drphungky

It's a question of opportunity cost. In order to be really attentive they work fewer tables, so they need to have higher margins to make up for lack of volume. If you can't afford a 15% tip, or 20% for good service, you shouldn't be eating at an expensive restaurant to begin with. That's the social compact in America, that's how it works. Until servers start being paid a living wage, you're not the arbiter of what constitutes paying "enough", you're just rejecting cultural norms and hurting servers so you can save a few bucks.

Well that's just false. Many people don't tip for takeout (I don't), but the customary amount in the US is 10% if you're going to. I worked in the service industry almost 20 years ago and that amount was supposed to go to bartenders and hostesses who handled the takeout, and it was a nice supplement since takeout and busy bar times didnt normally overlap. It didn't use to be expected (unlike post covid where tipping is out of control), but if they bring the food out to you or if you have any special orders it's definitely common. I still bristle at the idea and did back then too, but it's a far cry from "nobody in their right mind".

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Hanlon's Razor, my friend.. Hanlon's Razor.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

It doesn't matter which number you're focusing on, the trend is still positive (meaning good, not +) over time. All the U numbers are super highly correlated.

Can't believe you're being downvoted. "Same as before...execution for significant theft"

Oh but ok, it's cool, we'll have voting rights after. No way someone could be reclassified as a capital criminal via the exact mechanism in the OP.

I mean it's laudable to not make permanent second class citizens, but it misses the point that you can toss people in a horrendous prison system if your prison system isn't designed for rehabilitation or treating people with dignity.

Yeah, coming in with no prior CAD experience I actually think freecad's interface makes sense, especially since I've used it for both 3d printing (one workbench) and mocking up building plans (a different lumber one I was able to download as an add-on - very cool).

I did run into the topological naming problem once though, and I'm far from a power user, so I've been meaning to check out the real thunder fork.

Also a roguelike is usually top down/isometric and tile based. Really not a ton of roguelikes these days, which is good as far as I'm concerned because roguelites are better.

Shattered Pixel Dungeon notwithstanding, of course.

Fun fact: yhis kind of behavior as well as historical roving bands of young unattached men is actually why polygamy is illegal most places. It has nothing to do with women's rights, it's fundamentally dangerous to society.

I live between two forested streams, so water all the time. A lake would be a bit of a bike ride, but we go kayaking on one of the two main rivers and it's a quick drive (will probably bike it in the future with the inflatable kayak once I have my bakfiets). I keep bees in my backyard, and flowers are WAY more common around here than living rural. I have violets and daisies in my unmanicured yard and neighbors actually grow flowers in their gardens, so biodiversity is higher too. There's a park a block away, a really good one one more block away, and within a 2 mile radius there are at least a dozen really good ones, to say nothing of the little playgrounds here and there. I also live in a Tree City and our tree cover is insanely high, about 60%.

But even though we have all that nature, I also have three grocery stores, a library, a community center, a ton of restaurants and barbers and little shops all within a half mile. And if I need to get further, there are bike trails and bikeable streets all over, and a transit station .1 miles away. Cities are great!

The idea that you think people in the Bush administration sent soldiers to Afghanistan to make money is insane, and shows me you have never worked in government or met anyone who has. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you meant Iraq, not Afghanistan (since the US was attacked and the whole world agreed on going into Afghanistan). But even for Iraq, no one is making calculations on what's good for the military industrial complex - they're guessing on if the cost of human life is worth the human lives saved and suffering prevented, and yes "spreading democracy". We can certainly mock it now, and talk about the WMD justification proving false, but the idea of going to war to somehow make money is insane. War is a net negative (look up broken window theory) and everyone in government knows it. The point of war is to change the global order, not pad pocketbooks, and effecting global change still would be the point even if it worked for making money - which it doesn't.