They do if you’re a non-resident without insurance!

Ahhh yes, Genesis 19:33-36, Genesis 38:2, Ezekiel 23:20… lots of classics for the kids to enjoy!

How about just taking the choice away from their boss?

Exactly. Since when has the mainstream ever succeeded in de-radicalizing a group of political outsiders?

A mistake. I thought you’re supposed to eat them like that. One bite and I knew I was wrong!

They’re marinated for cooking!

Oh no, the one I ate wasn’t dried, it was fresh. Hard and crunchy exoskeleton and gooey interior, with a really nasty taste.

A raw, whole crab (about the size of a golf ball). Was crunchy in a very nasty way, full of slimy nasty stuff. Horrible!

Lots of good reasons here on laws and larger vehicles in the US. One thing that seems to be missing:

Wider streets & roads, prevalence of stroads => faster driving speeds => more pedestrian deaths.

A lot of cities in Europe are much safer by design because of narrow streets that force drivers to slow down. Europe also has more real roads as opposed to stroads which are pervasive in the U.S.

Not that one, this ω.

Since ω > n for all natural numbers n, it’s clear that 50^ω is a very big number indeed!

He’s desperate for attention. He’ll say anything if it gets people talking about his company.

Not just indie games, every game. Every new game is in competition with every other game in existence. It’s a battle for recognition and attention, winners take all. Brutal situation.

Same goes for books, movies, TV, music.

Selling it to who though? And who gets the money from the sale? Taxes? But rich people already control the government…

What do you mean by forced divestments?

Oh and are you going to hard code these numbers into the law? Because rich people would respond by deflating the currency to the point where the average person makes 10 cents a day and a millionaire is inflation-equivalent to a billionaire today.

Or they’ll split a 10 billion dollar company between 20 of their closest friends and family, 500 million each, to stay under the cap.

Or a thousand other loopholes people will use. Take a company private and just declare it at worth only a million.

Right, but that’s not relevant to the point the article is trying to make.

Wow, the last discrete GPU I bought was the GTX 570… 16 years ago!

At this point I think anyone important in Russia is staying on the ground floor at all times! Bungalows only!

Serving staff have to declare and pay income taxes on their tips. If they don’t, they’re guilty of tax evasion and could get huge problems down the road.

I have a friend who did a bunch of work for cash and the CRA came after him for unpaid taxes. I would never want to go through that.

Tips are optional. People tip anywhere from 0-100%, with most tips in the 15-35% range. A person who regularly tips 0-10% will see their prices go up if they’re forced to pay 15% more on every meal.

But my broader point doesn’t address the “what if society wakes up tomorrow and bans tipping for the entire country?” scenario. That’s a fantasy scenario.

The issue I’m raising is the question “what if one restaurant owner decides to eliminate tipping at their restaurant and just charge 15% more, passing all that money over to the employees?” The answer is that this has been tried before and the restaurants did not survive. People saw the higher prices and switched to a restaurant with lower menu prices, even if they tip 15% or more anyway.

You might say this is irrational, and it is, from an economic standpoint. But people in a tipping culture do prefer it that way. The fact that a tip is optional but customary makes them feel like they are in control, and of course they are, given that people decide how much they want to tip.

I’m not counting on anything. If you read my other comments in this thread, it’s clear that I’m not defending tipping. I hate tipping. But I have to pour cold water on this all too common claim that one restaurant owner by themself can end tipping at their restaurant and survive as a business. It’s been tried before and failed numerous times.

About the best they can do is make tipping mandatory by putting an automatic 35% gratuity on the bill. But this is something only high end restaurants have gotten away with. Restaurants for budget conscious people (i.e normal people rather than rich people) cannot survive with anything like this.

The same story would apply for simply raising prices. People will see the restaurant as too expensive for what it offers and stop going.

If anything the total expected price for a meal will come down because servers will be paid the fair market rate for their labour and not the current guilt trip percentages

This claim needs a lot of support. Are you aware that 42% of all restaurants in Canada are already losing money paying the low wages as it is? To support your claim, you’d have to show how paying fair market wages, eliminating tipping, and charging more for meals would translate into higher sales.

I’d also like to point out that not everyone tips the same percentage. Some tip a lot, some less, some not at all. Those who tip a lot are in effect subsidizing the meals of those who cannot or will not tip as much. For people who cannot afford to tip at all, a move to a non-tipping system would represent an absolute increase in the cost of their meal.

Honestly, it’s not even worth talking to you. You’re intent on interpreting everything I say in the most uncharitable way possible in order to elevate the toxicity of the discussion and win points for your imagined side, rather than learn anything.

The saddest thing is how common people like you are on lemmy. My block list grows ever longer…