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My homiez are all dead.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

I think many of you don't understand that currently you don't need to seek work to remain on unemployment, so it's not fraud. That may change soon, but for now, you do not have to look for work to receive unemployment under the PUA.

In theory, you could even quit a job and STILL qualify because of stay at home orders, especially if your high risk.

The qualifications for receiving unemployment under the PUA are very small, almost anyone could qualify if they wanted to. Basically if you have a work from home job, and quit, you wouldn't qualify.

If you work at a job that isn't following safety precautions and you don't feel safe, you can qualify even if you quit.
If your high risk, you can quit as you have been told to stay at home.
If you didn't have a job at all, you can qualify because you can't look for a job safely.

So again, people are not required to go back to their old jobs, since they are not required to LOOK for work at all right now. Technically if they turn down a job they need to report that, but, they are not required to call back their ex-employers to get a job offer from them.

Initially at least in WA this was set to end July 1st and the PUA is set to end at the end of July...but they may extend one or both of those deadlines.

Part of the problem is ....well, they extreme range in wages.

Some people can live on $1000 a month just fine (and in fact without having to work and spend money on travel etc, even less), others are going to struggle on $3000 a month. This led them to adding....I think it was $600? A week to unemployment during the PUA.

Min wage varies, as does the base min unemployment you can get from state to state, but for easy numbers, lets use $10 an hour as a semi-universal min wage currently, and base min unemployment as $200 a week.

A large percentage of jobs pay min wage or near min wage, for those people if we use $10 an hour, that is $400 a week and $1200 a month, or about $1000 a month after taxes etc.

Meanwhile under the PUA they get a MINIMUM of $800 a week, and probably more like $1000. So they are making literally as much per week as they used to make per month working full time.

Yes, part of the problem was so many jobs were paying that little (also don't forget many min wage jobs refuse to give a full 40 hours, and many were living on 34 or less hours a week as well).

Again, as I posted above, for many living paycheck to paycheck, they have gotten 4x as much as they usually make per month, for over 5 months now. That is enough for them to comfortably live for well over a year before having to go back to work at this point. Why would they risk going out and getting sick to work a job they don't need in the near future?

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

Well it probably depends on what state you are in as well, Washington for instance allows you to not go to work if there is a stay at home order and still get unemployment (unless you were working a mandatory job etc).

That pretty much ends at the end of July though.

Up until that point you have the option of not going to work if you believe it's too risky and still getting unemployment, which sadly is more than most people make with a full time job.

I'm a bit on the fence on this issue to be honest, I think the way they set up unemployment is waked, but it ends in 4 weeks (and may require you to start actively looking for work staring this week).

That being said, currently the number of new virus cases per day are higher then they have ever been in the US (also higher then they have been anywhere else), so this isn't really a GREAT time to be going back to work if you can avoid it.

The real question is, will people who don't need to work for the near future, go back to work, or start working, if there is a high risk they will get sick if they do, and should they even be expected to take that risk?

Part of the big problem is that many people have been getting much more then they normally make in unemployment for months, and currently have enough to pay their living expenses for many more months because of that. In some cases people were getting over 1k a week, and are only spending 1k total a month lol.

That is literally enough for them to live off for years without working at this point (saying they started getting benefits at the start of Feb that is 20k+ they recieved by now.

Saying they spend 5k of that, they would still at this point have 15k left over for future expenses, and have at least 4 more weeks of benefits coming in so 18k after spending 1k this month). That is enough for those who are frugal (generally those people making near minimum wage most places or about 45% of the population), to live off what they have saved for the next year and a half.

Convincing them to go to work while they are not safe, and don't need the money, is going to be hard.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

Well your doing a good job of controlling your blood sugar levels, way better then me.

The nurapathy crap sucks, I get that in my legs and feet as well and I also had a problem with one of my toes recently. My doctor is completely and totally worthless (especially now), so I have mainly had to come up with solutions myself.

That being said, I had HORRIBLE migraines for the longest time, for years in fact, but they were directly due to a combination of very high blood pressure and stress, so that could be partially causing the pain at the back of your skull. I don't know if you have alot of stress right now, but it makes everything much worse.

