Nice bar: whatever menu cocktail or specialty product looks good.

Okay bar: Amaro/mezcal if they have it, gin/rum if they don’t.

Not very good bar: beer or cider

Bad bar: bottle beer. No cans, mixers, or taps, and well pours only if truly desperate.

Kind of. “Gratuities” are legal, bribery is not, and presidents are immune for prosecution for acts undertaken as part of their duties.

A “gratuitity” must be made after the fact, which is still totally a type of bribery, but it isn’t the same as making all bribery legal as a blanket rule.

Presidents are now immune to prosecution, but only regarding official acts. The court refused to rule on what an official vs unofficial act is, basically meaning that they’ll decide whether something is legal or not when they feel like it. The obvious problem here is how heavily stacked the supreme court is, but they also didn’t just come out and say “fuck it, presidents have absolute power.”

Edit: To be clear, both of these rulings are absolutely fucking terrible. If our courts had any appropriate amount of oversight, the blatant corruption on display would be enough to see the court disbarred and indicted. They’re just not quite as bad as people describe on Lemmy.

As a service person, this sounds great. You actually tip your barber more than I do.

The only thing I think you didn’t account for is fancier bars with elaborate cocktails, which tbf most people do not frequent. I’d do 15-20% for those, simply because it’s more involved service and more involved drinks.

Not necessarily. You can live outside your means at any income level.

Also, children are fucking expensive.

Well they said “all”, so more like " the gang causes a massive global financial collapse."

Disagree with your underlying assertion that students do not read nonfiction books. Your textbooks are nonfiction.

In terms of more “classic” nonfiction materials, j don’t think it’s a very important skill. Something like Anne Frank’s diary or Night can definitely be powerful, but I don’t think reading a secondary source on the American civil war has any more value for a student than a chapter in a textbook.

Not all economic problems are a recession. Consumers are facing significant issues right now, but the overall economy is doing well.

Our issue is that all that wealth is mysteriously staying in the hands of large corporations.

Average car price before the pandemic was about $38k. By 2023, it was $49k.

The trend has been ongoing for a long time due to general inflation and a growing preference for SUVs, but it went fucking bananas during the pandemic, and auto manufacturers have taken advantage.

That’s been the case for at least the past couple of decades. The massive price increases have been over the past 4 years.

Sort of. I’m glad we are wasting less in terms of automobile manufacture, but this is caused by price gouging on the part of automakers more than anything.

That means when we all eventually have to buy another car, we’re just going to get fucked.

That would mean you need to enforce the law for whoever built the model. If the original creator has 100TB of cheese pizza, then they should be the one who gets arrested.

Otherwise you’re busting random customers at a pizza shop for possession of the meth the cook smoked before his shift.

That’s good, it means the cap won’t restrict what you can save for your children.

Isn’t mumble hot garbage? My planet side outfit memes on it whenever it gets brought up.

That’s actually exactly my point. We should carefully examine whether the infringement is worth the benefit before blindly letting the government do whatever.

In the case of seatbelt laws, it is worth it because people are really bad at understanding inertia, and wearing a seatbelt isn’t a burden to anyone. In the case of raw milk, it’s worth it because tuberculosis is fucking horrifying and very contagious.

It is disappointing to me that these hours are legal, but this guy was an analyst at a major financial institution.

Mandatory overtime wouldn’t surprise me at all, it is fairly common and something I am subjected to as well. But I can almost guarantee nobody else forced him into 100 hour weeks.

It supposedly tastes much better. I’m sure there’s also a few conspiracy nuts who think pasteurization makes you weaker for the jewish takeover or something.

It’s also a personal liberty issue. People don’t like being told they can’t do something, and while I agree with bans on consumption of raw milk, we should critically analyze any law where the government tells private citizens what to do or not do. Especially when there isn’t clear harm being done to another person.

It’s a percentage because the $60 steak was assumably at a nicer restaurant where you received more in depth service.

Fine dining servers may only have a couple of tables at once, or even for the entire night. You’re paying more for more individual attention.

It also scales in reverse. A server on a shift with a $10 blue plate special will probably have 10 tables before things go off the rails. They’ll also put serious work into getting your ass off that table the minute your plate is clean.

It’s about making it more palatable for observers.

Lethal injection was much, much less humane than the guillotine, but it wasn’t as pretty so that’s what we switched to.

It likely isn’t any different in imported models, flame retardant materials are a very basic and very important safety feature.

Also, it is surprisingly hard to import a car in the US. I’d kill for decent hot hatch that wasn’t $40k.

There isn’t much of an alternative. All major manufacturers have been doing this for a while, we are approaching the point where you’ll need to buy and maintain a classic car to avoid this type of data collection. Unfortunately, most people simply do not have the time, money, and expertise to do that. Nor should they have to.