As wish many things American, it goes back to slavery. Tipped workers were a way for employers to avoid paying (mostly black) workers, effectively providing slavery-lite even after slavery had ended (Happy Juneteenth).

In any case, current U.S. labor law has specific carve-outs for certain tipped jobs that allow the minimal wage to be not the already unlivable $7.25/hr but the unsustainable $2.15/hr. Technically, employers are required to bring a tipped workers pay up to $7.25/hr if they do not report enough tips, but in practice employers encourage reporting incorrect tips and find reasons (if needed) to dismiss employees that do not report enough tips.

Fisherman, Sailor, Teamster, and Chef are not tipped positions. Waitstaff is a tipped position.

Usually it's because we have a mutual desire to communicate, collaborate, or exchange data.

When it doesn't affect me, I generally don't think about it, and I certainly don't "hate on" them.

Yes and "tipping" has gone insane. Not just amounts (tho even when I was a child, my parents consider 10% the bare minimum) but also you get prompted to leave a tip for transactions that don't involve a tipped position.

My experience is from one of the shittier states for workers (Arkansas), right-to-work effectively eliminates all union activity, the state would remove the minimum wage if it could, and there's even people that want to make it easier for 14-18 year olds to work.

But the people who directly benefit will still fight you on it.

Is that still true? Even back when I has tipped workers as peers, their attitudes were mixed. If you have any polling data, that would be appreciated -- but, I don't have any data either, just vague memories.

While the waitstaff has particular challenges in U.S. labor law (lower effective federal minimum wage), it is not safe to assume any of the other workers in the chain are still paid a living wage either.

I do sometimes feel bad for MS Windows users. I rarely "hate on" them, but that largely depends on their reaction my inability / unwillingness to use the communication/collaboration tools and data formats they are used to.

If you have a family you can divvy up those tasks to all care for one another. You can make a fine meal without a lot of specialist equipment. One sharp knife, one big spoon, and one pot can make a good soup with the right ingredients.

When I had tipped peers, wait staff got $2.15/hr + tips. It certainly changes the calculus.

Good to know we are in careful, caring hands. /s

Thanks for being a Union Worker.

It's a good comic, but escalators can kill: https://www.cnn.com/...

I'd like to think that even if your shoelace got caught that either the lace would fail or your fit would fail (and the shoe would come off) before your person got caught, and if not that, hopefully someone would be able to find the emergency stop before you were mortally injured.

But, be careful out there. It's getting increasingly rare for organization responsible for maintenance and safety to be held meaningfully liable, even though many safety regulations are "written in blood".

I think the problem is objectification. It's fiction and fantasy, but in the case of a live-action movie, there's a real person under the fictions, and we need to remember that.

The font and color match the shutdown screen from release versions of MS Windows 95, as far as I can tell / if I recall correctly.

(Also IIRC, ACPI was new enough that MS Windows 95 [or any software] couldn't actually turn off most of the machines it was installed on, which is why the screen exists at all.)

The animal and owner bit is basically id and ego, so it's a observation that's older than I am (and I'm from the 1900s).

If I'm actually being productive at bed time, fsck it. I'll get back in sync later.

But, I think most of the time I stay up too late, I'm not actually accomplishing anything. I'm either playing games that I will enjoy just as much, maybe even more, if I practice good sleep hygiene. Or, I'm letting some recommendation algorithm drip-free me neurotransmitters, and that's not worth disrupting your sleep routine.

While science is basically never absolute, and those bits of science aren't particularly strong, it's really worth a try.

Forgive me if you've already given it a try and know it doesn't work for you. That's unclear from your post, and not the vibe I get from it. I know not everything works for everyone.

Sleep hygiene does have a very strong correlation to life satisfaction. I really hope you can find the later, even if not via the former.

Maybe at some point in the far past, certainly before Linus started Linux, if ever.

The Halloween Documents tell us it wasn't this century.

I own 4 shares of IBM. A friend of my father's bought one for me as a birth present, and it split twice since then.

The people I knew when I was 330lbs treated me the same when I was 205lbs. Strangers might have treated me differently, but I was probably oblivious to it.

I'm back up to 263lbs, tho. And, BMI and BF% says I need to be closer to 165lbs. So, I probably never crossed any hotness threshold, if there is one. (I'm a cis male, FYI.)

I'm trying to deal with reality, but my hardware was issued in the 20th century.

2 splits in 46 years is not that pace. But, nice ref.