You might also have a problem with your back/spine, which can cause pain and numbness in your legs/feet. I was diagnosed a buncha years ago with degenerative disk disease and they wanted to do surgery. I was like....nah....and I have mostly figured out how to avoid having my back go out (Sleep on my side, don't drive more then an hour or so, don't stand more then 2 hours etc).

If you don't already sleep on your side, you might try that and see if it helps with the pain/numbness etc (it doesn't totally stop it for me, but it keeps my legs from feelinglike they are half asleep most of the time.

Anyway, I really shouldn't give advice I don't follow myself, but if you don't like your doctor, you should just switch to another one (So should I, and I really planned on it before the virus thing happened but now it's too complicated).

MY AIG is horrid now and i'm still being pretty careful on what I eat (was over 10 last time, but has been around 9.8 etc previously). Before I had this doctor it was rarely over 7, but he changed my perscriptions on me (and I couldn't get em changed back), which jumped me from 7.2 to 9.8 and last time to over 10.

Sorry you got diabetes btw, it really freaking sucks. Especially if your staying at home etc. I was doing good the first few month and still excersizing regularlly, but I have mostly stopped that now as well. To freaking hard to keep up a routine for me for this long.

Anyway a decent doctor can make all the difference so really, try and get one you like and feel like you can communicate with easily. My current doctor is Russian and doesn't speak very good english (almost impossible to understand) and he keeps messing up the perscriptions he orders or not giving me directions (doubled one of my meds but made it 1 times a day instead of 2, so I ended up taking 4x as much for 6 weeks because of it as one example).

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

That joke was shocking!!!

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

Ya'll could be my kids (if I had kids).

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

Me want tacos too:(

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

Did the actor who played Kramer end up actually being racist or something?

I don't care btw, still love that show.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

I am seriously dissapointed in ya'll.

Like, *hangs head* almost crying.

Not one of you......NOT ONE.....said Aliens.

*throws his hands up in frustration and leaves the thread*

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

Honestly slow cooking it is probably the best solution, a chuck steak/roast comes to mind (just bought 3 today at 3.99 a pound each).

Cheaper steaks/meats usually cook best with a slow method, but I wouldn't use a pressure cooker (even an instant pot), as it kills most of the flavor. You can combo it (first sear the roast/steak, then pressure cook, and finally finish it off at a low temp in a sauce etc).

For the sauce use spices + onions + bell pepper + tomato sauce (that helps break it down even more, and the beef flavors the sauce nicely)

Or do a nice slow roast in the over, dry with a good sear on the whole roast + spices. If you do that and want bbq sauce/teriyaki etc, just add that near the end.

A good crock pot can also work well, still sear it, but the really nice thing is you can set it and go to work for 8-10 hours and come back to a yummy meal. I used to do that all the time for tons of stuff when I was teaching.

In the over, even at lower temps, I wouldn't really just leave it all day unsupervised.

You can also use indirect heat on a grill if you want as well, especially if you cover it with aluminum foil (against after searing the whole thing first). This also allows you to cover it with a rub/sauce and have it seep into the meat while you slow cook it.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

There have certainly been quite a few games that us the unreal engine that I enjoy, so I'd say i'm more of an unreal gamer tbh.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

STLCards1991 posted...

M Yuna
B rikku
K Paine

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

HornedLion posted...

Im probably going to get:

Tales Of Berseria $12.49
Divinity OS2 $22.49(maybe)
Metal Wolf Chaos XD $12.49(maybe)
Ion Fury $14.99(overwhelming positive)
Insurgency Sandstorm: $14.99
Fell Seal $10.19
Hardcore Mecha $11.99
Black Future 88 $13.99
Blasphemous $13.74
Amid Evil $11.99
Wrath: Aeon Of Ruin $19.99
God Eater 3 & Catherine Classic (MAYBE)

I believe Divinity OS2 is only 7.99 actually. I told a friend about it earlier.

Blasphemous is part of the microsoft gamepass, you can get 3 months free, and it's only 10$ a month after that. There are a ton of other good games on it though, so honestly even if you couldn't get the 3 months free, $10 would let you play a ton of games including blasphemous in a month for less money.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

Mead posted...

Im half-ready to boot this one outta my house

I have actually never lived with a teenager in my life...........weird.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

He's keeping all the teenagers for himself.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

deoxxys posted...

I wish more girls actually liked video games so it would be easier to find a mate

Seriously?

