agamemnonymous
@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on No brainer 6 hours ago:
You’re going to need a bobcat to find your front door.
I forgot that was a brand of front loaders for a second, and my brain went on a whole trip trying to figure why you’d need a bobcat.
- Comment on Anon performs magic at work 4 days ago:
Depends actually, many places have At Will employment where you are correct, but not everywhere. In many places it’s illegal to fire someone without cause.
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- Comment on Out of 10. Be specific! 6 days ago:
3.145183813819291837 isn’t the beginning of π, it’s just some random number that happens to also start with 3.14
- Comment on Not stealing 1 week ago:
Don’t forget leverage. Shorter limbs get more “strength” from their muscles.
- Comment on Out of 10. Be specific! 1 week ago:
That is a rational number
- Comment on Not stealing 1 week ago:
Kinda reminds me of when I was using dating apps, and women would ask how they knew I wasn’t a serial killer. “If I was a serial killer, it would be pretty stupid to leave a bunch of digital records of me being the last person my victim talked to, I’d get caught immediately.”
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 1 week ago:
I want biological kids, and I’m right about the point in my life where it would make the most sense to have them. But whenever family asks about it, I tell them I’m not raising children in this kind of administration. They try to suggest that it’s not that bad and I stand firm that they’re not seeing grandbabies until the government stops being so fashy.
Actually, millennials could probably hold our hypothetical babies hostage, see what’s more important to them.
- Comment on Trump set a trap and the corporate media will make you believe youre the one falling for it. 1 week ago:
Wherever it comes from, you need to secure it before striking
- Comment on Trump set a trap and the corporate media will make you believe youre the one falling for it. 1 week ago:
A general strike without an appropriately sized general fund is a recipe for a laughably short strike.
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 2 weeks ago:
I think reasonable people can disagree on this point, on whether not tipping constitutes a secondary exploitation.
No, they cannot. Disagreement here is not reasoned, it is just another example of clever people using their cleverness to justify unreasonable prior beliefs.
You can boycott a business, and write them to express that your boycott is based on their tipping policy. That would be a reasonable strategy to support the workers.
By still giving the business owners money, knowing they pay their staff sub-minimum wages based on the convention of tipping, and then not tipping, you have not communicated any disapproval to management. You have in fact directly supported the business owner exploiting their workers, and joined that exploitation for personal benefit. That’s the opposite of supporting the worker.
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 2 weeks ago:
The result of either choice – boycotting places that pay less than minimum wage, or not tipping at those places – doesn’t change the fact that the staff are being underpaid, which is the root exploitative practice.
Yes, but boycotting those places is justifiable. Going anyway and just not tipping is actively participating in the exploitation.
- Comment on I love bpd girls 2 weeks ago:
Passion.
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 2 weeks ago:
The way I see it, if the place requires tips for their staff to get by, then the staff are being financially abused and I would be propping up a system of exploitation. Prioritise places that pay their staff above the minimum wage.
Second sentence is fine, feel free to boycott places that pay below minimum wage. But if you do go to an establishment that pays based on the assumption of tips, and you don’t tip, you’re just joining in the exploitation.
- Comment on Two weeks notice 2 weeks ago:
That’s kinda just an extension of the reference thing
- Comment on Two weeks notice 2 weeks ago:
Two weeks notice is a courtesy to keep things civil so you can use them as a reference. It’s not a legal requirement, the only consequence for not giving notice is that you won’t get a good reference, but if you don’t care about that then be free.
- Comment on I'm a proud catholic and I can name all of them 2 weeks ago:
Bastard
- Comment on Priority seating indeed. 3 weeks ago:
That’s definitely midgnant
- Comment on These shipping tape things 3 weeks ago:
Am you brainwashed for wearing clothes in public?
- Comment on Hmmm... 3 weeks ago:
Fish looks like he does not approve of those two weirdos edging in on his domain
- Comment on These shipping tape things 3 weeks ago:
Is it brainwashing, or adapting to circumvent actual censorship? People say “unalive” because “kill” will hide your content from the algorithm, if it doesn’t remove it entirely.
- Comment on Socially inept, introverted employees. How do you survive the workplace? Because I’m in dire need of some serious advice. 4 weeks ago:
Exposure therapy. I worked as a server for years specifically to build the social skills I lacked. People want to chit-chat about mundane nonsense, that’s the norm. We’re the unusual ones for not being interested. It’s trite, pointless, and boring. But most people like it, and don’t like people who can’t at least fake it.
Being able to make small talk is socially as important as basic hygiene. No one wants to associate with someone who looks and smells like they crawled out of a storm drain, and no one wants to associate with someone who ignores or belittles their attempts at small talk.
Purely socially, I say let the boring people filter themselves out of your life. Professionally, you need to have rapport with your coworkers, you are part of a team. If you’re going to work in a field with an implicit social element, you are going to have to learn to navigate that social element. Otherwise you’re going to continue to have these conflicts.
That means finding at least a subset of typical conversational topics to engage with in a friendly way. That means masking with some degree of warmth and compassion. That means refreshing the issue from everyone else being banal, to you being unable to integrate with banal people. That’s most people.
It’ll be weird, and you’ll feel fake or inefficient, but unless you want to shift careers to one with minimal interaction with other people, it’s a skill you are going to need to cultivate if you want any kind of success or progression. That’s just the way it is. Adapt or perish.
- Comment on Anon did philosophy 4 weeks ago:
Eh, A cups on a Pixar mom are better than the best breasts in the world on a stick figure. They’re just kinda… there? Sure they look nice, but they don’t really summon a force in me.
- Comment on Have most people never seen a full starry night sky 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been on a few cruises in my life, and my favorite part is always going out to the darkest party of the deck in the middle of the night when the ships out in open waters, to just lie there and look at the stars.
- Comment on Discuss: 4 weeks ago:
What goes hup must come puh.
- Comment on Piss Post 5 weeks ago:
Your body took a screenshot
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 5 weeks ago:
Focus on what you can change. Try not to let what you can’t bring you down too much.
- Comment on akshully it's "epheboiatrist" 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anon has learned enough 5 weeks ago:
At least he’s tried to make critical thinking techniques more well known and accessible. That’s more interesting to me than, I dunno, some linguistics PhD’s fantasy slop.
It was an enjoyable read, and your strawman characterization isn’t really accurate at all, except when lampooning one of Rowling’s poorly written characters. Most of the book was Harry facing the consequences of smugly oversimplifying conflicts.
- Comment on Idibiks Oiho 5 weeks ago:
Frequently, if not usually, renovating sufficiently old buildings is more expensive and difficult than new construction. Building codes and safety standards change a lot over the years.
