It’s gotten rather absurd. If my interaction is with a kiosk short of being handed something, it’s an insulting extra step. I’m already paying the price for my employer’s pay scale … I can’t take on someone else’s stinginess....
It’s the same reason people hate ads. If you see a poster in a restaurant advertising some service, you don’t care. But ads on the internet are shoved in your face and must be dismissed to get at the content. The equivalent of a tip jar for Square would be a button that says “tip your server” next to “continue”. Instead, there’s no easy way to dismiss the tip prompt - you have to go into custom and choose 0, which makes it an active choice which must be made in order to even continue, as if the server held the tip jar directly in your face and you had to push it aside to pay at the till. It’s an imposition, one which targets neurodivergency surrounding motivation and social anxiety (eg people pleasing and depression). They took one of my spoons!
I saw a tip option at a coffee shop the other day, but it’s very unclear who’s even getting that tip. The cashier? They’re not doing anything extra, so a tip doesn’t make sense. The barista? If I get a complicated drink a tip might make sense. But I genuinely wouldn’t doubt it if this ambiguity is taken advantage of and the business just pockets the tip and no one sees it.
I’m not sure it even matters if he was “really” referring to Cohen, the fact that he’s under a gag order to protect people means he should STFU. Every word he says, intentionally or “not”, is potentially dangerous to the people involved. Isn’t that the whole point of a gag order? Don’t talk about the specifics of the trial, you can say it’s unfair or whatever but the specifics are too dangerous to reveal. Why aren’t his lawyers stopping him from saying this stuff? They’re going to lose by contempt of court or something at this rate. Come to think of it, Alex Jones did the same thing in his trial.
The US has white supremacy in its very bones, we can paper over it but we’ll see it spring up even hundreds of years later. Note that if you do like the US I don’t think that makes you a white supremacist, clearly people are able to compartmentalize them successfully.
I’m trying to network some spare laptop motherboards together with a working laptop that remotes in, my Desktop named Theseus, my AWS VPS, and a raspberry pi running Home Assistant to make a mini supercomputer to run AI locally. Unfortunately I have a bad habit of "painting the Mona Lisa pixel by pixel’, so I’ve been stuck cutting holes, gluing things with ABS-acetone paste, and putting in heatset inserts (for maximum serviceability) for weeks to make cases for them while my ADHD ass keeps forgetting what I was doing and switching between tasks at random 🥲 One of them is done enough that I got the metal tape for grounding laid down so I only have maybe a few weeks left
The network’s name is Navi, as an homage to Serial Experiments Lain!
Are there any who don’t support it? And if you find someone who doesn’t, does that outweigh the things they disagree with you on? Representative democracy doesn’t have the granularity to focus on anything other than the most important issues.
Americans are confused, frustrated by new tipping culture, study finds ( www.washingtonpost.com )
It’s gotten rather absurd. If my interaction is with a kiosk short of being handed something, it’s an insulting extra step. I’m already paying the price for my employer’s pay scale … I can’t take on someone else’s stinginess....
Trump melts down on Truth Social after judge says his denial "rings hollow and untrue" ( www.salon.com )
Sanders suggests course on Black history spreads ‘hate’ against U.S. ( www.msnbc.com )
(August) What are you working on now, DIY? ( beehaw.org )
Making any progress, you slackers? Tell us about it!
Why is healthy food so expensive in America? Blame the Farm Bill that Congress always renews to make burgers cheaper than salad ( fortune.com )