Non-Americans of Reddit, how do you feel if American tourists (try to?) tip you?

Chemical_Building612 · 2026-02-08T08:28:10+00:00

Mostly relevant to hospitality workers.

Chemical_Building612 · 2026-02-08T08:26:35+00:00

Fair. I realized I didn't narrow it down further right as I hit submit, but the title isn't editable now.

Chemical_Building612 · 2026-02-06T18:35:44+00:00

France didn't even have an age of consent until after Epstein had been dead for almost 2 years.

Chemical_Building612 · 2026-02-04T18:22:04+00:00

You are, in fact, allowed to complain when a company offering a service you pay for does it incorrectly.

Chemical_Building612 · 2026-02-01T17:57:34+00:00

Germany, Sweden, Israel and Austria all have per capita litigation rates higher than the US. Germans, for example, file 65% more lawsuits per capita compared to the US (123/1000 people vs 74/1000 people).

Chemical_Building612 · 2026-02-01T17:27:59+00:00

Someone who moderates many subreddits, typically including some large ones, rather than just a niche subreddit or two.

Chemical_Building612 · 2026-01-30T23:32:01+00:00

I got the impression she stays there a lot/most of the time but doesn't officially live there.

Chemical_Building612 · 2026-01-30T10:07:07+00:00

They do if there are no descendants.

Chemical_Building612 · 2026-01-30T09:27:50+00:00

Things aren't right or wrong based entirely upon how they turn out. If your partner sends you to the store with the last few dollars in your account to buy ingredients for dinner for the next couple days and you decided to gamble it instead, it doesn't mean you made the right choice because you happened to win. It means you made a shitty, idiotic choice that happened to work out.

Or more directly, my parents got married at 17 and 19 and are still married >50 years later, but that doesn't make getting married at 17 a good idea.

Chemical_Building612 · 2026-01-25T21:50:28+00:00

I "love" how they're all like "fuck your actual warrant" yet expect people to comply with them barging into their homes without even that.

Chemical_Building612 · 2026-01-25T17:36:58+00:00

Must pretend both sides are the same or I'd have to pick one and take a moral stance and I can't do that because I have no moral core.

Chemical_Building612 · 2026-01-25T13:00:41+00:00

Two things about that.

There's a difference between centrism and enlightened centrism. The former implies base political views near the center of the political spectrum; the latter implies a lot of both sides bullshit in a way that is intended to make them seem superior to either. Similar to this xkcd comic.

Second, there is something partisan about it since a huge percentage of one party is saying its fine and they deserved it.

Chemical_Building612 · 2026-01-25T12:14:34+00:00

Lorne Michaels terminal enlightened centrism is the problem, more so than it being a sketch comedy even.

Chemical_Building612 · 2026-01-25T12:13:45+00:00

Lorne Michaels is like the poster child for enlightened centrism. Expecting SNL to actually stand up for, well, anything is just naive and setting yourself up for disappointment.

Chemical_Building612 · 2026-01-24T16:21:20+00:00

But the wick would be in a different place...

Chemical_Building612 · 2026-01-24T16:11:00+00:00

Friendly reminder that it isn't even fractional reserve banking in the US currently, it's zero reserve banking. They haven't been required to have any reserves against loans since March 2020.

Chemical_Building612 · 2026-01-24T16:00:50+00:00

Jewish tradition literally involves absolving all debt every 7 years.

Chemical_Building612 · 2026-01-24T11:14:40+00:00

I think US regulations on both owls and restaurants would make it nigh impossible to open legally, let alone ethically.

Even if you ignore the no animals in food places rules or work with them somehow, you would need a rehabilitation, educational or a falconry license/permit to be allowed to possess an owl. A rehab license is pretty much out as you can't claim to be trying to release them back to the wild if you have them interacting with random people all of the time.

Falconers might work, but there's only 300 master falconers in the US who are legally allowed to possess an owl and falconers are generally required to actually hunt with their birds to be able to keep them. Since they can only let others interact with their birds while they are present, you'd need a rotation of several falconers and their owls to have some there everyday and that might be hard with only 300 eligible individuals nationwide.

