Totally cool so long as they stop pouring untreated sewage into the ocean. It’s a bummer for the surfers and the ocean life.

Yes, I’m sure Chinese companies are losing countless millions out of their love for FOSS and this absolutely isn’t a strategy to stem the tide of investments into US AI companies.

Nice, I do a lot of this through other means. Like my taskbar is set up for ! notation. Thanks for the information. I’ll definitely give it a try.

Thanks, I’ll check it out… I mainly use ddg currently…

I’ll check it out. Any opinion of it over something like duckduckgo?

What’s your choice search engine?

Not the same but you can use a terminal browser like lynx, links2, w3m, or browsh and pipe the output wherever you want. Similarly you can force standard browsers to run in an html only mode.

Who’s to say the issue was necessarily with the server. Dishes being dirty, or the food having issues wouldn’t be their fault. Also your assumption does really depend on the restaurant and how they manage tipping.

My issue isn’t with the service staff, it’s with business owners who are increasingly abusing their workers by offloading their pay onto tips. I mainly fight this by just not eating out or eating out at places where tipping isn’t customary. Also for what it’s worth I only stay stateside a portion of the year, where else I stay tipping is unusual, not unheard of but definitely not a common thing people do. So in the end instead of 15% they get 0% because I didn’t go out to eat and of course the business owner gets $0.

Sure but that wasn’t what I ever argued for. Doing work for no pay outside of a volunteer position or something like family is a bad situation no matter what.

It’s like you didn’t read my comments at all. I never said anything about not tipping at all outside of the circumstance where I never went to the restaurant to begin with. If I don’t go then the owner gets $0 and the server gets $0 since I didn’t use their service or purchase their product aka they both get 0%.

The scenario you’re bringing up really has nothing to do with anything I’ve said this entire time.

So getting a 15% tip is worse than getting no business at all?

Maybe on an individual level but if no one goes there won’t be a restaurant or that job for long. Getting something is typically better than getting nothing.

I tip what was once normal or even generous a few years ago and generally avoid places that push this behavior so the business owner and the employees get nothing from me. Mostly though if I eat out it’s at places where tipping isn’t customary.

Yes, I’m aware. Workers in certain restaurants make quite a lot, even more than some engineers with degrees I know.

If you piss off food staff anywhere on earth your food may be tampered with. Now what people consider to be rude can be unique in different places.

I mostly decrease eating out which is arguably worse because now they get a 0% tip. If enough people avoid establishments that abuse tipping then the problem will solve itself.

Irl, culture. 15% is becoming an insult but is still normal or acceptable most places. If you ever want to return to a restaurant and not have your food tampered with its best to keep with some agreeable norm. At 10% I wouldn’t suggest being a frequent visitor anywhere for your health and wellbeing. To zoom out a little, there’s been no country I have lived in where the culture was 100% agreeable even to the majority. We’re all policed in some way or another by it.

It’s almost as if we should have taken climate change seriously 40+ years ago.

These days I’ve seen people trying to push 30% to 40% as the minimum tip. Either that or they sneak it in with service charges or gratuity fees with a suggestion of a 25% tip on top.