So, OK, I’m willing to learn: please show me good brands then.

They need to resist to mud (thick mud, the kind with a ton of suction that will keep your soles when you try and move), seawater, rocks and sand, and pretty dense vegetation.

They also need to have steel toe caps, good soles (vibram or equivalent if possible) that don’t slip, and that aren’t too hard (wet stone is enough of a female dog as it is), and to go higher than my ankle.

The best brand I tried so far was caterpillar, but they lasted only 3 years. That’s a far cry from “a decade or more”.

Exactly. Nah, we just gotta have man made monoculture everywhere, or a desert, right? So that, in the end, it just amounts to deserts anyway. Yay. 😶

Yeah so, the amount of meals is correct. But that’s about it. I mean, I can’t say about the taste, to each their own, but one kg of cow meat needs two dozen kg of grain.

That’s about as inefficient as it gets.

As for the leather, the industry doesn’t like products that last a decade, so it isn’t actually using the leather in such a way. Industrial leather boots last a year tops.

Finally, pet food is made out of discarded cuts of meat, the uglies, etc. But also lots of cereals, and vegetables.

So we could really afford eating less meat. It isn’t good for anything. Not for us, not for the other species (certainly not for the cows, that get often half assed butchered in a hasty way because of quotas and profit), and absolutely not for the ecosystem.

But I guess the taste is all that matters.

Finally, a Scottish layout.

It happens to the best of us 🙂

Also, could you please update the title of your fediverse post? The article now says 21k 🙂

Glad to learn that HTTP/0.9 is still “in use globally” then. A bit surprising, but since it’s all about stretching definitions past what is reasonable, for the sole purpose of having the last word, let’s shoehorn anything into anything to the infinity and beyond!!! 🤡🚀

Damn, now I want part 2!! 😶

(Thanks for posting!! 🙏)

Seeing that I’m a senior dev, take it any way you want.

Junior dev:

Straight out of uni, know the latest developments while having also studied long established standards and specifications (like POSIX, LSB, SQL, etc), full of energy, and ready to speedrun burning out any %

Senior dev:

Hasn’t learned anything substantial in decades, uses outdated specs because “who got the time for that, and legacy stuff works just as well anyway”, copy pastes most of their work from stack overflow, is only still employed because of their inside information knowledge and the utter absence of documentation leading to a bus factor of one, and has perfected the art of gaming the system to the point of photoshopping a sloppy IDE screen over their WoW game whenever a picture of them “working” gets taken.

Yeah, checks out.

Usually that’s about when I strace the process before running it through gdb…

You’ll get a lot farther with people being kinder in their corrections of your incorrect presumptions if you vibe check yourself and cool it with the providing the enlightened eurobrain takes.

I don’t know that my “presumptions” were incorrect. And I don’t care much for kindness when we’re talking about a system that takes from the poor to give to the rich.

I know the north american tipping system is a top-down broken trash fire. You’ll find that I never actually endorsed the system, just commented on the reality of it. It’s possible for someone to acknowledge how something works (“how it works” =/= an endorsement of functionality) while understanding that the system itself is negatively impactful to those inside it

Oh, and I’m pretty sure a vast majority of the upvotes you got on your comment are from people who actually think it does work.

Because, yes, “how it works” is an endorsement. I would never say “how burning coal to reduce CO2 emissions works”. It doesn’t.

“How it is supposed to work”, or “how it is designed”, aren’t necessarily endorsements, but, yeah, again, nobody said that, and people really think it works: they think they are getting lower prices as customers, which they aren’t, and that somehow, deciding themselves how much the service worker should take home is both a good idea and something that lets said worker have a fulfilling life, which it absolutely isn’t.

Now, essentially, to break things down a little and reduce the amount of goalpost moving:

user “Zron” wrote that I didn’t understand “how tipping works”, which in actuality meant “how handling the cards happen over here”, which is an entirely different thing.

Any monkey can tell “how tipping works”, that’s why the system is currently used. You take a price, multiply it by 1 + (tip/100) and you pay that. The seller gets more money than they were supposed to. And that is the way it works on the entire planet.

So the discussion at hand is about two separate topics:

1. How means of payment get mismanaged.
2. The “custom” of paying someone slavery wages, and expecting them to coerce random people into giving them enough money not to die.

So I’ll answer in two parts:

I - Mismanagement of means of payments

This reflects a different view on trust. In Europe, different countries have very different customs about trust management and means of payments. For example, while, in Germany, you legally have to go to the police station within weeks of moving in a new place, to declare your new address, and have your German ID card show your current address always; in France, people have random addresses on their ID (where they were born, or where they lived years ago), and no one knows where anyone lives. As a consequence of that, in Germany, you only have to show your ID, but in France, you need to show recent invoices tied to your address (from the electricity or gas company, for example). Anyway, I digress.

