ReluctantMuskrat
@ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world
- Comment on Want to lose weight? Poverty can help! 4 weeks ago:
I takes abject poverty to lose weight though. Carbs are cheap and highly addicting. Poverty often brings a high bmi but poor nutrition.
- Comment on The Brutality of Sugar: Debt, Child Marriage and Hysterectomies 1 month ago:
Not even modern. Never been good but as they say, the dose makes the poison. Insidious really as we give it to our kids and ourselves, thinking nothing bad about it until a few decades later we realize how it’s ravaged our bodies and left us diseased. And then we get to watch our kids doing the same to their own.
- Comment on Why there are no "secondary" sports league that allow performance enhancement drugs? 3 months ago:
That’s not steroids… that guy literally injected oil - synthol - into his muscles to make them look ridiculously large. It’s not performance enhancing in any way.
- Comment on I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD** 4 months ago:
Just got the same update. If you can get a remote you can go into settings and turn off the new Home experience.
- Comment on a classic issue... 4 months ago:
It’s still a crap-ton of calories, at least the way I eat it. I’ve proven you can gain weight on keto. It’s harder but snacking on PB all day is one way to get enough calories to do it.
- Comment on Restaurant Bill 5 months ago:
You might want to read it again
Service Charges: A compulsory charge for service, for example, 15 percent of the bill, is not considered a tip under the FLSA. Sums distributed to employees from service charges are not tips, but may be used to satisfy the employer’s minimum wage and overtime pay obligations under the FLSA.
A place implementing a service charge cannot classify it as a tip, even if it’s 100% passed onto the employee… a mandatory charge is not a tip, even if the restaurant encourages you to treat it that way. Certain states and jurisdictions tax tips differently than regular wages, and service charges are wages, not tips.
- Comment on Restaurant Bill 5 months ago:
Except you’re wrong. Service charges are not considered tips under FLSA rules within the US. Many states and local jurisdictions have special rules for tipped wages, how they’re taxed and those taxes are collected, and service charges are not included in that definition.
- Comment on I wish 6 months ago:
Man I love how horrible this is!
- Comment on Where did the abbreviation "w/" for "with" come from? 6 months ago:
My guess is these became common with the telegraph. Since messages were expensive and the sender paid by the letter, abbreviations where commonly used to keep messages short.
- Comment on When a stranger ties their dog to your bike. 6 months ago:
Letting the dog free it might run into the road and get killed. Not a good idea.
- Comment on the internet is worse. 6 months ago:
The Atlantic often does long, in-depth stories and has proven to be a very reliable source. Their journalists have proven themselves in getting some great sources. Just in the last couple of weeks admissions by John Kelley and Gen Milley have proven stories The Atlantic broke 2 years ago with anonymous sources were accurate and credible.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
And part of his problem might be who he’s chosing to date. Bad partner choices aren’t necessarily going to give you helpful feedback.
- Comment on 31-year-old teacher quit her job. Now she works at Costco—and boosted her income by 50%: ‘I've never been happier' (these are not feel good stories, this is sad) 7 months ago:
It is a tough sell to place even more tax burden on people who will never realize the benefits.
But you will. We all benefit from a well-educated society. A poorly educated workforce isn’t competitive with one that is well-educated, and they attract employers with jobs that can take advantage of them. They provide the work for good-paying jobs and drive the economy we’re growing old in and hopefully retiring from someday.
Public education benefits everyone, not just the children.
- Comment on 31-year-old teacher quit her job. Now she works at Costco—and boosted her income by 50%: ‘I've never been happier' (these are not feel good stories, this is sad) 7 months ago:
Child students are a captive audience. The classroom should be a safe place for them regardless of the beliefs they’re taught at home. No teacher should be mocking or bullying students. Let the science and truth speak for itself.
- Comment on Nord VPN tv commercials are incredibly misleading 8 months ago:
It lets my internets 69??
- Comment on No one really understands our struggle 8 months ago:
I mean torches have been around a lot longer than Nazis. We’re not letting the Nazis take our torches.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Legal immigrants have rights and must be paid legal wages. Illegal immigrants will work for less, have no rights and won’t sue you.
- Comment on 100, here I cum 9 months ago:
Longer and healthier? Diabetes, obesity, heart-disease and auto-immune diseases are at all time highs.