Eric Youngblood

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Seriously considering cashing out my 401(k) and investing it all in vintage sealed pokemon products. Am I stupid?

@entropy_ 😂

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@shanaka86 Your phones do exactly the same thing. So does your TV. This has been a reality for more than 10 years.

JUST IN: Meta sold 7 million Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2025 alone. Workers in Kenya are watching the footage. Not metadata. Not anonymized clips. The actual videos. People undressing. People in bathrooms. People having sex. Bank cards. Medical documents. The blurring is supposed to protect privacy. It fails constantly. The contractors see everything. Here is the part that should stop you cold: You did not buy the glasses. You did not agree to the terms of service. You did not consent to anything. But if someone wearing Meta glasses walks into your bedroom, your bathroom, your doctor's office, your home, a contractor on the other side of the world may be watching you right now. The person wearing the glasses consented. Everyone else in the room did not. Meta's defense is that this is all disclosed in the privacy policy. They are technically correct. Buried in language so dense that 99% of users never read it. And even if they did, it would not matter, because the terms govern the wearer's data. Not yours. You are not a party to the contract. You are the product being annotated. Millions of AI-enabled cameras walking around in public. Recording constantly. Uploading to servers. Reviewed by humans earning a few dollars an hour to label your most intimate moments so the algorithm gets smarter. This is not a bug. This is the business model. The EU is already asking questions. MEPs submitted formal inquiries to the Commission this week demanding answers on GDPR compliance. The problem is obvious: European data protection law requires consent from data subjects. Bystanders are data subjects. Bystanders never consented. The entire architecture violates the regulation by design. Meta's response has been silence and a reference to terms of service that do not apply to the people actually being filmed. Google Glass died because people called the wearers "Glassholes" and banned them from bars. Meta solved the social problem by making the glasses look normal. They did not solve the privacy problem. They hid it. Seven million units sold in 2025. The installed base is accelerating. Every unit is a potential surveillance node operated by someone who may not understand what they are feeding into the system and reviewed by contractors who see everything the algorithm cannot process. The question is not whether this becomes a scandal. The question is whether the scandal arrives before or after the glasses are on 50 million faces. Watch the EU. If Brussels moves on GDPR enforcement, Meta faces a choice: disable human review in Europe and cripple the AI training pipeline, or accept fines that could reach billions. Neither outcome is priced into the stock. The glasses are selling faster than ever. The contractors keep watching. And somewhere right now, someone you have never met is looking at footage of you that you never knew existed.

Lol, how did you come to this conclusion? Also I have no side to take. I only stated how the industry works. I think its broken and Vampiric. The simple fact I've stated is that if a server isn't tipped they're required to pay money out of their own pockets to cover their tipout to other employees i.e. food runners, bussers, bartenders, etc. There are a lot of opinions on here about whether this is right or wrong. Whether people enjoy stiffing servers or have empathy toward them, when you go out to eat and don't tip, the server is paying for you. Simple facts.

@Bobbywomack123 @__RedRabbit__ @MrPitbull07 You’re the one who thinks servers will causes food prices to rise. Strangest take I’ve ever heard.

We went to a dinner as a group and had a $500 bill. We tipped $40. We were happy we can be able to give our server something, but her reaction was the opposite. She told us she assumed we're going to give her at least $120. When we asked for the manager, she said she was just joking, but she wasn't smiling at all. Idk, but is $40 tip enough for $500 bill? I just feel like expecting $120 is not realistic. ~Lea Robertson

I managed multiple restaurants in the Disney Springs area doing roughly $20 million annually. I worked directly with major suppliers like Sysco and US Foods, so I’m very familiar with food costs at scale. Even 10 years ago, there’s no scenario where we could have purchased the ingredients for that meal for $7, let alone today with current pricing. You would have been around $12-$15 food cost.

@__RedRabbit__ @JourneyJunkieJ @MrPitbull07 Jesus man. Get out of the grocery store. Restaurants buy from wholesale suppliers or butchers in bulk at reduced prices, then cut portions. What do you think, restaurants go to the local ShopRite?

