GoodEye8 @ GoodEye8 @lemm.ee

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What are you not getting? Everything you've just brought up are things I've already covered. I'm done talking to a wall. Either read what I've said or stfu.

Which part of that statement was lying or misrepresenting? They're your words. The first part.

I’m saying “do not go somewhere that expects tips,”

And the second part.

I’m saying do not go somewhere where you’re supposed to tip and not tip or you’re even worse than the problem. If you do, you need to tip.

"If you don't want to support tipping culture, don't go somewhere that expects tips. But if you do happen to go somewhere that expects tips (regardless of how you end up going there) you absolutely must support tipping culture".

Now let me take your point into absurdity.

"If you don't want to support gun violence you shouldn't own a gun. But if you happen to own a gun you should do a mass shooting."

That's how your argument comes across to me. I have no issue with the first part of your argument, I do that. But I have an issue with the second part because that is defending tipping culture.

Show me exactly where I defended the system. Show me a single line.

You’re just leaving yourself a convenient back door to not tip while benefitting from tipping culture.

Trying to guilt people into tipping

But if you would like to go somewhere that expects tips, you better fucking tip

Literally telling people to tip.

If you go to a restaurant that expects tips and you don’t tip, you are keeping them in business while screwing over the person working.

If nobody tipped at those restaurants nobody would work at those restaurants and those restaurants would have to either start paying livable wage or go out of business.

I said if you don’t want tipping to continue, you can’t support restaurants that tip.

And I agree. I avoid going to such restaurants if given a chance. But if circumstances require going to such a restaurant do you really think tipping at that restaurant is less beneficial to the restaurant than not tipping?

In that scenario you are perpetuating the system by participating in it. It’s a choice.

If circumstances force me to participate then I should go all the way? Is that what you're saying? So if a vegan orders a plate that happens to have meat in it then the vegan should eat that meat? After-all they've already participated by ordering something with meat.

But you are defending the system. You're literally saying if you end up in a place that expects tipping then you should tip. What if you're going out with a group and that group decides to go somewhere that expects tipping? Are you supposed to remove yourself from the group so you wouldn't go into a place like that?

You can't take this black and white stance where if you end up participating in this system you also have to perpetuate that system. Making the customer feel like they're responsible for the livelihood of the staff is how this tipping culture is kept alive and that is exactly what you're doing right now. You're trying to claim we are responsible for their livelihood simply because we stepped into the restaurant and ate.

I would happily pay more for my meal if it meant I didn't have to tip. The benefit we get from not tipping is marginal compared to the benefit restaurant owners get by not paying living wage. Not to mention it's added stress to the actual people doing the work because they don't even get the guarantee of a decent paycheck.

And there is a choice, you chose to perpetuate the system that grossly exploits the laborer, I choose to have minimal participation in such a system. Want to take a guess which of the two actually has a chance to fix the system?

Shit twice, wipe once. I can respect that.

I recommend waiting until they revert the restrictions on countries that can't have PSN. That's the indicator on how serious they actually are about making PSN optional. So far the restrictions are in place so fuck em.

I feel like this is a misrepresentation of Marxs work either by misunderstanding his work or by not being familiar with his works. And not every Marxists waits for a revolution, it's mostly orthodox Marxists (or Marxist-leninists) who are hoping for a revolution. Revisionist Marxists, such a democratic socialists, don't necessarily believe in a revolution or even outright reject a revolution.

Being a Marxist doesn't mean you need to agree with everything Marx wrote. I don't agree with his revolutionary ideas, but I think his criticism of capitalism is accurate because I've yet to see any compelling counterarguments to his fundamental points. Me not agreeing with his inevitable revolution doesn't mean I'm not a Marxist, it means I'm not an orthodox Marxist.

What are the actual indicators of a good economy?

We're more productive than ever and there's more of us than ever and your conclusion to that information is that of course we should also be working more than ever?

You don't question that if there's more of us and we're all more productive, then we should be doing less work? Because if we were able to meet our needs before then it should be even easier to meet our needs now as we're more productive per person than before and we also have even more people capable of doing the work.

What you're saying makes sense only if you put the production of goods above the wellbeing of the people producing the goods. So ask yourself, what's the purpose of producing goods? If it's not for us then who is it for?

While I do agree that going on day 4 of Musks nazi salute is beating the dead horse, but a "centrist" space is hardly the solution. Even centrists should dunk on Trump and the fascist party. The issue is that politics bleeds into all the popular communities regardless of the community. We just need more non-political communities (or a harder non-political stance in non-political communities).

Wanting a centrist space, especially one that fits the American centrism, is wanting an echo chamber where you don't get the culture shock of discovering that you're not actually leftist.

So why isn't Russia taking responsibilities for the atrocities and illegal occupations done by the USSR? It's as if it's not just a name change.

Also what agreement do you think gives Russia that guarantee? There's no paper that says NATO won't expand east.

Okay. This is a bit more nuanced and what I gave was my opinion, as in they're not the successor. They are the successor in some cases, but whether they're actually the successor or not depends on which option is beneficial to Russia. When it comes to NATO Russia likes to act like it's the successor, but when it comes to reparations for the atrocities the USSR committed that's when Russia says they're not actually the successor to the USSR and can't be responsible for the atrocities committed by the USSR. I'm my eyes you can't have it both ways and as such I'm just taking cues from the Russian playbook. Whatever guarantees were given they were given to the USSR and not Russia, especially when those guarantees were never on paper.

In case anyone is thinking of taking this troll seriously, there is no treaty that prevents NATO from expanding east. There was something like it between NATO and the USSR but Russia officially is not the successor to USSR so they have no claim to that guarantee. It's all Russian propaganda.

If it's of any comfort I'm predicting he'll die within the next 4 years. But I'm also predicting it'll only get worse with his death so maybe there's not much comfort to be had.

Yeah. I could see someone ordering a combo and then complain when instead of a combo they have to pay for burger, fries and drink. It's stupid that 5 guys doesn't have a combo option but the person behind the counter did what they're supposed to do, take the order and make sure the person ordering also understands what they're ordering.

Easy is relative. I'm pretty sure the easy way is if the game developer creates a separate "beta" branch. The other way is to turn off auto-update, manually download depos and extract them into the same folder essentially reinstalling the entire game with the updates you want and then putting them in the right steam folder. I personally wouldn't call it easy. I'd say it's tedious, prone to user error and unnecessarily time consuming.

It would be easy if Valve took their "beta" branch feature and expanded it to be an actual rollback.

That's probably the only good thing about Trump. Trump is so brazen with fucking around that the rest of America gets to experience the finding out part. Trump is fucking with illegal immigration and America is about to find out how much they depend on illegal immigrants (because I doubt it's only this one industry).

Actually it's even worse than that. They can't even make up new swear words because they can be fined even if what they're saying is perceived as inappropriate.