Damn Lenovo!
There they go, listening to their customers, when they should have been listening to a blogger.

Get out of here with your sane, rational thought that weighs two differing opinions respectfully! We will have none of it!

It’s unlikely to do damage. The material is by definition bio-compatible and won’t be abrasive. Since it is going into progressively larger passages I think there’s nothing to hang up on until it makes it to the vocal cords, by which time there’s plenty of lung volume to push it.

That is hilarious. Well done. 

Ok, but still crappy. As an employer I wouldn’t have done it because at that wage level the payroll taxes wouldn’t be that much more. Also when cut an employee by $3/hr you’d be better off firing them. Their attitude toward work would plummet then you have call offs and shitty attitudes. Cutting someone’s pay is a…

Well, they were making that wage plus tips, so it’s not on-face illegal. 

1. As a professional who aspires to start his own brewery yet has never worked in one, I would work for min wage to learn the way a taproom functions and operates, as the education is cashflow-positive vs me trying to do it with no knowledge whatsoever and potentially lose thousands of dollars. Any brewer will tell…

Thanks for the first-hand perspective. Work is work (no matter how “fun”), and should be paid for as such.

RE: Poor Pay

“Hand-blown in Poland, hand-broken in Queens”

This looks like it has the perfect combination of top heavyness and height to be knocked over very easily. This would last approximately 15 minutes in my house until a dog, child, or unaware adult (me) ran into, shattering it into a million pieces.

“Don’t wear a Halloween costume that doesn’t reflect your culture or heritage.” “That’s cultural appropriation, and it makes you look like an idiot.”

The “cultural appropriation” phenomenon is probably the most poisonous idea that we’ve come up with. Culture doesn’t exist in a vacuum, it’s not something you can horde and the only way you could steal it is if you so completely integrate a piece of culture into your own that people forget that the origins lie…

Should that part matter?

Well if you expand your quote just a tad with “Once again, my fellow white people, here’s a message:” you see all your examples aren’t actually applicable to Beth’s warning. Take that as you will. 

“ badly-thought-out sorority parties”

I don’t see anything wrong or cringey with the Joker, male Assassin’s Creed or Jungle Warrior costumes. The Mermaid Mafia one is goofy, but not offensive to me.

Cultural appropriation isn’t a thing. Stop being fake offended on behalf of people who themselves don’t give a crap.

Don’t even dress like Selena, the “Legendary Latina” (Yandy). She was Mexican. You’re not. That’s cultural appropriation, and it makes you look like an idiot.