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some_guy , in Scientists amazed at the discovery of an underwater road that points to a 7000-year-old city

Five bucks says conspiracy-twitter is talking about this relative to atlantis.

The latest ep of the QAA podcast looked at how qanon is full-throttle on twitter at present. It was a disappointing revelation, but a funny episode. I don’t use that shitty site so I was blissfully unaware. I’m cheering Lonnie running it into the ground.

TheReturnOfPEB ,
TokenBoomer ,

Haven’t listened to Q Anon Anonymous in a bit. Sad to see that it still needs to exist.

some_guy , in Israel launches preemptive strikes in Lebanon as Hezbollah fires back hundreds of rockets | CNN

Deliberately antagonizing sovereign states. That’s awesome. We should give them more weapons. /s

Fuck zionists in their stupid asses.

nonailsleft ,

Unless you’re in Iran, you’re not giving them any weapons

some_guy , in Trump’s pledge to be ‘great for women and their reproductive rights’ angers advocates

“As President Trump has consistently stated, he supports the rights of individuals in their respective states to determine their laws on abortion. President Trump also strongly supports ensuring women have access to the care they need to create healthy families, including widespread access to IVF, birth control, and contraception, and he always will,” said Karoline Leavitt, the campaign’s national press secretary.

Get the word out so his evangelical cultists abandon him.

Hegar , in Israel launches preemptive strikes in Lebanon as Hezbollah fires back hundreds of rockets | CNN
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”pre-emptive" now means brutal and unnecessary violence designed to save the political career of a tyrant?

Even CNN felt the need to scare-quote the term in the headline and the article, since it's obviously a lie.

nonailsleft ,

How is it not pre-emptive if Hezbollah was indeed setting up the ol’ rocket barrage?

njm1314 , in Scientists amazed at the discovery of an underwater road that points to a 7000-year-old city

This myth has been getting posted for years now.

ocassionallyaduck , in Airbnb's struggles go beyond people spending less. It's losing some travelers to hotels.

AirBnb is just a pain in the ass that hardly saves you money anymore. It’s often the same.

You want nice clean sheets, fresh linens, and nice amenities that go with it? Get a hotel.

You just absolutely have to have a home or flat vibe? Well be ready to do apartment laundry, sweep and vacuumvand make the beds and clean all the dishes and only enter and exit between these hours because the keypad doesn’t recognize you otherwise…

Greedy fucks ruined AirBnB because the company encouraged it and let them do so. And then fucked over the guests too many times. And now I’d rather stay in a reliable location than deal with the absolute hassle of their company or their company’s shitty clients.

Good riddance.

sparky ,
@sparky@lemmy.federate.cc avatar

Yep, this 100%. I travel a lot for work and have probably stayed in 100 airbnbs over the years, but these days I ask the company not to bother and to book hotels instead. It’s gone from a platform to get a nice home away from home, to a place to get gouged by rude hosts while staying in a barracks with the sparsest of IKEA finishings. They’ve done it to themselves by encouraging shitty host behavior and having zero consequences for bad guest experiences.

yesman , in The shooting death of a 16-year-old girl by police is among a spate that's upset Anchorage residents

The police department has tried to increase its diversity over the past decade…

A black pig just plead guilty to beating Tyre Nichols to death. Diversity in the force is not the solution to police brutality. It’s the system, not the actors…ACAB.

mctoasterson , in A stark social divide: Adults without a college degree more likely to have no close friends, survey finds

Adulthood blows. It is possible, even common, to go to high school in one area of the country, attend college in another area, then get a job in yet another area. I have friends from every “era” of my life but most don’t stay in touch. Worse yet, many of the coworkers I had at old jobs are people I would have considered personal friends but they call less and less after I changed jobs and we have less in common over time.

It is very easy to invest 110% in your immediate family and before you know it your other relationships suffer or disappear entirely.

SmokumJoe , in A stark social divide: Adults without a college degree more likely to have no close friends, survey finds

What kind of stupid generalized crap is this?

Spedwell ,

I think it’s what they’ve been calling “statistics”.

I_Has_A_Hat , in Restaurants fight back against the FTC crackdown on 'junk fees' as diners balk at new charges

Add a service fee or an inflation fee if you’d like. I’ll circle it and leave a big fat 0 for the tip. Without it, I’ll leave 20% minimum. Problem solved.

westyvw ,

I am tired of prices going up AND tips going up. It already was a percentage of a total, and now it’s a higher percentage of a higher total?

I remember 10 percent tip. Was sort of annoyed at 15. At 20 percent with five times the bill it’s gotten way out of hand.

And now my area is trying to normalize 25 percent, with 30 being “good service”.

I am about to say fuck it and go back to 15. It’s either that or never eating out again.

Melody ,

I never advanced from a 10% tip…if I thought the service and establishment justified tipping at all. Otherwise 0% tip.

Tipping is strictly optional; and anyone pressuring you otherwise is an asshat who doesn’t need your business.

Bluefalcon ,

I’m tired of tips in general. Every job should pay a liveable wage. Fix the system. The more in the middle class, the more things we can have. Healthcare, education, housing, food, innovation,…etc. Fuck ripping people off so a few assholes can sleep with women just as shallow as them or rape ones that turn them down.

FirstCircle ,
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A “quick haircut” sort of place (kind of a barber, sort of , but super-high-volume and just one worker, the owner) that I’ve been using for a while now has a super-annoying dark-pattern in their payment flow. They book appointments, and take in-person payments using Square. After your cut, when you’re paying via their hand-held kiosk with a card, the screen shows you a bunch of huge “tip amount” buttons, and it’s implied that the customer has to choose one of them, while the provider looks on, in order to finish the transaction and leave (probably not true - they’ve already got your CC info by that point). Guess which button is highlighted/pre-selected and front-and-center! That’s right, 20%. If you want to select another tip, or no tip, you have to select another button while she watches you do so. The owner lists all prices on her square website, and it’s those prices you think you’ll be paying when you book an appointment online, but she still feels the need to be tipped. You KNOW that the provider/barber has configured Square to present that UI to the customer. Not quite the same as the restaurant fees scam, but it’s actually more manipulative though, in my view.

MrWafflesNBacon , in Anthony Fauci recovering after hospitalization for West Nile virus

I wish him a quick recovery!

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sneezycat , in Ron DeSantis banned lessons on racism in Florida public schools. ‘Freedom schools’ fill the gaps
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I’ll never understand how the party of “freedom” can ban whatever they don’t like without their voters seeing the irony.

OutlierBlue ,

They never cared about freedom for all. They just want freedom for themselves.

Cryophilia , in A stark social divide: Adults without a college degree more likely to have no close friends, survey finds

Yeah no fucking shit. We don’t get to work from home. We don’t get to leave early on Fridays. We don’t get teambuilding events or offsites or happy hours. We work. We do labor. We come home every day and take our boots off and are more tired than you’ve ever been in your life.

And you people are always surprised when you remember our existence.

cygnus , in Black Myth: Wukong Devs Told Streamers to Avoid Politics in Their Playthroughs. It Backfired
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China has a weird approach to misogyny. Women are both empowered and belittled, and it’s all over the media. Anybody who’s read the three body problem trilogy (especially book 3) can attest to this.

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