"Even if the kid asks the donor at 18 there's no guarantee" is a rather flippant response to a situation that intentionally creates a class of humans that are deprived of a fundamental natural rights. No human has the right to force contact/communication with another, but I think that it's pretty fundamental for…

I don't doubt the story. I worked fast food (specifically chicken) in high school and accidents just happen, the way they happen in any restaurant. It could be that a piece of towel got mixed in with the egg wash and chicken parts and fried up. If breaded, it would be hard to tell the difference if you're throwing…

I know it doesn't make it remotely okay, but at least if it was deep fried the heat would have killed off a lot of bacteria? With fast food, you might as well be eating paper towels anyway. Half kidding but yeah. Shit's gross.

That's not correct. I don't know about sperm donation, but I've looked into adoption a bit and closed adoption is no the standard because it was found to be harmful to the child. The whole "you're patents are the ones who raised you" is what they were saying 30 years ago when I got adopted. Since then there's been a…

This is why I think the movement to raise fast food wages should be called the "give a fuck wage." Many fast food workers are so underpaid that they simply have no fucks to give. If you pay somebody a livable wage, they're more likely to care and pay attention and take care of errors and problems before they reach the…

I'm an egg donor, and I know all the people who I helped and all the babies I helped create. They will know I'm not their mother, but there will also be no secrets. I also don't have to worry about my nieces marrying their genetic cousin, because they will also know.

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I think the risk is mainly ethical/legal. The friend could order a DNA test and ask for some parental rights, if they change their mind about the kid. And you can't deny them their biological child unless they willingly terminate parental rights and the adoptive father gets that legal status.

Uh, no. I'm going to forgive this comment because you clearly do not understand how the tipping standards currently work: waiters don't make anything close to what you're saying. The waiter hourly is $2.13. Not a typo.

I deep fried a towel, once, wrapped a pita & a slice of American cheese around it & gave it to my manager. It was payback for earlier that day when he said he had to hide his boner cuz I was eating a popsicle

Thank god Red wasn't in that kitchen.

The whole "free meal" thing always cracks me up. I mean, really? They're never coming back, you idiots.

I must've gotten high and slept in the fryer...

Thanks for explaining this! I roll my eyes at people who seriously seem to believe that McDonald's would have to charge $10 a burger if the minimum wage was any higher, but I didn't know how it effected small businesses.

I'm going to be opening a coffee shop soon, and all tips will go to the local Humane Society. I'll be paying an hourly wage that's significantly more than the minimum wage here and that's north of the figure you cited as well.

It's Texas. We know "competitive wages" is just 20 cents above minimum wage.

So these folks make a "competitive" wage which is still probably not that much. Patrons give money that they assume is going to the server, and then it is given to charity? I guess this is fine if folks know they are donating to charity. I hope that is very clear. It isn't cool to re-purpose tips intended for servers…

No, Texas (and other states) won't see change until people stop parroting the conventional wisdom they've heard in passing, such as "Texas's economy is booming" that is demonstrably untrue with a simple google search. When people just accept those things without actually employing critical thinking, you get BS like a…

Our economy isn't booming and we have the lowest wages. We get a boost from being an oil state. We have a high drop out rate and high school pregnancy rate. The gap between classes is huge.