I remember my FIL asking each one if they were trying to supplement a living or if they were purely a for-profit capitalist venture taking advantage of an opportunity at an anti-capitalist protest.

Out of curiosity, how would he draw that line? When does it stop counting as a living and start being a purely for-profit venture?

Not tipping doesn’t fix this problem, it just makes someone get payed less.

Just in case it wasn’t clear, when one is not tipping, they are very literally not giving people money. The only “people” you are giving money to are the owners of the service, not the wage workers you may otherwise have tipped.

Nothing on Lemmy is posted on basis of “needs to be mentioned”,

Literally everything on Lemmy was said for a reason. Bad reasons exist, but I like to give people the benefit of the doubt.

Tipping causes lower wages because it relieves the employers of the obligation of paying their workers. Also, I am talking about systemic change,

Tipping doesn’t “cause” lower wages. Tipping becoming an expected social norm can cause that, or exacerbate it. But you as an individual choosing not to tip doesn’t really impact that. It certainly doesn’t effect systemic change. If the norm is already present, all you’re doing is literally lowering one individual’s wages by not tipping them, and if it’s not then what you’re doing is making a statement to that individual (ranging from “I come from America” to “you were really exceptional”).

Tipping occasionally doesn’t cause this problem either.

Being vocal about never tipping implies that it’s an exceptional stance for some reason. If that’s the norm where you live, why does it need to be mentioned?

Not tipping doesn’t fix this problem, it just makes someone get payed less. If you want to fix the issue, regulate it out of existence. You aren’t changing the culture, you’re just being a bit of a dick.

Yeah, but how do you qualify that?

I’m asking how people intend to use that number.

Do you have a clear way of defining “clickbait” or is it just vibes?

• Too many typos, spelling mistakes, emojis, or grammatical errors

Got it, no writing like a senator on Twitter. Or X, or whatever.

Um, I think you mean octopodes.

Fun fact, there’s a Wikipedia article that comes up for “plurals of words ending in -us” with a section jus for octopus.

Sounds like a more concise description of my same strategy, yeah.

…AI generated jeans spammers? What did I miss?

What about comments?

When I was like 8, I allegedly … Illegally acquired… A beanie baby. I … may have just carried it out of a mall while Christmas shopping.

This is all hypothetical, of course. I’m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that a tiny stuffed ferret was as close as I was going to get to owning a ferret. That would be silly.

There’s not a lot most people could do if the USA decided to impose the entire might of their military and economic power.

So do you prefer venmo, or …?

I was under the impression that limbs “falling asleep” was more of a nerve thing and not a circulation thing. Is that not true?

I’m with you. I wouldn’t think it was happening until it already happened.

Disagreeing is fine, but fallacious arguments aren’t. I feel it’s important to be able to understand why you believe what you do, or at least not to expect others to agree with you if you can’t. Fallacious arguments are not good reasons to believe something, and outright false ones are even worse.

Holding an opinion I disagree with is fine, it’s when you tell me my opinion is wrong and offer only bad reasoning to convince me that it’s a problem.

It’s bad because of the, like, stalking/prodding people until they engage part of it. Just like JAQing, it starts with a pretense of doing no wrong. This means sometimes it’s possible to accuse someone of it when they’re acting in good faith because what they said closely resembles others who have acted in bad faith.