Ideally, the restaurant should pay enough that tipping is not required (which does require them to raise prices). As a customer you would then be free to tip a smaller amount if you thought that the service was exceptional.

That’s how it works in the UK although a lot of businesses are adding a tip onto the bill in advance so that you would need to complain about the service to get it removed (technically you can just ask them to remove the tip without giving a reason if that’s how you want to play it).

Existing games built on Unity will also be hit with Runtime Fees if they meet the thresholds starting January 1.

How can you have a deal in place and just say “you’re giving me more money” and think that that’s ok?

I am altering the deal, pray I don’t alter it any further. - Vader

It’s taking the piss out of Andrew Tate and the gullible guys that he’s convinced are superior to women.

I used to be really keen on Teslas but a combination of Elon and stories of poor quality and after sales support have killed the brand for me.

I like the scope creep there:

1. Programming language (singular)
2. All programming languages and related knowledge
3. Add in AI, ML and data structures

There’s a few Ts in that comment. There are one or two people who replace “th” with that symbol in the communities that I subscribe to.

I also find it mildly infuriating.

I believe that ignorance leads people to think / claim that they have OCD. I used to think that I had OCD but after watching a documentary on it I realise that I’m just a little particular about how things should be.

President Zelenskyy could have ended the war many months ago if he’d just agreed to all of Putin’s demands. Who knew?

Same if they say to disable your ad blocker.

I don’t see the problem with this search result. You searched for Lemmy clients and the first link gives a list of Lemmy clients for Android. It happens to be on Reddit but it does match your search.

She’s an amazing woman. It must be so hard to go through this in private let alone with all this news coverage.

Even if it was true, why is he carving his name into anything that he doesn’t own!

She initially thought the email was fake, but after realising it was from Ticketmaster she said she does not intend to buy tickets from the company in the future, despite being a loyal customer.

Loyal customer pretty much means the same as regular concert goer.

I go to quite a few concerts and all of my tickets are bought from Ticketmaster in some form. I wouldn’t call myself loyal to them as I’m forced to choose between Ticketmaster or no concert.

Blocking X would be a good start.

While other countries lag behind, Norway's success demonstrates the potential for widespread EV adoption.

Decades of incentives, including tax breaks and infrastructure investments, have driven this shift.

Basically, if your government really wants it and doesn’t give in to lobbying then they can do it.

It’s many years of concerted effort with successive administrations keeping up the commitment.

Our 2024 figure for % of new cars being electric was 19.6% in the UK so I’d be very surprised if we hit the 2030 target of 80% new cars sold being zero emission.

I wish our test team was like that. Ours would respond with something like “How would I test this?”

They’ll probably say that it’s for the environment and that you should use a reusable bag for it.

Companies are good at doing things to benefit the environment when it also benefits their bottom line.

Is it being a conspiracy theorist to think that they might have allowed it with the intention of making this exact move if it was discovered?

It’s training itself to pass those mouse based “I’m human” checks that some sites use.

I think that it was the other way around. He made money with web cam girls, expanded into human trafficking and then started selling advice about how he made his money.