The crazy thing is, the person who made that decision isn’t there for you to be mad at them. It’s a perfect example of turning us against one another.

Hey, I’m just a lurker on this discussion, but I’m going to assume you’re asking an honest question here and not sealioning. If you really want to take action, I’d recommend looking at changing policy at the local level. I believe California has recently passed a couple laws that do things like disallow mandatory gratuities for large groups, and increase minimum wage for service workers. So if you want action items:

• easy: look up the specifics of those California laws, and look up similar laws across the country, and see if any of them could fly in your municipality or state. next time the politicians come calling, say: “what are you doing to implement [policy]?”
• medium: if you don’t think any existing policies would solve the problem, then try to think of what policy would.
• hard: instead of tipping, save up that cash, keep track of it. figure out what organizations in your region could help implement those policies, contact them directly, and tell those organizations that you’ve saved up money that you’re willing to donate to help implement better policies.

The way they sneaked up on us was: during the pandemic, I started tipping a dollar or two for take-out because “we’re all in this together” and “these are extraordinary times.” Then those Clover bastards came through and turned that dollar or two into a baseline 15%.

“Mad World” by Gary Jules.

But really you want to start off with “Take On Me” and “Never Gonna Give You Up”.

Yeah but then google will tell you to microwave your glue and eat it.

@[email protected] it’s time to “cross the Rubicon” to full federation!

These are all excellent communities, and invariably some of my favorite posts of the day. I’m seeing them on lemmy.world, btw.

[email protected] - mostly games, movies, shows, and music in the cyberpunk sci-fi genre

[email protected] - music: synthwave, vaporwave, etc. A fairly new community, a couple different people have been posting

[email protected] - music community. I was hoping someone else would make the 300th post, if not I’ll post something later today.

[email protected] - a larger community, a couple of us are posting regularly, but could use more discussion

[email protected] - a community about how to help grow the fediverse. @[email protected] has been posting a weekly thread on “how is your [niche] community doing?” which is kind of like a support group for people keeping communities alive

edit: how could I forget, [email protected] - links to short stories online in all genres

I don’t usually recommend anime, but if that concept sounds interesting, check out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyouge_Mono

I liked it better when I was trying to guess what it was.

He’s not. He’s a Roman, his father’s a centurion in the Jerusalem garrison, and his name is Naughtius Maximus.

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I thought the swiss people seemed sometimes kinda "rude"or maybe a better word for it “cold” and a little annoyed

I have some Swiss-American relatives, and I think this is cultural. They just have a different set of indicators, they’re not going to be grinning and hugging.

I have a friend who went to London and just ate at Whole Foods all the time. So, vegans can survive.

“smoke copium, non-resident”?

They are 30-minute sessions. I did them in my car during work commute. Many public libraries have them. Here’s the first session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eguDJPkjPwQ

I’ve used the Pimsleur language programs for a couple languages. It’s audio based: you hear a recording, and you say it out loud. A great way to get started.

This would make an awesome episode of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”

visiting a neat-sounding community and realizing all the posts are by the single moderator (and are getting less and less frequent).

This will be a key moment towards Lemmy’s growth or decline. Especially in non-tech/meme/politics communities, it’s so easy for the only poster be a single person who is posting daily, and who then simply runs out of content. Maybe the solution is for each frequent poster to post non-daily on several different communities. Anyway, check out [email protected], @[email protected] has started posting a weekly thread on “How is your niche community doing?”

Make sure you listen to Eye of the Tiger: 30 minute intro while watching that.