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Cake day: July 19th, 2023
  • downpunxx@kbin.socialtoAntiwork@lemmy.ml•Why American Tipping Culture Is Broken
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    2 years ago

    Owners don’t want to charge more for the food that people eat at Restaurants fearing it will tip the scale and less people will eat there, so they lowball the menu prices, and leave earning up to each individual server for each individual table instead of paying wait staff a living wage. This is further exacerbated by serving staff being allowed to be paid far less than the meager minimum wage in most, but not all (CA) states.

  • downpunxx@kbin.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•is the lemmyverse dying already?
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    2 years ago

    I don’t use any Lemmy instance any more, seeing as how I couldn’t make myself ok with having named that fediverse constellation after a man who owned the largest personal collection of Nazi memorabilia in the world.

    I’ve been using KBIN, and even though it’s founder and main coder put out an update last week as to why maintenance and development of KBIN has been slow to the point of seeming as if it’s stopped all together, it still bothers me that I can’t block a domain (without losing the ability to see posts comments … it’s a known bug) and I can’t block sub/magazines/whatever from places like lemmyworld and hexbear (amongst others), can’t drill down on my own comments under my profile to see replies, and notifications though racking up, and showing the increasing number, can’t be accessed at all only showing the error we’re working on it page (this has gone on for a month now).

    So, yeah, it’s becoming less interesting the longer these issues aren’t addressed, and there are far too many children running around the fediverse (god help us when the idiot right wingers figure out how to onboard) without the ability to block at will.

    Hey, it’s all free, and the developers are all doing this gratis, out of the goodness of their hearts, and I appreciate that, I needed an excuse to shitcan reddit, as things are much much worse there, by design for engagement, just not in love with KBIN, and I guess that could change once it becomes more functional.

  • downpunxx@kbin.socialtoPolitics@beehaw.org•Trump is explaining exactly how wild and extreme his second term would be | CNN Politics
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    2 years ago

    The Million Americans dead from a purposefully sandbagged and mishandled COVID response beg to differ with your analysis in just how ruinous the Trump presidential term, was. Do they not count? Trump personally packed the Supreme Court with anti abortionists, who then killed Roe dead, do America’s women not count? Doesn’t matter what anyone says it’s what they do. Trump did so much lasting damage to the United States it will take decades to undo. The next bite of the apple will kill it deader than Dillinger. It doesn’t matter how much shit he talks, it’s what he’s able to destroy once given the power. That’s all the racists care about.