I avoid restaurants that require tipping. When I do have to tip, I give way too much if the service was good. IMO, good service is to not try to talk to me too much, and to be responsive to what I need done (refilling drinks, taking additional requests). Bonus tip if I know they’re overworked and handling it well.

15% floor. Throw an additional $10 sometimes. Always direct to the worker because these places steal tips. Also I tip cooks sometimes.

But I avoid going to these restaurants.

Oh, I call it leaping. Quantum leap. It’s been almost 10 years. Decided to settle down and live out this life.

Lockpicking is not a crime!

JerryRigEverything, LockpickingLawyer, and Chef John from Foodwishes.com are absolute ear candy

I worked in a Costa del Mar warehouse once. The generic shades were $20, and right next to the brand name shades ($200). The brand name might have had some invisible enhancement, but they looked exactly the same to me besides the logo embossed into them. Both were polarized and mirrored exactly the same way.

What I’m saying is this: buy cheap generic ones. If you must have that logo, glue one on or something. I don’t understand brand worship.

She might get mad if you tell her this, but maybe you want some time to yourself. It’s what I usually want on my birthday.

“I don’t personally understand it, therefore God did it” (Argument from Ignorance, or God of the Gaps fallacy)

I hear this with regard to evolution, chemistry, bacteria, weather. They don’t know how something works, that’s proof enough for them. Eventually they say “then how was the universe created? There had to have been a creator!” (First cause argument) Or “The eye is so complicated, it had to be designed” (Watchmaker Fallacy)

I used to listen to The Atheist Experience podcast, but it got repetitive hearing the same arguments from religious people, over and over. I also didn’t like how mean the hosts could get sometimes, but I understand their frustration…

On the internet, nobody knows you’re a centaur.

I find it to be pretty trash, and that’s just my layman’s opinion. I won’t get into my professional opinion…

If you had to have sex with a centaur, would you rather the front or the back half were human?

That’s a real bad bug if the failure condition is to bypass your system security settings.

I saw after I commented that you had already configured it to block. Didnt feel necessary to correct it…

Oh, you got to use the always-on vpn setting on android. I don’t even trust that not to leak, but it’s a must.

Next, I suppose you’ll want to know about the speed of dark 🤨

He was way too damn smart, a real escape artist. He opened the door on his cage. I wrapped a paperclip around it to add security. He still escaped.

Couldn’t find him for a day or two. Heard him inside my bed which was not on a frame, so he chewed his way inside from the side. Gorged himself on foam and was fully blocked up. Died of intestinal trauma.

I couldn’t keep him locked up, and he killed himself.

Just… let it be a lottery. Couldn’t make it much worse.

I’m legally prohibited from speaking my mind honestly on this subject.

(The only thing unavailable is red ink)

Thanks for volunteering!

I re-read it that way and I agree. The sudden realization that he was in a class for windshield wipers, attended by actual windshield wipers was quite funny and the point (not belonging) was still conveyed, IMO.

I care, you care, and many of us here on lemmy care. We should work on how to coordinate ourselves together rather than try to change minds.

I’ve tried, a lot, to change minds. I started with the most difficult person, and recently a new hire at work is kinda centrist-left and I tried to convince him. No matter whether it’s a nazi you’re talking to (ahem… the first one) or a liberal, minds can only change themselves. They have to want it, you cannot hack their brain and override it.

I gave up, because even the people who are closest to me politically seem to move further to the right when faced with uncomfortable reality. They don’t engage with icky thoughts like “What if police killed an innocent man?”. They rationalize it to keep their comfort zone intact. “Well, if they just followed police instructions…” blissfully unaware of many cases like Daniel Shaver.

You point to an example that breaks their rationalization, and they will diminish it. “Oh that cop made a mistake”. Point to many examples and they suddenly got to go wash their hair. People’s psyche protects them from stress.

And that is the default mindset in this society. Avoidance of discomfort and inconvenience. Fear of the unknown. They want their life to be neat and happy and to all make sense. They don’t appreciate it when someone tries to take that away from them.

Do you think there’s something about people like us that makes us more accepting of challenging our own worldviews? I have some thoughts but I’ve written enough.

I have difficulty seeing the exterior cameras on the cybertruck. Where are they located? Are they active at all times?