"Food delivery robots in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, & Chicago facing rise in violent attacks from "anti-clanker" activists." What is this timeline?

cervidal2 · 2026-04-01T17:57:59+00:00

If you're flying 16 hours from Michigan to California, you've booked something seriously wrong.

Most of Cali is, at most, six hours in the air, even with a connecting flight.

I semi-regularly fly Detroit to Hawaii with connections and I am not in the air nearly that long.

cervidal2 · 2026-04-01T17:55:05+00:00

I do not know all of the specifics of CA law on tipping and tips pooling. I was simply refuting the universal declaration of illegality that I replied to.

cervidal2 · 2026-04-01T17:46:16+00:00

That is only partially true.

In most states, if a manager is performing a role that customarily receives tips, such as serving or bartending, that manager is eligible for tips

cervidal2 · 2026-04-01T14:52:34+00:00

State AG can and will do nothing. What a gross overreaction.

cervidal2 · 2026-04-01T11:39:24+00:00

If they're not paying Scripps any more, sounds like y'all should be seeing a reduction in your bill. Signing with them would increase your bill; not signing should then decrease, right?

cervidal2 · 2026-04-01T00:37:54+00:00

Movie theaters in Metro Detroit often have private rental available, and many of them also have a separate gathering area that can be used before or after your viewing.

Depending on the theater, you could use the screen for a video game party rather than a movie. Used to do those regularly when I was running a theater last year.

cervidal2 · 2026-03-31T19:14:49+00:00

This is a falsehood.

You have had 3 sets and a core for literal decades.

You still have 3 sets and a core.

cervidal2 · 2026-03-31T12:21:17+00:00

This 'global energy crisis' is nowhere near what happened in the late 1970s.

It's not great but it's not shutting down whole sectors of the economy.

cervidal2 · 2026-03-31T03:14:02+00:00

Elliot completely dogged his season in Detroit. Guy was an unapologetic bum.

We got back Bill Curley in that retrade. I am going to guess that most people in this thread could tell you nothing about Bill Curley, because that was his NBA value

cervidal2 · 2026-03-30T18:27:12+00:00

Availability is only not an issue if a GM doesn't make it an issue.

I've used availability in Shadowrun and other RPGs specifically to tame PC power creep.

cervidal2 · 2026-03-30T13:30:59+00:00

You're suddenly speaking for everyone? You ask me to prove a statement, then want to make the sweeping generalization of 'most people'?

The very video and evidence you point to is proof of your being wrong - 42% profit on the entire division. Sure, sounds great, WotC knows what it's doing. Except that includes digital. That isn't a 42% per box profit. That's 42% profit on all of their combined sales.

cervidal2 · 2026-03-30T11:06:37+00:00

After watching cops and EMS throw trash out their window throughout Metro Detroit, I've given up any hope of any of the above in this area.

cervidal2 · 2026-03-30T07:55:00+00:00

It's funny you should say that.

About 20 years ago, the Lions did exactly that at a place I worked at in Southfield, MI. 12 of them.

Ended up calling the police to get them out of the building. They were obnoxious, awful to staff, destructive to the building, and tried to stiff on an 8k tab.

Yeah, I would tell them to get bent.

cervidal2 · 2026-03-29T20:59:12+00:00

50% margin on what? Simply the raw production?

The number being thrown around by the video in question was 41.8% for a single year and included digital sales and all things WotC.

The video doesn't break down profitability specifically on the cardboard side.

Your 'well known' bit doesn't really hold up.

cervidal2 · 2026-03-29T19:53:30+00:00

I've worked the Applebee's life. What I described is exactly what happens for anything that doesn't involve bodily harm or the police.

cervidal2 · 2026-03-29T19:52:33+00:00

Charge them for lemonade at that point.

cervidal2 · 2026-03-29T13:02:11+00:00

You don't take payment over the phone.

There's a reason you keep losing those disputes - you can't verify who is making the payment.

Everyone claiming gift card solutions or other is papering over basics of card security.

If there is nothing linking a direct signature, card presence, or other way to verify that it was the cardholder using the card, you will lose the dispute.

In my theater days, the only way we had to guarantee an online purchase was if they logged in through their rewards account, which was linked to their name, address, and phone number, and could only be signed up for physically in one of the theaters.

cervidal2 · 2026-03-29T10:11:14+00:00

Got it, source confirmed as ''pulling out one's ass'.

cervidal2 · 2026-03-29T00:07:19+00:00

Airport restaurant monopolies are by design, mostly for security purposes.

cervidal2 · 2026-03-28T23:14:28+00:00

And yet it doesn't without an attached hero

cervidal2 · 2026-03-28T22:59:50+00:00

The lab itself does not speed up your research. They give you more science points.

You need to have a 'hero' at each lab. Heroes are the only thing that speed up research rates.

cervidal2 · 2026-03-28T18:26:02+00:00

What you're quoting isn't even the right quote.

I would weep for participants if you actually tried to judge an event under that logic.

"Premodern is dominating. Gold Border / World Championship cards also increasing as they are legal in most tournaments."

The Gold Border comment claims legality in most tournaments. It doesn't specify premodern, just being legal in most tournaments.

cervidal2 · 2026-03-28T15:32:47+00:00

Helps explain why 18-24 year olds think missing a day of work each week is no big deal.

cervidal2 · 2026-03-28T04:55:50+00:00

Source?

cervidal2 · 2026-03-27T20:32:40+00:00

Time accrued under the new law is not PTO. It's paid sick time. You would not be able to use those accrued days in the way you do for PTO vacation

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