The server’s budget is far more important than mine to keep in mind while tipping.

Can the New Yorker investigate whether Steven Wright ever actually had a pony?

I have never seen one of these people in the wild but I know that, were I a server and I saw that? I’d consider the $5 forfeit and make their table my lowest priority. Congrats, dude, you just turned this Chili’s into the passive-aggressive version of Dick’s Last Resort.

Tipping is a dumb and exploitative practice that allows employers to underpay servers. There is no excuse for it. Abolish it and just pay servers a living wage!

73% assholes:

Yeah fast food workers don’t get tips, they usually get higher than minimum wage whereas restaurant servers make the $2.95/hour or whatever it is and absolutely rely on tips to make any money.

My standard tip at a sit-down restaurant is 20%, and I very rarely go above or below that amount. I do recognize that when a dining experience is less than ideal it is not the server’s fault most of the time. Even when it is I prefer to cut them some slack unless they were blatantly rude. I figure that I get paid the…

If the DOJ had performed their sworn duty and arrested the treasonous insurrectionists leading the Republican Party, this wouldn’t have happened.

He got the job; now let’s see if he can keep it.

So, the guy who voted to not certify an election now meets regularly with the guy whose job he doesn’t officially acknowledge him holding? 3rd in line doesn’t support democracy in its most basic form?

Interesting point. We are currently finishing a kitchen remodel. We are going with Wolf appliances (which are very high end)...because they having fucking knobs!!! Seriously, all other cooktops, ovens, etc. have gone to touchscreen and capacitive touch, and Wolfe has these trademark chunky red knobs that look great…

Certainly it is safer to have a knob/button/tactile interaction rather than having every setting embedded in a touch screen; but I also think that think the tactile experience is somewhat part of the “luxury experience”. You have to feel the material and interact with it directly. There is a very distinct difference…

I’m 48 and an engineer. I will never get used to controls in a screen that require me to take my eyes off the road for tasks that should be done by no-look tactile knobs or buttons. My wife has a Mercedes, and while the HVAC controls are technically physical controls - they are tiny aircraft-style toggles - they are…

Autoblog called the interior “Luxury worth getting used to” and I think that’s a huge part of the problem. Even in Orange County, where there’s no shortage of luxury cars in younger hands, S-class drivers are old. Really, really, old. People who grudgingly use iPhones and take them either back to the store, or to the…

You’re right. I quoted the wrong Jurassic Park. Thanks for that. Still, we bought the Benz because it was once a movie car :D

These were not in the original Jurrasic Park movie—they were were in Jurrasic Park: The Lost World. Basically Jurrasic Park 2. Jurrasic Park primarily featured two vehicles—square headlight Wrangler and the boxy 90's Ford Explorer.

This was not condensation, this was a fish tank of water. It was 3/4 to 7/8 full. I have no idea if was older or newer, since there is no way to tell that I know of. 

it’s easy to put too much blinker fluid in

Complete aside, but I saw a Model 3 with a taillight full of water this past weekend. Not sure what was going on there, but it wasn’t right. 

2015 Tesla S. I really wanted to love that thing, but the constant repair issues ruined it for me.