You're very obviously not defending tipping culture. I am defending tipping culture as an organic solution to a structural issue. Is it a good solution? Not really, but more equitable than not tipping in the current state of society.
Your argument so far (as it reads by me) appears to suggest we should all stop tipping and the market will magically correct itself because (sometimes?) you go to a coffee shop that chooses to be more internally equitable.
I want to believe you have some plan as to how we get to a situation where restaurants (like McDonalds) are expected to pay a living wage, but right now, hoping that they do it voluntarily strains credibility.
Can you give me more of what you propose than "maybe not tipping is better" and "I know of a restaurant that voluntarily fixed this issue".
According to my rudimentary research, the average franchise owner makes $118,00 / year (take home, after other things are accounted for). If you break that into 52 weeks and 40 hour work weeks, that suggests a (very rough) $52/hour.
And your argument is that sometimes the service worker can make as much as that, if they are tipped successfully.
I personally think that - while I would prefer to live in a world where a living wage was guaranteed and we could honorably discard tipping culture - in lieu of such regulation, this seems preferable to management making that same profit and the worker being offered poverty wages.
Correct, the customer benefits from enabling the employer to deprive th employee of a living wage. Their patronage facilitates the practice.
So yes, the customer is not a beneficiary of tipping culture, but they benefit by ignoring tipping culture at the cost of employees (in absence of robust living wage regulations or practices).
The customer is one of the beneficiaries of this alleged scam, which makes me dubious about the placement of responsibilities. It sounds like the customer is high on capitalistic copium.
If you can't be bothered to step out of your comfort zone and travel .3 AU to pick up your food, I don't know what to tell you. Maybe you want the crippled driver to spoon feed it to you.
Unless your base argument is "Microsoft users are all stupid", then I remind you that this is not only default behavior, but is mandatory if your account is associated with an EmtraID account (i.e. any business or school)
Boring is what most people want in an OS - usually for most people it's at it's best when it's quietly enhancing the user experience and then getting out of the way.
They don't own it, the individual posters own the content of their own posts, however, from the reddit terms of service:
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And with each of those rights granted, Reddit's lawyers can defend those rights. So no, they don't own it "just because they ran the servers" - they own specific rights to copy granted to them by each poster.
(I don't like this arrangement, but ignorance of the terms of service isn't going to help someone who uploaded a full copy of the works they have extensive rights to) On this subject I think there needs to be an extensive overhaul to narrow what terms you can extend to the general public. The problem is I straight up don't trust anyone currently in power to make such a change to have our interests in mind.
Oh, I too doubt the regret is for anything beyond "I got caught and this makes me look bad shash will directly cost me money slash power slash influence". I only made the reference to say that Gates' ties to Epstein were known well before 2026.
In 2019, Gates characterized his relationship with Epstein as a 'huge mistake'. Make of that what you will.
But this post doesn't really address that. It suggests Epstein bought Windows XP once, which … is fine … I guess? (Doesn't let him off the hook for the criminal empire he ran though)
I checked your topological sign and you're such a torus.