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Raising minimum wage or putting a social safety net in place so we have no working homeless or unfed children.

It has become a gatcha game, you put time in and you might get something worthwhile out of it, or you might get more poverty

I love my gas stove, we just upgraded the hood, the old one barely covered the range top and was so loud nobody wanted to be in the kitchen when it was running. As unofficial family safety officer and fun dampener I'm always turning it on but that basically made conversations impossible and multitasking difficult.

I grew up with electric ranges and then my young adulthood saw a series of lowest possible price stoves included in apartments, I could not wait to get away from them.

Our extremely crappy coil based electric range burned out and at the time I researched it a pretty nice gas stove was half of what a comparable induction stove was. Now I understand there are more options and it seems obvious to go induction for the next one.

That being said I think I will miss the gas stove, it feels very intuitive the way the flame reacts to the knob and the speed that the pans heat. The coil stoves I have used have all had hot spots, it isnhard to tell when they have reached full temperature and different cookware heats up very differently.

that looks nice, we have a lower frills version of the mesh chairs at the office which are comfortable enough except that they aren't quite tall enough for me

We've outgrown two of these, shame they don't make them in larger sizes.

Thanks for these suggestions, I will check them out. I've read both good and bad reviews about the various chairs at costco and ikea, they all seem fine to me when I sit in them but then I've had two $100~ chairs start to give out in 8-10 months and then be passively irritating for another year or so before becoming intolerable.

I'm working from home 8+ hours a day in a Lifeform chair that I can't find the model number on the internet(looks kind of like a legacy 900 but different fabric and adjustment arm placement). My mom bought it in a shop in Austin probably 15+ years ago and gave it to me when she closed her office. It's comfortable but extremely heavy and almost too adjustable, all of the moveable parts creak and don't stay where they are set reliably.

It does sound simple right? I've been an avid voter and I'm in a bubble here in district 35 so it feels like everyone I know avidly votes progressive as well but obviously that's why the bubble was built.

I read this article too and I don't see where npr is saying this is ok. They are giving these workers a platform to express their side of it but what the workers are really saying is that they are being exploited financially. This main guy being interviewed says he loves doing this but the laws are allowing the business to subsidise his wages based on customer kindness. That is clearly not ok, the tipped minimum wage is clearly not ok.

"If there is some means of tipping that's available to you, that should signal to you that workers there aren't being paid enough," says Schenker.

can we do anything about it?

Any suggestions on decent chairs? I'm in the market for two chairs for my wife and son doing grad school and college from home.

Everyone says they get aerons or steelcase leaps cheap but in central Texas the best I've seen are 400-600 and at least an hour drive each way. That's still kind of steep for me (especially given the two household members in university right now)

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Kurt Vonnegut, 1953