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@CoryBMorgan @FoodProfessor I’d agree if there was an overall attitude that tip was linked to service. Now taking an order, dropping off the food and leaving the bill comes with a minimum 18% tip option. (Yes, I know that can be changed/bypassed).

@FoodProfessor Not just the price change, but the dump in service. I love Australia but hated the self-serve status of most bars and restaurants that they embrace due to higher staffing costs. Tipping is an odd tradition, but it has benefits for consumers.

"The survey suggesting that 67% of Canadians want tipping to disappear misses a critical piece of context: respondents weren’t asked how food service employees would be compensated instead. If the question included whether they would accept higher menu prices to offset wages, the results would likely look very different."

@MurrayHillGuy1 Got it. You’ve gotta imagine everyone else is more miserable than you so you can feel better about yourself and your life choices. Seriously. Who cares how other people are living?

Day in the life of a mid 30s guy in the suburbs (Saturday edition/no kids): 7:30am — wakes up before his alarm anyway 8:00 — walks the golden retriever 8:30 — chug a black coffee 9:30 — Costco run that somehow turns into $347 12:30 — eats samples like it’s lunch 2:00 — “quick” nap that ruins the rest of the day 4:30 — stands in the backyard staring at nothing 6:00 — gets yelled at by his wife for something he definitely did wrong 7:30 — 1.5 beers = exhausted 9:15 — falls asleep mid-movie he picked 2:30am — wide awake for no reason, contemplating everything Same script every weekend

@JudyBrowne68992 @alt_w_v_g

That’s almost as bad as faculty meetings on a Monday after school in which the administration made an hour long presentation that could have been an email. Followed by a teambuilding exercise. Best principal I had was the one who called a meeting at our local bar after school on Fridays ;-)

Karen in HR swung by my office this morning Asked if I'm joining the Employee Engagement team-building session this afternoon I said "what is it" She said "an escape room" I said "what time" She said "5pm" On a Friday An escape room At 5pm On a Friday The irony of trapping employees in a room they have to solve their way out of at the exact hour they've been trying to escape all week was apparently lost on her I said "no" She said "it's mandatory" I said "so is reading the policy before enforcing it but here we are" She said "it's about building team culture" I said "I already spend 50 hours a week with these people. If we haven't built culture by now, a padlock and a flashlight aren't going to fix it." She said "your attitude is part of the problem" I said "my attitude built the Q2 forecast in two days. What has the escape room built." She didn't answer She left a flyer on my desk I used it as a coaster At 4:58 I packed my bag The analyst saw me leaving He said "you're not going?" I said "I have somewhere to be" He said "where" I said "home" He looked confused Like the concept of leaving at 5 on a Friday was something he'd only read about I said "you should try it sometime" Got in the car My wife called She said "are you coming home?" I said "I escaped" She said "from what" I said "the escape room" She said "you didn't go did you" I said "I didn't need to. I solved it from my office. The answer was the door." She laughed First time she's laughed at something I said in weeks I'm counting that Plz fix. Thx. Sent from my iPhone

@Fradygirl65 @AniseNot How about if I had talked to you after my husband died. I heard non stop people complain about their husbands when I would have given anything to have mine back. But I was mature enough to recognize that even if my ‘problem’ was worse, it did’t lessen others’ problems.

@Kate_NoNumbers @AniseNot Come talk to me when all of your parents, aunts and uncles are dead. And there is no one to visit. Stop the moaning and whining. It is disgusting! There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t wish my mom was still alive! Complain to someone else who cares. 🤬

There is an innate selfishness in boomers who don’t have children I have 2 visiting me right now. They are from Man’s side of the family. The amount they expect to do every day in environments not conducive to child schedules or convenience for parents has got me so worn down Prior to this, every time they have visited, Man continues working, maybe taking a couple days off & I am left to chauffeur & host them every day The rest of my household has always been thoroughly enamored by them so I have grit my teeth & committed to making the best of it. I do love & appreciate them, they are wonderful people, but hosting them while managing my kids is simply too much for me So this time when I found out they were visiting for 12 days I put my foot down & said he must take the week off work if he wanted them to visit. I simply refused to host them on my own We are on day 6 & this afternoon Man pulled me aside & remarked at how it seems one of them specifically is actually quite selfish & it starts to feel like we are expected to be supporting act in a one man show while managing our children in inconvenient & uncomfortable circumstances & I was like “THANK YOU FOR FINALLY REALIZING THIS” But even with him around to help everyone still relies on me for all plans, directions, reservations, destination & restaurant choices, meal planning, etc. Like when something goes wrong everyone is coming to me to fix it And one of the visitors REFUSES to do anything inside. No museums, malls, movies. Nothing corporate like zoos, aquariums or theme parks. Everything is expected to be outside, beach days, hiking, boats I am fried, tired, my kids haven’t gone to bed before 10pm in a week. I just got my period and I am supposed to get up early tomorrow to herd the boomers & both kids to an island for a 5 hour beach day, no strollers or wagons allowed YOU GUYS I CANT DO THIS, EVEN WITH HIS HELP

@Fradygirl65 @AniseNot Two things can be true at once. One can be thankful to have family / friends AND be exhausted by a 12 day visit.