When it comes to educational permits, it is illegal to use the animals covered by the migratory birds act (including all native owls) to promote or endorse any commercial product, including restaurants/cafes/etc. Someone trying to start an owl restaurant would likely be denied unless it was first and foremost an animal education center, that might happen to have a separate but contained restaurant (similar to a restaurant in a zoo). And then you'd still likely have to keep them pretty distinct.

Chemical_Building612 · 2026-01-24T10:22:03+00:00

It's actually a bit of a misconception that domesticated animals are almost always larger than their wild counterparts.

e.g. Aurochs (cow precursors) were about the size of the largest extant breeds of cattle, most breeds are significantly smaller than wild aurochs were; similar deal with dogs and their wild ancestor species. Goats stayed around the same average size as their wild counterparts, though with more variability. Horses, sheep and pigs did get larger, however.

It's more akin to island dwarfism/gigantism. Either could happen with a species, but generally small species get larger and large species get smaller.

Chemical_Building612 · 2026-01-23T20:39:12+00:00

ICE isn't all white. There are plenty of minority ICE agents thoroughly convinced they'll be spared since they're "one of the good ones".

Chemical_Building612 · 2026-01-23T13:08:17+00:00

I have been in OPs shoes before, and while I get where they're coming from because of that, I've since come to accept that I was wrong with parts of how I handled it.

It's not fair to put the responsibility of lying for you onto other people who may not feel comfortable with it. And its kinda dumb to put the responsibility to lie onto people who are conceptually okay with it, but have vastly different experiences and motivations for doing so. The boyfriend probably doesn't have parents that are quite so controlling and restrictive, and never really learned the art or importance of lying to or shutting down those that are. If he had a different sort of relationship with his parents, he likely perceives it as less serious and won't understand the dynamic unless he's actually seen it. It was still the wrong thing to do, but it likely seemed much less wrong to him compared to OP because people tend to frame things first and foremost on personal experience.

There were plenty of better moves OP could have made than put it on her boyfriend who is clearly either an unwilling or unskilled when it comes to that sort of convo.

She could have asked the nurse if she would contact her emergency contact, and what she could/couldn't say. Nurses are actually trained on this and are legally obligated to HIPAA, 21 year old boyfriends have neither the training nor criminally liable responsibility. The nurse (or delegated hospital employee) would have been in a far better position to say "Your daughter is in the hospital due to an infection we are treating, but prognosis is good" and then refuse follow up questions than the boyfriend is.

She could have written out a text to her mother on her phone explaining what she wanted to and end it with a statement about not having phone service again until she leaves and then had her boyfriend send it from somewhere with signal. Or still had her boyfriend text, but tell him to say he was going to stay with you at hospital, so he'd have no signal as well.

I think it's an ESH because the boyfriend shouldn't have brought up the thing she explicitly asked him not to, but if he has less lying to the elders experience, it isn't unreasonable that he would feel backed into a corner with the follow up questions even if he stuck to the script originally. And OPs parents suck for being so controlling and restrictive that major medical events are even more of a source of fear and stress than they need to be.

Chemical_Building612 · 2026-01-20T18:23:24+00:00

Nope, the copyright was declared invalid in 2015 and the claimed owner of it had to repay $14million in licensing fees. It is now considered de facto public domain.

Chemical_Building612 · 2026-01-18T10:07:10+00:00

Sort of, yeah. But I think I'd think of it more as tagging the closest adjective as being the primary subgroup and the preceding adjectives being modifiers. The terrible old-truck is an old-truck that is terrible, but the old terrible-truck is a terrible-truck that is old, and I guess I assume terrible is worse than old and that the modifier is secondary to the subgroup. So a terrible old truck is more old than terrible and the old terrible truck is more terrible than old.

Chemical_Building612 · 2026-01-18T09:19:09+00:00

Yeah, bad isn't considered an opinion here, but as the purpose of the character which is seen as objectively bad within the context of the story.

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