Catoblepas @ Catoblepas @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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I tip because I’ve been reliant on tips before, and I know that expecting someone who is working for tips to single-handedly solve tipping culture is unreasonable. I don’t believe in solutions that punish the poorest person in the equation, especially for a luxury like dining out.

You can already eat at places that pay a real wage to servers if you don’t want to tip.

The form says the agents had identified an Instagram account they believe breaks federal law. They asked her to remove and discontinue the behavior, according to the unsigned document she shared on Instagram.

Yeah, if she had actually done that she would be arrested, not publicly intimidated with a pwetty pwease. They aren’t arresting her because they know no court would ever hold it up. Trying to imply you’re going to charge someone with threatening kidnapping for calling for someone to be indicted is obviously using the legal system for bad faith intimidation.

I always just do 10% (easy because you move the decimal one place) and then either double that or add half of it to itself for a 15-20% tip.

Now imagine trying to teach every 60 year old who is an expert in their field how to use VR. Or how to make them accessible to low vision/blind people, or people with motion sickness. Or even just making the equipment needed to attend available to every audience member.

Cool pic! The Pleiades have to be my favorite constellation, they’re significant in so many cultures.

‘Environmental lawyer destroys stream for no reason’ makes an even less compelling narrative.

I think it was Tracy Morgan who said “I managed to out-eat Ozempic.”

The solution to salmonella infection in poultry has been known for decades, and it’s vaccination. Japanese food doesn’t have raw egg in it a lot because they’re all constantly getting food poisoning or they have magic hens, it’s because they fucking vaccinate them.

The frustrating thing is blaming the farmers isn’t even a reasonable response to this, because poultry farmers in particular are exploited as hell by the processing plants. I don’t see this as anything other than a CYA for when the conditions they’ve made unavoidable (unvaccinated chickens in overcrowded conditions) results in them shipping a dangerous product. ‘Hey, we’re tired of recalls, can we do anything but improve the conditions on our farms?’

Why do you think they call it T posing? 😎

Maybe OP is pissing off the diving board

How many of the others are legally paid $2.13/hr by their employer and have been forced into depending on tips?

‘They have to meet minimum wage in tips or the employer pays it!’ Guess what happens to servers that are constantly making their boss pay them more?

If you want to act like someone in this equation is a jackass it’s the employer for not paying a living wage, not the employee who is dependent on tips from whoever is out eating at a restaurant.

If people were doing this for clout/ad revenue or on a whim without trying to engage with the proper channels first I would agree, but it just isn’t reasonable to tell people to accept living in an environment full of garbage while their local government does nothing about it for literal years. If you walked along a river in your neighborhood with your pets and/or children how long would you accept seeing it choked with trash and sewage? Would you be okay with teaching them, through inaction, that this is fine? I’m not asking for you to answer, I just think all those things deserve as much consideration as ‘could this cause a flood if XYZ happens?’ Because of this has already caused a flood we clearly would have heard about it.

To me, this was a good faith effort made in the absence of any other resources. If this was load bearing garbage (!) then that needs to be communicated in their refusals/delays, along with a specific timeline for addressing it. That’s also assuming they have detected a real risk of significant flooding, which I’m skeptical of.

I feel like this is only justifiable if the officials aren’t given time to act. It would be one thing if he fired off an email and ran out and did this the next day, but according to the article he spent years contacting officials before doing it himself. If they want to live by perfect world rules where stuff like this is overseen and coordinated with experts then they need to do it in a timely manner. It’s unreasonable to expect people to live in an area full of garbage for years and just do nothing about it.

How much land could the public possibly need? You already have one Manhattan!

Wow, this is a weird one. I thought for sure this was going to be someone being charged with mudlarking without a license (still outrageous but justifiable if they were also scooping up historical artifacts), but apparently it’s for creating a flood risk?? Brother, your flood protection shouldn’t be a mass of garbage. Someone make this charge make sense.

🫡🇺🇸 Thank you for finding 770,000 children fraudulently wanting to eat, Mr. President!

I know a honker when I see one, and that’s a honker for sure

This made me smile, he looks exactly like our girl did when she was a kitten. What a cutie, it’s so sweet he already trusts you guys enough to sleep belly up right in front of you!

Since you mention this is your first cat, I just wanted to let you know that as a long haired cat at around 6 months old he’ll start needing to go to the groomer to get sanitary cuts, which are what they sound like. I really don’t recommend doing it yourself just because their skin is so thin it’s easy to hurt them accidentally. The cut lasts around 3 months, but accidents will probably still happen. Speaking from terrible, learned experience 😂

Or decide to do a little stone polishing or carving. Don’t breathe this!