DahGangalang

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[–] DahGangalang 3 points 3 months ago

The vast majority. I was in a state that allowed paying under minimum wage if you received tips.

Gonna keep the numbers to myself to help preserve anonymity, but some back of the napkin math says it was probably 70-90% (depending on how good of a day it was) of my "wages" came from tips.

[–] DahGangalang 11 points 3 months ago

Good catch, missed that.

[–] DahGangalang 22 points 3 months ago (4 children)

What's getting me is how my overly conservative family is scorning tipped workers as a result of this ("hasn't Big Daddy T made enough concessions to these people"). And its like "but he hasn't. Not really."

I juggled 2-3 part time restaurant jobs back in the 2009 - 2013 timeframe (total time per week was comparable to a full time job). Even as an only moderately successful male waiter, I was able to pull in ~$32,000 my first year and then evened out to ~$35,000 once I found my flow. That was a decade and a half ago in one of the most conservative corners of the US, and I would have still been paying taxes on my tips back then.

[–] DahGangalang 84 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (10 children)

AOC:

"The cap on that is $25,000. While you’re jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,00 across the United States...So if you’re at home and you’re living off tips, you do the math. Is that worth it to you?...This bill is a deal with the devil. It explodes our national debt...To give Elon Musk a tax break and billionaires the greedy taking of our nation? We can not stand for it, and we will not support it."

(its unclear from this quote if that's no tax on $25,000 in gross income for tipped workers; the first $25,000 in tips; or if there are no taxes on those only for those who make under $25,000 per year. None of the possible meaning is a good one, to be clear, but that's what I was hoping to get answered).

Article isn't actually that long and is effectively a short rant AOC gave. Still annoyed with OP for click bait title without substance in post.

[–] DahGangalang 10 points 3 months ago

FINE, I'll go read your article and tell you want the catch is. *mumbles under breath*

[–] DahGangalang 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There are also well-known entrepreneurs who have lost their lives due to such extortion.

I'd be interested to read more, but I'm not sure I've heard about "distant sea fishing" before. Can you pass the articles/links to the stories you're referencing?

[–] DahGangalang 1 points 3 months ago

Does it really matter though?

Seems like the lost revenue would just be made up through borrowing / deficit spending. Worried this is another whiff of a move. Its not like I have a better solution; and I wish the states doing this the best of luck in addressing their finding issues, but I don't expect this to move the needle significantly.

[–] DahGangalang 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Appreciate the support. I'll probably plink at it some more tonight. If I figure it out, I'll def be back to make sure the next guy doesn't get lost where I did.

[–] DahGangalang 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Nope. I'm on Windows which has the file marked as "in use by Retroarch".

The part that has me baffled is where the new save file is coming from. That says to me that save state must be written somewhere else (my instinct says the ROM file itself, but someone else was saying that's patently wrong).

Fwiw, I've also tried playing with the save states (made backup copies first). If you hard exit, it saves off a copy of the current game state ("auto" slot), then attempts to open that up when I boot up the game. My current working theory is that the save file is regenerated from the save states when I try to load into a save state.

Any experiences that agree/disagree with what I'm seeing?

[–] DahGangalang 4 points 3 months ago

I was thinking like a bear. Big, menacing, kings of the forest. And then they go nap like half the year.

Sounds like the life.

[–] DahGangalang 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

So deleted the corresponding save file....but it just regenerates when i boot up the game. Its the same file I just deleted (even ran some hashes on it).

[–] DahGangalang 2 points 3 months ago

Maybe they're just paralyzed? I like the lore implications of that. Could be a run plot device to kick off a "why Dracula's been gone for the last 200 years and suddenly popped up again"

I could just see a division of a larger vampire hunting organization calling themselves "The Campers" who's whole mission is to find vampires and set up a tent over their resting places.

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