The problem is it has become a catch 22. Some places in the US have tried to do the right thing, increased wages to livable levels and told customers not to tip, but everyone who has tried it ultimately gets forced to undo it. The customers end up hating it because a) prices are higher on paper and b) a lot of them get off on having the power to fuck with the workers income by refusing to tip and you’re taking that away from them. The customers then end up going to other restaurants that still do tipping. Additionally some of the staff hate it as well because they feel like they’re making less money due to the odd tipping whale pushing their average salary up (this is highly variable but they’ll tend to remember that one table that tipped $1000 a lot more than all the ones that only gave them $15).

I honestly think the only way you’re going to be able to eliminate tipping in the US is if it was outlawed at the federal level. Any action by individual restaurants just ends up getting punished by the market and forcing them back in line.

That’s how you know it’s probably a good idea.

Personally I’d go a step further and regulate algorithmic feeds in general. It’s pretty clear at this point that feeding people a steady drip of content picked to maximize “engagement” above all else has done incalculable damage.

Will it though? I could easily see Trump just writing off the deaths of any service members as a favor to his best buddy Putin or even ordering them to help Russia with the invasion. Best case scenario he just has the entire base stand down and sit on their asses while Russia does what it wants. He’s already indicated he doesn’t give a single flying fuck about NATO, and it’s not like he’s ever let little things like laws or treaties stop him before.

That said his instincts (or rather prejudices) align most closely to the Republicans, mostly due to the Republicans spending every year since Nixon more closely aligning themselves with racists and Christian nationalists (aka Nazis).

The comment about the USB-C port was Interesting. I don’t know about others, but personally I’d happily pay a few bucks more to get a USB-C port instead of a micro. I can’t stand USB micro. I’d almost rather have a USB-A port rather than a micro.

If I’m reading this right you’ve got it the wrong way around. His studies showed no link between autism and vaccines. The current administration wants to go after him because his studies prove their anti-vaccine bullshit is wrong.

Grifting and religion, name a more iconic pair.

Short term? Drive wages down with the threat of firing people and replacing them with AI. Long term? They’re either delusional enough to believe AI will improve to the point where it actually is cheaper, or else they’re willing to pay more for a workforce that can’t organize and protest and that they don’t have to worry about doing things like being a whistleblower for their latest amoral plan.

Thanks I hate it. So ASRock just enshitified RAM. It was already a problem that prebuilt systems used the shittiest RAM on the market, but at least there was a minimum level of quality you could expect. Now ASRock has created DDR5 RAM that’s literally half the speed that DDR5 is supposed to support as a bare minimum.

Real big “some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make” energy here. I wonder if he’s just going all in on rigging the election so he’s not even trying to keep voters happy.

To be fair a lot of people probably don’t. It’s not one of the ones that gets used much in TV shows, movies, or ads, and it doesn’t get much radio play these days either. If you’re under the age of say ~25 there’s a pretty good chance you’ve never heard it before.

No, the rest of the world isn’t just going to instantly nuke the US. If Iran gets nuked it won’t be via an ICBM but more likely a traditional aircraft or possibly ship launched nuke. Until it goes off it won’t look too much different from any of the other weapons being dropped on Iran. What it would do though is instantly turn the US into even more of a pariah than it already is. You’d likely see pretty much instant sanctions across the board which would tank the US economy, and might finally manage to get Trump impeached and convicted. Might even be able to convince the spineless bastards in Washington to hand Trump over to the ICC in exchange for lifting some of the sanctions.

Remember the golden rule with Trump and the Republicans, every accusation is an admission. So Trump just admitted he’s weak.

That’s actually what I thought this was about at first which if it had been would be pretty big as I’m not aware of any ion thruster that’s useful for in atmosphere operation. Sadly this is not that.

This is a terrible misleading title. It absolutely has moving parts, it’s just using piezoelectric materials and compliant mechanisms to drive the moving parts rather than the more traditional electromagnets and gears.

Would you look at that, the guy who posts Russian propaganda is posting Russian propaganda again.

Part of the problem is that it’s a feedback loop. People use social media and somebody makes some misogynistic content which angers people which then gets the algorithm to promote it heavily. Then somebody else who’s inspired by that content makes their own misogynistic content and the cycle repeats. Once enough of that content is circulating it becomes the norm and a bunch of people start dogpiling on it to be part of the in crowd. It’s particularly pernicious when it’s being used to blame people’s problems on others which is how the incel and red pill groups got their start.

It’s not just the girls/women that need to get off these platforms, it’s the boys/men as well. Algorithms that reward anger and controversy are a significant part of the problem and really should be looked at to be regulated the same way gambling and addictive drugs are.

Unfortunately the EU has no say in the tariffs that the US charges its own citizens. US customs can just ignore the Supreme Court ruling and keep charging people to get their stuff out of lockdown and there’s not a whole lot anyone can do. In theory the Supreme Court could maybe charge Trump with contempt of court but that’s about as likely as Trump suddenly becoming a decent human being instead of an ambulatory bag of excrement.

It’s always the ones you most suspect. You could probably be closely aligned with the constitution without knowing a single thing about the law by just always taking the opposite position from whatever Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh take.

I mean… kind of. It is a world wide brand that is very popular. I’m not sure this one person stepping down is really going to change anything, but it’s interesting I guess. It’s definitely not important news, but I can see an argument that it is news, and it’s world wide.