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That is, are upvotes "yays" and downvotes "boos"?

I still upvote posts in news communities informing me of terrible things, so upvote isn't necessarily a yay. Downvote might be boo, though

No. Don't. Don't tell me this, don't do it to me, I'm trying to complete Satisfactory playthrough

I mean, yeah. Obviously. But to the other businesses or potential business owners that want to try a tipless model, that see these businesses failing, that's not very encouraging or helping to figure out what the underlying issue is. If people are trying to do a good thing but can't quite figure out how to make it work, should we just say, "guess you're not very good at this" and continue giving business to the places asking for tips, or should we try to look into what's going on?

I generally agree with you, but what is your response to businesses like those mentioned in the article that tried a no-tip model and could not sustain it?

I think that tipping models are starting to emulate app microtransaction models - they know that a majority of people are not going to tip, or will round their total up to the nearest dollar or something. It's the person that sees the option to tip and decides to throw an extra $20 just because that they're after. If they instead raise the prices to make it average out, the majority of people that normally would not be tipping go somewhere that's cheaper (because they do tips), and the few people that would pay extra no longer have the option to.

To tie back to the microtransaction analogy - the games that bring in money are the free ones where you can pay to get stuff. Most people pay very little or nothing, but a small percentage throws tons of cash into the game. If you were to take the amount of money brought in by these whales over the life of a game, divide it among all people that played it, and charged that much for the game, it wouldn't profit nearly as much, because none of those people want to pay the $5, and the people that were spending hundreds can only buy the game once, if that.

I think a big flaw in your thinking is that you aren't considering that we still have all the people currently living to take into consideration. We wouldn't be instantly reduced to a tiny population that is easy to restructure and organize, there's still like 8b people on the planet, and none of the ones in charge are going to just say, "oh, well I guess none of this matters anymore, let's focus on sustainability".

It would take a couple years for us to see a significant decrease in population, and all the while, those currently in power would remain in power. We wouldn't suddenly drop to a few thousand like minded individuals, all ready to work together to rebuild. We'd be a declining population that is scared and clueless how to save itself, making mistake after mistake.

Re: wrenches.

I'm not sure where you're at or what kind of things you will be working on, but here in the US you generally want to have at least a cheap set of both SAE and Metric wrenches. Nothing is more frustrating than having a random bolt be SAE while everything else is metric, and stripping the bolt with a wrench that is "close enough".

You'll also come to a decision on if your like flat wrenches or angled ones, though it doesn't hurt to have a cheap set of both.

If you know for sure what set you'll be using the most (or even better, what sizes you'll be using the most), spending a little extra money on "ratcheting" wrenches can save you a ton of time and frustration. I do a lot of toying around on my car, and some of these bolts are in tight places where you can't turn a wrench very far; ratcheting wrenches let you get the wrench in place once and just wiggle the bolt out.

Yeah wtf is the first part supposed to have to do with the last line or image

Oh no, he's snuck his way in with you guys now? Christ, we're really pulling Canada down with us, aren't we.

Big "I don't need you to make me look stupid" vibes right here

I see. It came out clean.

If I may make a suggestion for if you make a similar design in the future, there is a model I found for a dice tower that has a logo indented maybe 0.2mm on the front of case. You print this side face down on the plate, it prints the face with the logo cut out; swap the filament before the following layer, and it will print mostly smooth against the build plate with your contrasting color.

Of course, what you've done comes out with a thicker indented logo, so if that's what you're looking for this wouldn't be the same look, but just wanted to throw the idea out there in case you wanted to play around with it for the future.

Well done! Big fan of the two tone finish.

Was the top piece printed as a single part with a filament swap part way through, or is it two separate pieces stuck together?

Thanks for providing these, I'll take a look when I've got a minute.

I hope my questions don't come across as me dismissing or distrusting what you are saying, but this is the first I've heard about this information and I find it interesting.

When you say that it caused a distrust in aid workers, where did this distrust come from, and where did it end up? To rephrase, from my understanding, bin Laden wasn't exactly a good guy locally either, so if civilians found out that he was taken out with the help of undercover aid workers, would that not strengthen the trust that the aid workers were there to help? The only people that should be wary after finding this out would be his supporters, no?

Unless the fear is more of an outside force interfering with your government, good or bad, which is more understandable, especially in a time and place where information wasn't as readily available. I'm sure it's obvious, but I'm a US citizen, and though I absolutely detest the man and his following, I'd be pretty fucking concerned if China had Trump popped.

JuST oRdEr onLinE

You HAVE to realize that there are people who can't even afford the groceries in the first place?! Not everyone is your mom wasting money on stuff they can't afford! Some people don't have it in the first place!

After this I'm convinced you've never seen a single actual difficult day in your life, sorry. To say that you're "traumatized" by having too much food in the fridge and spending too much money on buying stuff is fucking hilarious, though.

Oooh, what a beautiful word! It'd fallen out of my vocab. Thanks for that.

You really are lmao...

But like.. why? Isn't that a waste of time, something you hold dear? That gives these religious leaders a lot of power over you, for you to practically be praying to every one of them, every day, probably spending more time praying than actual religious people are..

Unless you're just saying you do, to look edgy on the internet..? But who would do that..

You managed to take a paragraph about growing up with enough money to go on several hour long grocery trips every week to keep a fridge full of food that nobody had to eat to not go hungry.. and tried to make it sound like it was the struggle that motivated you to greatness.

I hope you gain some perspective man. I really do hope you're the very young Tech Bro I pegged you as because you've got time to grow out of this nasty behavior.. best of luck to ya.

I opened the thread thinking, "this has to be a bait post where the op just soapboxes about how much better at life they are than everyone else, and argues with literally everyone offering perspective" and I'm glad to see I was not wrong! Boy if your replies aren't some of the least self aware, most elitist stuff I've seen here so far.

I dunno man, why doesn't everyone with actual problems just ahh, buy an Android phone, learn how to program or do whatever the hell else you think everyone should be doing to just simply live the obviously better life that you have?

Oh wait, not everyone has the same opportunities as everyone else, and so not only may these options be unavailable to a lot of people, they may also be completely useless in solving someone's difficult life.

You sound like a Tech Bro in their early twenties who landed a sweet job out of college (that they didn't pay for) and wonders why people choose to be homeless. And before you try to correct me, that's what you sound like, so unless that's the persona you wanna give off, maybe try to listen to what people are saying instead of trying to find out how they're wrong.

Do you really think people with "difficult lives" are so stressed out because they forgot to take the garbage out multiple times? Seriously? Christ 😂

why?

Maybe English is a second language and the sarcasm was lost, maybe they're autistic and don't understand what the issue is; maybe they do need media literacy classes, is taking the chance on the first two possibilities worth the joke though? 🤷🏾‍♂️ I feel like there had to have been at least one time where you didn't understand something, even though you're so smart as to understand the topic of this post while others don't.