As an atheist, I cringe at nearly every post I see from that community. Makes me want to punch teenage neckbeard me in the face

Relatable. I literally have a bad back because of trying to solo move an old TV in the 90s

That is not relevant to the subject at hand, because the cost of living and social support systems vary so widely between the US and the rest of the world. Without knowing anything else about your locale, I can only speculate that your restaurant industry is either far more exploitative than the US and keeps prices low by underpaying workers, or the people who profit from the businesses are slightly less greedy and allow a more generous portion of the budget to be allotted for pay.

Different things are different, I’m talking about the United States

Tips may have been that way a hundred years ago but I’ve been in the restaurant industry in the US for over 15 years, and for the duration tips have been used as a means to offload labor costs to the customer. They are not optional for the majority of people who work for tips, they are the difference between paying bills and not.

The practice is antiquated and should be completely removed as the standard way to compensate restaurant workers. But the thing that anti tippers always seem to miss is that the labor costs will still be there and the owners are not going to take it out of their cut. The menu prices will per force go up when companies get rid of tips. The same people will be complaining about that just as loudly, I’m willing to bet.

As I said in another comment, it’s a bad system, but if you don’t tip, you’re a bad person.

It’s a bad system but you are a bad person if you don’t tip.

There’s not really a general association with fuckwits, the whole thing stems from Apple phones using a different color for Android users in a text, because they have a bunch of proprietary bullshit in iMessage that doesn’t work on Android. It’s a meme but also I’m sure some people take it quite seriously.

Edit: Apple users are fuckwits though

It’s a borrowed word because we don’t have a translation, though. Tamales are tamales. Also we say tamale for singular but it’s tamal in Spanish. It’s a loan word in every way.

I’m pretty sure the person in the photo is doing the dance from the Wednesday show.

Take your time, it’s worth it. I reluctantly finished my “first” playthrough (not counting my actual first attempt when I started as the dark urge and restarted after 20 hours because it was clearly fucking everything up) at around 250 hours played. This patch is making me consider starting again. Best game I’ve played in ages.

It’s a real photograph from the aftermath of hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. It’s a racist joke based on a real tragedy, making it double shitty.

Here’s the original

My mistake, I assumed you were disagreeing from a creationist sort of position, not a seemingly accurate scientific one. I retract my sick burn.

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Liking ska punk

Actual unpopular opinion: get yt premium. It gives creators the money they would’ve got for you watching an ad, while giving you an ad free experience, and also includes yt music which might take some adjustments if you’re used to Spotify, but then you will also not be supporting Spotify which is probably the worst streaming service in terms of paying artists.

(They’re all bad and many people would argue similarly against supporting Google via YouTube, so perhaps it’s a moot point, but that’s part of how I justify my sub to myself anyways.)

It’s not the title, but rather a sort of “bonus joke” that pops up when you hover a cursor over the image (or long press on mobile I think). It’s a staple of xkcd and other webcomics, but I’ll grant that it does present some confusion for those who rely on alt text.

I for one appreciated that being in the post so I didn’t need to click thru for the bonus joke as I usually would. Perhaps it’s just better to call it something other than alt text.

I’m not opposed to listening to people I disagree with, but that’s not really the concern in this case. As others have pointed out, he doesn’t really present a balanced perspective on anything, he just invites guests with extreme views, skewing heavily to the right, and then allows them to present their views with zero critical analysis. He just gets high and nods along like “wow bro so true” while lunatics like Jordan Peterson calmly explain some bullshit that can be summarized as “I don’t like trans people existing, and I think we should put a stop to it.”

You will also not find him entertaining any extreme ideas from the left, which if he were truly the unbiased “just asking questions” guy he purports to be, he would do at least occasionally.

So really it’s a combination of the demonstrably false premise of him being an “unbiased centrist,” his overt ignorance of the subjects he discusses, and his outsized influence on the minds of his listeners.

He’s not just presenting ideas that I and others of the left disagree with, he is tacitly endorsing harmful and toxic ideas to his legions of fans, who then rabidly defend him in every venue online.

Edit: to clarify, I don’t think trans rights is an implicitly political subject, but rather one that has been politicized and turned into fuel for the culture war. It’s a minor thing but I felt I should make it clear since I used that as an example

In the guise of “just asking questions” and “listening to all sides” he platforms people with extreme views including some far right weirdos, and normalizes them to his audience. He is also just a walking example of the Dunning-Kruger effect and somehow one of the most listened to voices among his demographic, which draws additional ire from many, myself included.

People accuse leftists of idealist thinking but in what fantasy world are you thinking your personal savings from selling your labor is ever going to come close to what would be considered “capital” in the sense being discussed here?

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