Kinda reminds me of when I was using dating apps, and women would ask how they knew I wasn’t a serial killer. “If I was a serial killer, it would be pretty stupid to leave a bunch of digital records of me being the last person my victim talked to, I’d get caught immediately.”

I use needle nose pliers, grab the brad as close to the hinge as possible and flat against the board. Then, grab tight and use the tip of the pliers as a fulcrum.

I want biological kids, and I’m right about the point in my life where it would make the most sense to have them. But whenever family asks about it, I tell them I’m not raising children in this kind of administration. They try to suggest that it’s not that bad and I stand firm that they’re not seeing grandbabies until the government stops being so fashy.

Actually, millennials could probably hold our hypothetical babies hostage, see what’s more important to them.

For me, I would pick supervision.

A finger of the monkey’s paw curls, you are now supervised at all times.

I like reality simulation, so the crunch is fun for me. I think it’s modular enough to focus on just the aspects of crunch that you like

Oh I know, I was just commenting on conceptual similarity, not mechanical. It does strike me how conceptually similar GURPS and Fate are, despite being mechanically at opposite ends of the crunch spectrum.

Interesting, GURPS has a couple mechanics kinda like this. You build characters with point buy, and you can “buy” Disadvantages like Cowardice or Alcoholism which have a negative point cost, giving you extra points to spend on other attributes.

There’s also a way to spend points that you earn (you earn points by adventuring like exp) to change things in the world slightly, though I don’t really use it.

Also, there’s a fun attribute called Common Sense, where the GM warns you if you’re about to do something particularly stupid.

I don’t interact with many wild animals on the average day, but I do go to great lengths to catch and release bugs and such when killing them would be much easier.

Also Walz will be in his 70s in 2036, AOC will be pushing 50. I’d much rather Walz 2028-2036 and then run AOC 2036-2044.

Wherever it comes from, you need to secure it before striking

A general strike without an appropriately sized general fund is a recipe for a laughably short strike.

Right? This is a perfect application for tactical gear. Modular, expandable, easily accessible storage is ideal for baby gear. This just looks a little dumb because it doesn’t show any attachments.

Are you familiar with the typical timeframes involved in high profile federal cases? Going fast is how you get cases thrown out for minor oversights.

Were they? It seemed to me more like Trump doing the one thing he’s actually good at: dragging out trials.

That’s not an answer to my question, but in any case you do still need a trial and conviction. Did you forget about the multiple trials he was facing that were only dropped because he was inaugurated?

I think reasonable people can disagree on this point, on whether not tipping constitutes a secondary exploitation.

No, they cannot. Disagreement here is not reasoned, it is just another example of clever people using their cleverness to justify unreasonable prior beliefs.

You can boycott a business, and write them to express that your boycott is based on their tipping policy. That would be a reasonable strategy to support the workers.

By still giving the business owners money, knowing they pay their staff sub-minimum wages based on the convention of tipping, and then not tipping, you have not communicated any disapproval to management. You have in fact directly supported the business owner exploiting their workers, and joined that exploitation for personal benefit. That’s the opposite of supporting the worker.

The result of either choice – boycotting places that pay less than minimum wage, or not tipping at those places – doesn’t change the fact that the staff are being underpaid, which is the root exploitative practice.

Yes, but boycotting those places is justifiable. Going anyway and just not tipping is actively participating in the exploitation.

Passion.

Burn a what now?

The way I see it, if the place requires tips for their staff to get by, then the staff are being financially abused and I would be propping up a system of exploitation. Prioritise places that pay their staff above the minimum wage.

Second sentence is fine, feel free to boycott places that pay below minimum wage. But if you do go to an establishment that pays based on the assumption of tips, and you don’t tip, you’re just joining in the exploitation.