Oui, et les suisses aussi. Ils utilisent les mots ‘huitante’ ou ‘octante’, et ‘nonante’ pour écrire 80/90.
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—Li Shang, Bi-icon, c. 1300 CE
Uhh… the Duke boys’ General Lee?
There are already a lot of good answers here, but I thought you might appreciate a fictionalized version of my personal experience.
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Back in the kitchen, the hostess comes in.
“I’ve got a 2-top at table 23, who’s next in the rotation?”
“Uh… I think it’s Bob, but he’s busy doing bumps in the walk in. I’ll take it. They nice?”
“Uhh, I think they’re German.”
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Unfortunately for them, the knowledge that Europeans tend to tip poorly or not at all proceeds them. The server who took the two top will still serve them, but either consciously or subconsciously the service will suffer. Maybe your food was done five minutes ago sitting on the hot line, but your server decided to go chat up the elderly couple or the regular customer instead. Maybe the server is more rude or cold to you than other guests. Or maybe you’re lucky and your server isn’t yet jaded. Your mileage may vary depending on if you’re eating in a small town diner or a tourist hotspot, but even if the service seems fine, there’s almost certainly chatter going on behind your back from the moment you sit down.
There’s a very small chance that your server will chase after you if you leave no tip, but that is virtually unheard of and will get the server fired if it’s a nicer establishment. The more likely chain of events is that you leave, the server checks the checkbook, then goes into the back-of-house to scream/cry/drink/smoke/fuck someone/something. It’s completely ruined several of my shifts.
—BUT—
The above is all wrong. It felt gross to type, and feels grosser to know that I once felt that. These feelings may have been ‘valid’ considering the tipped system that I was a part of, but I have a hard time thinking of them as ‘reasonable’. As an empathetic human, I wish to treat everyone well. Also, I love travel, and would love to spend 30 minutes talking about the Cologne cathedral or the Bielefeld conspiracy or whateverthefuck. But I can’t, because then I’d be actively losing money. The profit motive of tip system makes servers, managers, and even clients all jaded. The anger that I felt when I was stiffed was unjustly redirected from the tipping system to the individual, because the system is designed to perpetuate itself. I make less money now, but I’m very glad I left that industry.
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BONUS: If you want to see a hilarious yet barely over exaggerated vignette of what American servers do and how they think when you can’t see them, give Waiting… (2005) a watch.
LGBT, Soviet Union, Black Power; Antifasciste Aktion, Transgender, Fake PornHub Pronouns; Extinction Rebellion, Another Soviet Union (maybe supposed to be China, but incorrect), and finally… the flag of the Union of Paramedics?
He’s doing this on purpose.
He’s repurposing leftist talking points into a pro-corporatist clusterfuck as an attempt at populism. He knows that there are a fair number of people and communities on Reddit that will be overall supportive of these politics.
The idea is to get people thinking, “Yeah, I’ve heard that term before, it’s bad! And yeah, I’ve dealt with power-tripping mods before, so it must be true!” If they haven’t been paying attention to the finer points of the news around this (blackmail claims on C. Selig, gaslighting about 3rd party apps not wanting to work w/ Reddit, etc.), then this may be enough to get some people on Reddit, Inc.’s side. It worked for some people with Trump, for others with Musk, and with Huffman’s recent praise of Musk’s managerial style…
I have the ‘22 iPad Air. It’s amazing, but it’s not a computer in the most frustrating ways, despite its potential to be so. The iPadOS 17 updates coming down the pike are really neat and bring it closer to matching your use-case, but it’s very infuriating when there’s something super simple to do in a desktop OS that takes a lot longer than or is simply impossible on iPadOS.
As for the Chromebook- yes! You can make yourself a magic/smart mirror. I did this with an old laptop during the initial COVID lockdown. You’ll need a shadow box, the laptop, the mirror glass, software (I think I just used off-the-shelf Rainmeter), mounting hardware, and accessories (I didn’t make mine touch-screen, so there’s a wireless keyboard and mic for Alexa integration). You can find numerous guides online for this, and numerous sites that sell custom-cut one-way mirror glass. I think all-told (buying mounting hardware, frame, spray paint, mirror glass, and accessories) it came out to about $175, but that was with a fairly big glass panel (it’s the largest single cost in these projects, and my laptop that I was using for this was 16”, so I needed something like 28”x18” glass).
Honestly, Mars, if you’re expecting me to spend 3-5 hours slowly sucking a chocolate bar until it has absolutely nothing left to give, just really down to the last savory drop; you have to do better.