KombatWombat

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[–] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (9 children)

40% is an obvious strawman, but it's a shitpost so that's ok.

No one likes tipping culture. But regardless of what we want to happen, the reality is in the US there are jobs that depend significantly on tips for living wage. It is a well-understood social convention, and by making a purchase you are implicitly accepting the expectations associated with the customer. By taking the worker's time and refusing to pay that part of their wage, you are underpaying them. Your protest against tips in no way inconveniences their shitty employer or otherwise incentivises them to do better. The only one worse off is the service worker you stiffed, and nothing improves.

If you do want to actually change things, you can become politically involved to try to improve their wage so they aren't actually dependent on tips. Or you can boycott them by taking your business to places that don't rely on tips. That way the shitty employer actually loses business to places with better practices. But don't be a dick to an underpaid worker while pretending to have the moral high ground.

[–] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Riot is working on an mmo set in the league of legends universe too.

[–] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I don't think it really matters what word is considered a better translation. It is talking about humans becoming property.

In Exodus 21:2-11, it says Hebrew men are restricted to being indentured servants for 6 years unless they volunteer for more. And Hebrew girls/women are sold forever, just not to foreign nations. And in Leviticus 25:44-46, it directly addresses that gentiles can be enslaved, sold, and inherited with no special restrictions.

A slave by another name is still a slave.

[–] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The movies change it based on what creates tension or is funny in the current situation.

In X-Men the Last Stand he is able to survive disintegration that goes through people around him in about a second by constantly healing the damage back (and his pants repair themselves too I guess). And a similar thing happens when he survives a nuclear bomb in the Wolverine. In Origins: Wolverine he is able to heal back from an adamantium bullet to the head fairly quickly but loses his memories.

Deadpool is supposed to have a stronger healing factor but it still takes something like hours to a day for his hand to finish growing back after it gets cut off in his movie.

I doubt the comics are much better about being consistent with the amount of retcons and changing writers that happen.

[–] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

They said enjoying killing animals is psychopathic. That doesn't even seem controversial.

[–] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Opportunistic predators still "hunt" for their own survival. Even if they were intelligent enough to consider the morality of that, their need would likely justify it. The idea of targeting them specifically doesn't make sense if it's intended to be some sort of punishment.

[–] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Job postings should not make the job sound overly appealing. They should give you an idea of if it would be a good fit for you as a potential applicant.

[–] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Most people lose money to insurance. It's a method of mitigating risk. You're accepting a modest regular payment in exchange for not needing to build up a big reserve (or go into debt) in case something really expensive comes down the line.

Life insurance is kind of similar. If people saved the money they pay for it until they do die, on average that saved amount would be more. But having life insurance while healthy and working means that in the unlikely event of your death, your beneficiaries will be compensated for the loss of the income you provide when otherwise they would be SOL.

[–] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I've heard this place described as a zoo. We're just here to observe. Posts are not meant to endorse screeching, throwing poop, or whatever else anons might do.

[–] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Next you're going to want us to stop downvoting unpopular opinions in the unpopular opinion community

[–] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Many animals we consider herbivores are opportunistic omnivores.

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