are lots of different styles for different groups/sects/whatever. It is thus very difficult to sort out what this article is talking about as someone with zero religious upbringing or education.

    Apparently prior to 1927 they weren’t using the mitre at all, and were using a papal tiara, which is frankly quite ugly, so it’s just as well pope Benedict XVI broke tradition and went with the mitre.

    In 1963 pope Paul VI was coronated with the tiara, and was the last to be so far.

    Also gold and silver count as “white” because the mitre has to be white. So that’s weird af.

    There are several styles of papal regalia, so I think it’s, like, a choice? It really doesn’t give a lot of detail on the wiki page about that sort of thing but just based on the number of historical options, popes switching things up, etc. That’s about as much energy as I have to read and report back, so that’s as far as I go.

    I’d bet they just tailor a stock one or something for the day 1 thing and then do proper after.






  • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.nettoGaming@lemmy.worldGood people are everywhere
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    20 hours ago

    Same boat for me. I can whack zombies with a baseball bat all day or whatever and feel nothing, but get me frustrated with some insane timing-based thing and over- or under-sensitive controls, and I’ll crack for sure. Souls-like and certain platformers are pretty much the only ones that do it because I feel like I should be able to do the thing, and can’t. Other games that are super challenging, like RPGs or action-type games, I can try the same boss fight or “cinematic timing-based action sequence” (a thing that should die off) 100 times and not get the rages.

    I yell a lot, up to and including unintelligible screeching, and heaven help anyone who interacts with me in that state… But fortunately I’m not a controller thrower or slammer. Can’t afford to buy new shit due to rage. Instead I learned to just pause for a while and come back at it in better headspace. That’s often all it takes.

    It’s for the best I live alone, but I’m sure my neighbors think I’m insane…



  • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.nettoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldA tax on people-pleasing
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    21 hours ago

    And this is why when people call for to-go orders after I’ve started doing clean-up (usually 8 or 9), I won’t take their order and tell them kitchen is closed for to-go. If they come in to order that’s fine, and most nights I’ll do it basically up until I close down, because they are more likely to tip for it, and re-cleaning isn’t that hard. The owner of the place told me it’s entirely my call on that, and she won’t re-open the kitchen for to-go either because people usually don’t tip for it.

    I cook everything myself as well as being the only bartender, and our food is fairly inexpensive, so it doesn’t end up costing all that much and 10% is basically nothing, assuming they even leave that. I’m not doing that shit for no reason. Fuck all that noise.

    So do be conscious of what sort of place it is before you apply that rule. If it’s somewhere with a full kitchen and kitchen staff that gets paid decently, sure. Little bar and grill with at most 2 people working and making not that much? Ehhhh…


  • I have a local burger joint at which I can still get a $2 cheeseburger. It’s plain and everything is an up charge but that’s fine. A whopper or Big Mac clone is some $4.50, so like, it’s still pretty cheap.

    However, they have no seating, and it’s an old ice cream shop so just a big kitchen and a tiny indoor order/pickup window and 2 benches. And there’s always a massively long line. Takes easily an hour to get fast food there during peak, cuz nobody goes to the local depressed millennial McDonald’s (one of those sad gray ones)



  • I have 5 hammers, 2 identical drills, and 4 box cutters because of this.

    I have some 20 pair of scissors for the same reason.

    I don’t even want to know how many screwdrivers I’ll find when I pack my shit to move.

    Object permanence is a big problem. A big expensive problem. I can set something down right in front of myself and lose it basically immediately.



  • Meh, I use the same super-weak password for tons of sites I don’t give a flying fuck about.

    I took all the military opsec and infosec courses, because I was in intel, and my partner is currently an IT security professional, but some accounts just don’t warrant giving a damn.

    I don’t use it for anything important, I let my password manager handle those, but bullshit “create an account to checkout” stuff that I use another payment system for? Meh.

    This doesn’t seem like news, beyond looking for something to report on.



  • Oh! My first dm assigned me the god-like magical being role! It started as a group campaign and ended up being just me and her husband, and I was super new to it, so she wrote out a whole thing that my character was unaware of, and the entire story became finding out about this.

    My own backstory probably sucked, but my character was a fire genasi mix who was trained as a mage blade. She was purple with white eyes due to badly botching her familiar summoning spell, so she ended up with a thievy purple monkey (incapable of following directions, unless I critted the roll) instead of the phoenix she was aiming for.

    The dm snuck a giant gem into my inventory thanks to that sneaky thieving monkey (which caused a lot of problems, as you can imagine of a familiar that doesn’t obey fucking anything.) it ended up being an artifact from her ancestors, and unlocking the secrets of it brought out my latent goddessness.

    So that was a blast.

    Thanks for bringing up those memories! It was so long ago now…