Happens all the time in Boston on the green and sometimes the silver lines.

It's not just SF. The $10 lunch of 2015 is now $15. Default tipping of 20% on things that we never tipped on in 2015 (takeout, fast food) is also adding alot to the total cost.

I don't know how people are affording the various delivery services and their fees on top of it.

A random stall by the road in LA will charge you $10 flat and the same one in SF will ask for $20. Neither will have a screen for tips. THAT would make your SF purchases simply stratospheric. I have lived in Jersey City, NJ and New Orleans, LA. Neither one holds a candle to LA prices outside some random roadside vendors. Walmarts in greater LA are vastly more expensive than those in NOLA. But grocery shopping in SF is straight up nightmare where they dont seem to respect Murican money all that much if at all. LA could never.

I see a lot of references to a “K-shaped” economy where there happens to be enough well-off people who are continuing to spend to push prices further upward, even though more people are forced to cut back since they can’t afford higher prices. There’s still enough people ordering $14 burritos and having them delivered in order to sustain both $14 burritos and the delivery companies.

It’s the same with the RAM situation. Prices will continue to skyrocket as long as there are enough buyers paying whatever prices the sellers set.

> Default tipping of 20% on things that we never tipped on in 2015 (takeout, fast food) is also adding alot to the total cost.

Start declining those tips. We have to stop putting up with that BS.

Seem quaint to remember Dunkin' donuts franchisees forbidding their employees from putting out plastic cups for tips.

Why not also tie votes to number of children you have? Seems like they would have the most interest in the future.

That assumes they would vote in accordance with the future needs of their children. My experience in local politics around housing leads me to believe that most would not do this. Most would happily take the extra votes, but would vote in their self interest even when it conflicted with their children’s future self interest.

Maybe they call it a Vinyl Disc Player?

He should be the one to enforce it then.

Are you saying you want to put him back in charge?

He had decent approval ratings and was the last president to run an actual budget surplus rather than the huge deficits of late so you could do worse.

I mean, fair. I just don't think the person I responded to actually thought that part through.

Ah yes, let's not have consistent policy in the USA, and let's not keep our promises/guarantees. That will make America great.

If the President says 'this is what I negotiated' we should fulfill that agreement, not look for ways to get out of the agreement or legal loopholes (sure the Ukrainians agreement said one thing, but in the English version we put something less binding). I get that doing so wouldn't be billionaire behavior that we worship (how can I get the better end of the deal AND get out of whatever commitments I made).

I'm sure there are strong humanist arguments against gambling. Don't need a religious argument against it.

I believe Home Depot offers a similar service now so in a way they are directly competing

They probably don't have any repeaters. All those metal shelves are going to interfere with the signal. I have the same experience.

Their in-store WiFi is a repeater more or less. It's one of those bullshit forced auto-join networks that you can't opt out of (at least on iOS). Because that's not a massive vector for phishing or anything.

Yes, although I've had terrible experience with their wifi. I'm sure it depends on the store, but coverage is usually terrible and highly spotty, so if you're walking around or standing in the wrong area, it stops working.

At one point I also had to disable wireguard because I think it was triggering some sort of anti-abuse thing they had. It wasn't even using an exit node, just bridging me to my home network so I could access self-hosted services. I get the desire for anti-abuse, but that felt pretty draconian and I don't expect the average person to consider they might have to disable a VPN to get it to work, especially nowadays when many average people do have VPNs running.

This is a network carrier setting, the issue is that T-Mobile (and maybe others) pushes a profile that does this as part of their network configuration.

Right, so you can't opt-out of it.

I went to Wi-Fi settings, "Edit" in top right, scroll to bottom "Managed" section, and was able to turn off "Auto-Join" for the "t-mobile" managed network just fine. I did this many months ago, I think because I was infuriated at the idea of auto-connecting to a Wi-Fi network I did not opt in to, but regardless, the checkbox has remained off through a few OS updates since (on 26.1 now with a T-Mo prepaid eSIM).

There's no "Managed" section showing up on my phone and the last time I set that network to not auto-join it still did. Lesson learned, I just turn off WiFi and Bluetooth before heading out to Home Depot.

I was livid when I discovered that my carrier had implemented that with no opt out. I worked around it by implementing shortcuts that disable my iPhone's WiFi when I leave my house until I've returned or reached one of the handful of other places I use it. It's ridiculous that something like that is necessary, though.

Is that really the same thing? We aren't just talking about understatement.

This is all very familiar with this North Eastern American English speaker except the "quite good" one. The rest seem normal to me in my American English. Perhaps it's too many Dr Who and or Monty python as a youth. Though in New England the language can be very sarcastic and indirect.