That sounds just like tipping, but with more steps

That sounds like the exact same amount of steps as tipping.

[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.

Alternative option: the service fee is the tip because there’s no way I’m paying more than what’s on that bill.

Restaurant: $11 cannelloni and $6 beer.

Lemmy: fuck the rich for paying these high prices!

I’m not sure I want this to happen. I’ll read the bill, but I’m not convinced they’ll do it right. For example, UBI is supposed to replace other need-based social programs such as disability, welfare programs, government housing, etc. The entire point is that the money from those programs, which collectively have quite a lot of waste, goes into UBI so everyone can participate in society on a more fair level.

For example, I have a neighbour who is on some kind of government assistance. He gets very little money, and his rent for an entire house is $105/mo. With UBI, he’d get a full basic income, but his housing would no longer be subsidized, removing the need for a public housing corporation known for being awful and wasting money.

I hate ads as much as anyone and have been blocking them for almost as long as ad blockers have existed. I still acknowledge the fact that ads are the primary revenue source for a lot of things on the Internet, and I selectively enable them for content I want to pay for.

How do you think Youtube is supposed to survive without ads or subscriptions? When they puts ads on their site, the unsaid agreement is that you exchange your ad views for their service.

I can envision a world where the search bar is an AI prompt. What a time to be alive that will be!

I wonder if we can also browse other peoples’ prompts. That would be cool.

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.

IIRC, he fought the Russians to protect Ukraine from their invasion. He had no other allegiance to Germany or Nazis. It was a “the enemy of my enemy is my ally” situation.

The job I’m currently interviewing candidates for has 1800 applicants. I don’t want a thread where that many people are talking, answering questions, and trying to get my attention for the job. I want a quick way to work through all the resumes so I can hire the best person.

That’s a lot of speculation and zero evidence. Regardless, selfishness and cooperation aren’t mutually exclusive.

Most of the anti-capitalism stuff on Lemmy has nothing to do with Capitalism and everything to do with humans being greedy. Anyone who thinks there’s a path to evenly distributing the wealth is an idiot because even people who advocate for that will end up finding ways to hoard more wealth for themselves if they get the chance. It’s the way we’ve always been and the way capitalism and socialism always turn out.

I’m currently working with a client that doesn’t have a health endpoint or any kind of monitoring on their new API . They say monitoring isn’t needed because it will never go down.

Naturally it went down on day two. They still haven’t added any “unnecessary” monitoring, insisting that it will never go down.

I first installed OG Red Hat 5.2 in 1998, but my computer had a Winmodem rather than a full hardware modem, so I never got it connected to the internet, which severely reduced how useful it was to me. I got broadband a year later, and that changed everything!

I’m sure google will never pull the same stunt as Amazon. They’re the good guys!

Bell TV in Canada doesn’t support Samsung TVs because Bell is stupid. The only option is to use an external device. It’s a good thing I don’t care about their TV app. I only have access because it comes free with fibre internet.

Arguably, they might never have made any money because they were being out-competed in many rural areas by alternative internet options, including regular broadband and cellular. The need for Loon was decreasing even before they had a major rollout of their technology.

If the layoffs are for valid reasons, such as the plant not requiring a shift or reduction in cars being sold. It might be legal.

I empathize with your story, but I’m not sure why it became about anti-women doctors. Men constantly have our complaints misdiagnosed.

The problem is that most GPs aren’t very good. People who do the best in medical school often choose to become surgeons or specialists, not GPs.

Good cops are usually punished for calling out bad cops. The system is broken.