Not that I’m any fan of Apple but this is obesience, literally all the big tech companies are lining up to kiss the ring. Trump is a vindictive small-minded asshole and he’s going to have more power than any other person in the country and they all want to be on his good side.

It’s not “fuck the working class” it’s a matter of trying to encourage people to stop accepting a shit wage in return for a perceived benefit that doesn’t actually manifest for most of them.

Ideally we would have a law changing things but we can’t even get a decent update to the regular minimum wage much less an alteration to the way servers are paid. So, hypothetically, if we were to collectively agree to stop giving in to the pressure to pay tips as a mediocre compensation for employers not paying a decent wage, people may stop taking those jobs and seek employment with places that pay decent hourly instead.

Again, all of this is basically a thought experiment since no one is going to do any of this. But hey, if tips stop being lavish enough to live on just naturally due to a reaction to inflation, that might spur a change as well.

Great now I gotta go listen to that song again.

Not that I’m complaining but it’s in my head now.

Saying something encouraging to somebody is not the same as saying “I’m interested in you”.

This is a distinction most incels don’t really get.

Ok, bit of a nit pick here but just cause she’s also not conventionally pretty doesn’t mean he can “have her”.

You should actually read that article and not just the title. What happened there was entirely political.

As someone who dropped TikTok around 3 years ago, the next month or two are going to be very amusing.

Honestly, they might have a point. If we collectively decide to stop tipping even the low wage wait service workers it might prompt a change since those restaurants wouldn’t be able to retain staff while only paying $2 to $3 an hour.

However you are correct that expressing this on a niche platform like Lemmy isn’t going to get a whole lot of traction.

Yeah, the suggested tip function on a lot of check out apps for businesses that should be paying their staff a full wage is unbelievably offensive. Looking at you Starbucks and Dominos.

No, tipping in America actually did start as a way to pay wait staff…during prohibition and the great depression. The fact that here today, 100 years after that time, we have not phased out such an idiotic system is beyond ridiculous.

That 13% would also be people who would openly admit to supporting his actions. There are a lot of people who condemn his actions publicly but in their own minds…?

What kind of world have we come into where Hacker News is a pro corporation website?

Hackers used to be the antithesis of big corporations and capitalist overreach.

Here’s a fun fact I just recently came across. In the medieval times when the church wanted to remove a heretic, someone who was speaking out in opposition to church doctrine, they would burn those people at the stake. The reason they would do this was not because this was a common practice to burn people at the stake but in order to prevent relics of the heretics from being collected and giving their followers something to rally around.

I think Luigi’s Stack Overflow history is a relic of his existence and something people could rally around and the powerful don’t want that to exist.

That is the one he had on his person when he was arrested. The Stack Overflow one is not so much a manifesto as a testament, a recounting of his experience. And an understandable motivation for his actions.

See Dr. Anthony Fauci for reference.

My god, the crimes committed against that man after all he has done for this ungrateful country are just absolutely unforgivable.

There is disruptive behavior.

I like my steak well done. This is the best when you do it with some A5 Wagyu.

For $50 we can cut the baby up into as many halves as you like.

There is none currently. You’re free to continue to advocate dropping Meta products, but don’t hold your breath. Ideally we would have some kind of government intervention to break up the monopoly that is Meta or some form of regulation to reign in their behavior, but none of our politicians care to bother and unfortunately, with the party coming into power in our government, there’s little hope any kind of regulation on any monopolistic corporations. With our last election the American people have chosen to package themselves up and give themselves over to the corporate overlords.

One of the wonderful things about being a Gen X’er. Music from my high school years is still fucking awesome.