You young wippersnappers have it sooooo easy.

The phrase "There are no female mudders" was common for a reason.

So many girls play games now, they may outnumber guys.

Course you do realize it's probably hard to meet them much since you know....they are probably at home playing games.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

Bah 3 hours is nothing, ya'll need to seriously practice with some hero games etc and get your stamina up.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

Just ordered my monthly pizza (a week early or so but whatever).

Anyway went to use postmates where I currently have FREE delivery (trial month on that), and the service charge alone was $10 lol.

I switched over to Uber eats for the same place and even without free delivery I saved $7 lol.

Uber eats does charge 15% of the total, but they don't bend you over and defile you like postmates.

Seriously they literally (no joke) will boost the service price significantly if you have their free delivery. They make up for the delivery price in the service charge, so you end up saving maybe a dollar.

Meanwhile they up the base cost of the food, they charge the place making the food as well, and they often lie about what the actual total was anyway (which I caught them on and got a refund....eventually...after a ton of emails...for).

My free trial ends in 2 days but it's sad that even with it, postmates just isn't actually worth using.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

I'm about to have my monthly pizza as well (ok a few days early, but I had June's pizza on the 1st so...it's not too bad.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

So far I got the newest Gemcraft, Infinite adventures, The Last Epoch (Been holding off for a sale), Galaxy of pen and paper (80% off).

I'll prob get Treasure adventure world that was recomended above as 90% off is great and it looks fun.

I'm on the fence on getting:

Cthullu saves Christmas (love the first game, but I have so many others to play and it's only 30% off).
YS 1&2 and YS 7 (but I have all the other YS games and have not played them so probably not)
Dragon Quest Builders 2 (I own 1 on my ps4 but have not played it, but it's a decent sale...grrr)
Sin slayers and Mana spark (both 50% off, and look fun, but again, so many games like them)
The surge 2 (60% off best deal yet).

If they let you get the $5 off for spending $30 or more, more than once, that would make the decision much easier.
None of the above are really great deals though without it, and most were cheaper recently through other stores.

Also I need to double check and see if any of them are on microsoft gamepass, since I'll be getting that eventually to play indivisible and a bunch of other games that are free on there.

IF ya'll see any other high discounted good games though like treasure adventure, let me know if you would!!

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

PyroBlade1985 posted...

Like Cyberpunk?

Hell yeah, and rogue legacy 2 and balders gate 3 and waaaay to many other ones to list it's freaking insane.

Also am I the only poster who doesn't know anyones alts at all, and just responds to everyone as if they are a different person?

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

Dinner is following you.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

Mead posted...

TigerTycoon posted...
Generally, for average quality brussel sprouts, you have to cook and sauce them in ways that counter any health benefits they have to get rid of the bitterness.

Unless you enjoy bitter foods, which some people do.

brussel sprouts are only bitter if theyre overcooked

properly cooked they arent bitter at all

Bah what? No way, just cook em in a oil in a pan, with a bit of garlic and they can be incredible and not bitter at all. You can also roast em in the oven with potatoes, and have much the same results (a bit more crispyness though...btw yum). You can cook em in the pan with oil along with asparagus as well btw (get the really thin ones though so it's like asparagus french fries.

Also they are good in soups (very yummy) and with pot roast (more soft that way, but with a beef infusion that just makes them taste great.

They work with butter, with oil, great with garlic, delicious with beef (Stews/soups/roasts), they are great snacks by themselves and delicious once they have been roasted etc, even cold later as a snack. Can be great in a salad as well (cold but after being roasted).

Great veggie to add to a mix of roasted veggies for sure.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

Veedrock- posted...

Never seen auto-tip, why have that and a delivery charge that goes to drivers? What a scam.

Gas and auto maintenance aren't cheap, and insurance rates go up as a driver. After expenses you're basically left with a minimum wage job, one that doesnt offer full time hours and has all the baggage of typical customer service.

Are you trying to get cancelled?

Yeah delivery charge and auto tip (which btw starts at 15%, you have to manually set it to 10% if you want), is sadly the new norm.

As far as sex slaves I'm reading some spacerx stuff right now, so they are on my mind lol. To be honest (and yes I have thought about this), there is really no point in my life where I had the energy/motivation to actually have even one sex slave (as in being a dom to someone) let alone multiple. Sadly I also just don't have a submissive side so I couldn't BE a sex slave either.

