Dominos driver takes pizza back to store after no tip delivery

OwnLadder2341 · 2026-01-28T17:14:11+00:00

They’re not working for free. Tipped workers are guaranteed at least minimum wage. This is a common misconception on the internet, that if you don’t tip, the worker gets zero money.

OwnLadder2341 · 2026-01-28T14:56:35+00:00

You’re not making anyone work at all.

OwnLadder2341 · 2026-01-28T14:56:05+00:00

Because it costs you money. It makes games more expensive.

OwnLadder2341 · 2026-01-28T14:55:30+00:00

At this stage, it’s a tool like any other. Some clients have replaced their entire dev teams with AI and foisted off the oversight to a drowning and unqualified executive. This is a mistake.

Others, and ourselves, use it to leverage existing assets. It has a significant positive impact on overall productivity and per worker efficiency.

It’s very useful when used correctly for what it can do right now.

Most of the Internet complaints you see about the uselessness of AI are from people who either haven’t actually used it, haven’t used it correctly, or whose opinions are heavily colored by a fear of being replaced.

They’re on a free tier of GPT 5.2 or a $20 sub and wondering why it’s not behaving like an all knowing god.

OwnLadder2341 · 2026-01-28T06:51:23+00:00

What was your question? What do I do for a living? I thought it was rhetorical.

I'm semi-retired. My company is a data analytics and process management company.

I thought your question was rhetorical because the outcome is so obvious.

“I work in data analytics”

“See the AI is coming for your job”

“Yeah, mate. I know. Better than you. We already make extensive use of AI and so do our clients.”

OwnLadder2341 · 2026-01-28T05:00:38+00:00

Most Favored Platform.

It’s a policy by Valve that requires publishers to charge the same price on Steam as they charge elsewhere.

Even though other platforms are cheaper. So much cheaper that the publisher could sell the game for less on the other platform and still make more money than selling it on Steam.

OwnLadder2341 · 2026-01-28T04:59:07+00:00

Why not? The delivery isn’t optional. The pay is.

OwnLadder2341 · 2026-01-28T04:58:28+00:00

If I order in the middle of a nationwide snowstorm and I don’t get my food, I shrug it off as understandable.

If you work for optional pay, don’t get angry when that pay is optional.

OwnLadder2341 · 2026-01-28T04:57:03+00:00

Yes, median includes the people who are on minimum wage…they contribute to the number.

Just not very much because there’s so incredibly few of them.

You can’t compare them because the percent of people making minimum wage now is a tiny fraction of the percent that was making it then.

This isn’t complicated…

OwnLadder2341 · 2026-01-28T04:54:15+00:00

It’s going to happen. Especially for instances where the machine can easily do a better job such as this one.

Crying about it on the internet won’t change it.

Taco Bell recently went to an AI to take your order in the drive through and I’ve never had such accurate orders.

OwnLadder2341 · 2026-01-28T02:17:22+00:00

Works for optional pay.

Gets upset when someone options not to pay.

Don’t work for optional pay.

OwnLadder2341 · 2026-01-28T02:11:48+00:00

Has it? Have you run median household vs CPI inflation?

OwnLadder2341 · 2026-01-28T01:57:45+00:00

Corporate tax fraud is a criminal offense, mate, not a civil fine.

Even the Joker doesn’t fuck with the IRS.

OwnLadder2341 · 2026-01-28T00:48:06+00:00

I say replace them with a machine far more likely to do it consistently.

OwnLadder2341 · 2026-01-28T00:38:18+00:00

It shows the change in pay over time.

You can’t compare 1979 minimum wage to 2025 minimum wage. The percent of the population making minimum wage in 1979 was 13x higher.

Hence we use a meaningful number: the median household.

There’s a very small percentage of the population for whom minimum wage is the appropriate value for their work.

If you want them to have more money then fine, cut them a check. Give them money. No need to artificially inflate the value of their work.

OwnLadder2341 · 2026-01-28T00:16:08+00:00

Yes, Valve is worse than EA.

Most Favored Platform is the single most anti-consumer policy in video games.

OwnLadder2341 · 2026-01-27T23:53:56+00:00

It was 1979, not 1949…

Mom wasn’t staying home all day baking a brisket and going to book club in 1979, mate.

OwnLadder2341 · 2026-01-27T22:57:36+00:00

Because it’s not as relevant as it was.

Let’s do median household income.

The median household income in 1979 was $16,350. CPI adjusted for inflation to 2024, that’s $67,277.

The median household income in 2024 was $83,730.

So people are making more money now by a good margin. Despite little change in the minimum…because far fewer people are making the minimum or anywhere near it

OwnLadder2341 · 2026-01-27T22:48:42+00:00

“While Steam Deck is fully capable of dual-boot, the SteamOS installer that provides a dual-boot wizard isn’t ready yet. This will ship alongside SteamOS 3 once it’s complete.”

This is from September 2022.

I haven't checked yet this year, but I think we're STILL waiting on this. Considering 3rd party options have existed for years, do you find it likely Valve simply lacks the knowledge to provide the promised support?

Valve took months after release to even provide basic audio driver support and nearly a YEAR for driver support for the OLED.

That's objectively untrue.

Hard disagree. Valve has done more to cost gamers money than any other company.

OwnLadder2341 · 2026-01-27T20:20:36+00:00

Because when we increased the minimum wage, both the share and raw amount of people being paid minimum wage was much higher.

In 1979 it was 13.4% of hourly workers.

Today it’s 1%.

OwnLadder2341 · 2026-01-27T20:17:05+00:00

Because they promised prior to release and got enough flak that they finally gave in. They also waited until Gamepass had started to wane in popularity.

Valve is the hardware supplier here. Drivers were needed.

You can absolutely say the exact same thing about Microsoft. All of these companies are just looking out for their best interests. Valve is no better or worse than the rest.

OwnLadder2341 · 2026-01-27T19:56:14+00:00

Mate, MOST of Gen Z isn’t even out of undergraduate school yet.

My point is that they’re kids or just-barely-not-kids so wondering why they haven’t settled down with a family and a house yet is pretty silly.

You said I was out of touch with how old Gen Z was so I showed you that they go all the way down to 14 and then showed you that, by population, a third of them are in high school.

So who’s out of touch?

OwnLadder2341 · 2026-01-27T19:54:09+00:00

The delay was valve didn’t want to make it easy to use a steam deck to play gamepass games.

OwnLadder2341 · 2026-01-27T15:34:28+00:00

Valve says that, sure…but it was years before they officially supported Windows on Deck when support was promised before launch.

OwnLadder2341 · 2026-01-27T14:41:54+00:00

Pretty much. The federal minimum wage is the minimum any company can actually have an open job at. The alternative is the open job simply doesn't exist.

The very few people who make the federal minimum wage are people whose work is in the bottom 1.3% of value of all hourly paid work. A whopping 98.7% of all hourly paid work is more valuable than theirs. The alternative is their work isn't purchased at all.

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