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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve been building big public housing since the 1920s. I live next to a lot of it and it’s quite high quality and really pleasant.

  Lots of cities/countries has massive public housing (the UK being a great example post WW2) but Vienna is more of an exception in that they didn’t follow the trend in the 70s-90s of privatization and stopping investment (although it did slow down at one point).

  They were the same way about their tram system, where they kept it rather than ripping it out like most places. Now everyone else wishes they so had a tram network or is trying to rebuild one.

  That being said, rents are rising here too, but they are much more reasonable to begin with. I was living in London previously, and now we spend about 30-40% less for a place over twice the size and in a nicer location. Plus finding a place was muuuuuch easier, since it’s noticeably less competitive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a nostalgic gamer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s necessarily rose-tinted glasses, but rather not the experience that everyone had.

  I was never super social in servers, so I didn’t make random friends or anything. Even for me though, servers contributed to a better overall experience.

  Much less toxicity: assholes just get kicked or eventually find their fellow assholes on the ‘asshole server’ that you know to avoid.

  Much easier to have a chill/casual atmosphere: you can hop in and out, so nobody feels ‘trapped’ in an unfun game. Additionally, since you often jump into games that are in-progress, people tend to care less about winning or losing.

  Easier to play with friends of different skill levels: every server would be a mix of skills, so joining with a mixed-skill party doesn’t throw everything out of balance. Since people don’t care as much about winning/losing it’s much easier to fuck-around with your mates without anyone getting upset.

  Matchmaking on the other hand is more convenient, but in my opinion a net loss for most people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't tip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some parts of the US, not all

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thronefall's tiny tower defence townbuilding has reached version 1.0⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really fun! I picked it up yesterday and I’ve been playing on ky deck.

  I will say that I usually prefer tower defense games with more ‘linear’ pathing (think bloons) but it’s been a good time regardless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Old School Runescape is raising membership prices⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s even more popular than the ‘main’ version!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deadlock (Valve's Unannounced Title) Passes 12k Peak Players in Closed Alpha⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The US was always kind of a dead region for Dota, but it is/was very big in europe (especially Russia), south America, China, southeast Asia

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Restaurant group in Massachusetts is trying to reject a public vote on paying tipped workers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure it would be possible to change the culture any other way, since it’s so entrenched.

  The only restaurants I know of that were able to successfully transition to a less toxic business model for servers did so through a combination of paying servers a fair base wage ($20+ an hour) and banning tips.

  Culture is tricky in that it’s ‘sticky’ and often takes a lot of effort to change. Having a policy like ‘tipping not required’ would still lead to the vast majority of customers feeling obligated to tip because not tipping carries with it such a strong implication of being greedy/stingy.

  I should mention that this all mostly applies to the US and that there are plenty of countries with flourishing hospitality industries where tipping is virtually nonexistent (or even seen as insulting).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Restaurant group in Massachusetts is trying to reject a public vote on paying tipped workers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course they do, it’s the law. It’s crazy to me that servers are (seemingly randomly) excluded from this and have to rely on tips.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Restaurant group in Massachusetts is trying to reject a public vote on paying tipped workers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve worked in a number of places as a chef (from low to high end) and that was never the case anywhere I worked. To be fair, it’s been almost a decade though, so maybe I’m out of date.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Restaurant group in Massachusetts is trying to reject a public vote on paying tipped workers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I’m saying that.

  To me I’ve never understood why sit-down restaurants should be looked at any differently to any other business. Why can’t the actual price just be listed on the menu?

  Like, if we’ve collectively decided that the actual price is 20% higher than what is listed, then let’s just treat this like every other profession and raise prices by 20%.

  Why are people taking orders and carrying food special? Other customer-facing positions generally don’t get tips. Chefs (who make the food!) generally don’t get tips.

  Just pay the waitstaff a fair wage and quit the tipping!