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  • idiomaddict@feddit.detoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Whats your such opinion
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    10 months ago

    Tipping is good.

    I’m American and have worked in the service industry in the US and Germany. I fully support tipping in the US, because waiting tables is one of the few jobs in the US where you can actually earn a good living without breaking your body (as much as construction, as a comparison) and without a training program. In a place where unions actually make a difference, it’s just a nice thing to do, and that’s obviously a better solution generally, but that’s not currently the case in the US.

  • idiomaddict@feddit.detoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•I want to talk in an American accent but how can I transition into it slowly for people who know me without them noticing a sudden change?
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    10 months ago

    No, it’s not how to fit in. I don’t think calling them bizarre is going to help the situation though. They’re not bizarre, they’re just looking for approval the wrong way.

    I think it’s probably more to stand out in a cool way, but it’s still not going to happen like this. The problem with “cool” is that it’s nebulous and there’s no formula for it. I would not be able to be cool while obviously faking an accent, but someone who’s really cool might still be able to pull it off. Hell, I have a genuine American accent in another country (a pretty light one) and I can’t embrace it enough for it to be cool.

    What’s really hard to learn is that OP’s not going to be cool until OP is cool with themselves, and that’s difficult to do when surrounded by people who don’t think you’re cool. That’s why most people get cooler when they leave high school, and that’s also why people tend to get nicer.

  • idiomaddict@feddit.detopolitics @lemmy.world•Sanders says he doesn’t know that a ceasefire is possible ‘with an organization like Hamas’
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    10 months ago

    No, Israel needs to allow elections.

    They steal the supplies and then they sell them back to Palestinians (and smuggle them out) for cash.

    Then it’s a supply problem. If significantly more aid is allowed in and distributed freely, there won’t be much profit to be made.

    The Palestinians will kill your troops and use your aid dollars to reward the families of those who do so.

    How do they do that? They’ve currently got about 1100 calories per person and have had very little water for the last six weeks. The troops are well supplied, armed, and armored. There might be an occasional ied attack, but Palestinians are not going to mount a significant resistance against UN troops distributing aid fairly among the people.

    Ultimately, there are plenty of starving, impoverished people in the world and limited aid dollars from the West.

    That could be said about any group of people. Unfortunately, the less money and infrastructure people have, the more money it takes to get them independent, so the places that need aid most will be the least “efficient” uses of that money.

    The West has invested like 6 per capital Marshall Plans into the Gaza Strip and it’s been squandered. How much more should we waste before we decide to help people that will use that aid to better themselves?

    Literally as much as people are willing to give, which is a lot. How can we watch people starved and oppressed to the point of desperation for decades, then turn our backs because they’re… acting out of desperation? People need basic security before they can make long term decisions, so punishing them for not having security is barbaric.