Which really sucks, cause I mean, it sounds really fun, on either side of the relationship.

I do love redheads though:)

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

adjl posted...

Having a middleman is more expensive (I forget which one, but one of them charges something like 20% of the food cost), but it saves the hassle of having to find and hire a driver (made harder by app services scooping up a lot of potential candidates), the problem of paying the driver for downtime (many restaurants don't get enough delivery orders to keep a driver running for their entire shift, but having them service multiple restaurants removes that inefficiency), and it means they keep getting business from people who would prefer to order through an app than by phone instead of losing out to their app-using competitors.

The problem is those apps etc are soooooo freaaaaaking greedy lol.

I've talked to the drivers, and I have done research online. Alot of them will not pay them much from the delivery cost, if they get tipped on the site, so tipping them in cash actually makes them get paid more.

I think the way it works is the sites basically ensure they get paid a min amount from the delivery fees, but they subtract the tip amount from that, so if you tip a driver 15% on the site, for a $30 order, that is $4.50 for that delivery, meanwhile the site charges a flat delivery fee and 15% of the total cost as well, but if the driver gets tipped enough only gives them like $1 from the $9 they get.

IF you tip in cash though, the service has to bring them up to a minimum, so they get something like $4 from them and whatever you tipped in cash.

Not sure which of them is like that, but the others still are raking in the cash while the drivers get along mainly on tips.

It's really not fair, and it's why I think places should start hiring drivers (instead of waiter..which they used to need). Even if they only need one driver for some hours during the day due to it being slow, they would have been paying for a waiter anyway.

And honestly if you could get delivery cheap right now, any place that does that is gonna be slammed. Heck you can even charge more for a longer distance (to compensate the drivers who can't deliver as many meals due to it being farther away).

Say $2 cost for delivery within 2 miles radius, and $5 cost for delivery within 2-5 miles (but if your outside of the 2 mile radius you may need to wait longer etc (they would wait till there was going to be a driver free to make the food).

That would still be SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper then the uber/post/door options currently and would massively boost buisiness for them.

Right now I can't get almost anything delivered for less than $7 and usually it's at least $10, so it's just not worth it.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

ParanoidObsessive posted...

We've literally suffered worse than this in every single one of those facets throughout human history.

Go back and ask the 50%+ of the European population that died from the Black Plague (that took them almost 200 years to recover from) if they'd be willing to come forward and trade places with us. For that matter, go back and ask the tens of millions of people dying from the Spanish Flu in the middle of a global war if they'd trade places with us.

I get that this looks absolutely unprecedented to people who've spent the first 20+ years of their lives coddled and wrapped in bubble wrap and who mostly slept through history class, but this is nowhere near as game-breaking as some people have convinced themselves it is. The human race will certainly survive, most of modern society and culture will survive, and in the end you'll be extremely surprised just how status quo everything winds up feeling after everything's said and done.

My mother spent most of her childhood being told hiding under a desk would protect her from the explosive nuclear war that was almost certainly inevitably just around the corner. As a young adult, she watched as men landed on the moon and was told it was going to usher in an entirely new age of space exploration and human expansion. When I was an adult, some people were flying planes into buildings in a terrorist attack, and people were screaming about how nothing was ever going to be the same again and how could anyone ever truly feel safe again? That last one only really lasted for a year or two until everything pretty much went back to business as normal.

I know it can be hard to separate yourself from situations when you're in the middle of them, but things are almost never as bad as you think they are at the time. Life will go on.

That is not very paranoid at all!!!

What about the aliens controlling all of this, and feeding on our young?

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

Mead posted...

I get pretty much all my things delivered

this whole contactless thing is amazing for me, I just tell my phone I want food or a thing, and then it appears after a bit

Damn, after reading that I told my phone I wanted 3 redheaded sex slaves.

It didn't work:(

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

To many good games coming out in the next year for the world to end, sorry.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

Fierce_Deity_08 posted...

I cant even get any of these services to deliver here.

Ugh, that sucks, I order from postmates and uber eats even with the extreme prices. I found a way to make both not too expensive sometimes (using deals etc).

I still end up paying more, but often only like $5-8 more total..which isn't horrid (And I'm only doing that because of covid right now).

