nan

@nan@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So much for that dream.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  PBS and NPR through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

  The Voice of America through the United States Agency for Global Media.

  People think they’re boring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So much for that dream.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve just given whatever regulatory body significant power and influence. It will have its own biases if it doesn’t simply become outright politicized, and now they dictate facts or else. Inaccuracy or “fake news” are used by authoritarian regimes all the time to justify silencing of critics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So much for that dream.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The BBC World Service is the largest and broadcasts in something like 40 languages around the world. I think the normal BBC news still uses some of the sound effects traditionally associated with their shortwave broadcasts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So much for that dream.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The US government broadcaster is the Voice of . For a long time it was unavailable to Americans (propaganda laws), but is now.

  We also have NPR and public broadcasting, both have news.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think there is an easy way to make it nationwide, the powers of the federal government include interstate commerce but the sales taxes are at the state or local level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That one is annoying but also makes perfect sense when everyone is competing with everyone. The business with honest prices suffers when their nearby competitor doesn’t include it and looks cheaper. The states lose out on revenue if they force businesses to display full prices but the state next door doesn’t, or has better tax rates. They all benefit from confusion.

  Where there is not confusion is the border with a state with no sales tax, and all the good shopping is found on one side.

  For a real fun US-ism, fuel in the US is charged at fractions of a penny (9/10s). As any Office Space fan can tell you, that adds up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s in LA, everything is expensive and well is very relative. Minimum wage is almost $17.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t hidden. They tell you upfront there is an 18% charge, however they rely on people ignoring that or psychologically not caring and only looking at the item price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In the US you generally cannot make less than minimum wage, the employer can directly pay you less as long as your full compensation (pay + tips) are at least minimum wage, if not they are supposed to pay more.

  I think the explosion of tip questions is due to the card processors figuring out there was an untapped area where they could pressure people to tip and skim off a percentage of that.