Goo_bubbs @ Goo_bubbs @lemmings.world

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The problem is that we're at a point where Republicans are not hesitating to lie, cheat, and steal their way to power. They have demonstrated quite clearly that they no longer have an interest in playing fair.

We need Democrats who aren't afraid to fight back or we'll lose our Democracy in America and eventually fall to fascism.

There may not be a good ending here, but it's time to draw a line in the sand.

I worked in fine dining for 10 years. So no, it's not presumptuous of me because I am speaking from personal experience based on my own life as well as many, many people I have known. I'd say that I'm one of the least presumptuous people in this thread when it comes to this topic.

It would be great if employers would pay servers a living wage, but that simply isn't the way things actually work in restaurants.

Personal responsibility? Handouts??! Tell you what, how about you go to work for 8 hours every day and then have your business's clients decide whether or not you deserve any money at all for the work you do. Would you say you're just asking for a handout, or would you say that you deserve to be paid for the work you did?

It's really a cultural problem, and there's no easy solution. I certainly don't know how to fix it. I think it would require everyone not tipping or every server everywhere demanding a higher wage.

Honestly, I hate tipping as much as the next guy. If I decide to tip someone I should be able to feel good about it, like I'm giving them a bonus, rather than feeling guilt-tripped or obligated to do it.

Unfortunately, the system is just set up in a way that sucks for both customers and employees, and the only way you can eat in a nice restaurant and not be an asshole is by tipping your server.

Yeah, it's a huge problem. Yet, here in the U.S., Biden tried to raise the minimum wage to $15/hour when he first got in office and Republicans shot him down. Our problem is that we have an entire political party that is hellbent on harming the average person at every turn, and we have too many uneducated, misinformed people voting for them to do it.

1. 15% is low. So, what you're saying is that you're always a bad tipper.
2. There are tons of factors that can make a good server give bad service. A kitchen that's lagging behind, for example, is totally out of their control. Another table that demands a lot of attention can also throw off service. You've clearly never worked in a restaurant.
3. Most people tip because they're not heartless. I don't think their reasoning applies to you.

Ok, so stay out of American restaurants. We don't want you in them.

And some of them are. It's dumb to make assumptions about an entire profession whose wages vary greatly from city to city based on one person you knew.

You ever see a person break down crying on the job because they're not making enough money and don't know how they're going to eat? I have, several times.

Yes, it's the money that the owner should have given them, but you're not solving the problem by stiffing your waiter. You're just going to make things worse for them.

Yes, I agree with you. They should be able to make a living wage. Unfortunately, when you refuse to tip you don't hurt the owner. Instead, you hurt the employee.

Yeah. Punish the people who are living hand to mouth every single day by making them too poor to refuse any work they can get. That oughta teach them not to accept their slave labor. /S

You could try feeling bad for your server who can't pay their rent or buy groceries because you decided they don't deserve money for their work. Whether you like it or not, that's the reality, and it's as real as anything can ever be when you work all day and don't make enough money to buy yourself a meal.

Needs more dicks.

When was the last time you worked and didn't get paid for it? Why do you feel like you're justified to come to a person's place of work and make them be at your beck and call, but you don't think that these servants deserve their own food or livelihood?

There's nothing intelligent or admirable about this behavior. Quite the contrary, it's simply a disgusting lack of respect for other human beings.

Minimum wage, which is $7.25/hour, and not even close to the bare minimum to be able to survive, because it hasn't been raised in nearly 15 years!

Fuck off with that logic. If you go to a nice restaurant in the U.S. and you don't tip, you're a fucking scumbag. No doubt.

You don't think you'll ever really use all 32GB at the same time until you're running a virtual machine or two and open task manager to see that you're consistently using over 82% of your RAM, which happened to me today.

I use Firefox, TOR, and even Edge sometimes these days for its nifty "Drop" feature. You'll never catch me using Chrome.

I'd argue that Baldur's Gate 3 is the best RPG in at least 20 years. It's been so long since we've had an RPG on its level that I had almost forgotten what it felt like. It makes me feel like the original Fallout games (from Black Isle Studios, not Bethesda) made me feel back in the day.

Honestly, I was surprised to hear that the game forces fast travel. I mean, a small indie company like Hello Games managed to make a procedurally generated universe where you can hop in your ship, fly off the planet, and either cruise through the galaxy or turn on warp speed and leave it all behind. Hell, you can even do it all in VR.

Yet, somehow, Bethesda made a space exploration game that doesn't really let you explore space.

Of course, this is only what I've heard about it. I've been way too busy playing Baldur's Gate 3 to play anything else. But my hype for eventually playing Starfield has dwindled to a solid "meh". Maybe I'll play it sometime when I don't have anything better to do.

It had a decent single player campaign, although it was too short. The live service end game was extremely repetitive and should have never existed.

All they had to do was make a solid single player game, like Insomniac is doing with Spider-Man. Oh well.

The time he lost in the womb? He was born into wealth, and his whole life has been on easy mode.