Really think we need to get free or cheap delivery going everywhere soon.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

Lordkill posted...

I won't because they gone to eat out of my fries.

Many places now seal the food in a bag, with something that will show if it's been opened. Not all of em, but almost all do that now.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

Veedrock- posted...

Because drivers are in short supply.

That is what seems crazy, cause honestly you can make a butload from it, especially with auto-tips etc. That is without charging insane amounts. $2 base (to cover drivers cost) + 10% tip auto (But you can tip more if you want) and drivers could be making bank (Min wage + tips).

I'd actually give the 2$ base per delivery to the drivers straight up, or min wage, whichever is higher.

Costs the restraunt NOTHING that way or very little (during slow times) and the drivers get bank.

Most of the delivery services are just greedy as hell lately, it's far past time the food places take things into their own hands and cut out the middle man.

Many of them up the cost of food and/or actually charge the resteraunt as well. One place near me has a whole seperate menu/price for food because uber eats charges them 30% of the order price, so they upped all their food prices by 30% to compensate.

Uber then charges a delivery fee AND 15% of the total (including that)....to the customer, so not only are you paying all that, but your doing on prices that are already 30% more.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

blu posted...

Delivering to six places in an hour is a lot. Thats a place every ten minutes, and the last place would be waiting an hour for their pizza after it was ready unless the delivery driver picks it back up from the store, which then makes it 7 places in an hour. Then you need time to park, meet the person, them to get their payment, and anything else.

True, although the delivery radius is usually only 1-2 miles, and you break it up into quadrants, which means each driver is delivering to only a few areas (so you can drive from one place to another quite fast). In general it's 2 trips of 30 minutes each, deliverying to say 3-4 places each trip. That means the most wait for your food is about 30 minutes tops. Even then I would usually ask to be put on the "next" run so I was at the top of the order.

Not all places do that mind you, but if they were delivering alot of food constantly, they would come up with a system like that pretty fast. Porky's pizza did that, and Brewery City pizza in olympia etc, it's common for places that deliver alot.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

Kyuubi4269 posted...

All my deliveries are free?

Where are you getting deliveries from? None are free here:(


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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

Yeah, alot of people are using uber eats/doordash/postmates etc, but in general they are all quite expensive.

My question is, why aren't more places delivering, and for less (or even free?).

Many pizza places for instance used to deliver for free, but now they pretty much all charge. Domino's, Pizza hut, Round table etc, they charge extreme amounts in some cases to deliver (Round table was $9 I believe!!).

Even pizza hut/domino's is like $6 or something for delivery, which seems pretty expensive per person (Especially since your expected to tip as well!!).

But I mean, not even counting pizza places, most other resteraunts don't have their own delivery services, burger places, chineese food etc, all that was very common in the past in cities like NY etc (as you could see in shows like Sienfield).

But although many are actively working with delivery services, they are not offering delivery themselves, which is pretty crazy, they could actually end up with MORE customers right now then ever before if they had a cheaper delivery service.

Post mates or Uber eats charges a freakton, generally $5-6 for delivery base + 15% of the total order (including the delivery price) and then your taxed after all that is added together, and finally you have the tip based on that complete total (including tax) which is generally a min of 10% (although you can enter your own amount).

Meanwhile you also get a $2 charge if your order is under a certain amount (usually $10).

This all leads to paying over double to have something delievered most of the time!!!

Like a $15 order from Uber eats is 15$ base +6$ deliver + 15% of 21$ ($3)+12% (tax) of $24(about $3) +at least 10% of 27$.

So your end total for a $15 order turns out to be $30 (and that is basically just 1 meal for 1 person at most places).

Now, if instead you ordered a $15 item from a place and they delivered it, even for say $2 delivery (but no other charges), + tax and tip, the total would be about $20 including the tip, and the drivers would easily make up their base pay with the $2 per delivery (they would only need to deliver 6 meals an hour) and would get tips on top of that.

Everyone should be doing that...seriously.

Whats more, you don't have to buy cars, you don't have to do tons of stuff, hire people to do the driving themselves, and just pay them by the hour to delivery food. They need to have insurance etc, and a decent car to drive in for the job, and boom your set.

So why isn't this happening...like AT ALL, let along a ton?

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

Jen0125 posted...

Mando made some with bacon last night at they are delicious

I like this Mando person.

