Chebucto Regional Softball Club

People on fixed incomes, and people who are going through hard financial times may not do a tip. No one is upset about this.

It's a kind of chaotic system.

But that's what the "card" is about.

@neckspike

In NYC garbage and mail get no holiday tips. But also you rarely even know who that person is as it can change from day to day.

@jdp

Yeah you see doormen so much tipping them all the time would be wild. It's a once a year gift. Like 50-100 bucks for full-timers and at least 30 for everyone else. But I live in the south bronx in a very old building.

These numbers go much higher if you have "concierge" service and more fancy staff who do many other things beyond keeping the packages safe and minding the door.

I keep thinking that we should do away with this whole thing and just have a flat service fee so it's predictable. But, it's a non-starter at the co-op board meetings since no one wants to raise fees and it's hard to predict what the impact will be.

A building can have as many as 12 or more full time staff and even a modest $20 adds up.

So how much? I go with 2/3rs of maintenance divided between everyone. Which might be a little stingy.

2/2

The combination of American "tipping culture" and NYC leads to the stressful question of "how much should I give the doormen?" around this time of year.

If you are new to NYC you might be surprised to find a card from your building staff about now... a very early "Christmas card" featuring everyone's names and job titles.

This is so you can prepare your tips.

If your building has staff you are supposed to prepare a cash tip for each person. Please do cash never a check.

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@catselbow

Yes, sort of, having a look at it. (I had not seen Wittenbauer's parallelogram before, but this is perfect for these lessons...) Wittenbauer's parallelogram works by making triangles and connecting their midpoints. This makes sets of parallel lines.

Something similar is going on above.

@georgepenney

That is an old god.

Is this geometry problem fun or is it evil?
“prove LMNO is a parallelogram” #matheducation

I would like to tell a parable about how STEM and tech gatekeeping has given us the landscape that we see now. But, it's not that simple. And the insularity of tech nerds is a small (annoying) force compared to these large companies who want us all neatly monetized paying them our monthly tithes for propaganda.

But maybe if we let more people into the club we'd be stronger, you know?

There are young people who don't remember what the internet used to be like. They can't remember it because they were too young when it existed.

They don't know that it was for a time, for some people*, better. And they don't know how that better internet was quashed and never really reached them.

* If you have nostalgia for how, for example, google search used to work I think you need to grapple with the fact that only a small slice of the public ever experienced it in that way.

@krans

You are correct slop is a feature of #enshittification which is a broader problem in the development of mass software and business models that work through software.

@utopiarte

I just look up the person who is doing the work that impresses me and find a way to send them money. I almost think that tech "solutions" in this way will be less effective and only encourage bottom feeders to show up.

As a teacher, I vastly prefer #slopocalypse to #enshittification because swear words present problems in my line of work. I can't host a conversation about #enshittification with middle school students.

Or rather I can but we'd need to call it something else. It's not a huge deal, and I think the swear word is ... valid in this context. It's a valid response to what has happened to much of the internet.

But, it does present a needless barrier.

This is an excellent video. This is the message. Perhaps we need to refine it more. Find ways to communicate it more clearly. But this is the correct take on LLMs, so-called-AI and the proliferation of these tools to the general public. #LLM #llms #ai #genAI #video #slop #slopocalypse #enshittification

@FeralRobots

resistance libs are going to be so annoying putting everything in Calibri for their own performative reasons over the next few months ... i do not need this please.

Of course this is all performative.

Apparently my lovely government is in a state of histrionics over... fonts. Marco Rubio, a republican legislator has issued a stern memo to reverse changes to fonts described as more readable and accessible by some disability advocates.

Conservatives regard "inclusion" and "accessible" as dirty words.

(Were #picaTheCat and I your benevolent dictators all fonts would be fixed width so the ASCII art could look good.)

Thank your for your attention to this matter.

@CppGuy @tobiaspatton

I hear both of those in spoken English from people in NYC all the time. To the extent that "It hadn't have been" or "It wouldn't have been" sound over-formally incorrect.

I wonder if it'll ever trickle into written English.

I support:

* this server
* other servers
* the wikipedia
* Karamu House Theatre
* people who sell ant art
* a ton of people who tiny youTube channels
* Pregones Theatre
* community gardens
* xerces society
* new SF authors selling their first book(it's aspirational)
* building food and supplies pantry
*

When I need more money for these kinds of things I start looking for anything corporate I can cut out. Although most of this is possible due to ditching Amazon. Best decision ever.

We can talk about how it's bad that the media landscape is shaped by cash, but that isn't a reason to be complacent and tithe to six huge corporations who'd be fine without you and never sending a dime to the strange man who makes the creepy analog cat videos you watch every single day.

Not to put too fine a point on it.

There is one upside in all of this. When you support smaller creators you money has a MUCH bigger impact.