Baby Shoggoth [she/her] @ rubythulhu @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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My solution is to tip well, because not tipping is hurting the employee, not the employer. If they were paying the employees a fair wage, the prices would be higher anyway.

“can’t solve the problem as long as capitalism exists, so may as well contribute to capitalism while patting myself on the back and pretending i’m sticking it to the man by helping them exploit workers” is such fucking bullshit. “i can’t change the world so may as well contribute to the fucked up” is exactly what keeps the practice sustainable.

you are only contributing to wage theft by deciding you’re a hero for not tipping.

if you want to try in other ways to make effective change in society? go for it. do that too. but don’t hit no tip and then go jerk off publicly over how sexy you are for fighting capitalism.

Research the company.

Or just don’t pretend you’re sticking it to capitalism by helping them stiff their workers. You’re directly supporting the practice. You’re no fucking hero for not tipping, and the only people you’re sticking it to are the underpaid employees.

Trust me, as a vegan, i know how hard it is to research everything you consume or buy or purchase. You give up convenience to support a cause you care about or believe in, because those conveniences are exactly what feeds the problem. And trying to find stuff that isn’t contributing to the problem is way more expensive, because cruelty to animals or cruelty to your human minimum wage workers are exactly what makes your food so quick and easy and cheap.

As a general rule, i’d guess that if you don’t want to tip, but don’t want to support companies that don’t pay their wages well: give up cheap fast food. give up most large national or international chains. you’re probably looking at a lot more cooking for yourself from home, probably buying your food at a local small co-op. It’s not going to be easy.

That or tip well because the person taking your order is the person you’re fucking over by not tipping, not the people profiting.

Either way don’t pretend you’re doing anything other than supporting the problem.

Then don’t go to businesses that don’t pay their employees a fair wage. Don’t just handwave it away while contributing to the problem.

user1 sounds like a shill tbh

the modern sam and max games are a fucking delight and i will die on that hill

Cluster-B summed up perfectly. His platform will die because of “an advertiser boycott”, and not because he’s driving it into the ground while throwing middle fingers with both hands and ranting about how everyone else can go fuck themselves as the world burns around him.

i do not know how to cope with my life after viewing both the real strip and the heathcliff-free version.

i find myself confused, angry, and in need of help. I’m not sure what it even means for something to make sense anymore, but i’m pretty sure if i ever did make sense of it, i would be diving even further into the incomprehensible madness of the universe, lose all sense of reality, and unable to discern my morbid life experiences from my own horrifying nightmares.

Let’s not conflate the two. killinger rules, kissinger is the wad.

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people see me dressed in pink 3-4 days of the week.

People also ask me my favorite color, as if they don’t know.

This is a young miles o’brien

Along these lines, i’m thrilled with the ps portal as well. was only $200, but the ps online streaming is so good. i used to use it on ps4 on my ipad with an external controller from 1200 miles away at legit decent frame rate and latency.

ps portal’s display is crisp and beautiful, it looks so much more gorgeous than the steam deck (because all the rendering is done on the ps5), and there are some games that i don’t even really want to play on the big screen format that the portal has made awesome because they’re wonderful on handheld format.

best gaming purchase i’ve made in a long while

Clearly the mother is Deb and the not-pictured father is Ian

we were created in gods image 🙏god loves a good railing like the rest of us

i’m uncomfortable with the idea of tribbles with piercings, i don’t know why but i’m terrified over here

ngl at first i thought this said cocaine

fuckin took you long enough. i was starting to lose faith in the prison system

share zone da mother fuckin

clinging together out of fear because it’s the only thing that makes them feel safe from the monster on the other side of the camera