Raising minimum wage or putting a social safety net in place so we have no working homeless or unfed children.

It has become a gatcha game, you put time in and you might get something worthwhile out of it, or you might get more poverty

I love my gas stove, we just upgraded the hood, the old one barely covered the range top and was so loud nobody wanted to be in the kitchen when it was running. As unofficial family safety officer and fun dampener I’m always turning it on but that basically made conversations impossible and multitasking difficult.

I grew up with electric ranges and then my young adulthood saw a series of lowest possible price stoves included in apartments, I could not wait to get away from them.

Our extremely crappy coil based electric range burned out and at the time I researched it a pretty nice gas stove was half of what a comparable induction stove was. Now I understand there are more options and it seems obvious to go induction for the next one.

That being said I think I will miss the gas stove, it feels very intuitive the way the flame reacts to the knob and the speed that the pans heat. The coil stoves I have used have all had hot spots, it isnhard to tell when they have reached full temperature and different cookware heats up very differently.

that looks nice, we have a lower frills version of the mesh chairs at the office which are comfortable enough except that they aren’t quite tall enough for me

We’ve outgrown two of these, shame they don’t make them in larger sizes.

Thanks for these suggestions, I will check them out. I’ve read both good and bad reviews about the various chairs at costco and ikea, they all seem fine to me when I sit in them but then I’ve had two $100~ chairs start to give out in 8-10 months and then be passively irritating for another year or so before becoming intolerable.

I’m working from home 8+ hours a day in a Lifeform chair that I can’t find the model number on the internet(looks kind of like a legacy 900 but different fabric and adjustment arm placement). My mom bought it in a shop in Austin probably 15+ years ago and gave it to me when she closed her office. It’s comfortable but extremely heavy and almost too adjustable, all of the moveable parts creak and don’t stay where they are set reliably.

It does sound simple right? I’ve been an avid voter and I’m in a bubble here in district 35 so it feels like everyone I know avidly votes progressive as well but obviously that’s why the bubble was built.

I read this article too and I don’t see where npr is saying this is ok. They are giving these workers a platform to express their side of it but what the workers are really saying is that they are being exploited financially. This main guy being interviewed says he loves doing this but the laws are allowing the business to subsidise his wages based on customer kindness. That is clearly not ok, the tipped minimum wage is clearly not ok.

“If there is some means of tipping that’s available to you, that should signal to you that workers there aren’t being paid enough,” says Schenker.

can we do anything about it?

Any suggestions on decent chairs? I’m in the market for two chairs for my wife and son doing grad school and college from home.

Everyone says they get aerons or steelcase leaps cheap but in central Texas the best I’ve seen are 400-600 and at least an hour drive each way. That’s still kind of steep for me (especially given the two household members in university right now)

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Kurt Vonnegut, 1953

Sherlock Zen is a logic puzzle game that looks like dos shareware from the win 3.1 era.

The previous version was one of the first android games I ever installed, I played through the free levels a couple of times but never bought the unlock.

I thought about it recently when doing a grid logic puzzle in a magazine I bought at the airport and went looking for it. I was sad that it didn’t seem to exist anymore and eventually went down a rabbit hole and found the creators website which gave me huge nostalgia. He is also active on mastodon. So I bought the new version finally and have been thoroughly enjoying it!

I am using jerboa but really miss redreader, the creator floated making it support lemmy and I am excited for that possibility but am sticking with jerboa for now.

yeah the one I played the most of is Warframe, it’s very doable to just play it and I’m impressed by the amount of content they have put out… it almost feels like they failed at the model because I felt so little incentive to give them money beyond wanting to support them, fortunately they seem to be doing fine and I would think that would serve as a good model for others

they definitely could but I would hope they are not because that would be tampering with the whole metric which just makes it meaningless and fuels haters

What I am seeing here is that mostly people regret playing free to play games. That tells me that their business model is working as intended but we should all wise up.

My regret is spending too much time making cool mods work together and then not playing the games, oblivion was the worst because I didn’t get it until skyrim was a year or two old and there were so many stupid mods out already. Most of them are janky or old and have incompatibilities with each other. I discovered pretty quickly that I need less options not more in open world rpgs because I’m an adult and don’t have time to play games the way my heart wants to (look in every door, under every bush, around every corner).

arena on low setting brings my i7 integrated GPU to it’s knees, my laptop fans run on full blast and my room gets hot, if I get matched with an opponent that has a pet with particle effects it dips into single digit fps. meanwhile I get 45fps pretty consistently in wow

every time I see this I think someone must care about this person and is missing the red flags about their crippling addiction

The joy of homebrewing has a section I think called “betterbrew” that is extract recipes plus specialty grains. That’s how I started except through the Austin homebrew mini-mash recipes. You basically steep some blend of grains like crystal and carawheat in a strainer bag for awhile and then add the base malt extract after you have removed them.

I’m not sure my beer has gotten any better since going to all grain but there are more opportunities to make mistakes. So I also think about going back.

You can view the whole recipes on the ahb website by finding the click here for instructions link, like this one:

https://austinhomebrew.com/products/ahs-fall-esb-8c-mini-mash-homebrew-ingredient-kit

I’ve tried some craft non-alcoholic beers and didn’t really like them. Too sweet, grainy in a weird way. It sounds hard to pull off removing the alcohol at a small scale anyway and it seems like a lot of work. I have never heard of the super low abv recipes in this thread, I’ll have to look closer.

I think kombucha is going to feel the most like brewing beer in the sense that it requires sanitation, boiling, waiting. If you don’t like it then probably a no go but my family is obsessed. I made it a few times but only thought it was better than store bought once, I’d like to get better at.it.

Hop water also sounds really good, I had hopped hard seltzer but the cheap alcohol in hard seltzer always tastes bad to me. Reminds me of making straight table sugar alcohol.

Craft sodas with homemade extracts would also be fun. Low sugar with steeped peach syrup and mint or strawberry basil. I have only tried root beer from extract and keg carbonated lemonade so far.