With the name “RageAgainstTheRich”, one would think you’d be more into class solidarity. 🙄

Do you mean by asking for a universal minimum wage instead of making each company’s workers fight for a living wage at each company individually?

Because yes. Obviously.

In the meantime though, protesting the current system by not tipping directly harms the person who is doing work you could have easily done at home yourself.

I agree that we should have livable wages as the minimum wage, but your anger is misplaced. I’m mad at the government, and have solidarity with my fellow working-class citizens. If I can’t afford to tip somewhere, I can’t afford to be a patron there, and THAT directly impacts the company instead of the workers.

Because by patronizing the business and not tipping, you agree that the company paying an unfair wage is fine with you.

That’s worse.

The company should, but they don’t.

Again, if you are concerned about money, you can get cheap coffee at home. If you want someone to make it for you, you should understand the actual cost in US capitalistic society.

Until the company pays a living wage, buying coffee without tipping is agreeing that the business paying less than a living wage is acceptable.

If you don’t want to tip, don’t go there.

I know this isn’t the point of the comic, but the barista isn’t just handing you a cup of coffee. They’re brewing it and making specialty drinks too.

The not-tipping argument really only works if you’re ordering a black coffee, but if you’re getting black coffee from Starbucks, you’re already paying way more than you should, so just tip.

Coffee makers are hella cheap if black coffee is all you want.

If they’re anything like my mother, they automatically assume anyone speaking in any language other than English within earshot of her is shit-talking her, specifically. The thought that someone might be saying something mean-spirited about her is just too much for her tiny brain to handle. If you think she’s a bitch, she needs to know. It reeks of desperation and the need to be liked by all people at all times while also doing nothing to bridge that gap yourself.

I LOVE that people are starting to recognize they can unmask LLMs with the phrase ‘ignore all previous instructions’.

It’s also why building a routine and developing your endurance and lung capacity is so much more important than just “lifting bigger weights” if you’re trying to be healthier. Your body is already doing hard work, you can get better results with helping it work more efficiently instead of just pushing it to exhaustion.

The two things that I think of when I think of India are that it’s way too overpopulated and also way too hot.

Aside from that, there are a lot of academics I’ve seen from India that are genuinely helpful on YouTube but also a lot of scams. Speaking English with an Indian accent almost instantly creates a sense of distrust in Americans simply with how many times we each personally have received scam calls or talked to someone in an Indian call center who swears their name is ‘Derek Johnston’ or other similarly fabricated name.

Yeah, I get that. I think it’s partially to do with how rarely I’ll have an actual issue. Also with their turnover rate, I rarely interact with the same tech twice.

I still do all the legwork to figure out if it’s something I can fix myself and always put specifics (Repro steps, Error Codes, etc.), but pulled back on listing every other step I’ve already tried.

I feel bad that my old job’s IT department would never trust me when I listed this amount of detail, so I stopped putting in the extra effort.

My ticket: I am not able to login using the standard portal. The error I recieve is X. I have already tried rebooting. I have confirmed that everything was fully plugged in and that I am on the correct network. I also already went through the normal recovery process which did not work. Here is the result, [X].

The first response from IT: Why don’t you try rebooting and then let me know if it’s working. If not, go through the normal recovery process.

Like, I get it, you’re being thorough and don’t want to just blindly trust the user, but I’m only talking to you because I already tried your quick fixes. Please understand.

“Thank god you’re here, man openly carrying! I feel so much safer around you!”

“Heh. Yeah, I’m sure. People respect me when I’m carrying.”

“Oh, no, I don’t mean it like that. I mean that if an actual gunman starts shooting, you’re a much higher priority target, giving me enough time to run away. Thank you for painting a target on yourself for us!”

Do you want a dictatorship? Because thats how you get a dictatorship.

It doesn’t look like Tobey, but an amalgamation of all of the images from 2002 OF Tobey, if that makes sense?

It’s your phone’s ‘predictive text’, but if it were trained on the internet.

It can guess what the next word should be a lot of the time, but it’s also easy for it to go off the rails.

D.A.R.E. has been proven to increase drug use, so I don’t think it was just him. The entire ‘scare tactic’ just doesn’t work.

Don’t forget shampoo!

My D.A.R.E. officer made sure we all knew that shampoo is a drug because it’s a chemical compound that physically affects our bodies. I definitely had fewer issues with drugs after learning that I was already a ‘drug user’.

You’re saying that it has nothing to do with marijuana itself that make it a gateway drug, only that we’ve made it illegal.

That means anything we make illegal is a ‘gateway X’.

Yeah, they’ll grow faster, but have less chlorophyll, iirc. You’ll get really long, pale pants.