Well, not that shocked.

Also, kicking down the door leaves evidence and usually require some sort of justification or approval. If they have a key to a backdoor, they don’t have to tell anyone they were inside, or ask for permission to use it.

Then this conversation isn’t about you. Many places have exceptions to minimum wage for tipped employees. That, plus tip-out policies means that serving a customer that doesn’t tip can actually cost the server money.

We’re talking about the problem of tipping culture and complaints about being expected to tip too much. If you live in a country that pays waitstaff well, then this conversation isn’t about you. You can self select based on context clues.

I agree with you, and I don’t have a job that relies on tips. But I live in a place where tips are the source of income for servers, so if I use their services, I tip. I also vote for politicians who want to raise wages for servers and eliminate the exceptions to the minimum wages.

Tipping culture sucks. You and I agree on that. Servers should be paid decent wages, and tipping should be optional.

That ain’t the system we got, though. And you don’t change the system by abusing the victims of the system.

Did someone say this, or did you imagine it? 20% is standard for good service, but anything less than 15% is message that there was something wrong with the service. If you cannot afford to pay for good service, you should not seek good service.

Edit: Lotta downvotes, but all I’m hearing are the same tired arguments from cheap keyboard warriors who hate poor people. Nobody can point to anybody saying 40% is standard, and nobody has a solution to tipping culture that doesn’t involve victimizing tipped employees. You want to fix the system, let’s do that, but until we do, pay for the services you asked for.

They covered the Epstein files and nobody had any consequences.

No, it’s better to have awareness of both. What needs to be done, how long it takes, and what dependencies exist. I feel like taking a nap, but I have work and house chores. So I’ll take care of some small things that aren’t too taxing while I drink coffee and regain some energy.

Failure? Pretty sure the oligarchy is getting exactly what they want.

Oh I get it completely, and I was banging my head against the wall looking for something that worked. Ultimately, some clean cable management and a few of those rubber cord grips were so much more functional than anything else I tried.

Also remember that you’ll need to automate those branching switches, and each one can add a bit of lag if they are digital.

As someone who briefly lived a similar dream, I wish someone had pointed out to me that you’re still going to have to get your old bones up to get the wired controllers for those older consoles. I’d just keep the old school composite switch accessible so you can plug in whatever you want to play while you’re grabbing the controllers and plugging in the cartridge. Then you just need an HDMI switcher, which could also be your surroud sound system (if you’re spending money anyway…)

I wonder what sort of lag that would add. Digital converters always seem to make Mario jump slower.

I mean, maybe it’s technically “darker” the literal sense, but any unfinished concrete is going to scatter light differently than glossy blue paint. And I don’t have anything against cleaning and maintaining the pool. It’s normal maintenance that has to happen every so often.

But if this doesn’t look tacky as shit and make it harder to see the reflection, I’ll eat a hat.

A reflecting pool needs to be dark on the bottom. If it’s bright blue, too much light bounces off the bottom and overwhelms the reflection.

Literally nothing Trump does isn’t fucking stupid and wasteful.

There’s literally no reason to use these ever.

4 in 10 are fucking dipshits.

How else do you think they stay on?

Among Greeks, if you say Alexandros (or Philip for that matter) then people will know who you are talking about. But basically, those names are still in use. Caesar became the word for leaders rather than a name, and it’s relatively rare as a first name.

Charlemagne is actually Charles le magne which means Charles the Great. If you called him “King Charles” you’d need to be much more specific.

I can’t speak for Attila, because I don’t know if the name is popular in any particular cultures. Certainly in the USA, the Hun king is the most famous Attila.

Slim Shady is an interesting example, because its’s basically branding for Marshall Mathers aka Eminem. One of his first widespread hits was a song essentially saying that he’s the only real Slim Shady, and anyone else using that nickname is a copycat poser.

As was intended. Fascists see the brain drain as a victory, because stupid masses are easier to control.

Not that I’m criticizing the educators who leave. They are being forced out, and it’s entirely reasonable to abandon Texas.