WhipTheLlama
@WhipTheLlama@lemmy.world
- Comment on Restaurant Bill 1 year ago:
That sounds just like tipping, but with more steps
That sounds like the exact same amount of steps as tipping.
- Comment on Restaurant Bill 1 year ago:
[The service charge is] an added fee controlled by the restaurant that helps facilitate a higher living base wage
Great! I don’t need to tip because they already pay their employees a fair wage.
- Comment on Restaurant Bill 1 year ago:
Alternative option: the service fee is the tip because there’s no way I’m paying more than what’s on that bill.
- Comment on Restaurant Bill 1 year ago:
Restaurant: $11 cannelloni and $6 beer.
Lemmy: fuck the rich for paying these high prices!
- Comment on The truth about Canada 1 year ago:
Thanksgiving, where we celebrate what we did to the natives.
Despite all the awful things that settlers have done to Aboriginals in Canada (and Native Americans in the USA), neither country’s Thanksgiving is about that. Canada’s Thanksgiving was originally a celebration of arrival in the New World. Over time, it became a harvest celebration.
- Comment on there is Indeed a problem 1 year ago:
If you want to earn enough money to live on, learn a skill and get a better job!
*Learns a skill and gets a better job*
Hey, not like that!
- Comment on Wreck the economy because it only works for the billionaire class. 1 year ago:
There is nothing communist about that. He’s not advocating abolishing private ownership. Businesses and workers both operate in the free market, which allows workers to advocate for their position in the market.
The free market doesn’t exist in a communist economy. Communism uses a planned economy, so the government strongly regulates both businesses and workers. This eliminates workers’ right to advocate for themselves.
- Comment on Wreck the economy because it only works for the billionaire class. 1 year ago:
If the only way to defend communism is by claiming that no country has ever done communism correctly, then that’s going to be a problem. You can’t point to a single successful communist country because there aren’t any.
China became far more successful since it abandoned communism for its own flavor of capitalism. Private ownership in China has led to a massive improvement in quality of life for most Chinese residents, and more opportunities for success than ever before.
Meanwhile, most complaints about capitalism have almost nothing to do with capitalism and everything to do with laws and regulations or human greed (which is the worst part of any system).
- Comment on Watch: Billionaire CEO says unemployment 'has to jump' to put 'arrogant' workers in their place 1 year ago:
Where would UBI come from if nobody is working?
- Comment on Well, fuck you too. 1 year ago:
anyone who can’t comply can’t serve you.
That’s not true. If the company isn’t doing business in the EU, they don’t need to comply with the GDPR. What I mean is, they’re entirely outside the jurisdiction of the EU and are not required to comply with any EU law. If the EU decides they want to force a non-EU company to comply, they have no ability to do so.
- Comment on Well, fuck you too. 1 year ago:
Cookie consent is the tip of the iceberg for GDPR compliance. If you’re not collecting any user data for any reason, such as account creation, then you’re probably ok with cookie consent, but GDPR is non trivial to comply with for companies collecting personal data.
- Comment on Well, fuck you too. 1 year ago:
If they aren’t doing business in the EU, they don’t need to comply with GDPR. While it technically protects EU citizens’ data everywhere, in practice it’s not possible to govern companies that are completely outside the EU.
- Comment on Well, fuck you too. 1 year ago:
EU is capitalist, so I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Maybe you’re just another person blaming everything on capitalism because that’s easier than understanding the actual problems. Might as well blame it on the prevalent system.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
If you know you can’t be evicted unless you stop paying rent and the rent is cheap enough, it’s not a bad idea to renovate it a bit. I told my friend he should quietly renovate his rental apartment because he hated the kitchen and all the flooring. He was paying $2k under market price, had rent control, and because it’s a corporate landlord, they can’t evict him unless he misses rent a lot or harasses other tenants.
My friend opted to buy a condo instead, so while his mortgage is more than his rent was, at least he’s earning equity and a rising housing market.
- Comment on Shrinkflation is out of control 1 year ago:
They also print the weight and number of pieces on the package, which they had to update. Since the packaging is otherwise identical, shoppers will buy it without reading the weight of number of pieces because it looks exactly like the old package.
Obviously, No Frills wanted to keep the price at $10, so they reduced the amount of fish in the package. That’s shrinkflation. If the goal were to keep customers informed of the change, they would have made more noticeable change to the package.
- Comment on No one really understands our struggle 1 year ago:
Landlords must exist because people need to rent housing, and it sure sounds like you’re doing it right. Some landlords (and some tenants) are awful human beings who should not be landlords while others are good people.
A bigger problem is happening in areas with housing shortages. Housing prices have been skyrocketing for 10+ years and home owners have been leveraging themselves with their home equity to buy other homes. On a large scale, that eats up a lot of housing supply, increases prices, and makes it more difficult for people without existing real estate equity to buy a house.
In the city where I live, owning a house is essentially not possible for middle-class people unless their parents give them a down payment. Even my girlfriend and I, who combine for more than triple the average household income in the city, are taking years and years to save for a $300k+ down payment that’s needed to bring the mortgage payment down to $6k/mo.
Landlords didn’t create the housing shortage, but I can see why someone who’s struggling to buy a house while watching landlords buy multiple houses can develop a hatred for them.
- Comment on why isn't the use of the bidet more widespread? 1 year ago:
Japanese style toilet seats
That’s what most people in the USA mean when they say bidet. They’re bidet toilet seats or washlets.
- Comment on The Elite's War on Remote Work Has Nothing to Do with Productivity 1 year ago:
CEOs simply prefer working in an office with all their underlings around.
If CEOs want people to work at the office, they’d be working at the office. Articles trying to polarize people by categorizing us into “elites want x, everyone else wants y” just make people angry for no reason.
Lots and lots of CEOs are really happy to have people working from home. That’s why working from home is still a popular thing. There are also CEOs who think working from home hurts productivity or culture. They can order everyone back to the office whenever they want and short of wide-scale quitting, which rarely happens, they’ll get what they want.