Fuck it. Ship them. They still aren’t worth $100k and don’t cost more than 100c. The grift is complete.

Also Dulles

[face palm] that is an amazingly important point I hadn’t thought of / not heard discussed before, about the service fee vs actual increase hourly wages. I mean it’s totally obvious now that you said it.

And I really do agree with owners taking the risk if they want the reward. I will only say that there IS a place for balance, and reward for performance. I think the current tip system is tilted WAY WAY WAY too much to the server’s risk and needs to go away. I also think restaurant margins are actually too thin to go 100% wage based and put all that risk on the owners. I fear the bankruptcy churn in restaurants would be too much.

And yet it seems to work out in Europe so I’m probably wrong.

yes I’m well aware of how much I screwed up. Also owned a few grand of Applied Material (AMAT); bought and sold around the same time.

Then again, when I sold it felt like they were gonna be the next .com bubble victim. I panicked. It was a very expense lesson at the time. Even more so now in retrospect.

[crying] Bought $10k AMZN late-1999, sold in late-2000, because it lost like 50% value. A very expensive lesson learned not to play in the market. Ironically I now both know better than to buy individual stocks, but also have the fortitude to stick it out.

VTSAX and chiill.

So is this where the one brain cell is right now? :)

So cute!!!

haha!!

Unrelated/related: it was Stargate that sort of cemented my atheism. I hadn’t thought much about my own “-ism” until I was watching the show (I was also at an age to start thinking about those things). Up until then I was just an apathetic non-religious, didn’t really think about “god” at all either way. Stargate triggered my apathy into coherent and connected thoughts along the same themes as Stargate’s, “there are no gods; if there are they suck anyway; fight the power!”