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So steam sale fodder rather than day 1. No problem it's not like there isn't a plethora of good games out right now and my backlog is pretty stacked.

She was also the only R on the ballot. This is a race (to the bottom) of Republicans.

Humorous they think Republicans would vote for a woman to lead them considering they don't see women as having any capacities beyond being birth and baby raising machines that cook, clean and generally maintain the home for a man.

Ah the naivete. Make sure you don't fall off that high horse you're liable to hurt yourself.

Living on the border a stones throw from Mexico myself... what border crisis? Care to articulate and provide some citations to back it up?

The game is what you make of it. I just did some international travel and put 16 hours in during off times using my steam deck. Aside from one game close and some graphic particles on the gun being weird until weapon swap, played like a charm.

I just pushed into the main quest line after ignoring it for 13 hours because I found fun shit to do that kept me busy. I'm having a blast and am looking forward to playing some more.

If rando quests and exploration are your thing you may really enjoy this game. The story isn't super engaging yet but I'm not far as noted. Ready to do some more exploration after some jet lag wears off haha.

Lol just dripping with entitlement. I do tip, which is why I know the associated cost and how much more expensive servers have successfully guilted us into making our restaurant experience in the u.s.

I'm finishing up a vacation to an island nation in South East Asia and this afternoon I had some amazing ramen and thought of you. I walked in and ordered from a kiosk and then a few minutes later grabbed my food from the order drop, made by employees who earn a living wage and do not expect tips for doing their job as a means to try to earn more than the kitchen staff. The food was amazing and despite the markup of being on an island was cheaper than I could get it from the restaurant in my home town after the server tax.

Weird how nowhere in that engagement did i have some entitled person expecting a generous markup on my meal for bringing it and maintaining my drink. In fact thats been the experience this entire trip, even in instances where there was a server involved. Pleasant people who earn a living wage and do their work just like the rest of the staff in the restaurant. When it was appropriate we left more, the difference is it was a reward for excellent service, not just showing up.

Bootlicker Fantasy: "If you defund the police what are you going to do if someone attacks you?"

Police Reality: "We hear a citizen being attacked, maybe if we wait it will go away or become someone else's problem. These things have a tendency to work themselves out where I don't have to put myself in harms way... the most important thing is assuming no risk so I can get home to my family because I'm a hero."

So I have to organize for them, they are incapable of doing so themselves? I already tip, which is why I know the cost of the practice, and the social stigmas not giving in to servers begging comes with.

My experience is servers like the status quo because they make 2-3x what the kitchen staff does. What incentives do servers have to support the kitchen staff they've sold out in fighting for better wages? Servers do not do any more work than the people actually making the food.

The social expectation is baked into the exploitative labor relationship.

I agree, servers have been on the abusing side of the exploitative labor relationship. They choose to take less wages so they can expect the customer to pay more or bear the social stigma, giving the employer more savings and themselves significantly more than the kitchen staff. In the end both parties expect to exploit the customer.

Funny you assume I don't tip. I do, and well, unless the service is dog shit. Which is why I know how much more things cost because of tipping. The problem is instead of it being a bonus for quality of service, its become the expectation to make up for the fact that servers choose not to throw their lot in with the rest of the staff and argue for living wages collectively.

Servers have been privileged with making 2-3x more such that the idea of making what the kitchen staff does is seen as being abused. You just don't want to accept that the employer abuses you, and instead you abuse the customer with your expectations of having them supplement the poor wage you took expecting the customer will make up for it. Meanwhile the kitchen staff has always been abused but you didn't mind because you got yours. Maybe work together and demand a better lot?

And here's the scenario you didn't care to consider. You quit, they don't get servers because they don't pay well, and the business shuts down making room for another that can try again with a better model. Dan can seek an employer that doesn't treat him as a slave to minimize their costs, and Steve can choose to serve food himself or pay someone appropriately to do the work or close up shop. None of which relies on an expectation of a tip because the wage increase you collectively bargained for is baked into the price. So then when a tip is deserved it can be given, but there is no expectation of 20% for refilling my water at a buffet that I served myself at, or less.

I appreciate the discussion, hope you have a good day bud.

DA should be charged as an accessory. Sex crimes aren't typically an isolated event, especially when the perpetrator gets away with it the first time.

So it's up to the server to look out for their interests and demand a better wage. Its not "keep tipping servers more and more because its the path of least resistance to prosperity for servers".

Lots of jobs don't pay enough in this country, but for some reason servers believe it entitles them to a donation. This is the status quo servers fought for because it made them more money than most of the rest of the staff until now.