I agree completely, and have been saying this to people around here (Utah) since the beginning. People voted for Trump claiming that Republicans had better economic policies, or they thought Clinton would take their guns, or whatever. My response was always that they knew that Trump was a racist, and that he would…

One of the worst parts about this is how it wouldn’t even be noticeable to add to the actual menu prices. They are adding a $2.50 charge to every bill, not adding a percentage. If you have a party of four, where everyone gets a drink, entree, and the table shares an appetizer and a dessert, you have ten items being…

My response to them putting a note on the menu - SFW? Whether they put a note on the menu or not is irrelevant. It’s the cost of doing business, so put it in the prices. 

Ah, yes, the fallacy fallacy - where people ignore the content of an argument and dismiss it because they think, maybe accurately, that it contains a fallacy.

Excellence doesn’t make this OK. They need to actually put it in their prices, so their prices reflect the cost of doing business. People have complained for decades about hidden fees in cable bills, phone bills, bank accounts, and so on, but we should just accept bringing that model to restaurants? No.

It shouldn’t even need a note on the menu. Price the food appropriately so that you can pay your employees what they deserve. The local Best Buy isn’t putting notes up everywhere about how a certain amount of every price actually goes to paying employees, because everyone knows that’s the entire deal with commerce.

Sorry, but this is not a good thing. This is the restaurants trying to offload their responsibilities even more, by making the food seem cheaper than it actually is. If I see this on a bill, I will immediately ask for them to take it off, and I would never patronize the restaurant again. I would tip extra whatever…

Couldn’t you have just gotten four people from the office to play a hand of bridge while someone takes a picture?

Really? Did Peck say that Buttigieg was too promiscuous to make a good president, or not? (I don’t know for sure, never got to read the actual article, but that has been reported.)

Can homophobia be defined as determining that someone will take a negative action, or what the speaker portrays as a negative action, simply because they are gay? If no, then I have no idea what homophobia is, if yes, we continue.

Yep. And don’t have Mom get you a cake for your 25th birthday - go out with your friends and have an adult birthday. I’m just wondering if the rest of the story includes her Mom getting her a pony and a bounce house, too.

You mention the fatal flaw of the sandwich (stale Cheetos), but then say that it would be fine if it wasn’t for that. I think it is going to be a crap shoot to get fresh Cheetos, and never very likely. Unless they are opening individual bags of Cheetos for every sandwich, most of them are going to be stale.

Ask, and ye shall receive:

Two deep, or two wide? I think I could get one knuckle from two fingers in.

We should designate a number of roads specifically for people to do this on. Just a big loop with regular on ramps, where people could do this, or dance to Drake, or anything else. Put up backdrops all along it that would be good for the ‘gram (That’s what kids call it, right?), and let them do what they want.

While I’ve never eaten cat food for comparison, that wouldn’t be a bad way to describe it.

I was thinking more along the lines of farmed fish. The problem of waste in the ocean is a big one, but it isn’t because the fish are screwing up the environment. The vast herds of cows do help to damage the environment just by going about their business being cows.

Ah, I see. I misread that - a careful reading shows that this is the case. Thanks!

If you lose your job, immediately start your own company, doing something you want to do. That could be attempting to consult in your field, selling your artwork, whatever. But set up the LLC, and try to do something with it.

OK, Taco Bell screwed up here, no doubt. But I’m thinking that if I’m a chain, and someone posts that they are going to come fuck someone up over this, I don’t really mind losing them as a customer. My corporate response would be to say that this is a regrettable incident and that we apologize for this happening, but…