@KellyGoodmanPhD @JourneyJunkieJ @MrPitbull07 Where are you buying $7 ribeyes from??? I can't even buy hamburger for $7 from the store 😅

@JourneyJunkieJ @__RedRabbit__ @MrPitbull07 They already do. That $40 rib eye with sides cost the restaurant $7.00 to make. The rest of that money goes to salary, insurance, utilities, lease, supplies, their business loan etc. Then, maybe, only maybe, the owner makes something. 99% of restaurants hang by a thread

@jjboyungs @MrPitbull07 100% correct

@__RedRabbit__ @MrPitbull07 They have to pay I do not

Not implying anything only sharing how it is. I also believe it's vampiric and should be illegal, but that doesn't change the fact that whether ignorant or not, eating out without tipping is forcing the server to pay for you. You can say you don't care, or screw them, or I don't give a sht about the server, this is only information on how the system works. Do with it what you will. 🤝🍻

@__RedRabbit__ @MrPitbull07 But you’re implying the customer needs to know this. They do not. Nor do they care. The internal workings of the restaurant is on the restaurant.

@MichaelPer93070 @MrPitbull07 Lol, tip laws are not for customers they are for employers and employees. How are people this uniformed?

@__RedRabbit__ @MrPitbull07 Tip law?? GOT NEWS FOR YA......I DON'T HAVE TO TIP A DAMN THING!!

@micbrw @MrPitbull07 @grok That's the honor system, and no restaurants run on the honor system. Every restaurant does it based on percentage of total sales. Ask a server next time you eat out. Not saying its right, just that this is how its done

@__RedRabbit__ @MrPitbull07 @grok All this obfuscation. A server would never pay more to the other staff than was collected from the customer. It’s all ratios and those staff would “suffer” just as server would.

I do not know if its changed recently, however I can tell you from being the bartender/ server for many years when I was younger, servers were required to pay the percentage on total sales. All restaurants in Disney Orlando Florida area did it this way. If an employee said they didn't have their tipout based on sales they would be written up, and multiple offenses would be fired 100%

@__RedRabbit__ @BarnB @MrPitbull07 The split breakdown to restaurant staff is a % of the tip collected not based on the % of the bill paid. Two very different things Eric. Besides this is all cash (no taxed) under new US ‘no tax on tips’ law. Shouldn’t tipping % be adjusted down now that tipping is tax free?

@brirey_yankee @MrPitbull07 Only explaining the industry, please tip at your own discretion

@__RedRabbit__ @MrPitbull07 You do not get to set the standard on how much a minimum tip should be.

Fully understand your thinking. If you took care of a table for a few hours, and then at the end had to pay the tip out for their bill out of your own pocket you might find yourself using those words as well. It feels like theft from the employee's perspective, however, the real thief is the state and employer for doing this to employees.

@__RedRabbit__ @MrPitbull07 Stealing is a strong word

@pkotasso @MrPitbull07 Of course there's no tipping laws for customers 😂

@__RedRabbit__ @MrPitbull07 There are no US tipping laws😂.

@Mass928901 @MrPitbull07 It's only information. To each their own.

@__RedRabbit__ @MrPitbull07 That’s not the customer problem

The average of minimum wage is based on a 2 week pay cycle. As long as the employees average minimum wage every 2 weeks, the employer can and does require these tipouts based solely on total sales. They could care less if the server got tipped or not. When I was younger I witnessed this scenario 100s of times

@__RedRabbit__ @MrPitbull07 She would never "pay out of pocket" if she never got a tip the company has to pay everyone minimum wage..it's the law. Employers started taking advantage of tips during covid and they realized they could pocket more and not have to pay employees a full wage.

@Imminentpsycho No one suggested theres a law requiring you to tip. Only that tipped employees get paid much less minimum wage then regular employees, and they have to pay a percentage of their tips back to the employer for other employees. Glad you got it figured out

@__RedRabbit__ The act of tipping is not mandatory The act of tipping is not a law Don’t need AI slop to tell me that

Make sure you tip guys, it’s the LAW 🤣