Elementary school had us using tokens for math constantly and it made it way harder for me. Especially cause ‘showing our work’ meant basically drawing the lil tokens on paper that were either black or white I think black represented a minus and white represented a plus (on paper, they were red and yellow irl). So I ended out doing the equation different and then reverse engineering the method they wanted from me.

This. I went from 50s and 60s to high 90s in my last 2 years of high school math because we were getting taught wave functions and real science math finally and all you need to know there is how to figure out which formula to use and which numbers to plug in. I’m terrible at basic arithmetic but crush algebra and later got good at food math by necessity. Also just finding ways to not count as much helped. Like when doing catering we would store plates in basically giant poker chip sets on wheels. People used to stack em in randomly until I finally figured out the closest multiple of 10 you could get to in a stack before going over the top. It was 70 plates and each dolly or whatever had 4 slots for stacks, so if all was in place each was 280 which made getting the plates ready for events way quicker cause people didn’t have to manually count them, just use your 7 times table and then count the remainder to add or subtract. Once I figured out that you don’t necessarily NEED the math you learn in school but if you remember to use it, it can really fucking speed things up. Also all math should be represented as algebra from the start, instead of 2+2= and leaving a blank space phase it as 2+2=x and solve for x. I think more complex algebra wouldn’t scare kids as much if they knew they were kinda doing it all along.

I don’t have that much hard drive space to keep the giant high quality files and there are some shows that it’s pointless. Why would I watch a 1080p version of something filmed on video for example

Chumawamba are one of the most based bands

Being based was what they were all about. Their first full length Pictured of Starving Children Sell Records was a 40 minute dunk on Live Aide, they’re second, Never Mind the Ballots is an enti electoralism album. They started in the early British anarcho punk scene and played gigs with Ambix and Disorder, they just also had a band geek/theater kid thing that set then apart. Crust punks fuck with chumawamba

We’re taught that after the war the nazis wanished without a trace/ But battalions of fascists still dream of a master race /The history books talk of their defeat in 45/ So why’d they all come out of the woodwork on the day the nazi died?

Literally just answer the question.

Replying to a question with an unrelated question is rude and derails the conversation. Fucking answer them directly you fucking coward.

Russia is fascist now?

Mmmm

He failed at that too. None of those things work

I’m not a Dengist cause I’m not Chinese. That shit wouldn’t work here. But it clearly fucking worked for the country it was meant to apply to.

Wrong Joker.

I know you’re joking, but I work at a fancy pizza place and if you’re operating at a higher level of pizza, the dough/crust is really how to tell if the chef gives a shit. Making pizza dough is easy, making really good pizza dough and getting it consistent takes at least half a year if you’re going at it very scientifically and taking notes and making logs of your results, 2-3 if you’re going off vibes. It’s bread and bread has a very low skill floor and a skill ceiling that is at a Lagrange point.

The kitchen often gets a very small percentage of the tips, one place I worked it was an even split which while absolutely fair did mean wait staff were getting lower tips there than elsewhere, where I am now we get a percentage of the sales tipped out to the back of house and front of house gets the tip tips. Honestly a pretty solid way to run things. No one is gonna hold it against you if you don’t, where dine in we will and we’ll remember it if you come back, takeout is more of a gray area since you’re taking up less time and effort, so I’d go with tip but tip less than you would dining in

If you’re a customer and someone from the kitchen has stopped making food and left the kitchen to address you as a problem, you are in an incredibly unsafe position. I’ve had to ask people to leave at a couple gigs when they’ve been outright abusive and they leave in a hurry. Part of the trick there is to have a rolling pin or something else with you. Don’t bring a knife, thats going way too hard and isn’t safe to cross the restaurant with, but the kitchen is full of things that are also fantastic weapons and it’s full of dudes who work a very physical job, are pretty pissed off usually anyway and have a pretty high percentage of employees who have been to prison and wouldn’t mind going back compared to most workplaces. Someone striking a server is for sure a beat down offense

If wait staff has anything negative at all to say about a table, they’re getting worse food. These are my friends and you don’t get yo treat them badly and expect a nice meal from me.

For the most part no one is gonna spit in your food or anything that gross, what will happen is your food will be made really bad on purpose. Your salad will be mostly romain cores, your food will be just a little burnt and over seasoned, just enough here and there to make the whole thing kinda suck.

Then cook at home. If you’re a known non tipper I will ruin your food

Fight to raise minimum wage and for a good local Food and Beveridge Service Union. Some tend to exist but mostly work in hotels and things con acted to prior unions and not restaurants. If I’m getting a living wage, sick time, paid vacations and benefits then I wouldn’t need tips to keep food in the fridge and the lights on. No one who works for tips wants to do so either, it’s degrading to servers to have to kiss ass to not essentially get a pay dock, and it’s unreliable cause if it’s a slow period not only are your hours getting cut most likely, you’re also taking a pay cut cause there’s less tips in those hours as well. This also means that any day you aren’t absolutely busting your ass, you’re making less money. It’s only good for the business owner cause they can pass labor costs directly to the customers and create a toxic relationship between servers and customers that pass the buck to people who came to buy food when an employee gets less money than they earned.