This is from the movie about the making of Battlefield Earth with John Travolta played by Val Kilmer

I wonder how does he explain this then?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRe_x5CECQg&t=32s

See what you did Belgium? Proud of yourselves now?

Well at least I guess this means Greenland’s not getting invaded this week.

Free parmesan? Why waste it on people you don’t like?

“That’s not even a…” < gets headshot by sniper >

Don’t buy this product. It doesn’t give you +10 health at all. If they could fix that issue, it would be good though. Also if it could give you immunity to tasers.

Tipped workers were a way for employers to avoid paying (mostly black) workers, effectively providing slavery-lite even after slavery had ended

It’s not just about being cheap though. It reinforces the idea that the worker is of a lower social status than the customer. The customer may, at their own discretion, choose whether or not to pay the worker a fair wage for the work they have done. That’s a very clear power imbalance.

Not the VR part, but what if you could construct a scenario where all the power seeking people end up in what they think is a bunker where they are controlling everything, but actually it’s one of many prison cells where the scenario dictates you have to stay inside or lose your grip on power. You can only walk out if you decide you don’t want to rule the world. A prison without locks or guards.

“we’re dating ourselves”

It varies though. Here in northern Italy tipping is rare to the point where it’s kind of a social blunder. Many restaurants take a pride in excellence, both in food and service. In any given place, what they offer is what they offer. Trying to pay extra for that might come off as crass and unnecessary, rather than a welcome gesture.

Apart from being simpler, this is more respectful to waiting staff as a profession. How they do their jobs and what they get paid is between them and their employer, they aren’t obliged to kiss your ass in the hope that you throw them a few extra euros. It’s a different power dynamic where customers and staff are interacting as social equals.

Also it’s not uncommon that the person serving you is actually the restaurant owner, or a family member.

When I was a kid, sex ed was bush porn. In any patch of urban common land you’d find these little jazz mags under the bushes. I guess they just grew on the bushes, you could tell when they weren’t ripe yet if some of the pages didn’t open

If they fired that thing, nobody’s getting any descendants

Damn, that 2nd point of view sounds like the woman filming makes some remark but doesn’t shout out. It’s like a few people noticed the problem but nobody wants to be the one to call out. This is the kind of stupid shit I’d do in a dream.

At first it seems like Star Trek is some kind of utopian vision of the future. Until you realise that the replicators’ default setting for earl grey tea is to serve it cold.

In other news, 20% of people use 3 times as much water per year as the other 80% do in a month.

JFK did. He used FARA to demand the American Zionist Council register as a foreign agent, which it clearly was.

Then JFK was assassinated, the demand was withdrawn, and AZC rebranded as AIPAC.

It is not clear if the UK will go so far as to ban trade with illegal settlements.

I trust that they will be sending a strongly worded letter declaring that this new settlement is unacceptable, before accepting it.

They’ll be getting rid of that on general principles. But you might lose it a couple of weeks earlier

If your furniture is a property of space, is keeping it in a small apartment an act of theft?

I can see the logic. Build a colosseum and stage gladiatorial contests, distract the masses and get made emperor for life. But what a pathetic attempt at a colosseum this is.