yknow who else hates France? The ruling class

https://the-toast.archive.town/2015/07/15/the-pitch-meeting-for-wishbone/

You may be more familiar with a tax disc, or registration sticker or a tag. The little foil sticker you put in your car to show you’ve paid your taxes in connection to your car.

I’m still so nervous around black people that I’m scared of doing some microaggression and pushing someone into beating the shit out of me that I act super too nice which is just another fucking microaggression.

Maybe I misread this but I don’t think it’s fair to say i made it up out of whole cloth. No well adjusted person is going to beat the shit out of someone because of a microaggression. I cannot imagine where this fear would come from unless this person has actually been beaten up or knows someone who has been beaten up.

I was quite drunk and reading between the lines. I still think it’s wild to be afraid of being around black people because you think you’ll get physically harmed for a microaggression. Like, that’s gotta come from somewhere. The way they framed it as “pushing someone into beating the shit out of me” makes it sound like they think they’d deserve it. Which if they were screaming slurs or parroting Nazi talking points, yeah maybe, but those aren’t really micro aggressions are they

so youre saying youre… Afraid for your safety around black people because you got beaten up for something you said at some point? That doesnt sound like self awareness or a micro aggression, that sounds like trauma from catching the wrong person on the wrong day

Yeah, but you said you tip 5% for below average service. Are you aware of the state of the kitchen, the state of the dish pit, or the state of the running side work at all times? Because if you’re not, you have, at some point, stiffed a competent somebody doing their level best to keep the establishment from burning to the ground.

Depends on the pay structure. Tip outs at some places get high, maybe even 10% of total sales. Which would mean 2/3 of your generous 15% tip goes to the kitchen, or the busboy, or whoever, regardless of how much your server had to harangue them into doing their jobs or how much verbal abuse everyone had to endure in the process. Which, as a former server, yes, is part of the job.

If you tip 5% at a place that tips out higher than 5%, guess where the difference comes from. If you guessed the server’s own share of the tip pool, you get a cookie. Sometimes, nothing is in fact better than something.

So why don’t they just get another job? It’s fuckin hard out there, man, maybe they’re trying. You don’t know. It took yours truly 2 years to escape the industry, and I still have a foot planted there because i took a pay cut to do it. I can almost guarantee I make less money than you if you can afford to eat out more than, like, once a month.

And don’t even get me started on the servers who do make beaucoup bucks. They don’t get there on their own, they do it by shirking their side duties, taking a bigger slice of the pie, and “delegating” to their peers, which management loves because it’s “team service.” Granted, the restaurant I worked at was a shitty place to work, but that’s not exactly rare.

So what does this all point to? Tipping sucks, but trying to fight it by tipping less really only hurts the face you see.

As someone who’s worked in a restaurant, they probably wouldn’t fuck with your food. You might end up waiting a while for drinks, though.

a while ago, I wanna say 2010ish, the new CEO of JCPenney had a bold new vision for the brand. Instead of things being marked up and then perpetually “on sale,” what if they just… marked things as the price they are? Sales collapsed by 25% and the company lost a billion dollars in a single year.

There is a reason things are the way they are, no matter how stupid they look. Consumer psychology is a trip.

Edit: and the thing is this probably works on the reader of this comment as well. Consumers, when asked, will say they prefer transparent pricing structures. But their real world behavior is the exact opposite.

Maybe invest in a reversible heat pump so you’re ready!

I remember buying GTA V on disc and then having to wait an entire day for the day 1 patch to download on my slow ass rural bumfuck ADSL connection. Disc or no, if it has online activation it ain’t yours.

I have noticed that occasionally the nitpicking collides with poor reading comprehension to create some of the most annoying yet hilarious comments ever.

So like the reply ITT would be something like uh yeah op sounds like a you problem, that’s completely fucking false about lemmy. People take things way too seriously here, and everybody is way too nitpicky and judgemental.

Angel in the centerfold

Not or, and. Sit out the elections and whoever wins is sure to simply ignore you.

Great. Show up to the primary and maybe nobody has to hold their nose to vote.

curious that O’Leary doesnt want to build that DC in Quebec. I wonder why. You’d think he’d want it close to home, since it’s so good for the economy and all.

Because specific kinds of plastic (like polyurethane) undergo hydrolysis when exposed to moisture, which causes what you see in the op

i have to imagine new yorkers would be quite annoyed by this

You can actually get to almost 10000 on your fingers using Bede’s finger reckoning technique.