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Cake day: March 7th, 2025

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  • As mentioned by another, a lot of it really is compensation. Most jobs won’t pay your missed days for jury service. They can’t fire you, no, but they also dont have to pay you. If you have kids, live paycheck to paycheck, then get a letter from the government saying you will be needed for an unspecified amount of days, possibly weeks, and won’t get paid for it, it doesn’t seem like much of an opportunity. Better have those sick days saved up, cause if not, you may not make rent.

    Luclily they usually pull a large pool of people so that is sometimes not an issue. My last jury summons, I told the judge that I wasn’t paid for being there and the loss of income would cause me financial hardship. “Thank you sir, you’re excused.”

    Employers respect jury service only as far as the law requires them to. They do not respect it enough to make service economically viable for their employees.






  • I use it as new Craigslist for scooping up second hand stuff, but that’s about it. I check the market maybe once a week at most.

    I also live in a crime-ridden desert city, so occasionally people post about people scoping out or burglarizing their houses or cars, comes in occasionally useful if there’s repeat offenders to look out for.

    But otherwise it’s the NIMBY cesspit others have described. Occasionally I’ll see a dog get back home because of it, but damn. Every time I see the comments of regular users, all I see is the desperation of Facebook moms mixed with the self-importance of LinkedIn posters.

    That said, if i waved it was because the notification came up while I was using my phone and I remembered the last time I greeted a room of people to zero response








  • Oh, for sure. Also, the wooden patches on the ground are the landing zone. I dont know exactly what happened, but for ages it felt like there was literally not enough time to move, aim, and hit in time. Then, at some point, it just sort of clicked and it felt like i had more than enough time. I ended up doing little half circles between hits because it helped me aim, and also helped with the rhythm.

    To be clear, you still need to get a bit lucky, since hit detection is iffy and one missed gestral can easily spiral to a loss. But there’s a rhythm zone with watching the flip, and a calmness that takes over once you’re in it.