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If you get them healthcare and $30/hr (by the time we accomplish it), then yeah, take their tips.

OR we can keep one fairly easily attainable, ubiquitous job that pays decently.

I'd rather make sure everyone gets healthcare than take away their tips.

We've heard this bullshit so many times. You know what happens? They do it anyway.

They always miss this part. It's (part of) why the Republicans wanting to be Russian-style oligarchs is so insane. And ignoring good faith government and their disregard for the rule of law.

Do they KNOW what happens to Russian oligarchs? Why do they think they're immune to that part of it? Do they really want the cutthroat politics of places like Russia and Africa, where they constantly have to watch their backs?

These people already have money. Their aims, if achieved, will not make their lives better.

Many years ago the people who ruled this country figured out that the best thing for them was to spread power and have most civilians in good health. Government by committee and good faith government is less about ethical treatment of citizens (though I appreciate the side effect) and more about protecting the committee and/or the would be dictator.

Unless it's badger, badger, badger era. These kids don't even know about Trogdor, the Burninator.

This isn't a real thing. There aren't many softwares devs making 700k salary. I'd be surprised if that number reached dozens.

That's quite a stretch to blame America for the AfD.

0 is freezing (32).
10 is cold (50).
20 is nice (68).
30 is hot (86).

Each ten degrees Celsius is 18 degrees Fahrenheit.

Read (or listen to) the first chapter of Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson.

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Those are quite some claims. Some I've never heard of.

You'll have to excuse me for being skeptical.

Can't watch Amazon anymore. They added ads.

PC gaming is much cheaper. A desktop, while being more expensive initially, will last much longer than a console. And the games on PC are much, much cheaper.

It's happened multiple times in the past couple decades. Look at how the tea party took over the Republican party. There have also been the blue dog democrats and the Bernie social Dems. They haven't taken over the way the tea party has, but they've both tugged at the direction of the party.

I've absolutely run into that more than once. There are constant excuses for Hamas and Palestine. Because people pick a side and then make everything black and white. Too many people don't have room for nuance, and every discussion is about winning or losing.

I've had people argue against me who have actually moved my position slightly. You should be open to changing your mind, in whole or in part. Doesn't mean you have to do it every time, but you are allowed to be wrong sometimes. It means you're growing as a person.

The middle east is known as one of the most difficult situations of the last 75 years. There is no simple, good solution. There are no good guys. Most people in that entire area are angry, murderous bastards who don't see the other side as human beings.

I don't know how to solve that. If you think you do, you're probably an idiot.

You don't need to solve everything, and you don't need to support good guys to believe that genocide needs to stop. You can just believe that even bad people don't deserve to be murdered in their sleep as part of a collective punishment and land grab.

Something, something $600 Faker skin. I don't follow exactly what the deal is.

But I have better things to protest over, and a cosmetic only skin ain't it. I can just... not buy it.

If I'm going to be mad about something, it's going to be something worth being mad over. For instance, the Blitzchung incident that made me quit classic WoW just before hitting level cap.

Even then, it'd need to be a token wedding gift or something similarly eventful. A birthday isn't enough. For those things, even within the limits, I'd want pretty justifiable context. At least if you're working for/in US government.

A $15 box of chocolates from my new contractor who just won the bid just isn't worth dealing with as an issue.

Okay. Good luck making them both secular. We can't even make the US secular.

Okay, but what IS the yellow option? What does a "Free Palestine" look like if not Apartheid?

Please do recognize that, for whatever reason, valid or not, many these people want to kill each other. And it's not easy to identify which.

A bottle of normal priced wine, some chocolates perhaps, a gift card for a lunch at xyz.

These are all pretty sus and might be things I'd report.

These policy limits are intended to allow things like swag at a convention or if you're in a meeting and they have lunch catered.