I don't know why I didn't see this before but thank you very much. This is helpful.

I may have misunderstood the question. Restaurants who have adopted no tipping add the 20% charge in one way or another. Either the food costs more or there's a service fee.

I would like the charge to stay the same but the waiter still gets a living wage but it's absurd to believe that will happen and may be unrealistic to expect that it should. I don't know what profit margin any given restaurant has but none will give up 20% of profits and a lot may not be able to remain open if they have to. In any scenario the business would have to change beyond recognition. The ones who choose to adapt may just fire the waiters and have you order through a machine and then you don't have to tip but that business model already exists in most fast food chains.

No, but we shouldn't expect to pay less if they stop receiving tips and the employer pays them instead. I think a lot of people make this assumption. In reality it'll be more like you don't have to tip but your meal is 20% more expensive.

I like trying to figure it out. It's one of my favorite things about Lemmy that I can find non US focused communities.

I've been watching a couple debates involving Trump supporters. They all do some version of this. "I like his policies" "ok, can you name a policy of his you approve of" they can never come up with any. In almost any other scenario this would be funny. It's hopeless.

The black Panthers tried that. Not saying it shouldn't be done again but let's learn from what happened to them.

I don't know if she said it or not but it's about Jada Pinkett Smith saying Tupac was her soulmate. It wouldn't surprise me, they seemed to have a lot of chemistry.

For some people it being fake does ruin it. For a lot (me included) the idea itself is funny. When George Carlin was describing the first time he made a joke, the description described comedy to me. I don't know exactly what he said but along the lines of: the first time I told a joke it was to my mother. I made her laugh. It was the first time I twisted an idea in such a way that it was funny.

So yeah, two people can look at the same photo/scenario and the person providing a perspective that seems absurd and funny is the comedian. Sorry it's late but I hope I made sense.

There's that quote that said something along the lines of give poor white men someone to look down on and they'll empty their pockets for you. I think that's one of the reasons latino voters voted for Trump. There was a lot of misinformation demonizing Venezuelan immigrants in spanish and I think that led a lot of these morons to believe they were part of the "in" group and they would benefit.

I lived in Tennessee for a few years. I've never been greeted so many times with "do you speak English?" Sometimes I'd just be like "nah!" And walk away.

From a movie hitman perspective sure. Real life "hits" don't look like they do in the movies though. You can find videos of truly amateurish hits online easily. The most violent cities in US see them happen often. Whomever this person did this was calm, seemed disciplined, got the job done. On a scale from drive by to James Bond, I'd put him solidly in the middle.

It was a pet peeve of mine to watch people put a small item in a bag, wrap the whole thing and hand carry it.

The civil rights museum in Memphis,TN is amazing. What made it impactful to me is very much that. Seeing the buses, diners, the hotel, all modern things made me realize these things basically just happened. Black Americans have had a long arduous road to just exist in the country they were forced to come to. And they're always being gaslit, told it happened long ago, didn't happen, it wasn't that bad etc.

Switching costs money. From what he said money might be tight. I buy and sell my own vehicles. It is a job. Most prefer to give up a few grand to not have to do it (you never get paid full market value on a trade in). Even if someone decided to do it themselves they run the risk of losing big time if they're inexperienced. Even though I've been doing it for years even I lose on some of these. When I lose, it's usually close to the cost of the vehicle. I can afford that and in the end I average out really well.But the majority of people can't do that. I get all the hate new big trucks get and I agree. As someone who works in construction I wish station wagons would make a come back. But it's really easy to say "just do x y or z" it's not so easy to do.

Homeboy is insecure and a coward. I've been around similar idiots. They feel insecure in front of the bros they're trying to impress so they pick on someone they think will not defend themselves. In my case they pick on me being short. Dumbasses aren't even creative so it's easy to snap right back having heard their jokes a million times. They don't like that. They're super sensitive. Dump his ass, you deserve better. All he's going to do is double down. If you cave, it will only get worse.

And cocaine

I used to think this. Then some girl in Poland asked me "so are you like, illegal?" When I told her I was Mexican. I've ran into other assholes while traveling but I still remember her.

Wow! I skimmed through the article and legitimately thought it was an onion article until I read your comment.

I think I know how your dad feels. Growing up in West Coast US I didn't understand why central Americans had such animosity towards being compared or mistaken as Mexican. Then I moved to the south. To my co workers every brown person was Mexican. "hey go ask your little amigo xy or z" was common. "what little amigo?" " The Mexican who's got the keys to the gate" "I don't know that guy. Also, he's Guatemalan. See that flag hanging from his car? It's a Guatemalan flag" I didn't piss me off, but it made me feel a way I haven't felt before and it's not positive. I now get triggered when people just assume I'm Mexican. It says a lot about them and it's not good.