Also, kicking down the door leaves evidence and usually require some sort of justification or approval. If they have a key to a backdoor, they don’t have to tell anyone they were inside, or ask for permission to use it.

Then this conversation isn’t about you. Many places have exceptions to minimum wage for tipped employees. That, plus tip-out policies means that serving a customer that doesn’t tip can actually cost the server money.

We’re talking about the problem of tipping culture and complaints about being expected to tip too much. If you live in a country that pays waitstaff well, then this conversation isn’t about you. You can self select based on context clues.

I agree with you, and I don’t have a job that relies on tips. But I live in a place where tips are the source of income for servers, so if I use their services, I tip. I also vote for politicians who want to raise wages for servers and eliminate the exceptions to the minimum wages.

Tipping culture sucks. You and I agree on that. Servers should be paid decent wages, and tipping should be optional.

That ain’t the system we got, though. And you don’t change the system by abusing the victims of the system.

Did someone say this, or did you imagine it? 20% is standard for good service, but anything less than 15% is message that there was something wrong with the service. If you cannot afford to pay for good service, you should not seek good service.

Edit: Lotta downvotes, but all I’m hearing are the same tired arguments from cheap keyboard warriors who hate poor people. Nobody can point to anybody saying 40% is standard, and nobody has a solution to tipping culture that doesn’t involve victimizing tipped employees. You want to fix the system, let’s do that, but until we do, pay for the services you asked for.

They covered the Epstein files and nobody had any consequences.

Failure? Pretty sure the oligarchy is getting exactly what they want.

I mean, maybe it’s technically “darker” the literal sense, but any unfinished concrete is going to scatter light differently than glossy blue paint. And I don’t have anything against cleaning and maintaining the pool. It’s normal maintenance that has to happen every so often.

But if this doesn’t look tacky as shit and make it harder to see the reflection, I’ll eat a hat.

A reflecting pool needs to be dark on the bottom. If it’s bright blue, too much light bounces off the bottom and overwhelms the reflection.

Literally nothing Trump does isn’t fucking stupid and wasteful.

There’s literally no reason to use these ever.

4 in 10 are fucking dipshits.

How else do you think they stay on?

A government that will kidnap, mutilate, torture, and kill innocent civillians for any reason will kidnap, mutilate, torture, and kill innocent civillians for any reason.

As was intended. Fascists see the brain drain as a victory, because stupid masses are easier to control.

Not that I’m criticizing the educators who leave. They are being forced out, and it’s entirely reasonable to abandon Texas.

That’s fair, and I agree it’s better to see dems doing anything, if only for the novelty of it.

I mean, it’s moderately encouraging to see Dems doing something to fight Trump, but Congress doesn’t have the authority to utilize the mechanisms in the 25th amendment to remove Trump. They can issue articles of impeachment (again), but there are too many conservative senators and representatives protecting Trump for that to be viable, either.

This bill won’t go anywhere, and even if it did pass, it wouldn’t have any effect.

Ok, you’re ill-informed.

Considering we only know it’s there because it slightly dims the light from its star as it crosses during its orbit, you would be correct. At that distance, we would never see light bouncing off the actual planet. Even the star is basically a single pixel. We can estimate its size and orbit based on how quickly it crosses in front of the star and how much the light dims, and using those two numbers we can estimate its distance from Kepler 452.

Like Nazis don’t have money to spend?