Back in the 90’s when I worked in pubs before minimum wage was introduced, I can remember we had to give 50% of our tips to the pub chain…we were paid about £3 an hour and punters were rarely generous. All staff inc kitchen staff split the remaining 50% of tips.
Do I tip now? Yes, but the beneficiaries of a tipping culture are not the staff, it’s ultimately the employers who pay poorly.
@JugglingWithEggs We don't tip, not because we're stingy but because it's not really expected, we assume staff wouldn't need tips to survive. Tips are a sort of corporate welfare to help businesses not pay for their staff properly but instead shift that to the customer under to shore up the cost. Tipping as a custom feels conflicted for me in general because of that.
Honestly, the way #Threads is evolving right now, I can absolutely understand why so many Mastodon instances are already blocking Threads before it becomes part of the #Fediverse.
For over a year now, I've known how social media can be and how social it really could be. In less than two weeks Threads has managed to become a brown swamp of anger and hate speech.
If this hits the Fediverse, then all the moderators' work over the last few years will have been for nothing.
Threads is simply turning into a racist, trans-hostile, homophobic swamp due to a lack of moderation.
As a moderator of my Mastodon instance, I was one of the few who was against blocking threads directly without having seen anything of it. Now I would very much vote in favour. (And I'm glad we voted for the block already together with the community)
A lot really needs to happen for Threads to earn a place in the Fediverse. If it will ever happen. (Doubt)
@kaiserkiwi I feel like Mastodon as a whole has a bigger issue regardless of individual instances blocking them. Threads is huge, once federated it will have an effect on the culture by sheer numbers alone and it will be tougher to maintain the current ecology without mass defederation, might even be too late to prevent it at this point even with defederation. We might not see it but we will notice the ripples that it makes.
We are in a surge where COVID levels are higher than they have been for over 90% of the pandemic. One of the reasons that the authorities aren't properly warning you about it is that, inconveniently, the largest COVID surges happen during the biggest shopping season of each year.
Podcaster A: (paraphrase) billion dollar nasa probe almost lost due to ambiguously named signals getting misswired
Podcaster B: who do you fire in this situation?
Me: (shouting at car speakers) NO YOU FUCKING AMERICAN PSYCHOPATHS. You don’t fire people for mistakes. Go to fucking therapy. And anyway you WANT an engineer who cannot forget the time they nearly pulverized one point two billion dollars.
Clarence Thomas bought a Ferrari(Corvette?) then shortly after was whining and crying about how his pay was too low and couldn't some rich creeps give him some money please?
He's one of those irresponsible, shiftless dudes who assumes everyone is as bad as his is. Hence? A stingy crab in a barrel perspective on life.
Not the quality of person who should be on the board of a co-op or organize a bake sale. Let alone the supreme court.
Does anybody know the name of this typeface which was prevalent in the 1950s and 60s? People often say it's Stymie Bold Italic, but it isn't. Stymie letters such as 'O' and 'U' are more rounded and the top of the 'A' has serif lines left and right, whereas my examples don't. #typography#graphicdesign#fonts
Hey @ActionRetro, have you pre-emptively blocked threads.net? I personally don't want to deal with that instance but it is returning a 503 error when I try to block it so do I need to?
If you've fallen out of practice of wearing a mask, this would be a good week to start again! COVID rates are rising because of a new variant, and because many people will have gotten sick over Thanksgiving. Your best protection is wearing a high quality mask.
In the 2 years since its emergence, Omicron has proved to be not only staggeringly infectious, but an evolutionary marvel, challenging many assumptions virologists had before the pandemic. It has given rise to an impressive number of descendants, which have become far more adept at evading immunity and finding new victims.
“It was almost like there was another pandemic” #COVID
@GottaLaff A silent pandemic, the world turned away because it was done being inconvenienced by something it can't sense. The vaccines only permitted some of us to be able to act like it wasn't around, others are still under an implicit quarantine and the amount of downplaying it has lingered; it's still only a problem for older people, it's still just the flu, being vaccinated is as good as being immune.
@cstross One may assume that the media rhetoric is decided by the classes whose wealth depends on extracting as much capital from their workers and need to make sure they remain focused on doing that work in the way that best benefits their betters. 2020 did at least show that there was another way, unfortunately "the economy" needed to reassert control... a "return to normal" if you will.
I’ve noticed that ever since I’ve graduated high school, I’ve become more and more lazy… does anyone have any ideas on what I could do that doesn’t involve leaving my house so I don’t feel so lazy?
A small town mayor in Alabama killed himself after a conservative web site published pictures of him in women’s clothing and make-up. The closet is a hard place to be, and outing anyone can be very harmful. We need a society where it’s okay to be who you want to be so long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else. Is that so hard to imagine?
@georgetakei Seems a complex web to me, some amount of self-loathing and knowing your true self is in there though everyone in your community would hate you. Probably easier to kill oneself than have them kill you gradually.
It feels weird to have graduated from high school. I suddenly feel like I have all this free time but I don't know what to do with it all besides sleep
@brianklaas I do hear about how it's not a mental health issue but I dunno, I feel like it has some impact and imagine undiagnosed issues like paranoia are creating this outlet. It is the guns and it's also a mental health issue, one which I think has become more prevalent with the rise in normalised paranoia, could argue it's intentional if you felt conspiratorially minded.
