Jojo @ Silentiea @lemm.ee

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Why do people keep reading dystopias as instruction books?

Nothing on Lemmy is posted on basis of "needs to be mentioned",

Literally everything on Lemmy was said for a reason. Bad reasons exist, but I like to give people the benefit of the doubt.

Tipping causes lower wages because it relieves the employers of the obligation of paying their workers. Also, I am talking about systemic change,

Tipping doesn't "cause" lower wages. Tipping becoming an expected social norm can cause that, or exacerbate it. But you as an individual choosing not to tip doesn't really impact that. It certainly doesn't effect systemic change. If the norm is already present, all you're doing is literally lowering one individual's wages by not tipping them, and if it's not then what you're doing is making a statement to that individual (ranging from "I come from America" to "you were really exceptional").

How about family dynasties?

Wait, did somebody say Kennedy?

Tipping occasionally doesn't cause this problem either.

Being vocal about never tipping implies that it's an exceptional stance for some reason. If that's the norm where you live, why does it need to be mentioned?

Not tipping doesn't fix this problem, it just makes someone get payed less. If you want to fix the issue, regulate it out of existence. You aren't changing the culture, you're just being a bit of a dick.

Um, I think you mean octopodes.

Fun fact, there's a Wikipedia article that comes up for "plurals of words ending in -us" with a section jus for octopus.

...AI generated jeans spammers? What did I miss?

They're both so near zero as to be hardly worth considering.

The thing to think about is the fact that, in either case, ghost or alien are in any way especially indicated by the evidence. People don't see something strange and conclude aliens because they have good reason to believe from the evidence that something traveled vast distances across space, but rather they simply don't have anything good to believe right now.

Having unusual evidence that doesn't seem to point at the simple, mundane explanation isn't the same as having evidence that does point at a supernatural or extraterrestrial explanation

Maybe more like saying "you don't have to be fastest to finish first if you get enough of a head start"?

FSM?

Apparently she defended trans people in a conversation, someone complained, and moderators got involved and manually overrode the ai. Paraphrased hearsay.

The Vulcan science directorate has determined that time travel is impossible.

I mean personally I figure some way that doesn't exclude anyone who's had a hysterectomy, but

Everyone hear that? Once you get a hysterectomy, you're not female any more!

Listen, mate, threatening to kill people is a pretty shit way to interact with anyone. If you don't want to date someone with a penis, maybe say so up front. No one is trying to trick you, and no one is trying to lie to you. They're just trying to live life, same as anyone.

Just rent a Cesna and fly straight there, they don't stop you.

Sounds like a time machine. I'd love a time machine.

Lol @ just filling return envelopes with worthless dead weight

Two ways: first, you go to doctors offices and hospitals and give gifts to the person responsible for picking which version of this medicine to buy/prescribe.
Second, convince patients to ask for your version when they see their doctor by telling them on tv that it will make their life better or whatever

Giving tips is okay. Paying your employees less because you expect them to be tipped is stupid. Culturally requiring tips to make up the majority of a position's income is ridiculous, but very difficult to change.