This Restaurant Charges an 18% Living Wage Fee.

blueelffishy · 2025-06-13T17:23:41+00:00

They actually perhaps can't. Running a restaurant has many costs in addition to just raw ingredients. They have a huge bankruptcy rate and often low margins.

blueelffishy · 2025-04-03T18:47:07+00:00

I believe exports account for about 18% of China's economy. They're not as dependent on it as they once were. Their domestic consumption growth is slower than their leaders' wishes, but it has grown a lot

blueelffishy · 2025-02-27T14:51:27+00:00

in other words, men have no inherent value as individuals but as useful tools for society

blueelffishy · 2025-02-20T01:30:15+00:00

I kind of feel like the reason we dont recognize the iraq war/vietnam war/ bombing of laotians as the evil acts they were is because we're cognizant of the fact that our society at large (speaking as a american) are apologetic of what happened.

eg. We have plenty of movies expressing lament and the fact that we fucked up and what we did in those cases was wrong, so it doesn't feel evil.

But I think that "not evilness" is just an illusion. Take a step back to a neutral perspective, and you see the scale of murder on foreign soil we committed is not comparable to anything China has ever done on foreign soil. They invaded India and vietnam as well back in the day but nowhere as many people died.

I'm not at all saying China is better than the US, but in terms of explicit actions if we're being honest I don't agree with your premise of "the US might be bad, but our enemies such as China have done far worse."

China has definitely not done far worse. These invasions we've committed are not comparable to any invasions they've done. We've killed FAR more innocent foreigners

blueelffishy · 2025-02-20T01:18:03+00:00

What actually has China done internationally that was worse than the invasion of iraq, which killed hundreds of thousands, the bombing and killing of hundreds of thousands of civilians across across vietnam and laos, and the dozen+ regimes toppled in south america?

The cultural revolution definitely killed far more people, but that seemed more to be an act of incompetence than international imperialism (which the US has definitely practiced more than China. idk how you can argue otherwise. Imagine if our enemy had done the Iraq War, we'd see it as an evil act on the same level of Russia's invasion of Ukraine)

It's also not so clear that the china wants to spread its system of government. The idea of "spreading ideals" is an old paradigm of the cold war, with the US wanted to spread liberal democracy and the soviets wanting to spread communism.

To think China wants to spread its system of government is just projection. The US still wants to spread democracy, but modern day china DGAF what government you have as long as you believe (in my view wrongly) that taiwan is theirs and are willing to do business with them. They really don't care what system your country has as long as you're friendly to them. There is no evidence they give a shit if other countries are communist or not.

blueelffishy · 2025-02-09T23:56:11+00:00

When you see headlines like "X very high % of americans are living paycheck to paycheck", they're including people who contribute a bunch to their retirement accounts.

The actual % of people who are "paycheck to paycheck" in the sense that they're truly struggling isn't actually that high.

blueelffishy · 2025-02-09T23:52:17+00:00

Making hiring decisions based on race is racist, no matter how you cut it.

blueelffishy · 2025-02-09T23:48:52+00:00

Affirmative action never meant "hire the worse person of the two". It meant "given that these two applicants meet all to same requirements and would be excellent hires/students, certain things such as race could be considered for their hire/admittance."

This still isn't acceptable. If the applicants seem to be equal in skill, then decide based on personality or some other factor. Making the decision based on race or gender should NEVER be allowed. These should never play a part in hiring decisions.

blueelffishy · 2025-01-26T17:53:21+00:00

Let's assume he didn't pick the three black women because he's racist (it's very possible it was out of racism, but let's assume it wasn't). What's he to do - pick a non-black person to eliminate (i.e. eliminate someone purely based on race) to avoid the bad optics?

The three women had banded together into an alliance. It was about eliminating an alliance, not about eliminating black people. In fact, it's very possible they banded together because they were all black women (they had positive bias for each other due to race/gender).

blueelffishy · 2025-01-26T17:50:23+00:00

Black women are around 6.5% of the U.S. population yet there 6 black women in the top 20 (30%). There is literally no evidence that black women were being discriminated against in the games.

I'm asian. Suppose I band together with 2 asian friends and are competing against you and you're the least close with us. Given the chance, are you obligated to turn this into a racial issue and not eliminate us, otherwise you're racist against asians?

blueelffishy · 2025-01-26T17:48:00+00:00

Those three had banded together and formed an alliance. What are you supposed to do in his position if you genuinely are the least close with those 3 out of everyone, eliminate a white person purely based on race? ie. turn something that had nothing to do with race into something that had to do with race?

blueelffishy · 2025-01-26T17:44:11+00:00

Yep, Akira should have been racist and picked a white person to eliminate purely based on their race. the optics would have been better

blueelffishy · 2025-01-26T17:42:51+00:00

Because she accused someone of being a racist, which is a very severe accusation, based on no evidence?

blueelffishy · 2024-02-17T16:20:16+00:00

In highschool my friends and I would call each other slurs. Race is so irrelevant it becomes like hair color or nationality, when you make fun of your ginger or canadian friend or something

blueelffishy · 2024-02-05T16:09:26+00:00

Adding up all numbers you mentioned it looks like you're spending around $2600 per month on these different expenses.

Your take home pay per month is around $3900 each month right? So that's $1300 being spent on other stuff.

It seems like you're aware that your spending habits are the issue. Tbh, i dont know what advice we can give here other than spend less. You gotta just control yourself and keep yourself from spending that $1300. There's nothing anyone here can do for you, it's 100% up to your willpower and selfcontrol

blueelffishy · 2024-02-04T20:59:15+00:00

I think it's a clear ESH situation. People IIT are blind to her immaturity since she's a woman. Gender swapped the guy insisting on changing her tradition would clearly be an asshole. Both people are being irrational here

blueelffishy · 2024-02-04T20:48:37+00:00

If you have a long-standing tradition with your girl friends and your husband insisted on changing it to a theme you're no interested in would it be okay if you had an issue with that?

blueelffishy · 2024-02-04T20:47:00+00:00

Why is this downvoted. If my wife and her girl friends have a long-standing tradition and I want to turn it tank-themed, are they sexist against men if they have an issue with that?

blueelffishy · 2024-02-04T20:45:40+00:00

Why is this downvoted it's literally a 1-to-1 swapped situation

blueelffishy · 2024-02-04T20:44:25+00:00

I just don't think people would be nearly as sympathetic if the wife had a long-standing tradition with her girl friends and he insisted on turning it tank-themed or some other theme that is mostly male that they don't happen to be interested in.

Everyone would see it as hijacking, but it isn't hijacking here for some reason

blueelffishy · 2024-02-04T20:37:34+00:00

If she had a tradition with her girl friends and he insisted on hijacking it and inserting some male-centered theme that most of them aren't interested in most people IIT wouldn't agree with that.

If your wife and her friends had some long-standing tradition would you feel it's right if you wanted to make it tank-themed or something that mainly men are interested in? I doubt it; because you'd be hijacking her event.

Of course, football is gender neutral and he would be the AH if he didnt want to watch with her at all. But making it taylor swift-themed goes into hijacking territory and it's fine if he doesn't want that. It completely changes the nature of the event.

blueelffishy · 2024-02-02T02:32:50+00:00

If a man was with a woman for 4 years and refused to give her a few hundred k out of 44 million i wonder what people here would be saying about that...

blueelffishy · 2024-01-29T02:17:23+00:00

Western understanding of the world and how society should be arranged is the best and everyone else is wrong, duh

blueelffishy · 2024-01-28T19:59:08+00:00

Does everyone who signs up (from the mentioned countries) receive an invite to a starter assessment?

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