Because of anti-worker sentiment and policy in places like the US, tipping has become necessary for many service workers to live. On the low end it is the only way they can make it. This is why the custom will not die, because anyone who suggests it is sentencing vulnerable workers to increased poverty (because…

That would impose a floor on how strong one must be, and it’s one proportional to one’s own mass. Beyond that it shouldn’t matter.

Christ, at this point I’ve personally seen pretty much the full range of possibilities (I’m a Special Ed teacher) and I’m not going to stop worrying about all of them until my kid is a teenager.

Christ, I would have loved it if the school I taught in had banned Takis.

That’s gotta be one of the “other” spicy snacks, BTW, and those things are jagged as fuck on top of it.

And doing so when no actually said “all men” or even simply “men” without qualifying it.  

First: He inherited at least 40 million dollars, not 1 million.

Second: He’s worth at most 4 billion, not 10 billion. Possibly less than 1.  

Both of you, if you haven’t, watch “Mongol” (2007) this instant.

One Of The Good Ones

Welcome to China, everyone.  

What makes you think you’re as smart as the Founding Fathers who handed down our perfect Constitution direct from God himself and utterly without flaw?

Dogs of the Soul Crusher, pulling you closer, like the blue steel jaws of Hell.  

The end of net neutrality means that upstream providers can strangle the small ISPs out of existence.  So, well, enjoy your non-monopolist ISP while you can.  

A 9 year old drew that? Kid has potential.

Well, they do need the non-white poors, too. Just there has to be more white ones who can be convinced they are on the same side as rich whites, in order to keep the others in their place.

And this is chief among the reasons I hate Harleys and their riders.  Loud Pipes Wake Babies.  

It’s not bad, for a kid’s movie. I never saw the first two.  Maybe if it’s on TV or Netflix or something.  I first saw it on a plane.  

Elijah Wood isn’t in it for very long, but he gets the funniest moment in the whole thing. 

One less thing to break.

Also, buy the NA economy cars, too.  You don’t actually need the extra power.

Why would that make you want to kill yourself?

It is hell.

I had a sister with a condition not unlike the scarier end of Zika. It was horrifying, it destroyed my mother, and the end was a relief. I wouldn’t wish either the condition or caring for a child with it on anyone EXCEPT a conservative politician.