I’m not an American, so someone else is free to correct me, but most of the US is still being introduced to chip cards. I believe there’s still places where it’s not exactly uncommon for the server to swipe for you.

Yeah so that is somewhat news to me. I’m aware of the “waiter swiping your card for you, it getting declined, and the waiter cutting your card in two” trope. I never realised that chips on cards were a European thing.

My point here is: your money, your means of payments. If you give those to someone else, then, practically, for all intents and purposes, it is their money.

They could overcharge you. They could copy your card’s information and buy stuff online at a later date. They could sell that information to brokers on the dark net. Why would one do that?? Why???!

II - Paying people slavery wages

if you can’t afford having employees, then don’t.

Yes… I agree. I never actually endorsed the north american system though?

I believe you didn’t intend to. I also believe a lot of those who upvoted you totally think you did.

When you write things like:

why would you start talking authoritatively on the deranged state of North American tipping culture when you dont seem to understand how it works?

It totally means:

1. “It works”
2. You (meaning me) do not understand cross multiplication
3. You (meaning me) are talking out of your ass

When all those 3 things are false.

I was missing information on how bad exactly it was with the mismanagement of people’s means of payment (which I addressed above), and this is the only part that can be construed as me “not understanding” something (even tho, that would be incorrect: “understanding” and “knowing” are vastly different concepts, and not knowing someone is stupid doesn’t mean that you do not understand what stupidity is).

See, my issue with all this, is: in my view, the only appropriate way to react to that system is to trash it. Anyone being even neutral to it kinda means some level of acceptance to me.

It is bad. Destroying families bad.

Oh, and:

But then, you are legally allowed to literally kill them, right?

Holy bad faith Batman

Not “bad faith”. Just a totally unrelated, other American thing that I also hate. Gun violence. I added it as a cheeky joke, I never meant for it to be taken seriously in the present context, but it is still very real. Why is it still a thing, I will never understand. That, you can say, that I do not understand.

Ill make it extra clear then. I said that your grammar sucks. Sorry you weren’t able to parse that.

I reckon, I am not “that clever friend” that you clearly miss dearly. Don’t worry, you will eventually find them.

I don’t know how doing heroin works, but I still know it’s terrible idea.

how it works

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/addressing-the-u-s-homelessness-crisis/

https://fortune.com/europe/2022/07/12/how-to-end-homelessness-finland-solution-housing-first/

If I were you, I’d be a tad more cautious with the use of that word, “works”. Seems a lil bit overblown for what you are talking about.

It’s surprisingly common for cashiers to re-enter your tip amount for you when they reset the machine if there was an issue with your transaction

If you don’t check the amount before entering the pin, it’s a you problem. If you give away your CC and assume the person has integrity, it’s a you problem. If the person is threatening you, it is a robbery. But then, you are legally allowed to literally kill them, right?

Unfortunately when people’s incomes rely on tips

I’ll refer you to the bit above about the word “works”. Not gonna repeat myself. Running a business isn’t simple, but fortunately, not everything is complicated: if you can’t afford having employees, then don’t. If you can’t afford running your business without employees, then don’t. There’s a reason it is called a “business plan” and not a “business guess”.

As terrible as Capital One is (extremely bad)

I have found literally one good bank so far. One. Among the 5 countries I lived in.

this isn’t a dark pattern to keep you from spending money, they get more out of you if you spend more on your Credit card because of the interest on repayments.

Fair, I’ll admit: this makes sense. I know (not from first hand experience, but there are enough accounts online to make this common knowledge) that the credits in the US are extremely predatory. Worse than that, the entire system is designed to make you fail. So yeah, OK, you are right, point taken, I’ll correct what I wrote on the prior comment.

Tell me you don’t know how tips work without telling me.

Tell me you don’t know how tips are in the US without telling me. FTFY.

Yeah so I’m from good ol’ Europe, where we tip as a feedback for a stellar service, not as an attempt try and help service workers get food and shelter to survive another week. So yeah, no, I don’t know how “tips work”, because apparently that also implies giving your credit card to another person, letting them go out of your sight with it, and charge you whatever the hell they want. I would also never give my credit card to anyone else. Either you got a means of payment where it doesn’t leave my hand, or you will get cash. I’m not handing out my entire bank account to a rando.

I’m more inclined to think that it’s a dark pattern to shame you into keeping the money in thei…erm your account. You know, where they can use it.

Because I don’t think there would be much room to complain, after the fact, about a price you already agreed to pay, and paid. But yeah, thanks for your answer. 🙂

And the bank sends you this “warning” because they’re just nice people and love you so, so much. Gee, I feel so warm and fuzzy inside.

Finally someone is making sense. I was getting depressed with all the logical metric inspired units disguised as jokes everywhere in this thread. You get it. Thank you 🙏