Hope that person’s family is compensated. That’s awful.

Agreed! Get financials in order, get a decent lawyer that will walk you through the necessary steps together as a family prior to death.

Correct, that is the same dumb shit. But we talking about China right now.

Taiwan is just one of their territorial squabbles…

Rule of threes, they say!

In 2024? That ship sailed the Old Straight Road to Valinor in 2010 with the Citizens United decision.

Oh Mitch is already dead, they just won’t say so.

The west does this to Africa too, China is merely playing catchup to this awful scheme.

Catholicism will go to the mat against nutbars who want mass in Latin but institutional pedophilia? Nah.

Gosh I wish we’d see that sort of collective action.

People most definitely want to be paid by their employer rather than tips. This isn’t a bottom up movement keeping tipping in place. It is ultra rich people invested in the restaurant industry that keep it around. The same people that use the National Restaurant Association to effectively lobby against minimum wage hikes to meet that “livable wage” and pro-unionization regulation.

Yeah definitely not arguing against earning a livable wage via being paid that livable wage by the employer. That should be the system. But sadly that isn’t the system and not paying a tip in the states isn’t going to do anything to change the system.

For example, the unhoused crisis is caused by the same ultra rich classes that keep tipping around. But I’m not going to pretend that the unhoused aren’t people with real immediate needs. I will give them money when I can. I will vote and push for change as well. Material concerns of the moment are more important to me than strict idealism.

This is generally false. Most waiters would see more consistent income with fewer instances of subjective nonsense like ideologues who don’t believe they have to follow the basic cultural rules of the place in which they visit. There is an exceptional subset of waiters that would make less for sure but they are in a minority.

Just go eat at McDonalds then.

Y’all living privileged idealogue navel-gazed lives can do what you want I guess. We here in the working class are tired, overworked, and are trying to survive the day.

Tipping is fucking stupid but it is the current system for how US waiters earn a living. So to fuck them over and not tip does nothing to change the system and only leaves them overworked with no money.

Think materially and tip your servers. Believe me they would like it to change too. It isn’t them that keeps the system in place. Big business has the money to lobby against our human and material needs.

Oh no! Anyway …

Yeah you definitely don’t know the internal politics of Israel.

We all have a Ziggy from Quantum Leap in our pockets.

Ha, it is a bit personal I guess. They fly routes below 400ft continuously over parks, known landmarks adding noise pollution that really gets to you.