But with GenZ cashiers, I say thank you, and then realize they had stopped paying any attention to my presence

Generally, what works for me is to say it like you mean it. Say it like they just walked across the store to pick up a can that rolled off your cart. throw a little ‘unexpected’ in there, light smile, and then tell them to have a good day. If you don’t sell it, they’re going to assume you’re going through the motions just to feed the machine. They’ll blip back to you for a second from the next mundane task, get a smirk or a little grin, and say you’re welcome. Then GTFO, don’t tie em up, don’t make em think you’re flirting.

I doubt it makes their day noticeably better. It hasn’t seem to make them noticeably worse. They’re probably burned out and don’t want to emotionally invest further into their job.

Me too, with all people, but specifically only the breathing ones. :P

Each generation goes through a phase where they need to weigh out what “vocal authoritative” people are saying.

Each generation later goes through a phase where they try to pass “what worked for them” off to the younger generation.

Sometimes, it rings true, some times is rings out of touch. Sometimes the advice is too suspect to trust but they don’t want to start an argument.

My father tried to tell me I needed to get in somewhere that had a nice pension plan because Funds where bullshit. Turns out funds are bullshit, but pension plans are dinosaurs now and often get raided even worse than fund sheets.

My own is find a good place to work with managers that listen, work hard, become dependable, work harder, become hard to replace, start climbing the ladder.

Either of these things should absolutely cause a blank processing stare on a 20-30 something, because neither are anywhere near universal,

Absolutely don’t just expoxy it, follow fubarx’s tutorial below. Expoxy won’t bind sheared metal to metal strong enough to stand up to pocket/keychain abuse. You don’t have to go as fancy, but you need non brittle metal to re-connect those shear lines or it’ll fall apart the first time you look at it funny.

Well, 15 years of family photos that were take on old phones they no longer have is worth a bit. Yes, the user should have backed it up, but if they were taking the pics in side the app, that’s easier said then done.

I’d be more than happy to see the platform fold.

put it on PPV, I’d watch it

Yeah, if they could keep you out of it, that would be different. Wonder what happens if you don’t have internet.

We’re not talking about calling a tow service to help you out. We’re talking about calling a tow service for improperly or illegally parked cars.

They operate under a completely different set of rules, where they’re very concerned about chargebacks.

The ones in my metro area only take cash, You’re not even allowed to get your wallet out of the car.

They also have ATM’s in their lobbies and they charge $6 to make a withdrawal.

I love it, but it’s all fun and games until someone makes a self driving towtruck.

ohh no no. When Police call a tow truck, the tow company comes, takes the vehicle off to a lot and the owner has to come to collect it, generally with cash.

I’m not saying just do it maliciously, but if they’re asked to drive the car off, they should just block it and call a tow company.

Waymo pays for that toe and an outlandish amount of daily fees until they pick it up.

To them, it’s no big deal, a few hundred dollars.

but compound that with the car being out of service for a few days. hiring someone, or flying someone in to unlock it… easy peasy

win-win, tow companies fill their lots with waymo, people from waymo need to come get the car, pay hundreds in cash (because all those places are cash only) there’s no room in the lot for normal tows.

The passengers should get free rides for a year.

Super small compared to their income, but a GREAT reason to make all the users age validate.

sounds like they needed to call a tow truck…

And if I don’t want to use their smart features?

this seems like it might be a win

To an extent. But when you need to buy 2 modern fridges to run 30 years, the math is still advantageous but it’s a lot closer over time.

They’ll nail us to the wall for using lemmy before they nail us for making routers :)

if that ends up being the case, us linux nuts can start making and selling our own routers!

Side Hustle!

pay a fee for the courtesy of dodging the law

Not that i’d be suprised for it to be so, but conditional approval doesn’t automatically mean pay a fee and we don’t check.

Jesus that’s a lot of tokens.

Even if I was trying to do everything in my power to make burn tokens for real work I’d be hard fucking pressed to burn more than a couple thousand a month and that’s just being wasteful.

That would keep routers.ca from reselling Temu routers, net win.

I just hope that part of this doesn’t include mandatory backdoors for US agencies. This might be the start of the great firewall of the US

That’s kinda what’s going on. They’re pulling the FCC logo and making it illegal to resell without authorization. Hopefully, (but not assuredly) part of that authorization will be to make sure they comply with security.

Though I’m absolutely certain those ‘agreements’ cost a pretty penny and it’s lining someone’s pocket as well.