What a terrible pandering article. It essentially brings up 3 points:

Employees don't make enough without tips: If employees are having to rely on the kindness of customers for a living wage then they should be angry at their bosses, not the customers. If businesses don't make enough to pay their employees a living wage then they should raise their prices. If raising their prices means customers stop coming in then they don't have a sustainable business model.

Reminds people that their is a tipped hourly wage that is $2.13: Apparently this category of worker is twice as likely to be in poverty so we should just tip to subsidize? How about we abolish that law? Fuck the government for continuing to subsidize shitty business practices by allowing a law to exist that statistically shows a 100% increase in the likelihood a citizen will be in poverty. Also this argument is already immediately moot for a majority of states which either don't allow tipped wages or already tie tipped wages to minimum wage so that you can't be paid less than your states minimum wage. Honestly this argument is so stupid it reminds me of people who say they can't earn more money because they'll make less money because they don't understand progressive tax brackets. What a shallow analysis by NPR.

"You hurt my feelings when you don't tip like you don't value my labor": Fuck you. Your boss doesn't value your labor. My job as a customer isn't to pay you for doing your job. I obviously value your labor because I'm buying stuff at the store that you work at. Your boss doesn't value your labor. It's just easier for you to bully and guilt customers into paying your wage rather than demand your rightful value from your employer.

You're right, I thought it was tied to state minimum wages which some don't have but it's tied to federal minimum wages which makes more sense. I suppose that just makes the original argument even more moot though.

That sounds good to me. Dunno how active I'll end up being but will probably check in from time to time. Did you do this post manually? I had been thinking it might be a fun project to write a Lemmy bot and could see how difficult it would be to set up one that would start game threads/post updates if that sounds like something you'd like on your community

Im pretty familiar with tech, I can take a look. I was already planning on making one for the Mariners community, but I don't see why it couldn't support more than one team

Well...I mean, I dunno why I hoped for something different. Two of those bases were given to us by their last pitcher.

At least we got a point out of it.

Parsing through the live stats is where I'm at right now, the MLB API is actually super robust. I didn't look at the Reddit bot though but that'd be a good starting point.

Not to start a race though. I'm definitely taking my time to write this thing, so if you get a good chunk done with a GitHub repo up lemme know and I'd be down to abandon my NodeJs project to work on yours instead.

Can't believe we had the bases loaded with no outs earlier and just blew it

He sure has :D

Fair, less work for me. I was only like 70% done on my bot

I don't understand...this can't be official. Since when did the Facebook equivalent of deep fried memes become a real thing that corporations want to emulate?

Meh, it could have it's uses. Local restaurants around me have Facebook pages, some even only have that rather than their own website. They advertise specials, events and whatever. I don't think it's out of the ordinary for a business to try and engage with potential clientele on a platform like Facebook, and I don't think it is super weird that people use that platform to engage with the business. What I do find weird is a national corporation posting Facebook messages like a 10 year old trying to impress their 14 year old cousin about the thing they did last week.

Ty France looked real confused...but again at least we got a point