Hip hop peaked decades ago with Robert Blake’s son:

At least in my corner of Whitepeoplelandia, white people who touch your food are disgusting pigs.

“Even still, “We Found Big Lez Who Danced to “Living Single’s” Theme Song and Sis Looks Good as Hell” works just as well as the current title, no?”

I divide by 5 by multiplying by 2. Still the same issue.

... does this make Earn’s bad judgment easier to understand? Maybe he was feeling that, since he’d just lost everything he owned, he needed to start replacing everything he’d lost? I don’t know that I’d respond that way, but maybe he did. (First thing I’d do is visit the storage facility in person and see if I could…

The machine at Red Robin or Olive Garden does the math for me, all right. Other places have no such machine.

“We believed that he was a murderer and we believed the Los Angeles Police Department tried to frame him by tampering with evidence. Both things were probably true.”

“It isn’t a natural law that the costs are passed down to the customer. It’s that way in this country because the government won’t MAKE them take it out of somewhere else, like, oh I don’t know, CEO golden parachutes. Change this.”

Maybe. Myself, first thing I would have done with that money is pay the storage facility, or at least try to.

You’re a good monster. You sing like Tom Waits.

I would first need to solve the problem of hubris, where I don’t like to admit needing a calculator sometimes.

FWIW, I didn’t get a sense that you were an unwilling tipper, just that you recognize what a poor system it is. Same here. Pay all your employees a proper wage, and let us tip simply because it’s good form.

But a tipped worker has to make a case, somehow, that their level of tips didn’t take them to minimum. Non-tipped workers don’t have to jump through those hoops; either their employer paid enough or they didn’t.

I like how you approach the numbers; thanks!

Well heck, why didn’t I think of that? It’s damn rare that I tip less than 20%, so a base of 20% is fine. I like the “if more than three then add one” rule, as the sort of expedient I’d never think of because I don’t always think to streamline rules to “close enough”. Thanks!

That is how employers sell servers on the concept of tipping, but that’s not why tipping exists.

“Like “I’m giving you more cash AND I have to do algebra? Fuck this.””

... okay, I’m an idiot. Rewatching the “Florida Man” vignette, I finally got the joke.

This is a debate I have with Queen King Beauregard: is Earn perpetually making bad decisions, or is he making the best decision he can see out of a series of very bad options? I see him as generally being cautious and wary of people trying to take advantage of him. That’s where this episode didn’t feel very “Earn”.

Yeah, that’s what got me: put $200 or so into it to see if it really works as described, and if so, THEN put on the rest. (Perhaps that would have worked out really well for the episode: it’s easy to do $200 at one store, but trying to do the other $3800 before the card expires is where Earn runs into problems.)