Also I love roasted or stir fried brussel sprouts. I have never cooked em with bacon though.

Actually I have not had any for over a year, I will have to remedy that next time I go shopping. It's hard to remember to buy veggies now that it's just me.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

I'm kinda in crab withdrawal actually. IT's too expensive to buy from the store (freaking $30 a pound with the shells on etc), so I would go to crab buffets at Redwind Casino or Emerald City Casino etc for all you can eat crab.

I have not been able to do that for like 6 months now, so no crab for me.

I tried immitation crab for a bit, but it's just not the same and I got tired of it fast.

All the other buffets I can live without (though I miss mongolian BBQ as well), but I can get chineese food delivered that is similar etc. I can't get crab though......and they keep freaking having adds for it on my facebook etc.

But, it's not $30 a pound like at safeway in the adds, no iti's like freaking $60 a pound.....arrrgh, but it looks so good.

If I was rich, you know, like a multi-millionare, I would eat so much crab.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

Hell yeah, I can't wait for rogue legacy 2.

Seriously the first one is one of the only games I have finished in the last few years and in fact I have played it from scratch and finished it twice (and played a bit without finishing it a few other times).

I'll even buy it in early access even though I really wish the full game was being released. I love that freaking game.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

So um, does that work for non-cops too in his mind. If someone flips you off on the freeway in stop and go traffic it's ok to get out of your car and slap em in response?

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

ChaosAzeroth posted...

For some reason I find this train of thought horrifying.

It is in a way, but luckily most parents do not act like that at all, but some do, and most could.
The point was kinda that parents actually have that kind of power, so slavery doesn't actually HAVE to be bad, it just basically ends up that way most of the time.

In a society with rules and protections, children who are basically slaves to their parents and must do what they say, are not treated badly in most cases at least. So it shows that you could have a system that wasn't all bad at least in theory.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

Interestingly I had a discussion with a friend about ways slavery could actually be good, and different types that are still in effect. I went with an argument that slavery actually still exists to some extent even in this country now, since parenthood is similar in some ways.

Children are in effect slaves to their parents until they are old enough, but we do have protections for them, and the slave owners can not abuse them without repercussions etc.

Sadly another example of slavery that is currently in effect is much worse, which is our prison system, especially the for profit prisons. I kinda of used one as a positive example and the other as a very negative example. Even the positive example of parents though can be abused and sometimes is, so slavery over all is a bad thing, but it doesn't HAVE to be, just sadly humans are a mixed bag, and while you have many good "parents" you also can have some very bad ones.


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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

Consider how many cows I have eaten over the years, it would only be fair.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

$3,142.99

Thought it was more actually, but I still voted right at least.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

Spider

Wraps you in a cacoon then injects acid into your tummy so you die slowly in extreme pain.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

The spellsinger books were ok, only read em once. Not my favorite by that author, but not the worst either.

Jack Chalker I think did a similar idea (might have been river of the dancing gods series?) first, and I think Christopher Stasheff also had a series like that.

Finally one of my favorite authors L.e. Modessit wrote the Spellsong Cycle, which actually my least favorite of his series, but perhaps the best of the spell song type books (although chalkers was pretty good as well, if I could just remember the name). All of the river of the dancing gods books were good and I think it was in there somewhere.

Ugh and how can I forget the first? Piers Anthony's Phase books, the Blue Adept basically cast spells by rhyming.....man my memory sucks now.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

Nobody said it had to be your microwave:)

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

#1 method is to put it in the microwave for 20 seconds.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

75% coffee 20% milk 5% sugar.

Since I'm diabetic that means I don't drink coffee anymore.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

I have to a few but I generally prefer to spend my money directly helping people, as it has direct results and I know i'm making a difference. I have donated to support charities on my own, and also because friends etc have requested it on facebook or other methods for birthdays etc.

I volunteered for charities though quite often in the past, especially food banks etc, that is also something you can see a direct result from. I have a hard time believing that just sending money to an organization is actually accomplishing anything even though it probably does. I'm very careful with my money and how I spend it myself, so I am also very careful on how I spend it to help others.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."

Buy a pimp like hat and a pink jacket.

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Agatha "Your naked and they are nuns, it's not your eyes they're not looking at."
Glowing Elephant "Stonehedge was a sex thing."