I can pretty much guarantee you do not hate Trump more than I do. We can trade anecdotes if you’d like, but I am extremely confident that my actions when Trump was elected were vastly more fucked up and violent than yours.

That being said, Trump voters should not lose the right to vote forever. Thats anger talking. That’s letting authoritarianism win.

The only way to escape the poison of that kind of anger is to let it go, man. It doesn’t serve you.

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Everyone who supports Hamas, like the poster above is doing by referring to them as a “resistance group” with “a few radicals.”

Unironically the answer is “shop less.”

Prices on goods rise when demand for goods stays sufficient to support the price going up. The less everyone buys, the less things will cost.

Prices for goods have almost nothing to do with the price of rent, but the mechanisms there are the same - it’s just that you have to encourage building rather than “live somewhere less” because the second option really isn’t tenable, for obvious reasons.

If you want rent to come down, campaign for, vote for, or even run for office to be the candidate that will change zoning laws and encourage building multifamily housing.

Lol it’s always so fun that they’ll speak in code but never acknowledge the actual abhorrence of the things they support.

You’re not in favour of tipping because it’s the morally right thing to do, or because you altruistically support hard workers. You’re in favour of it because you personally make a shit ton more money.

I’m in favor of it because it helps everyone involved. There is no one that tipping is bad for.

This is really the heart of it. I’m sorry but no role is more deserving of tips than another. Everyone deserves a living wage paid by their employer.

All wages are paid by consumers. If the price of going to a restaurant increases by 25% and servers aren’t tipped, I assure you that every person involved is having a worse experience

People will go to restaurants less, more restaurants will fail, fewer people will work as servers, and they’ll work longer hours (similar to BOH). You can see this played out in countries that do not tip - and also with jobs like catering that generally do not focus on topping for service.

What won’t happen is the restaurant owners themselves won’t be paying servers more from their own pocket. This is also observable anywhere tipping isn’t a thing

Idk what meme or podcast or whatever convinced people that tipping culture is bad, but absolutely none of the arguments make any sense. If they did, I could be persuaded, but most points are just completely ignorant of the reality of working in a restaurant and the rest seem like they’re specifically designed to manipulate you.

It’s on employers to pay their employees a fair wage

This one being the most obviously manipulative

As is this. I have no idea why people here are convinced tipping is somehow bad for employees and good for employers

It’s literally the same thing you just are more aware of it.

Servers make vastly more than min wage. I generally had $0 paychecks because taxes were higher than my hourly

It’s not about pity. It’s a socially accepted standard of certain service roles. Servers are generally against removing tipping because they make more by being tipped than they would hourly.

For every person that tips small, someone will inevitably tip over the expected value, generally more often than not. A flat 18% upcharge on food to pay for a server is generally robbing the server.

You literally always pay the wages of the people that work for companies.

I’ve made more as a server than most Americans make doing “appropriately compensated” work. Hitting median wage for your area as a server is easy in 95% of the US.

Their employer is treating them like a tipped employee, which is so embedded into society’s fabric that we have a separate tax code for it.

You not liking that is not any different from you liking a given law. You’re free to not participate, but expect there to be consequences, and one of those is for people to assume you’re intentionally being an asshole, not protesting a perceived injustice.

Dude what’s neat about this is Oxygen on Venus is like Helium on Earth (less dense than most of the atmosphere, so rises naturally) so your balloon doesn’t even need to be hot, just really sturdy.

Even removing the terms “surplus wealth” and “extracted” - which I don’t necessarily disagree with in all instances but which isn’t going to win anyone over - this still is not some undue burden.

I’d like to see this tackled as a simple conversation between discretionary and non-discretionary spending. A poor person struggles with even sales tax increases because they have little discretionary income. A rich person has vastly more discretionary income and thus is the least burdened by new taxation of any sort.

Gets around all the “fair tax”/“flat tax” arguments right from the jump.

That’s true about their upper atmosphere, but we’re nowhere close to being able to capitalize on it (as in, no missions even planned). Closest we’ve got on paper is an orbiter by the early 30s.

Hopefully in my lifetime we see an upper atmosphere balloon or something. That alone would be unbelievably cool.

NASA plans to have a manned mission to Mars in the next 6 years.

Venus is significantly more hostile than Mars, so while we definitely want to do more with Venus, Luna and Mars are clear next-ups for manned landings.

While all of Mars is hostile to human life, Venus is also incredibly hostile to equipment, and thus requires a different approach to even unmanned launches.

Current maximum lifetime for any unmanned craft in the Venusian atmosphere (to say nothing of the ground) is only about 2 hours.

I know literal drug dealers who have been more honest with the IRS than Clarence Thomas.

That’s a hell of a sentence to write lol

I agree. I’m big on specificity of language.

This is a great take man. Nothing to add but this is a solid perspective.

You can move within your country and your experience will be entirely different. You can’t in China, because it’s an authoritarian hellstate.

I agree that Republicans are authoritarians, and that sucks. I also acknowledge that you likely view hierarchies as inherently authoritarian and that we’ll likely not see eye to eye on where to draw lines. Also fine - that’s what liberal ideologies want, is that disagreement.

But to compare China positively with the US in terms of authoritarianism is, frankly, a bit silly.