@AniseNot I probably should just scroll on by but I literally have no patience for this bullshit. People that actually have family in their life are blessed. Stop your bitching and whining and appreciate them. So what if your life is inconvenienced for a week. At least you have family. 🤬

@AniseNot As my dear friend says, even the best fish stinks after three days. Nobody should visit for 12 days unless they are 90% self sufficient. We will ‘host’ for three days max. Beyond that, you’re welcome to use our house as a free hotel but we ain’t hauling your ass anywhere.

@tiredofcons1978 @AJWVictoriaBC @Barbielynn01 @AmandaAchtman The old ‘it didn’t happen to me therefore it couldn’t possibly happen to anyone else’.

@AJWVictoriaBC @Barbielynn01 @AmandaAchtman My 83 yo father was on death's doorstep and I took him to the ER. No one mentioned MAiD. They treated him. He lives today. I just find the story a little fictional Andrew. Sorry.

For those who followed my recent twitter dialogue regarding MAiD. I know the person in the video. It was outrageous that she was offered MAiD at Vancouver General. This 84 year old just hiked up a volcano in Guatemala! @AmandaAchtman

@squirrelpalooza @SarahAusti5775 @jesse210spurs @Jack71827865 @drterrysimpson So you’re suggesting an NET is vaccine preventable?

@SarahAusti5775 @jesse210spurs @Jack71827865 @drterrysimpson Maybe we need a policy where the unvaxed should not be allowed hospital services if they present with a vaccine preventative illness. You'd be fine with that right? Treat your neuroendocrine cancer or your ARDS with cabbage leaves.

The notion that infectious disease is purely a “personal choice” collapses the moment it encounters reality. If someone has active tuberculosis and refuses treatment, courts can order isolation or detention until they are no longer contagious. This happens in the United States with regularity because untreated TB spreads and kills. Public health has never operated on the libertarian fantasy that microbes respect individual autonomy. They do not. They spread. Vaccination is simply the civilized method of reducing that spread without resorting to quarantine cells and court orders.

@SarahAusti5775 @jesse210spurs @Jack71827865 @drterrysimpson I’m 56 have never had a flu shot and never had the flu that I can think of.

@jesse210spurs @Jack71827865 @drterrysimpson And the last 4 years I didn’t get the flu shot, I haven’t gotten it? My exposure hasn’t changed. I still swim in flu without a mask every year. The only thing that has changed is, I stopped taking the flu shot. My asthmatic lungs are happier since I stopped.

@annbauerwriter Try being a post secondary educator that gets handed this slop for a grade. I remember when we were working to have computers mark human work. It’s now become humans grading a computer’s work.

I've been using AI for about 3 weeks, because it is (I've been told) essential for speeding up business tasks. Perhaps. But it is also, without question, making me dumber, flatter of mind, less likely to think spontaneously. I don't like this.

@vkargatis @Rob_ThaBuilder What about when the ‘accused’ admits it and can tell authorities where the bodies are? There are cases where there is no doubt.

@Rob_ThaBuilder My point is that zero tolerance for error means no capital punishment EVEN IF one is fine with killing the guilty. If one has non-zero tolerance for error ok - just say what it is!!

It is interesting how when you realize the truth on one issue, it can change have ripple effects on many of your other positions on issues. Up until about 3-4 years ago, I held pretty consensus liberal beliefs on just about every issue. I was comfortable in my tribalism. The trans issue shattered that comfort and it was the first issue that I "broke" on. The cognitive dissonance between what I was expected believe and my own values was too great. I still consider myself left-of-centre (altho I describe myself more of a "classical liberal" and at the moment have more in common with a moderate righty than a standard lib) but once you get to that headspace, where you can full throatedly reject something on your own side, it completely opens your mind on many other, unrelated ones. I guess once you identify the flaw in thinking on one issue, its much easier to identify it on other ones. I now think DEI is the primary cause if racial division in our society, that immigration policy is absolutely insane, that abortion is a complex issue involving competing rights (altho im still pro-choice, im more of an anti-abortion pro choice, if tbat makes sense) etc etc. And without even realizjng when this happened, Im now firmly in favor of the death penalty. I do think it should be saved for cases where tbere us absolutely no doubt of guilt, no remorse and no possibility for rehabilitation, but society desperately needs it. When you remove the rose-colored liberal goggles, you realize that civilozation and social order is both precious a d fragile, and some ppl are just irredeemably evil, and their presence in our society will constantly undermine order and public trust. We dont often notice these shifts in our thinking happening in real time, but its interesting once in a while when you take stock of what your beliefs are and realize they've changed quite a bit without you even noticing.

