Not unless youre tipping a stripper at a coffee shack.

10% to go. 20% dine in. Always has been. People bickering about 15% or 18% are penny pinchers and should be shamed as such.

Tip wage actually came about as a way to keep small businesses and restaurants alive in economies that could not otherwise support them. It has since been abused by large chains and businesses as a way to lower overhead in the business. Tipping is often waived in small communities where everyone knows everyone and is only expected of outsiders who dont otherwise contribute to the community.

In that vein, the only people you need to worry about tipping is service personnel. You wouldn’t necessarily tip a gas station clerk unless they pumped your gas, which is still a thing in some states.

For a culture that globalized the service industry, you’d think you would all be more familiar with expressing your gratitude. I guess its hard to do when you’ve spent the last few centuries owning the help instead of thanking them.

Thats one of the dumbest things I’ve heard all year. You think sales tax is a tip for grocery store employees?

They started as medicines and were concentrated, distilled, and extracted to the point where the medicine it became was deadlier than the cure it provided.

Coca leaves are still consumed medicinally/recreationally in some parts of south america.

Poppy seeds have a whole history of being abused and weaponized through the silk road.

Marijuana has faced a similar story, though without the deaths. This hasn’t stopped governments around the world from conflating the deaths caused by other things with the use of medicines that in no way cause death.

The funny part is that a 20% wage increase doesnt even get a server up to minimum wage. Tipping is the wage in the industry and its the difference between making rent and sleeping in the car.

Honestly, if you cant afford to pay 20% of the cost of your meal and not sweat it, you probably shouldn’t be eating at a restaurant. Grocery stores dont expect tips, and the food is at least half the price. Oh, and grocery workers make at least minimum wage, which is as much as a 500% raise over tipped wage depending on the state. Get your numbers up if you want to make a point.

What do you think happened to cocaine and heroine? Hell, alcohol some places.

Its not hard. You tip 20% when you dine in. You can tip over that if you feel like it. You tip 10% to go/pickup. If you cant figure 10% of a number, you shouldn’t be in charge of financial decisions, including but not limited to tipping.

People on oil rigs aren’t necessarily the most skilled in their field. They still make well above median income because they put up with shit like this. Im sure something similar would develop. Would you sign up for a 12 week contract if it paid $60k?

Probably like an oil rig rotation. You live and work for a contracted period of time on the boat, then you cycle off with someone else every few months or so.

The rational for Ben doing what he did was that the family had already spent 18 months and tens of thousands of dollars doing things “the right way” in court and got to a point where the court told them they needed to spend another $60k to get an injunction and maybe in 3 or 4 more years actually recover something.

Instead, the family turned to a YouTube interested in the story and told him to blow it up. Combine viral videos with genuinely concerning actions on the part of police, and the story did, in fact, blow up.

The moral here is that “doing the right thing, the legal way” got this family fucked and going loud with social media got the job done.

Why is this a smart move when the judicial system has shown its not going to punish Trump whether or not he’s actually in the wrong?

I cant believe Magic the Gathering is in a lineup with semi normal looking people.

As long as you understand that carbon steel blades/bits can and will dissolve the diamond right out of your sharpener.

The steel is hungry and cares not from where the carbon flows.

“Here are the 20 apps and services I use to avoid using one large service because I believe 20 companies are easier to work with than one I dont like.”

Cool. Im sure you’ve beaten the system.

Nah it sounds like good old fashioned incompetence. Multiple students reported the tests that were graded were not their work, the work was incomplete, or the answers were marked wrong in error.

Im willing to bet the old cows in charge figured technology would do most of the work and fired everyone competent to save on labor.

Sounds like you found the copaganda juice and took a big sip, friend.

3d printing isnt shit except for ease of use. I can make a 12 gage slam fire shotgun in a couple hours with maybe $100 on a home depot or Lowes gift card. As a machinist and welder, I can make a whole lot more than that.

On the one hand, its moronic to think that limiting 3D printing will in any way affect ease of access to firearms. On the other hand, literally anything making it harder for people to kill or harm each other is probably for the best in the long run.

A comedian I watched a while back had a bit about if the government really wanted to stop gun violence, they’d put a massive tax on ready made ammunition. You really gotta hate a bitch to spend $5k on a bullet to kill them. Obviously this doesnt take into account making your own ammo, but the point stands.

Because clearly democratic Switzerland did nothing wrong. No raubgold here. Nope. They just happened to find it all at a yard sale. Well, 6 million “yard sales” or so.

Im so glad that a sandwich is worth more to you than the native’s way of life, including thousands of years of tradition and culture. Very colonist of you. You’ll be hard to miss on the other side, but ill give it the old college try.

That’s just a sandwich. Stop pretending. France also gave Vietnam colonialism and syphilis. Zero countries on this planet are better for being involved with the French.