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The path to change through customers decreasing their tips would be:

• Workers who rely on tips for income make a lot less money, many of them suffer. There is no impact on the companies.
• Workers who can, move to different industries. There is less competition for these roles, and they are filled with less skilled and/or more desperate workers. Companies employ more draconian tactics to compel performance, which the more desperate workers will tolerate.
• Eventually the quality of service will deteriorate to an extent that customers will start to notice. Most customers won't really care. Companies will raise prices to compensate for the few customers who leave.
• Given the money saved by not tipping, customers won't mind the higher prices. Companies will tout their record profits on earnings calls with shareholders.
• Eventually some kind of legal or political action will be mounted to challenge the minimum wage exception, now that "tipped employees" don't make minimum wage when counting their tips any more. Most people don't feel like they're affected and don't care. Companies lobby the government to ensure it is not successful, or if it is, to ensure that it is toothless and won't impact their earnings.
• Companies raise prices more with the excuse of the recent actions. Customers are now paying more than they used to when including tips. Workers are poor and abused. Shareholders think these companies are winners and invest more.
• Problem solved?

I'm just pleased to see so many comments talking about dealing with your phone before you drive. Thank you all.

Right front or right rear?

I guess one specific, concrete example would be reversing Citizens United. As I understand it, that could be done either by legislative action or through the judicial, though the former would probably be better.

The OP lists four numbered rules.

Common among the electronics hobbyists that OP mentioned as well, leads are what you call the connections to discrete components or IC's.

Well that can't be true, everything I see when I look around is in the US.

I don't use it every day, but today I used the pizza cutter that I bought for myself when I was maybe in my early 20s and I thought about how long I've had it. I had been pretty fed up with the cheap ones that my parents had around and decided to spend some money on a good one. I was pretty poor so it's not like made of marble or anything, but it's still sturdy and cuts pizza well after 20 years, so it was probably worth whatever I spent on it.

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Yup. My kids are learning about it in school, and they regard it about how we regarded the civil war. Like dude, that was really fucked up, but it was a long time ago.

Well it turns out it wasn't that long ago, and now we've had an insurrection in your lifetime so, ...probably some good lessons in there.

I thought I saw Danny DeVito in this picture for a second.

Same, I just can't get over that name. I'm not sure if that's because of or in spite of the fact that I had a fedora phase when I was younger...

I've occasionally had success restoring a network connection with troubleshooter. Generally if you switch between Ethernet and WiFi, Windows will get confused, but the troubleshooter will turn the network devices off and on which gets it back. I find it's easier to turn off the device I'm not using, but if that's too complicated for someone usually "run the troubleshooter" works.

I had jaw surgery this year and it was incredibly comforting that my surgeon was such a huge nerd about it.

When I was a kid I had this idea about a protagonist who's a serial killer but kills bad people. I think I even wrote a chapter or so, but it was probably shit. Then later someone wrote Dexter, so I don't need to worry about it any more.

Edit: it was Jeff Lindsay, the first book was in 2004. It was probably the mid-90s when I was having those ideas so we might've been thinking about it at the same time lol

I'm a CPA and my PC runs Linux, but also has a Windows VM for when I need Excel (unfortunately the open source alternatives just don't cut it, and I'm guessing it's similar for someone who relies on Word the way accountants rely on Excel), and my work laptop runs Windows.

If you ever edit PDFs with Acrobat Pro, there's no good Linux equivalent that I've found for that either. It can be done, but you'll need a couple of different programs depending on what you need to edit in the PDF.

In general I'd say that you can run your business in Linux, but it is probably not the best choice.

I tend to think of it like a garbage disposal. If you can't dispose of your garbage, you gotta keep it somewhere. Except most things probably don't check if it exists or have a backup plan, so they'll just crash.

I don't actually know all that much about it, but the anarchists that I know are all about communities and mutual support and stuff. So I guess they think government is bad and communities supporting each other is good.

Personally I wonder what they'd call it when a community gets really good at providing a particular type of support and they agree to pool their resources to efficiently provide said support to all members of the community.

I'm a slightly more complicated man, I had to scroll back up to upvote everyone.

What's more human than murder?