Visit Canada where wait staff don't have a separate minimum wage yet still we have American tip culture.

Do you think there is anything unknown at this point that'd actually make a difference? Even saying Trump could rape a child live on Fox News wouldn't hurt him is old hat now. I don't buy into the idea that his voter base and staff will magically grow a conscience in response to...anything. The people opposed to him, is there something that gets them to actually organise and do something about the rot? I'm on the outside looking in so idk.

Reading that, my mind goes to a scene from Honey I've Shrunk The Kids when the girl is nearly drowned in mud from the lawn sprinkler system 😅

Morals are subjective, I don't consider myself the arbiter of truth and I also reject theistic positive claims stating otherwise such as objective morals or free will. Personally I know I can survive without eating animals, so I'd rather not be indirectly involved in the killing of other animals where it is reasonably possible and I don't consider humans more important/superior to any other animals, generally.

I think you could get a lot of people to even admit to valuing very old trees over a lot of people too so even some plants are worth leaving alone, according to some of us. Like Red Wood giants in Cali, for example. All the land cleared of wildlife to grow food for billions of humans is disturbing stuff at least to me as well. The planet is actually kinda... small. I've come to realise. I fully reject humanity's unearned superiority complex.

I acknowledge it's hard/impossible to be absolute in the vegetarian ideal given all the ramifications of industrial overpopulation and just casually participating in the society I was born into. Best I can do on this suffering planet, that I never consented to being born to live temporarily upon pointlessly, is to minimize (elimination is unrealistic) the suffering my life inflicts on others.

In other words, I don't owe anyone jack shit, not even Mommy Dearest. Yet I still stand by this moral position. Although I'd argue this is just who I am and always was. The justications put into words and labels applied came later. You'll notice I didn't condemn meat eating in this comment and that's quite deliberate. You are not me. I just explain my position when asked and it's up to others to adopt it or not.

I can't remember a year with more rain all at once like this. Farm fields looking dire.

Lazy! CachyOS sets up system snapshots and I could one click install gaming related packages. It's not much really, I could install regular Arch instead but meh.

6'5" here. Because very few people are noticeably taller than I am, when I meet someone who is it's a crazy experience especially 7ft+.

I can recall being stun locked by having to look up at someone much taller than me 5 times total in my 35 years alive so far since middle school.

The opposite doesn't really phase me until I'm physically holding a significant other. Then I'm like holy shit you're tiny! Dunno why it doesn't quite register until then.

Pretty low ROI brainrotting a couple thousand people I figure, not worth bothering. Tankies do it for free.

2001: A Space Odyssey

I like behind the scenes footage far more than the movie. I can appreciate how it's made but I absolutely can't stand to actually watch the resulting movie.

Well he's a hyper active poster beyond just comics, so now you get to see his fucking name everywhere.

You've been very patient with this hostile git, commendable.

Exactly. I still say FUCK in my head so what the F--k does this fucking accomplish? Nobody ever explains.

Nothing, officer. I didn't see who keyed the car.

And suffer all the problems popularity brings.

I was thinking about:

Server costs, vast increase of bad actors and bots, legal scrutiny, international government narrative manipulation. Overall quality drop from LCD majority who aren't typically early adopters of any new social platform. Stuff like that.

This is your first comment on your new account and you chose to be an asshole. Congratulations.

Oooh very accurate. There is some "mandatory" signing sheet for reading the monthly safety info but anyone can edit it and most people are incompetent with computers. Took only 2 months for my name to get deleted by somebody and I just...never signed it again. Nobody noticed.

It's actually infuriating how energy efficient the human body is...in peace time anyways.

American defaultism strikes again.

Is Germany a giant land mass sparsely populated?