I’ve had this argument with people on lemmy many times. People recognize tipping is a bad system, and use that as an excuse to abandon the people who are unfortunately dependent on it. As if the system will change by stiffing the workers with essentially no power.

It is much easier to increase output for crops than livestock. The reason meat is so cheap in the US is that the government uses taxes to subsidize it, and producers torture their animals to cut costs.

I just use Stardew Profits

The deluxe barn/coop has an auto-feeder, and there is an item to automatically pet animals every day too. There’s also quality of life mods that will give a visual of the area for things like scarecrows and sprinklers that make setting those up much easier. I even had one that will automatically pull relevant fuel from a nearby chest for smelters, kegs, preserves jars, geode processors, etc. I found I enjoyed the later parts of the game a lot more when the “go here to reset the timer” stuff could be automated away.

World hunger, global literacy rates, number of people living in extreme poverty, deaths to malaria, investment in renewable energy, the hole in the ozone, homicide rates, etc.

Things going well just don’t get talked about as much.

Kinda burying the lede to criticize his political position when he apparently supports statutory rape.

I haven’t been to Mexico City, but I did get to go to Puerto Vallarta, and it seemed to match that person’s experience. It was safe, cheap, and beautiful. Honestly I don’t remember seeing people living in sheds, but it might have been outside of the places we visited. Traffic was annoying, but less than a similar-sized city in the US. It helped that lot of people walked or used bikes. And the food was really fresh.

The guy we were visiting was from the US and had moved there essentially because it was so nice while still having a very low cost of living compared to probably anywhere in the US. He mentioned the culture there was much more relaxed about time, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they had a lot in common with OP’s view of Southern Europe.

Maybe wish away their protections then wish for them to be dead? That way you have an extra wish. But maybe you should use that one before killing your genie.

I imagine most people think they should get paid well while relying on a wage/salary instead of tips. Even if realistically most would be paid less, it’s not an inconsistent position.

Also, having your payment come more fully from an employer allows workers to bargain and demand things like raises. You don’t really have agency when you are largely dependent on distributed payments from customers.

But I do agree that it distracts from the overall struggle of the working class. A server wanting a tip is not your enemy.

Yellow lights are for 3-6 seconds. That’s also around the time it takes to come to a stop, depending on the speed of the vehicle. And you should give the vehicle ahead of you about 3 seconds of lead time. So if they have enough time to stop before reaching the intersection, you almost certainly wouldn’t have had enough time to follow them through while it’s still yellow unless they slammed their brakes or you are riding their ass.

I don’t know about hard drugs, but it wouldn’t surprise me if Wisconsin had a problem with them. Alcoholism is very prominent here. Here’s a map showing grocery stores vs bars in the US

If you are paying that much for a starter home, you are paying for the location. Not saying houses are cheap, but they are only that crazy in a high cost of living area. It’s not really surprising that houses are expensive in places where everything is expensive. I bought a 2 bedroom home for $175k a few years ago in a city with a population of 10k.

40% is an obvious strawman, but it’s a shitpost so that’s ok.

No one likes tipping culture. But regardless of what we want to happen, the reality is in the US there are jobs that depend significantly on tips for living wage. It is a well-understood social convention, and by making a purchase you are implicitly accepting the expectations associated with the customer. By taking the worker’s time and refusing to pay that part of their wage, you are underpaying them. Your protest against tips in no way inconveniences their shitty employer or otherwise incentivises them to do better. The only one worse off is the service worker you stiffed, and nothing improves.

If you do want to actually change things, you can become politically involved to try to improve their wage so they aren’t actually dependent on tips. Or you can boycott them by taking your business to places that don’t rely on tips. That way the shitty employer actually loses business to places with better practices. But don’t be a dick to an underpaid worker while pretending to have the moral high ground.

The movies change it based on what creates tension or is funny in the current situation.

In X-Men the Last Stand he is able to survive disintegration that goes through people around him in about a second by constantly healing the damage back (and his pants repair themselves too I guess). And a similar thing happens when he survives a nuclear bomb in the Wolverine. In Origins: Wolverine he is able to heal back from an adamantium bullet to the head fairly quickly but loses his memories.

Deadpool is supposed to have a stronger healing factor but it still takes something like hours to a day for his hand to finish growing back after it gets cut off in his movie.

I doubt the comics are much better about being consistent with the amount of retcons and changing writers that happen.

They said enjoying killing animals is psychopathic. That doesn’t even seem controversial.

Opportunistic predators still “hunt” for their own survival. Even if they were intelligent enough to consider the morality of that, their need would likely justify it. The idea of targeting them specifically doesn’t make sense if it’s intended to be some sort of punishment.

Job postings should not make the job sound overly appealing. They should give you an idea of if it would be a good fit for you as a potential applicant.

Most people lose money to insurance. It’s a method of mitigating risk. You’re accepting a modest regular payment in exchange for not needing to build up a big reserve (or go into debt) in case something really expensive comes down the line.

Life insurance is kind of similar. If people saved the money they pay for it until they do die, on average that saved amount would be more. But having life insurance while healthy and working means that in the unlikely event of your death, your beneficiaries will be compensated for the loss of the income you provide when otherwise they would be SOL.

Many animals we consider herbivores are opportunistic omnivores.