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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is it spelled "grey" or "gray"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Gray is the color of aluminum, grey is the colour of aluminium

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think the bar is even that high. Any mismatched sex drive is likely to get you called out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"If you can't afford to tip 40%, then don't eat out"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No but I can do basic math: taking a higher percentage of higher than inflation price increases is higher than inflation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"If you can't afford to tip 40%, then don't eat out"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes I’ve tried blaming my fellow voter, tried to persuade them to raise the minimum wage for all workers and do away with the tip wage altogether

  Maybe they’ll still do better than the rest of us, or maybe not, but it’ll put them in the same boat as everyone else, or at least in the same water

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"If you can't afford to tip 40%, then don't eat out"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m saying they’re demanding higher tips on highly inflated food, while most of us don’t keep up with inflation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"If you can't afford to tip 40%, then don't eat out"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course given the choice, customers prefer to pay less for the same thing. That’s basic economics. It kind of needs to be all or nothing.

  I voted to end tip wages, but of course I’ll go to the place that saves me money. This is why ending tip wages for all has to be the starting point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"If you can't afford to tip 40%, then don't eat out"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s one of my objections for sure. I’ve gotten better service at neighborhood diners than some high end restaurants, yet 100% tips at a diner is less than the basic 15% at the high end restaurants. That diner server should have the opportunity to earn the same as that server at the high end place, yet it never happens

  And yes tipping is sexist. A hot young server in a short skirt out-earns every time, regardless of service.

  If you’re going to claim tipping is for good service, then a good server should be able to out-earn regardless of the restaurant and regardless of whether they’re are “hot”. That doesn’t happen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"If you can't afford to tip 40%, then don't eat out"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet this is BS when many servers are among the highest paid minimum wage people.

  And they’ve had this ridiculous tipping wage for decades, and used to be ok with 15% tips

  Now suddenly everyone wants a tip regardless whether they’re a server, some tips are stolen by management, we pay “service fees” for the servers, and suddenly we also need 20+% on hugely inflated food prices.

  I’m sorry but servers seem like the only part of the economy doing well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Define “possible”

  • yes,we had an internet before JavaScript, and most of what they claim needs JavaScript doesn’t. Many things would be better for users without JavaScript

  • no, when I turn off scripting, at least half the www doesn’t work. Arguably you need it for overly clever paywalls and ads, not that any consumers want those. It’s not practical to wish that away

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[serious]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Used to be called starting a war. It’s working for Russia but you really need to have a draft/conscription to make it succeed. The wealthy pay a doctor to say they have bone spurs and the poor go die somewhere else. As a VA plus the wealthy benefit from an overheated economy

  But there are side effects, such as generating more poverty by killing off the main income in families

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it was the opposite. As a married couple we had a house almost paid for. But then in the divorce we both had to get large mortgages again.

  I bought out her half of the house and now have a mortgage as big as our initial starting price 20 years ago, that doesn’t get paid off until I’m like 80. So that didn’t work so well

  Of course now I also have enough equity to buy a house in most of the country. So there’s definite upside

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah we don’t spend money on road maintenance, only road creation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or too early. Part of the flood of bad driving since pandemic is everyone seems to cut corners now. Whether crossing lanes or the into opposing traffic on a curve, having trouble with a simple turn, or changing lanes while turning

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe, but if you insist on an oversized vehicle and don’t have the skill to keep it in lane, then maybe a little inconvenience is ok

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re less ugly than a jersey barrier and do less damage to cars that can’t stay in their lane while still protecting cyclists.

  But yeah, visibility is key. I wonder if they are still visible in ten years. That’s my only objection to things like raised crossings: once the paint wears off or in snow they become a lot less visible and no longer as effective. I hate that both as a driver and a cyclist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In today's term what is the middle class in the US? If the government wanted to help the middle class and poor how would they go about it? Beside the toss money at the problem solution?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Modern social services and protections

  • encourage unions
  • universal healthcare
  • universal pre-school
  • universal college
  • extended parental leave
  • childcare support
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The local supermarket takes protein bar protection. Anyway does anyone know how to open these cases ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who needs to lose weight, that calculator says my who minimum safe protein is 113 g/day. As a carnivore, I don’t see how I do this on most days.

  I call bs on the claim that most of us get too much protein. Overweight people are less likely to and plant eaters are less likely to.

  The muscle building community recommendations are based on insufficient evidence and are likely too high. I do believe those following them likely to get excessive protein their body can’t use but I don’t see how that generalizes to “most people”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The local supermarket takes protein bar protection. Anyway does anyone know how to open these cases ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve read this stated before and I don’t see how it’s true.

  • us RDA is based on weight and we’re a fat country. While I’ve not tried comprehensive counting, it looks like I’d need 5 chicken breasts/day. Unless there’s a lot of hidden protein in my diet, That never happens
  • most of this is backlash against gymbro recommendation with much higher protein levels to build muscle, that’s not really evidence based. Sure but it does makes sense that some amount more is better: maybe I need to eat 6 chicken breasts in a day. That also never happens
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If online services (such as Netflix) only ever raise their prices, does that mean they offer less and less value for money as time passes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, part of the issue is Netflix doesn’t remember for long enough what I have recently watched.

  All too often its recommendations are filled with things I’ve already watched, making it more difficult to find anything new

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mr Fraser, if you're nasty⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A long time ago I had a stamp with movable letter wheels so you could stamp anything. It was probably just for dates though, and I don’t know how well the wheels would scale to the entire alphabet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll look for that brand. I haven’t had any luck with sunglasses that are supposed to “fit over”, but have been using magnetic clipons sized to fit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Either that changed or at least one brand has a waiver. Mine does that. It’s really cool driving with my high beams on but watching the dark spot follow the oncoming traffic. It’s also interesting driving with those same automatics high beams through town yet have so many dark spots it’s practically like only having running lights. It’s a fantastic feature

  It clearly functions as intended, although the data geek in me wants to run experiments to verify it’s effective

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just like with a car, a cyclist ought to be able to aim their headlight to not blind others

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  automatic high beams This is a thing now?!

  I think it is in the us. I dont really know if its every car but recent models of even inexpensive cars have it and it works pretty well

  I’m all for this - people are idiots and the technology is generally good now actually I’d go firther and mandate active matrix headlights on every new car. People really are self-centered idiots and headlight glare is a real problem. Time for the technology nanny

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think this is true anymore. We have standards for headlights with much sharper cutoff and even allow active matrix headlights now. But that won’t help until it’s been true long enough for most cars to have this.

  In addition to general asshatedness, there’s definitely a regulation issue.

  • many states don’t do annual inspections Much less care about headlights
  • how the eff is it legal to sell led headlight inserts that fit standard headlight fixtures, with a wink and a nod that “they’re not intended for headlights”
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do these work? I’m thinking of getting them.

  I wear prescription glasses they need to fit with so trying them is a much bigger investment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hail power!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Take that woke nonsense back to Europe with you: we all know there is only one way: they do not “take both”. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought I would change it with marriage

  Then do it. Pick your celebrity crush, then get together with friends and family for a fake wedding and name change

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to think so as well, until apparently there’s another me in Chicago. He’s a bit older and a college professor

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Put your seat back or no?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Very tempting, but I’ll take the knee pain preventing them from reclining, since there’s nothing I can do about it