No answer, but I wonder if it’s more than conditioning. At times when I’m thinking, with others or alone, I mash my hand to my chin/lower lip. I don’t feel I’m indicating anything, but I swear it helps with ideas.

Joke reference from a Tool song, Hooker with a Penis.

Anytime someone refers to '92 it’s mandatory

From the first EP?

Bad habit, your brain needs a lack of talking heads when you sleep.

If silence doesn’t work for you, try something with steady noise. Some use white noise generators, for me it’s the whir from an air purifier.

I, too, saw that factoid in a crossword yesterday

Testes, check, check, testes. One, two…three??

Not sure if you’re joking, but there’s already a black fella rock band with that name.

Good point, they’re probably planned near poorer neighborhoods much more often than gated entitlement communes, and certainly not near estates.

I find the sign condescending, shaming, and presumptuous (40%). If I owned the place that’s not how I’d want it represented when people come in.

Restaurants are already expensive before factoring in tips. If the place gets a reputation that our staff are accustomed to 40% gratuity the business may struggle.

The US restaurant system is broken. Pressuring the customers you rely on, who face the same economic hardships as you, is not going to fix it.

I was mid-late teens when the internet started to become widespread. I didn’t like the idea, had a bad feeling about it. Then I relaxed a bit and the more I used it, became comfortable with it.

Social media is what I was initially worried about, though I wouldn’t have been able to know it back then. I"d want the pre-internet world back if I had one wish.

People were generally more respectful and forgiving to one another. There was a sense of we’re in this together that has steadily eroded. We had our problems mind you, but I was sure my generation and I would make things better. By and large the only people saying everything’s fucked were the “end is nigh” crazies in the streets.

Maybe my perspective was just more idealistic back then (excluding the internet), and the world was just as grim as it seems today.

But having college graduates reject AI–that gives me a little hope.

Sharks preceding trees is 🤯