US federal law only requires 1.5x hourly wage for hours >40. It's up to each establishment whether they want to pay extra based on shift, and typically weird hours are just part of being a restaurant worker.

Federal law is min. $7.25/hour, and here in NC only $2.13/hour for tipped employees.

Yep, SlashDot's moderation continues to weaken The original generation didn't get enough karma, and new accounts get too much.

Noon is equally between sun rise and sun set. That was the only definition prior to time keeping machines.

It's been the reference for timekeeping since, literally, the beginning of time.

Learn science, make a sun dial, visit Stonehenge, study history.

I do it for contact info. Obviously it doesn't work on a phone, where you can simply cut/paste/share the info to your phone/email/social. But on a desktop, it's the instant way to add a contact because vcard download/load handling isn't always perfect.

Corruption is the downfall of any society.

Because not all of us want Google indexing our email. A stand alone app, not tied to any specific provider, picks up mail off my server without transferring it through Google, Microsoft (safelinks), Yahoo, or whoever else you use.

How many of us would be happy with just 0.02 PPS from our provider? (I'm looking at you Spectrum.)

With a small scope (or 10x binoculars on a tripod in a dark sky) at the same time, you can also see Uranus half way between Mercury and Venus, and Neptune a third of the distance between Jupiter and Saturn. I strongly recommend finding Uranus with a small scope--it is brilliantly cyan-colored and round. Better than Saturn, I think.

Not technically visible, but extremely rare for all seven to be in the same quadrant at the same time with the Sun down.

And the Moon is about 1-1/2 hours behind the Sun if you want to get all nine objects.

(Pluto, is also up about 1-1/2 hours in front of Saturn, but just about impossible to find without a big scope, tracking, GOTO, super dark sky, etc.)

Don't be intimidated trying to find these. 10x binoculars with large 50mm lenses are fine, but a 4-1/2" or greater Newtonian better, and anything else larger and/or with tracking plenty. Plan ahead, find a dark sky, print a star map in reverse (background in white), maybe get a 650 nm red flash light, take a few friends and snacks, and have fun. Go out at 4:30am and find everything in an hour.

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This. The problem is is that the entire US election and political system are set up to promote the financial success of elected officials.

Most of the entire US political system, from local councils to the federal president, has become a way for elected officials to to get favors and wealth, from expenses related to speaking engagements to flat out graft. It starts with the funding required to run and continues through the pay-back process that elected officials offer those that funded their run. The feedback loop continues to grow until half the country (one political party or the other) props up the candidate.

A three-party solution would solve everything, but the Republican and Democratic parties will stop at nothing to avoid that possibility.

Another solution would be to eliminate deductions and benefits for elected officials. The usual clamor is that this gives lobbiests an advantage over the political system... but I've yet to see a politician not accept benefits from the current system, so I hardly see how that is a valid argument.

Essentially, honest people can't get elected. We need to solve that.

There are gambling machines everywhere, I can't see any difference from crypto?

Unless we decide to abolish one, there's no argument to be made about the other.

Imperial measurements are functionally useless for everything that requires precision (eg construction, chemistry)....The only place where imperial measurements are used over metric, is wood building construction.

You're obviously not in the construction industry. Literally 99% of everything in US construction is Imperial... surveys, brick, block, re-bar, concrete slabs, lumber, insulation thickness, doors and frames, windows, ceiling tile, shower tile, cabinets, countertops, tub dimensions, hardware, fasteners, roofing, siding and trim, paint, truck widths, parking lots, etc. Sure a few globally distributed products may have alternate units, like a soccer field, but the origins of all our existing building stock, property measurements, and off-the-shelf components are native Imperial.

I've been waiting for US architecture and construction to go metric for 40 years, but I'm resolved my drawing sets are going to be Imperial the rest of my lifetime.

Sensationalist and exaggerated comments like this one are exactly how we got here. The Warren Commission was established by President Lyndon Johnson on November 29, 1963, so it can not have been buried for 100 years until 2063.