Catholicism will go to the mat against nutbars who want mass in Latin but institutional pedophilia? Nah.

I was told by multiple real estate agents to paint my old house white and gray inside and out to have it sell well. I ignored it and kept the colors, wood, and brick. And it sold just fine.

This eventuality has been known to be in the near future, that AI models would start to hoover their own nonsense at a certain point, making them even more inaccurate over time.

Of fucking course. Goddamnit.

TL; DR: Individualize and atomize privacy instead of regulation.

Newsflash NYT, everyone knows that. We all talked about that years ago when the return to office shit kicked off en masse.

Especially now in the NANDpocalypse, like no way I’m upgrading my hardware.

This state is a theocratic oligarchy with corporate kickbacks all the way down.

Extramarital affairs is what he and his lawyer decided to call facilitating sex trafficking to have sex with young women who are probably minors.

Missouri is run so backwards it is unbelievable.

Gosh I wish we’d see that sort of collective action.

I could be wrong but I think what you’re seeing is an entrenched market versus newer ones. Amazon is shrewd about stomping its competitors by luring millions of customers with prices that are too good to be true. They get them hooked on the product and then hike the price when it becomes too habitual to get rid of.

In terms of biology, specifically botany, we do say some fruits are similar to apples. This comparison seems like a biological one too.

Mimosa tree, a tree in the pea family. Invasive in much of north america.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albizia_julibrissin

People most definitely want to be paid by their employer rather than tips. This isn’t a bottom up movement keeping tipping in place. It is ultra rich people invested in the restaurant industry that keep it around. The same people that use the National Restaurant Association to effectively lobby against minimum wage hikes to meet that “livable wage” and pro-unionization regulation.

Yeah definitely not arguing against earning a livable wage via being paid that livable wage by the employer. That should be the system. But sadly that isn’t the system and not paying a tip in the states isn’t going to do anything to change the system.

For example, the unhoused crisis is caused by the same ultra rich classes that keep tipping around. But I’m not going to pretend that the unhoused aren’t people with real immediate needs. I will give them money when I can. I will vote and push for change as well. Material concerns of the moment are more important to me than strict idealism.

This is generally false. Most waiters would see more consistent income with fewer instances of subjective nonsense like ideologues who don’t believe they have to follow the basic cultural rules of the place in which they visit. There is an exceptional subset of waiters that would make less for sure but they are in a minority.

Just go eat at McDonalds then.

Y’all living privileged idealogue navel-gazed lives can do what you want I guess. We here in the working class are tired, overworked, and are trying to survive the day.

Tipping is fucking stupid but it is the current system for how US waiters earn a living. So to fuck them over and not tip does nothing to change the system and only leaves them overworked with no money.

Think materially and tip your servers. Believe me they would like it to change too. It isn’t them that keeps the system in place. Big business has the money to lobby against our human and material needs.