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And me.

Especially since in the height of my pirating years during teenagerdom, no amount of cajoling or coercion could get me to pay for whatever it was because I didn’t have any money. Which not at all coincidentally was why I was pirating it in the first place.

These dweebs always operate from the frankly invalid preconception that if the pirate had not pirated the media they would have paid for it and therefore they’re “owed” a sale, but that’s not how it works. I imagine that if the vast majority of people were unable to pirate their thing, they simply would not watch/listen/read/play/consume the thing at all.

Hell, I run a ghost community. I did indeed port it over from reddit, just out of spite. But to be fair, it was pretty ghosty over there, too.

I’m not too worried about it. I just don’t have much to post about just now. It’s not hurting anything.

Ah, yes. I made a slight edit; we’re largely making the same point.

And in reality, the number of restaraunts which track tips and actually make up the $7.25 difference is functionally zero.

The management is explicitly operating under the assumption that they’ll weasel out of it anyhow with the expectation that you’ll pay it yourself on top of their already profitable menu price.

That’s because the UK has stronger wage protections than the US. Here the Federal minimum wage for “tipped positions,” which are their own special category, is only $2.13 per hour. The management literally expects you, the customer, to make up for their payroll shortfall.

Related fun fact: The reason the US (still) has such a tipping culture at all is, as usual, the result of post-slavery racism when business owners flat out refused to actually pay any of their newly freed black employees, and instead demanded their customers to do it for them. For those positions, tips were the only way those people got paid.

So yes, US business owners would absolutely force their employees to work for no pay if they could get away with it.

…Brought to you by Carl’s Jr.

I’m well into considering the build a car avenue myself. Since new cars are all bullshit now, I’m seriously tempted to just remove the drivetrain from my truck when it finally conks out and stick a kit built aftermarket EV powertrain in it instead.

For reference, my truck is so dumb it has crank windows. I’d like to keep it that way.

20 is a funny way to spell 40.

But then what will they make Pringles out of?

And it wants permissions to:

• Camera
• Microphone
• Location
• Media
• Contacts
• Call History
• Read SMS Messages
• Make and Receive Calls

…And will throw an absolute hissy fit and refuse to load without explanation if you deny any of them.

For instance, just wait until you get a load of what astronomers consider to be metals.

Ensuring that the Starfleet admiralty suffered… transporter accidents… and got replaced by somebody – anybody – with some kind of clue would be a good start.

You’re in the same boat as me, except swap 70’s for 1920’s. I have to tear down all the plaster – not drywall, actual literal plaster, on lath – to get at the ground floor wiring. I decided it’s fine where it is for now.

As your attorney, I advise you to buy a motorcycle.

As if it could be so easy. I’ll take the mountains of skulls and roaring plains of gore over whatever the fuck it is that’s going on now. Mere demons are simple, and are vulnerable to your shotgun.

What a useless pile of words spent moaning about ad clicks, specifically to gain ad clicks.

Don’t talk, “organize.”

Okay, how? How do we effectively organize to fight against an enemy who has already for all intents and purposes won, in a way that won’t get us rounded up and shot by the Gestapo? Please tell us.

“We don’t know, that’s your problem. Just ‘organize.’”

You used the magic word, “modern.”

Lots of houses in this world are not modern, and some of them are old enough that they were retrofitted to have electricity, as mine was, rather than even being built with it to begin with. And done so in a haphazard manner when electrical codes were either much more lax than now or didn’t exist. And further when the expected power draw for a household was considerably lower, because basically all of it in the 1920’s or whatever was only used for lighting and we didn’t have all of our current appliances, TV’s, computers, 3D printers, or even indoor space heaters.

So moaning about what ought to be rather than what is really doesn’t accomplish anything, especially in OP’s case.

My small house has basically the entire ground floor wired to only two 15 amp circuits.