@SULLY10X takes him to a nearby park with a field. Thinks his legs are like only an inch…no way he can outrun me. And lets him off leash.Sure enough, dog takes off, husband runs after. Barely catches him before he’s to the road. Still talks about how unbelievably fast he was. 😆

@SULLY10X We dog sat for a weenie. Omg we loved him. We asked if he could be off leash. Owner (a bit older) said he’d never been off and wasn’t sure he’d trust him to come back. Being someone else’s dog, I wasn’t going to take a chance. My husband on the other hand…1/2

He didn’t know it yet, but he was never getting off of his leash again. 😂🐾🐾 …and that is what it’s like to own a dachshund. 😂

@GraceALore You are right. We ARE owed better. We are owed elected MLAs to vote to represent their constituents without being whipped into the party line. And quit clipping sound bites out of context.

Let’s talk about sexism in politics. This week, in this province. Meek? Deferring to men? That’s a 3x elected leader, that’s a cabinet minister. Kelly is owed better. We’re owed better. You’re owed better. So is the province. #BCPoli

@callingcrow @GraceALore Watch the longer version. What was said before this. Context matters and this short clip misses the context.

@GraceALore Wow, that was disgusting, why hasn't the media picked up on this. I haven't seen your posts for months. Glad to see you're back. You look great. Keep posting on this sh#t people need to know.

@Megan44778654 @DrouinNorm32708 Y’all need to look west of you. The NDP have destroyed BC. We are looking to leave and move back to AB. Literally the only benefit of being in this province is the weather. We see family and friends living much better in AB.

@DrouinNorm32708 We can only hope. Shes doubled our debt over what the NDP did in their term & they had a down economy, not a surplus like her. I am so very fed up.

@shindig101 @lamps_apple Daily people across Canada declare our system is so wonderful because it’s free. That’s how I interpreted your post. So yes, fair point, people pack the ER because there is no charge or ‘downside’ to going. Apologies for the snark.

@Kate_NoNumbers @lamps_apple Do you not have the intelligence to understand this is the reason why an ER is empty in the USA but full in Canada? Whether we pay for it with higher taxes does not matter. It is why our ER's are full. That is the point. SIGH.

"Okay, so I'm in an American hospital for the very first time. I'm Canadian, so when I tell you, I'm absolutely shocked. There is... There... I'm making a video. There is nobody in this waiting room, not even one person. There is a duck pond here. They have a water fountain. There are leather chairs. When you walk into the main lobby, it literally looks like a five-star hotel. It's insane. It's crazy. I... There's a park here, like a playground for children. Like, when you walk into a Canadian hospital, the paint is literally peeling off the walls. There are 4,000 people in the waiting room. Everybody is stressed out. Everybody's mad. There's, like, glass everywhere. People in, like, medical gear. It feels like you're in an apocalypse movie. This feels like, like, like a hotel. Like, literally like a hotel. I don't know. I'm shocked. I'm shocked. You guys, I was in and out. Like, I've been... I was in and out in 15 minutes. 15 minutes. What?"

@shindig101 @lamps_apple Sigh. For the love of God, nothing is free. Do you really have no idea how health care in Canada is paid for?

@lamps_apple The average cost to visit an ER in the US is $1500. Ranging $500-$3000. In Canada it is free. You're welcome. The answer is that easy.

Idlout was literally at an Avi Lewis rally last Thursday. Avi Lewis — the furthest-left candidate in the NDP leadership race and Leap manifesto guy. She is now supposed to sit in the same caucus as Hodgson (Goldman Sachs) and fmr CPC MPs. A bunch of happy campers, I'm sure.

@Act_Forward @triggerpod I’d call it “homocidal vanity’. It’s not hurting the person themselves (which suicide does), it hurts others. It doesn’t help the victim, it likely makes them worse off.

@triggerpod YES. This starts to explain why there is no "victim" too depraved for "help" When its not really about the "victim" and is centered on your public display of faux righteousness - the worse the victim the more "valiant" you look in contrast. SUICIDAL VANITY.

“What you're dealing with is not genuinely empathy. It’s a conceit about yourself being a good person. It's suicidal vanity.”