20% tip was standard when I got my first job as a busboy in the early 2000s, it has not decreased. You’re also confusing the cost of the meal with the cost written on the menu. That is the restaurant’s money. The money you leave for a tip isn’t a favor to the server, it’s their wage.

No, you have 95% of the cost of your night out but that last 5% comes out of the server’s take-home instead of the business’ so you don’t face any legal repercussions. I’m not telling you you can or can’t do anything, I’m saying not paying that final 5% makes you a selfish person who is abusing the system because they…

You’re being far too kind too the writer (who’s also pretty representative of the Trump-era The Atlantic) here

If Hendrix’s version of All Along the Watchtower was known to the characters, logically Jimi Hendrix lived prior to the events of the series and as of the finale he would presumably eventually live once again to record the same song in “our” world since we the audience know the song. If “all this has happened before…

Correct. You have a problem (you don’t have enough money) and you are passing that problem onto another person (the server, who now has less money than they would if they had served someone who could afford to tip the full amount) because you can. Just because you’re able to justify doing it doesn’t change what you’re…

Is that a server’s fault? Being poor doesn’t give you the right to step on other people 

Inflation is a thing, but 20% has been standard for the entire 21st century (and it’s likely to increase since wages aren’t). But more importantly, why would the fact that you, arguably, made peace with a negative experience (there’s a lot of resentment to go around in what you wrote) lead you to deny a better one to…

Bane from that movie delivers a bunch of populist speeches to get angry men on his side so he can topple power structures to enact some other rich person’s nebulous agenda, when he really doesn’t give two shits about his followers and by the end it’s really unclear what he’s getting out of it besides wanting to be a…

He more or less just repeats random conservative internet comments back to the people who are writing them while occasionally acting out some of their power fantasies like the wall, travel bans, or trying to unilaterally defund things Fox News mentions (since they’re basically doing the same thing), and that is…

He put more faith in his own sense of honor and justice than political realities, thought a letter would fix everything, lost his head early on the whim of a cruel idiot he helped install, and is still associated with the whole mess even though he hasn’t been a factor in years

James Comey is Ned Stark

I will never forget how much that bothered me that they ended with a grand “all this has happened before and will happen again” statement, just completely forgetting that they’d rooted the whole thing in a specific recording of Jimi Hendrix that then becomes a paradox

Miller never fails Trump: Miller implements Terrible Idea in an attention-grabbing way, Terrible Idea immediately produces terrible results and low broad public support but Trump’s base laps it up, non-sycophantic influencers try desperately and eventually succeed in mitigating the disaster, the broader public goes…

I hope your luck is better than mine, but I found it was hard to live up to because a) PS Plus “free” games and steep temporary discounts on games I had already told myself I’d buy eventually and b) some games may not feel worth continuing, even if you were originally excited about them or have a sense that you’d be…

He’s a creature of a different era, but he’s trying to run in this one. He’s handling this controversy exactly like someone would have 10 years ago and turning it into a series of own-goals

I’m more concerned for Alaska and North Dakota

Mix what you want, eat what you want, but that label with the red “KRA-” will not stand. Only 1/3 of those letters come from Ketchup, we have strict label laws for a reason

It is amazing how little criticism wealthy people in 2019 can endure before they snap and default to petulant Trump-y tweets

“Eh, it’s a living”

It will be interesting to be sure, but in my view automation is coming for those jobs first no matter where you live or how much you already make. Guaranteed wages (and it’s edgier cousin guaranteed jobs) are more of a way to rule out future exploitation as people compete for fewer jobs with meager compensation or…