You Europeans are something else, man.

Lol because we expect companies to pay people properly rather than expecting customers to top it up.

Tipping is immoral as it allows companies to underpay. Tipping is anti free market as companies should be competing for staff through their remuneration packages.

The thing I’ve never understood about tipping culture in general and especially the American culture around it is why some low paid staff get it and some don’t.

Why do you tip your food delivery driver and not the guy delivering your Amazon package?

Why do you tip your wait staff, but not your supermarket checkout assistant?

And then, a century later we did this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

An estimated 0.8–3.8 million people died, in the Bengal region (present-day Bangladesh and West Bengal), from starvation, malaria and other diseases aggravated by malnutrition, population displacement, unsanitary conditions, poor British wartime policies and lack of health care. Millions were impoverished as the crisis overwhelmed large segments of the economy and catastrophically disrupted the social fabric. … The financing of military escalation led to wartime inflation. The British “inflation policy” during World War II, which aimed to reduce the consumption of the poor to make more resources available for British and American troops, had played a major role in exacerbating the famine. This policy, along with other economic measures, led to a “forced transfer of purchasing power” from ordinary people to the military, and led to the diversion of food supplies and resources to support military operations, especially in the context of the ongoing war with Japan. Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister at the time, has been criticized for his role in exacerbating the famine, Critics argue that Churchill’s refusal to divert food supplies to Bengal, despite the urgent need, and his decisions regarding war priorities significantly worsened the situation. Churchill’s government did not prioritize relief efforts adequately and was also slow to respond to the crisis

It’s double what’s standard to tip for good service.

No, British are rectangular pins. Thinking on it I think I may have seen them in specialist use for theatre lighting.

So I take it back, they’ve chosen a bit of an obscure plug. That or it really is 👽👽👽👾

Good to know that aliens use the same standardized American outlets and plugs.

It’s very lucky they don’t use European or British of the other dozen or so types of plug that exist globally.

Tipping is just another way for the corporations to reduce the overhead by having the customer pay the wages of the employee directly, reducing both the budget for salaries and also the reducing ancillary expenses like unemployment insurance and employer wage withholding, occupational privilege tax, etc.

It also makes these jobs falsely competitive against other “unskilled” jobs where tipping isn’t the norm.

I thought yanks were all for the free market, tipping is the oppositeness to this as it negates the free market whereby companies complete with wages and benefits for staff.

So, you’re supporting the unfair system.

Only because you live in a country where they don’t pay people properly.

You yanks are crazy with your attitude to pay.

Lol that’s so bad.

Even with an insane 20% tip I don’t think you’ve worked it out right. A 20% tip on the food (because why would you tip on a service charge??) comes to 4.09

Did someone say magic tree house?

https://malazan.fandom.com/wiki/Azath_House

💷💷💷💷💷💷💷

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell is pretty close

Ice cold water with a slice of lemon.

Fuck off frog face.

Not really a controversy, just I think sometimes people assume it was just England dragging all the other countries out.

Thank you for not pretending like Wales voted remain (or was it just that they’d not qualify anyway)

Sorry for coming on a bit strong.

It had just started to feel like people were trying to say that I thought range anxiety was absolutely never legitimate.

In reality most people will do maybe one journey a year where it could possibly be. For them they’ll have saved so much from reduced maintenance and running costs of an EV that they could hire an ICE vehicle for that one trip and still have saved themselves money.

Of course if you’re way off the top end of the bell curve with your usage an EV may not yet be the best option for you.