Like everywhere else where people sell something, it's the job of management to ensure that their employees are delivering good customer service and aren't actually "giving zero fucks." It's not the job of customers.

Is $35 wine heavier, or something? Is it harder to carry out?

Well, I don't expect this was the first time he tried to raise the issue, right? She doesn't even say that. Doubtless he tried to talk about it before and she just blew him off. I mean, clearly they have some issues but his approach was a lot more reasonable than dumping this all on Reddit. I don't think either of…

Pretty much 100% of hetero sexually-active men have had the experience of having their female partner initiate sex when the man is tired or just not feeling it right then, but going along anyway because they know they'll get into it and they don't want to discourage her from initiating. Part of being in a long-term…

But this is how you talk openly and honestly about it - by reference to concrete incidents and patterns, not by making general, ambiguous claims like "we don't have enough sex." This is the conversation, and it's likely to be more fruitful than "we don't have enough sex", "yes we do; we did it the other night", "no…

15% isn't an undertip in parts of the country where the cost of living is low and labor is cheap, especially for a lower caliber of service.

No, but the server talks to the kitchen, so they should be passing along the information that the food sucks. I'd never take it out on the server - I just wouldn't go back - but it's not unreasonable to expect your tipped server to make some effort to ensure quality.

Um, wait - a $50 tip is good money no matter what the bill was; percentage tipping actually is supposed to max out, the same way there's a tipping minimum. A $50 tip more than likely doubled your take-home that night, without doubling your work.

Well, you may be, now. Remember this is a multi-state outbreak, so in November it's possible that your state health department may not have been aware of the incidents in other states, or have had access to the data they would have needed to make the comparison.

Heidelberg is a serovar of Salmonella enterica, not a strain. FYI.

His God's the one that told him to do it.

In general, we don't proscribe any actions because we don't want to put cops in a situation where we've made the one action that could save their lives against the rule.

Nobody's ever needed an IRB for A/B testing, though. Or to focus-group or man-on-the-street test marketing materials or messaging. And the notion that "affected mood" constitutes such a grave danger that elaborate legal informed consent was necessary is absurd - literally everything affects your mood in the sense that…

Come on. What's your theory of personality whereby 1% less positivity in someone's Facebook feed drives them to suicide? That's absurd. You think people kill themselves because they're get in too "negative" a mood? You all have seized on this incredibly tenuous internet theory and run with it, but it's a joke.

But they did know. They were informed at the time at they signed up to use Facebook, and attested that they had read and understood these aspects of the terms of service.

That's all a bit conspiratorial, don't you think? The purpose of IRB approval is to prevent scientific atrocities like the Tuskegee Experiment or Nazi experimentation on Holocaust victims. Utterly benign behavior experiments aren't generally subject to IRB approval - "let's give some of our affiliates a red banner ad,…

Not to get all philosophical and shit, but by that standard non-participation in any study permanently alters your life forever, if only because now you have the experience of not having participating in that study, which you didn't have before.

It does completely count. If you opt out of Facebook, you can get every feature of FB and more in Google Plus. It doesn't "alter your everyday life" not to use Facebook, it just that most people find that it presents a compelling value proposition for the price - which has always included FB monkeying with your news…

Facebook did get IRB approval, though.

Anyone was able to withdraw from the study at any time by not using Facebook.