[-] LordTrychon@startrek.website 2 points 4 days ago

Same. Could use a reread. What a great book.

[-] LordTrychon@startrek.website 17 points 2 weeks ago

Had to say goodbye to my cat this weekend.

The past month or so, he'd become very demanding for attention in the middle of the day, crawling all over the desk and nibbling at my hands if they were typing or using the mouse rather than loving on him.

Every day at almost the same time. And I gave him what he wanted every time.

My Monday would certainly be better if he was still doing it.

[-] LordTrychon@startrek.website 46 points 2 months ago

Seriously. I NEVER know what she had for breakfast.

[-] LordTrychon@startrek.website 7 points 2 months ago

Just tried this.

So fast!

This guy's AI! Everybody grab a pitchfork!

[-] LordTrychon@startrek.website 41 points 2 months ago

Omg lol

'Query runs much quicker with 10 million fewer rows, Dave.'

[-] LordTrychon@startrek.website 11 points 3 months ago

Doordash charges restaurants a percentage of the gross from the sale. Rather than eat this cost, restaurants are encouraged but not forced to add a markup on the prices they give Doordash (or insert your favorite third party delivery app here). They all do it.

If you order from a store's own website though, Doordash (I don't know if other third parties do this) did not "find" or create the business/order... they are really only handling the delivery portion.

In this instance, they still have some fees but do not take the large percentage, as that is a finder or broker fee. They aren't bringing the restaurant the business, it's the other way around.

Thus, restaurants can use their normal pricing. If you can find the places near you doing this, it's a much better deal than using Doordash normally.

[-] LordTrychon@startrek.website 19 points 3 months ago

True.

Also true that Biden cancelled it in his first months in office... Who knows how long it takes to get fully up to speed on everything bad we have going on?

Also Also true that it started and ran longer under a different regime.

[-] LordTrychon@startrek.website 7 points 4 months ago

Did you say... 'Abe Lincoln'?

[-] LordTrychon@startrek.website 13 points 6 months ago

You're not so little anymore!

[-] LordTrychon@startrek.website 16 points 7 months ago

I u'se it to 'signify "here come's an 'S!"*

[-] LordTrychon@startrek.website 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Cursing and not cursing will both get you pretty much no reaction here.

But... if you self censor curse words with f*** or s***.... some lemmings lose their $#!+!

[-] LordTrychon@startrek.website 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Something I haven't seen in the comments but is very important to the equation.... Louisville has a very messed up bussing situation and has for years.

I'm not SUPER aware of the details, but that's because I live on the southern Indiana side of the river (just miles away from Louisville). My wife moved over here years ago specifically to avoid this issue for her kid before he was in the school system.

Louisville has a long standing policy where there is some sort of lottery that chooses what school you go to, rather than your school being determined by your nearest available.

The idea was clearly based on good intentions... to ensure that kids from any neighborhood would have the same opportunities, etc etc.

However, in reality it is a nightmare. Louisville isn't the largest metro area or the most sprawling, but still, trying to bus students from every school to every part of the county is ridiculous.

I think they made some changes in the past few years to make it easier to get a closer school, but again I'm not super up to date on it because it doesn't affect me other than the bus routes being an issue every year and hearing about it on the local news.

It's gotten worse and worse over the years though.

Again, I'm sure there are much more informed people with better info on this out there, but until they jump in I figured I'd add some pertinent info since this isn't a local lemmy community.

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