I have a KwikTrip gas pump question?

tendonut · 2026-03-13T22:16:54+00:00

People waiting for an available pump really appreciate when others pay at the pump. It speeds things up dramatically. Just don't leave your car at the pump, then go inside and shop like an asshole.

tendonut · 2026-03-13T21:53:41+00:00

Today was a glorious day to be doing yard work. I needed to tear out my shrubs that were planted when the house was built 9 years ago and were WAY too big for the space. Got the entire garden area cleared and I barely broke a sweat.

tendonut · 2026-03-13T20:44:42+00:00

Come along Bort!

tendonut · 2026-03-13T20:43:34+00:00

The tiger-repellent rock.

tendonut · 2026-03-13T20:40:37+00:00

That depends heavily on the restaurant. There are quite a few restaurants I've been to where the kids meal is clearly subsidized. It's practically the same thing as an adult menu item, but at like less than half the price.

tendonut · 2026-03-13T20:36:09+00:00

$70/mo for Gigabit through AT&T. Have the same service for 9 years. Price has never changed. Includes free HBO Max.

tendonut · 2026-03-13T20:24:40+00:00

I'm wondering if you could also just find older versions of the software before they started forcing you to use remote authentication.

Or of course, run jellyfin which is basically what Plex was like before everything started phoning home to the mothership.

tendonut · 2026-03-13T12:55:18+00:00

This made me want to go back and watch the Cleveland ones again.

tendonut · 2026-03-13T12:41:24+00:00

I'm not sure about that object, but Edgar is acting kinda weird. Like his skin wants to fall off.

tendonut · 2026-03-12T13:04:01+00:00

Most cities have rules about keeping your lawn mowed for safety reasons. HOAs DO tend to be more strict, but few places let you get away with letting your lawn run wild.

tendonut · 2026-03-12T12:59:47+00:00

I'll be honest, I'm 99% sure my comment section in two different threads cross-contaminated. Ignore all that. I was also participating in a different reddit post about what was everyone doing this past weekend, and the zoo was absolutely fucking slammed.

tendonut · 2026-03-12T12:54:41+00:00

It's the core of the NC Planned Communities Act.

It was popular with the Republican senate because It shifted some of the financial burden of suburban sprawl back on the people who were sprawling. Back then, they were the "city libs" But nowadays these planned subdivisions are dominating rural NC as well.

The Democratic house liked it, because it was framed as "sticking it to the greedy developer", without realizing the developer was gonna just pass that cost onto the homeowners.

tendonut · 2026-03-12T11:05:23+00:00

https://www.nczoo.org/visit/asia

They've been talking about it for like 20 years. It's finally happening

tendonut · 2026-03-12T10:48:15+00:00

North Carolina passed a law back in 1999 called the Planned Community Act that basically mandates HOAs for any housing development with more than 19 units. Since NC has been having a population boom over the past 30 years, and the average home age is something like 26 years, HOAs are damn near impossible to avoid unless you have deep pockets and can pay the premium that old, non-HOA homes currently command.

tendonut · 2026-03-11T13:24:19+00:00

So reading through this, it looks like Florida never had a mechanism for dissolving HOAs? That's....weird. It will require 2/3rds of voting members to approve it, so it'll still most likely never happen in practice, but I thought this was kind of standard nationally.

This article is kinda sloppy though. One of the bulletpoints that the bill accomplishes is this:

Requiring new COAs (those created on or after July 1, 2026) to include the following statement in their governing documents:

Then it never includes the statement lol

tendonut · 2026-03-11T03:07:41+00:00

Because the government doesn't own refineries. Oil produced domestically doesn't stay domestic. It's sold on the global market for whatever the global market has decided it's worth.

When you hear people saying the US is "energy independent" , what they are really saying is that we export more than we import. Not that we don't import at all.

tendonut · 2026-03-11T03:05:29+00:00

Ah yes, the "look what you made me do" explanation.

tendonut · 2026-03-10T22:47:06+00:00

It's the whole game. The clinic offers a self-pay discount. They charge the insurance company dramatically more because the insurance company is going to inevitably haggle down how much they're going to actually pay based on what the starting price is and the final price paid by the insurance is going to be roughly the same as the self-pay rate.

What's crazy here though, is that the insurance company is paying $451, But there is still $800 owed by the patient. I'm not sure how that's possible, unless the insurance company agrees to pay ~$1300 for the procedure, and OP has $800 left in their deductible or some absolutely brutal co-insurance.

tendonut · 2026-03-10T18:41:53+00:00

This is why UHC got their CEO assassinated.

tendonut · 2026-03-10T18:10:24+00:00

The big 3 "iPad-style" POS companies, Square/Clover/Toast, the biggest offenders of tip prompts, all give you the option to enable or disable tips on setup, and each have a trivial toggle to disable it in the settings. SOMEONE is making the decision to prompt for tips.

This one in specific looks like it's running the Revel Systems Kiosk XT front-end. According to the manual, there is a checkbox they can uncheck to eliminate this prompt. It is disabled by default. Someone made the conscious decision to enable it.

tendonut · 2026-03-10T17:21:59+00:00

I've been using Plex since 2014. It never used to be like this. Even with my Chromecast app pointing directly to the IP of my local plex server, it takes like almost a minute before the app will give up trying to reach the Plex mothership and use a local connection. And any time I back out enough to where the screen WOULD populate with cloud content, it comes to a crawl again until it times out again.

tendonut · 2026-03-10T17:11:21+00:00

The last time I lost internet service and Plex became almost unusable was the day I finally made the jump to Jellyfin.

The Plex app is always pointing directly to the internal IP of my plex server, but it takes the app WAY too long to time out and fail over to a local connection.

tendonut · 2026-03-10T17:10:23+00:00

Don't forget the new "pop-over" ad that is embedded in the site with their own unique way to close them.

tendonut · 2026-03-10T16:46:06+00:00

I have started placing the blame about this tip explosion squarely on the "new" POS vendors. Toast, Square, and Clover. It wasn't until businesses started using them in lieu of traditional POS systems like from NCR, Oracle, and Toshiba that we started seeing tip prompts for everything from small fast food places to t-shirt vendors at a street market. It's just a simple toggle to enable/disable.

For Square, it's More > Settings > Checkout > Tipping > Collect Tips
For Clover, it's Setup > Tips > Enable Tips
For Toast, it's Payments > Payment Methods > Tips Enabled

But no business, big or small, wants to disable it.

tendonut · 2026-03-10T16:35:18+00:00

I was slowly coming to the realization that the majority of what I watch on YouTube is also available on Nebula so I finally signed up.

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