[–] 2 points 5 days ago (1 child)

But that's not why you'd get the same answer. You'd get the eggs location when asking for dairy because they're in the same place. If you asked for where the car batteries were, you'd end up where the oil is but no one says batteries are a type of oil or vice versa. You just asked for something else in the same area

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    While not obligatory on the patron to tip, the pay of waitstaff assumes they are being tipped. While the employer legally has to make up for a person's hours if the total goes below that of everyone else's minimum wage, anyone who doesn't consistently make their paycheck from tips is considered a bad server and likely to lose their job.

    The problem arises where places that shouldn't be paying their workers the lower waitstaff minimum wage, are. This means that you never know if a person serving you relies on tips to make their living and adds a moral or social pressure towards tipping in places it normally wouldn't be done. Companies view this as free money when their workers don't get the tips.

    There is technically no obligation to tip. There is societal pressure to do so that is being exploited.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago (29 children)

    I wish I lived in a developed nation where I could just "go get blood work done" for a nominal fee or be able to afford to care about long term effects instead of surviving day to day. Not sarcastic, I legit wish that

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    Oh, gender absolutely does factor in. Women are seen as lesser because misogyny. And, while the normal person wouldn't consider there to be an ideal state, these people definitely have one in mind. It's toxic hyper masculinity on meth

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    It's the time of year again when I find my citrus plants covered in wiggling bird poop. The caterpillar form of the swallowtail butterfly is extra fond of citrus plants and they make a point to have their first point of life in my garden. I have a rule that I make plain to the little critters: you can stay if you don't eat too many leaves. Eat too much and you get evicted. It does no good for them if the plant dies.

    It got me thinking: where do others sit on the scale of "magazine perfect lawn piece" to "it's less garden and more forest area I found to live in"?

    Do you have everything where the animals can't get to them or are you fighting the birds for the perfect ripeness of a fig?

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