BakerBagel
@BakerBagel@midwest.social
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 1 week ago:
How far up your own ass do you have to be to actually believe that people actually want ads?
- Comment on Sunday SOTD Thread - February 9th, 2025 (#608) [Atlas Shaves Edition] 1 week ago:
Ended up going with a Parker Variant as well as an open comb Maggard head to experiment with on the bevel handle.
I would love to upgrade to something nicer, but I’m stretched thin and don’t have the budget right now unfortunately.
- Comment on Sunday SOTD Thread - February 9th, 2025 (#608) [Atlas Shaves Edition] 1 week ago:
Got home from a weekend of festivities only to find that the threads of my daily driver gave out. It was a Bevel DE kit i bought myself for Christmas back in 2021, so I’m a bit peeved i only got about 3 years out of it. The handle and base plate are still good, but the top cap is unusable.
Anyway, i need a cheap replacement and fast, and am looking for advice on how to prevent the threads from deteriorating in the future.
- Comment on Man, their reputation really has gone to shit 2 weeks ago:
If tou look into the plans and wacky shit the CIA has tried to do over the years, you realize they are just daycare for Ivy League grads. They are absolutely useless at anything beyond intelligence gathering
- Comment on We still have three eggs up for auction. 2 weeks ago:
Because the hens provide eggs and are less quiet than a dog in a back yard. Roosters just scream randomly from just before dawn to just after dusk and are territorial and aggressive as all hell
- Comment on We still have three eggs up for auction. 2 weeks ago:
It really depends. I live ina rural town with about 17,000 residents. You are allowed chickens in the city limits, but not allowed roosters. I know a few people that have chickens in their yards, but there isn’t really enough apace for a chicken coop and activities in the yards since house are packed in pretty tight within coty limits. Outside city limits i would say about half the farmers have chickens as far as i can tell, but they are fairly reclusive
- Comment on Select a tip 2 weeks ago:
People don’t want to be servers. They are there because they have no other options
- Comment on Select a tip 2 weeks ago:
Rent has gone up a lot more than 15% in the past decade. The whole system is rotten and needs to be abolished, but all the servers i know are absolutely struggling right now and depend on getting a 20% tip on each table. How would you feel if half your paychecks were randomly 25% less? Stop going to restaurants that expect a tip by all means, but if you are going somewhere that expects it, you should tip.
- Comment on Select a tip 2 weeks ago:
So could you and your coworkers, but restaurant owners are the sleazist, scummiest, and greediest business owners in your community guaranteed. A restaurant in my town had the entire staff fired and the restaurant closed for a month because the owner would rather miss out on a month of business than pay a fair wage.
- Comment on Select a tip 2 weeks ago:
Servers usually have to pay in X% of their total sales to the back of house. So if you stiff me on a $90 check, i lose $3 because i still have to pay that much in. I actually had a slow night where bith tables stiffed me so i actually left the restaurant $4 poorer than when i entered. Because ihad a better night the next shift, the owner was able to average me out so that he didn’t have to pay me more than the server minimum wage.
- Comment on Select a tip 2 weeks ago:
I’m 100% on board with ending tipping, i am just saying that stiffing your server won’t do anything to end it.
- Comment on Select a tip 2 weeks ago:
Thrn stop going to restaurants that expect a tip. Don’t go to a restaurant and stiff your server. I spent 6 months last year living on $300 a week because people weren’t tipping at the bar i was working at. The bar is still open, but the new bartender is in the exact same position.
- Comment on Select a tip 2 weeks ago:
Believe it nor not, most people do not live in Washington.
- Comment on Select a tip 2 weeks ago:
That’s over the course of a pay period though. So if i make $40 on a slow night, but $200 the next night, that evens out and the boss doesn’t have to pay out.
I am not defending tipping, but change will only happen from the top down. All the full time servers at the restaurant i work at are at “i cant pay my bills” level of struggling right now and we live in a super cheap area. Stiffing your server won’t end tipping, it’s just taking a meal away from them or their kids while the owner is just fine. Legislation is the only thing that will end the system, qnd that’s where the reform needs to happen.
- Comment on Select a tip 2 weeks ago:
The reason is that minimum wage has been stagnant for the last 20 years. Servers are still getting paid $5 an hour plus their tips.
- Comment on Select a tip 2 weeks ago:
All you are doing is punishing some poor server who has no control of the price. The owner who is actually fucking both you and the staff over is unaffected.
- Comment on Select a tip 2 weeks ago:
Complain all you want, but not tipping is straight up taking money from someone who is getting paid $5 an hour. Complain to ownership, write your congressman and state legislators, but not tipping only punishes someone who is barely scrapping by.
- Comment on Chop chop 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Good luck, applicants. 3 weeks ago:
“If you’re paying for grad school, you’re doing it wrong”
- Comment on This community needs some uplifting posts now more than ever! 4 weeks ago:
So then don’t debate it. They keep doing Nazi shit, so clearly they are Nazis. Anyone claiming otherwise isn’t woeth listening to
- Comment on Anyone for some fizzy egg??? 4 weeks ago:
It’s all the wet taken out of the eggs. Like the opposite of dry
- Comment on Happy Holidays! 5 weeks ago:
What else could that have possibly been other than a goatse?
- Comment on When Denny's is closing 150 locations by the end of 2025 [Day 1 month ago:
The Denny’s in my toen closed down a couple months ago because I they stopped paying their rent.
- Comment on Just saw Nosferatu (2024, dir Eggers) 1 month ago:
It’s an old Hollywood trifk to use. British accents for Continental European characters. Americans have a hard time understanding German and especially French accents. I think yhat today that is best solved by simply weiting the script in those languages and putting subtitles since many viewers already prefer subtitles.
- Comment on Just saw Nosferatu (2024, dir Eggers) 1 month ago:
I’m with you in the there was a better version of this movie in there somewhere. I likee it better than The Northman and definitely enjoyed it over all. A bit too reliant on jump scares imo, but i think the cast all did a wonderful job. I wish i could put a finger on what the movie was missing.
- Comment on Just saw Nosferatu (2024, dir Eggers) 1 month ago:
I’ve seen The Northman and The Lighthouse, and the Lighthouse was absolutely brilliant. I like the Northman, but the problem was the static and one dimensional characters with no growth or development. This works in The Northman because that is how the protagonists in Old Norse Sagas read as well. I’m going to see Nosferatu tonight, and I’m curious to see if that feels the same way.
- Comment on american culture 1 month ago:
I can do both. I’m ot gonna let some backwater pit like the UK insult my home, especially since the UK is essentially completely dependent on the US at this point.
- Comment on Excellent anti smoking ad 2 months ago:
I’m definitely the dog
- Comment on where's my damn plume 2 months ago:
Yeah, just leaves more plumage for me to dazzle the ladies with. Have fun not passing on your genes because i have the superior plumage.
- Comment on And there was no on line manual 2 months ago:
Millennials doesn’t mean kids alove during the turn of the millennium to old fucks. It just means “kids these days”