I’d love for the place I work at to be an employee-owned co-op or something but those aren’t really a thing around here, and sadly I’m not rich enough to start a business and open one myself.

Also, could you please cut back on the snarkiness a bit? It doesn’t really make for pleasant conversation.

I’m not arguing for my employer to pay me less. I’m just saying I like the fact I make more money when I have to work more.

On a slow day, I’m basically chilling with my coworkers and my customers (both of who I do actually enjoy spending time with). On a busy day, I can be running around making food, drinks, cleaning, without even having a thought for myself or a second to relax and breathe for stretches of like 5 hours straight.

My wage before tips is fair to the amount of work I do if no one comes in. I would not be satisfied with my untipped wage on a day where we serve 80+ people an hour.

Obviously, I wouldn’t complain if we eliminated tips and made the minimum wage close to what I make with tips on a busy day. That’s not what I think would happen, though. Realistically, under the current economic system, most restaurants could not afford to pay their employees that much. Which is why I said in my original comment that we’d need some sort of change to the labour economy before I’d be willing to give up my tips (such as UBI).

With that attitude I don’t think we’d want you at Pride anyways :)

Led is the past tense of the verb “to lead”.

Led is a homophone of lead (the metal) whereas lead is a homograph of lead (again, the metal).

Technically, it is a homonym. Homonyms are separated into two categories, homophones (sound the same but spelled differently, such as they’re/their/there) and homographs, which are spelled the same but have different meanings, such as lead (the metal) and lead (the verb).

This is the second post today I’ve seen from you about transphobic vegans. Personally, I’ve met way more queer vegans/vegetarians than transphobic ones, so I kinda question how much of an issue this really is.

For sure there’s a subsection of vegans, the more granola “everything must be natural” side, that can tend towards transphobia (ever heard of the woo-to-Q pipeline?) but I don’t think it’s nearly as common as your posts indicate.

I’m trans and vegan and to me it just seems disproportionate to equate a vegan organization that has issues with misgendering to fascist political figures actively attacking our rights.

In French, usually selfies. The Québéc French Language Office (OQLF) proposes “égoportrait” but I’ve only ever seen that used very rarely in more formal written contexts.

There was this road adjacent to the local university campus in my city that was littered with potholes. The city said it was the campus’ responsibility, the campus (rightly) argued it was up to the municipality.

Things were at a standstill until, one night, this guy I knew went out and spray-painted massive dicks around each and every one of those potholes. The city then finally fixed them within weeks.

I want to share my perspective on this as someone who works for tips.

I don’t like tips in theory, but I’d be below the poverty line without tips so I really appreciate them. I also enjoy that they act as a mechanism to adjust my wage to the work I’m actually doing; I produce much more value as an employee on a busy day than when it’s dead, and without tips I’d make the same amount despite working much more.

I think realistically, unless we also massively adjust how the labour economy works, eliminating tipping would make profits higher for owners and make service industry workers poorer.

Like I’d gladly trade my tips for universal basic income, I would not trade my tips for poverty wages.

Lemmy.ca is run on a dedicated server in a datacentre in Vancouver, so this isn’t true (and really wouldn’t be relevant if it were). Think about it.

When I was in school, Flash games on garfield.com were all the rage. There was this haunted mansion point-and-click game, where you had to find pastries without getting Garfield too spooked.

One of the things that would scare Garfield was Lyman tied up, dungeon-style, in the basement of the mansion. Even though Lyman wasn’t really present in the generation of Garfield strips I grew up on, that scene will ensure I never forget Lyman.

Personally, I just use a u-lock in combination with a small chain lock (well my chain lock actually borked recently, so I’ve been using one of those foldable locks, but you get the idea).

U-lock through the rear triangle, securing the frame and the rear wheel to a solid bike rack or post, with the secondary lock binding my front wheel to the frame is enough to make me feel safe leaving my bike out in most scenarios, even in my city with really high levels of bike theft.

People have laughed at me for using two locks, even for daytime stops that last less than 5 minutes and where my bike stays more or less in my line of sight the entire time. I don’t care if I look paranoid, though. I’ve lost one bike to my city already, I’m not losing another one.

This is me with bike rides. Bike to a cool spot, smoke weed, then wander around. It’s my absolute favourite way to spend a day, whether it be out in nature trails or through the urban fabric of my city.

If I didn’t have to work for a living I would do nothing other than biking to cool spots to smoke weed, maybe grabbing food and a beer from a nice restaurant on the way home.

Have you tried reading the article? :)

In short, Trump signed an executive order opening the possibility of refugee status to white descendents of Dutch colonizers who are “victims of unjust racial discrimination” (read: the South African government no longer exists with the sole purpose of ensuring the dominance of white people).

This peaceful-looking rural road seems dangerous to you? I’d take this over my daily commute in a typical North American city :P

Make it a soy vanilla latte and you got a three-bean* soup going on.

*If you ignore that coffee “beans” are actually seeds and that most cafés use articial vanilla-flavouring.

Sure, but you gotta draw the line somewhere. Like if I post a picture of my lunch on here, with the justification that calories and nutrition are important for cycling, I think that’d be off-topic.

However, if I shared the same picture and asked people what are their favourite pre and/or post-ride meals, I think that’d fit in better here.

Is this really bicycle-related? Like sure, the article mentions an exercise bike, but I don’t feel like this post really fits the spirit of the community.

You could edit your post to add a paragraph to try and relate this to bicycles!

I’m super against mandatory helmet laws, but I will say if you’re hitting speeds of 80km/h you probably should be wearing a helmet!

Les villes pour les gens, pas pour les automobiles!