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The basic historical explanation for tipping in the US is racism.

Any competent judge would find that gender *is* germane to the job of providing a safe ride. It's like gender-specific airport pat downs. Or massage.

Intention was to come across as "entitled American that can't cope with cultural differences" for the first half; I think I nailed it? :)

Real talk: that cultural difference _can_ be hard to navigate. Like: attention cues are all "wrong", and it's hard to know when to interrupt.

But that's life 🤷.

I'm sad that Target leadership is taking it out on their employees instead of.. just rolling back their public mistakes as a corporate entity.

I think that we actually _do_ see an element of voting with one's dollars in Target's troubles.

They went anti-woke, and have been suffering a soft boycott ever since.

My family hasn't shopped there since they decimated their pride displays. Directly as a signal that we expect a modicum of virtue.

I'm glad it was enjoyed, 🙏

I have? 🤔
You read my post as seething?

It's so weird to not be treated like a literal god just because I want to spend €3 on gum.

Service in Europe IS rude.

Not because of the lack of smiling. Cashiers will full-on have a 15 minute phone conversation with their best friend while you wait to pay.

They somehow accept their own needs as not subservient to yours, even though you have 💶 to give them.

Like they're fully human..??

Public Works Administration but it's all forensic accountants, security engineers and attorneys.

I assumed you were referencing "The Who", and was trying to figure out what the song would sound like.

I read that as "russians: we (russians) will break and (that will somehow) terrify the Ukrainians"

Which is a great plan, actually.

No, they should put you in large. Very Large.

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One could try to add color to a 2D map?

So I hear there was some kind of interestingly boring baseball game...

Where a *lot* of nothing happened, even more than ordinary baseball games?

And there seems to be a fundamental lack of willingness to publicly retrospect on anything past communication. There *was* a communication failure.

There were also significant failures in decision-making, policy development, and community management (beyond comms).

The focus on employment policies applied under lawyer-coordinated time pressure (seemingly very CYA) on a project that has a vast gradient of volunteer and paid work is interesting. It explains a lot of RC missteps.

Not all of them.. but the initial ones smell exactly like lawyer-induced panic.

Every time I get a Ruby Central update in my inbox, I wonder how they're going to butcher community management this time. Weekly updates may have been a mistake.

I think I recognize that strip mall. Grew up not far from there.

Because we must make these symbols purely toxic again. A person should think "if I put this on my body, I can be outed and lose my job and friends." And "I definitely cannot *ever* go into public office".

Not because of your specific beliefs, edgelord or not. But because the symbols need to die.

The worship of hyper masculinity combined with a softening of the symbols of nazism made it more socially acceptable to espouse far right ideas. Less disqualifying to quote Nazi speech. Because edgelords push and then chase the edge.

Participating in this even unknowingly is disqualifying. Why? ..

Nazi symbolism has been creeping into hyper masculinity for decades. Because there is nothing more toxicly masc than mass murder and being the violent bad guy. It was normalized in many sub-cultures including militaries and tattoo parlors.

It's also what has helped far right parties surge...

I would propose that the action of turning them off ends up charging them and providing them with plenty of power.

Musing on SOA: Object Oriented programming has fallen out of fashion, but it hasn't actually gone away at all. It just moved to the cloud.

Data + Behavior is just no longer constrained to a single class. It's database tables + APIs.

But like in classic OO, naming your domain is everything.

Yeah, I didn't necessarily mean you're antisemitic. But the original post and the article are leaning *heavily* on antisemitism to carry their message :/

Probably wouldn't have gotten as viral by focusing on the actual main buyers.

The couple of Israeli medics in the trauma surgery program is only mentioned to make it a more exciting news story.

It would be completely unremarkable on its own; but adds a nice viral zest.

It's good bait.

Using a German term for Nazi ideology when referring to a country full of people that term was used to prosecute.

Many ways to express your point, and you chose the grossest one.

Antisemitic. Rage Bait.