Just search for 4. You're almost never going to get in trouble for sleeping 2 adults and 3 kids in a hotel room for 4.

From personal experience, just stick the youngest on the floor

That’s outrageous. You could trip over one and sprain your ankle. We just tied ours outside and told people the kids identified as dogs.

There's an active genocide going on but you just had to go there. This would have still been funny without this tired, old, cliche of a "joke"

No genocide at all. Most of our kids survived!

Kindness costs you nothing

The author probably intended it to be an hilarious joke, but they assumed you are as well versed in Fox News identity politics as they, sadly, are

You’re right about the first part. I don’t have Fox News so I’m not sure about the second part. I’m not particularly sad about it but thank you for your concern.

Personally, I got a good laugh out of it…

Often you can find that they will charge $xx per additional person, if you go over the listed figure (if you choose to declare the overage).

More often they will declare >N persons a 'fire safety hazard' and refuse for your safety and security. And to help them make more revenue.

Cruise ships do this too, even if the extra person is an infant.

This has been our experience

Youtube? Tiktok? Twitch?

To be fair, YouTube does have a serious problem with millions of dud, autogenerated content videos trying to game the algorithm to generate ad cash.

Those are all excellent examples of how a content platform descends into empty hollow entertainment if monetized too much.

I'm happy that there's someone out there who isn't particularly experienced with alcoholism, genuinely, but your figures are very, very off

$100 a month on alcohol is like, 5-6 low tier cases of beer. That's just 5-6 beers a day. That's alcoholism to be sure, but the degeneracy goes way, way further.

If you work at a liquor store, you'll see the grandma who comes in 3x a week to buy a cheap plastic handle of vodka. Or the guy who buys a 12 pack and two shooters, every single day. Or the new mom who goes from buying 2 bottles of wine a week to 10.

Depends on what youre buying, and how raging of an alcoholic you are.

I probably spend around 100 a month and I would be clinically considered an alcoholic.

Somethings are definitely stupid, but I don't really see what's bad about changing whitelist. White = good and black = bad is a weird concept that when using an American lens, is hard not to see implied racism.

Plus, allowlist and denylist is simply easier to understand.

I agree that if your entire job is coming up with this kind of stuff, that's a bit ridiculous. But I don't really see anything wrong with a few engineers spending a few hours a month to push company discourse in a more egalitarian direction.

Actually listened to an interesting lecture on the ancient far east. The White = good and black = bad had originated from the people of the Levant originally, and I mean a long time ago, like before 600BC long ago.

I don't deny that there's historical things to be said about light being good and darkness being bad. That definitely has nothing to do with racism. I have nothing against yin and yang etc

But modern America has a modern lens, not a 600BC lens. Why ignore that?

Corporations are not 100% efficient. I have seen so much favoritism in my short career. It's to be expected. A middle manager doesn't care about the company's bottom line, they care about maintaining/upgrading their own position. That sometimes means working towards the bottom line, but usually means working people relationships.

Those people relationships are affected by race gender etc. You really have NEVER seen someone get on a great project because they're better connected, even if they are a worse engineer than someone who doesn't fit in as well?

Not really. Endorsements and Advertising are a good cut of the money but most of the big money in streaming is coming directly from fans, whether through premium subscriptions or donations.

There's definitely derivative media in eSports too. Replace SportsCenter with youtube and twitch channels, and the rest is the same

I used to play Age of Empires in treaty mode. You had XX minutes where you couldn't attack one another so just focused super hard on macro. Utter chaos when the treaty period ended as everyone had max size armies. Lagged the hell out of my computer. Good times

It was a fairly popular variant of the game too, never had trouble finding matches

Obvious scams eh? Wheres your short money

I work for a crypto payments firm

We're getting there and you can already use our product at 50k+ stores in the US.

Even in this market, merchants are still interested. We launched new ones this week.

Comparing us to Visa or Paypal we are rinky dinky af, no denying that. But we are definitely growing.

Your lens of investment vs currency is also very US based. Consider countries that frequently experience huge rates of inflation. Non-fiat money can be valuable for them.

I also work for a crypto payments firm

There's a lot of interest in taking crypto payments mainstream, but large, established institutions are unwilling to expose themselves to the regulatory risk they would take on by building this stuff.

A lot of these folks express extreme skepticism in the media, but are super willing to talk/partner in private.