That’s a place holder plate. Dealerships, and used car places put them on before official licensed plates are available (in order to advertise), and will often put a dealer plate on the inside of the vehicle in the window or similar so that the vehicle is street legal. I think (not super positive) that rental car places do that as well sometimes to move vehicles etc.

This is a good point.

That’s military grade single ply right there. https://youtu.be/f6HuAhJ0k5E?si=BucLnrDAhgJol_OC

I don’t even do that for Imgur. I use a pihole at home and set my DNS in my settings to DNS . Adguard . Com. No spaces. I don’t see any ads in Imgur pretty much ever.

There were a few schools who banned the book or removed it from their libraries. That was headline news though because for the most part the books were universally pretty much loved.

What’s cheaper for them allowed it to be cheaper for you…

That sounds illegal. A rental can’t really stop you from installing certain safety features. But if I read that right you’re renting from and living with an elderly couple and they have refused like a shower bar or similar. If they themselves refuse the safety feature that would be installed for them that’s… Legal I guess.

They put them so far apart so you can put a sound bar underneath. If it weren’t this way someone else would be complaining here that their new Black Friday soundbar doesn’t fit under there TV.

You just had a 4.8 magnitude off the coast on the 22 of November at 19:02:55 UTC. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000lq51/executive

On average Australia experiences about 100 magnitude 3 or higher earthquakes per year. Pull the other one. It’s got bells on.

Also, you absolutely are allowed to mount furniture to the wall in Australia to prevent injury or death. This was literally a 10 seconds Google search.

https://www.commerce.wa.gov.au/announcements/new-child-safety-laws-now-force-prevent-toppling-furniture-accidents

Yeah. TV’s used to have whole cabinets to hold them.

Do y’all not get earthquakes in Australia? I’m gonna go look that up. I’m curious.

Especially in earthquake prone places like the West Coast (USA) or even like India. Even furniture should be mounted to the wall in a lot of places. If it’s a health and safety issue (like flat panel tvs would be), then they absolutely will not risk going to court over it and being liable for injuries. I don’t get this argument.

Buying a paint can and some spackle isn’t expensive enough to prevent me from drilling into the walls (unless you’ve got popcorn walls or something and that’s just foul). I have done it it in several rentals and got my deposit back in full. The other portion option though in this instance is to buy a VESA mount. Some of which can even just be mounted to the tv stand.

But also, people should do research before they buy things.

All of them aren’t. There are cheap touch screen phones. You just don’t get ridiculous features at the price point if $50. The Samsung A30 is a pretty cheap android phone.

To get people in the door or talking about the store. Free advertising from a group of readers who are more likely to buy the next and the next and the next in a series of books. Even if you’re making one sale instead of two, it’s still a sale. And you’re more likely to make more than one sale if they buy more than one book (which is likely).

Upholstery covers with different colors and fabrics exist. Washable covers exist. My great grandma has a turn of the century sitting room set with colorful covers for each piece that matches the seasons. My own couch is a cream color with washable covers. Scotch guard also exists. Stain removers even exist and they do work (especially carpet cleaners).

Please read the above thread because I recognize that it is illegal, but so are tax fraud and wage theft.

Apparently Federal Law sort invalidates the legality of a tip pool altogether because the tip only counts as a tip if the person who tips determines who the tip is given to and how much and it’s non compulsory. But a lot of places ignore that as well.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/state-laws-tipped-employees.html

It’s technically tax fraud, but yes. You could be. Back of house staff can include managers, cooks and dish washers, and even the hostess. Those people aren’t paid the $2.75 to $3.75 that the wait staff are paid. They’re considered hourly employees and they fall under different pay requirements under the law. A business that doesn’t augment the amount of pay for wait staff not making the federal minimum wage ($7.25) an hour in tips, that business is committing wage theft. To then be paying non-wait staff out of the wait staff tips is illegal as part of the wage theft. But since the company is already committing wage theft there’s no reason not to commit tax fraud to cover up the wage theft.

I understand what you’re saying. But for a person who is now down from $5 to $2.50 to a $100 that is then taxed you’re effectively making less money than you earned. That’s why you can have negative net even while making take home pay.

But think about what might happen if the bill is paid incorrectly in cash. The company will absolutely take cash tips to compensate in the event that you or someone else messed up when counting the cash or giving change or whatever. With tip pools it’s unlikely. But it has happened.