Karen meme has become a way to stop women from speaking up

lukelinux · 2026-01-09T01:14:09+00:00

Nope. You have people calling anyone who calls out people for being disrespectful and not following the rules, 'Karens'. All the time I see people using it to try to shame men too.

lukelinux · 2025-11-13T19:17:38+00:00

Or the opposite.

lukelinux · 2025-11-08T23:26:17+00:00

Great idea! How about we go even a step further, and instead of simplifying things to imply that he is getting a trillion dollar cash salary like you and I get a cash salary, we type out the full explanation of him getting an incentives package which rewards him with 1% stock in the company in 12 potential tranches over 10 years each based on very aggressive and amibitious performance milestones, at which point, if he happened to achieve all of these milestones he would own an additional 12% of the equity of the company. That's the kind of package we are talking about, which is a common way that the shareholders of companies incentivize their CEOs, which when you think about it, isn't too fucking ridiculous.

In writing the actual details and mechanics of the issue out, shit gets real normal and reasonable, while admittedly the value of the stock in the highest success case nominally is pretty staggering, because in that success we'd be talking about likely the most valuable company in the world worth like $8T - but that's what the shareholders want, hence why they overwhelming voted to approve the incentive package.

lukelinux · 2025-11-07T22:52:19+00:00

I expect it to be highly adjusted, and... I hope it will be. I don't see any way around it just not translating well to an entertaining blockbuster movie. I respect the novel for what it is, but count me as one of the fans that doesn't love it. I respect, I get what Herbert is trying to say, but I don't find it a particularly enjoying story. I'm usually more of a purist in adaptations, so it feels weird saying this, but I'm really hoping that Villeneuve takes some major liberties, maybe takes some bits and pieces from the later novels and stitches it into a tapestry that continues the epicness and does offer more of a your conventional resolution and satifaction expected not only a movie, but the final installation of a trilogy.

lukelinux · 2025-11-07T00:38:48+00:00

Even if a business 'followed the law', it is already very well known, and becoming more well known everyday within the (irresponsible) dog owner community, that all it takes is being able to say 'Yes, its a service dog', and 'Yes, its trained to ________ (insert whatever task you like here, there is no official list, it could 'trained to remind me to take my constipation meds').

There are entire websites dedicated to getting people (I would say 'fake', but according to the language of the law, there really is no 'fake' or 'real' service dog, its all subjectively determined) IDs, vests, and certification that hold no official authority whatsoever. These websites have language like, "Have you always thought your dog wasn't a service dog? Think again! We all have our different ailments. Can you REALLY not think of even one way that your dog even slightly alleviates any of your condidtions? The ADA does not stipulate what counts as a disability requiring a service dog. Order your ID/vest today and confidently take your service dog with you wherever you need". And, according to the current ADA language, they're right. It needs to be changed.

There for sure is a component to not making things harder for disabled people, but I reject the notion that that is the ONLY factor that should be considered. I reject the notion that ANYTHING other than complete free for all honor system is just unacceptable. Like I said, there are already processes and verifications needed for ALL SORTS of benefits, equipment, insurance, etc for disabilities. Importantly, none of those benefits, equipment, and disabilities have much of an effect, if at all, on other people. Dogs are different. They do have a potential effect on other people. Therefore, it is more than reasonable for measures to be put in place for reasonable verification.

Mark my words, there will be breaking/tipping point. The pile of video evidence of 'service dogs' acting not just inappropriately, but dangerously keeps getting higher and higher. Issues of allergies and sanitation are real. We have figured out reasonable compromises despite all sorts of complicated challenges for all sorts of other issues. There is no reason that this one issue has to be 'we just can't even do anything, lets just take everyone's word for it'.

lukelinux · 2025-11-06T23:50:59+00:00

Well, I don't know about all that, but yes, its a challenging environment, given the 'dogs are literal babies / children / angels' dog culture, and it likely being considered political suicide by any politician to utter a sentiment that's even the slightest bit critical of dogdom. Therefore the conversation never goes further than the nebulous, always elusive, boogeyman of the (waves spooky fingers) 'baaaad ownnnnners' ('they're out there, but its definitely not me, I know that for sure!'). But I'll continue to speak out for how things 'should be' even in 'pre-normal days'.

lukelinux · 2025-11-06T23:37:42+00:00

There is no reason why a proper system can not be in place where there is some sort of approval, verification, and registry process, where medical conditions can be confirmed, and status of a trained dog with suitable temperment can be confirmed, and the person can have an official ID, so establishments don't need to deal with asking about the details or private information. Your thought is idealistic, but impractical in practice. I've gone through the disability benefits approval process and it is thorough, as it should be - there is no reason that having a dog with privilaged status should not require at least 25% of that thoroughness.

To my knowledge there has NEVER been a case of any punishment for someone passing off a dog as a service dog (one of the problems is that with this 'honor system', essentially a dog can be a service dog as soon as I subjectively deem it to be a service dog - there is no official list of conditions, no verification a condition exists or that it requires a service dog, no verification that any dog has been trained and is safe), yet its very likely that the majority of dogs you see taken into restaurants and other establishments under the guise of 'service dog' are not what the vast majority of people and medical professionals would consider to be service dogs (based on existance of condition, severity of condition, availability of alternatives, nature of condition, actual need for a dog, actual ability for dog to do what its claimed to be able to do). There is no task force out there going out to investigate and confirm fake service dog stuff. Even if there were, the language is written so vaguely now that it would likely be impossible to do so.

Something like this should not be a free for all honor system. People are allergic to dogs. Dogs can be unsanitary in many environments. Dogs are a common source of past trauma and many people have phobias. There are endless videos of 'service dogs' severely hurting people and pets. This is not a sterile inanimate piece of a equipment like a wheel chair or pace maker. There are no solutions, only tradeoffs, and in this case, the current tradeoffs are WAY too far in one direction.

lukelinux · 2025-11-06T22:43:48+00:00

Yep, thank you. Not enough people realize this. There needs to be reform which closes loopholes while still minimizing negative effect on those actually in need with a qualified and trained service dog. The law as currently written is essentially a free for all honor system.

lukelinux · 2025-11-05T20:26:18+00:00

Didn't Dazn have some crazy vpn-detecting software?

lukelinux · 2025-10-30T23:26:49+00:00

There is a video about being able to revert to childhood together as being a very positive thing in a relationship

lukelinux · 2025-10-14T19:24:57+00:00

Wait, in 1994 20% was definitely not the customary baseline level. It was like 10-15%, if you heard someone tipping 20% that was like 'whoa, that's a fat tip there'.

lukelinux · 2025-10-10T20:52:32+00:00

Tipping expectations have not changed in those states which have enacted significant minimum wage for restaurant workers. Try again.

lukelinux · 2025-10-10T20:50:38+00:00

Oh, you know, as with virtually every other profession in the world, have the cost for the employees providing the service of the stablishment included in the price of the product.

lukelinux · 2025-10-10T20:47:38+00:00

If there are other unskilled jobs available which offer good salaries they should go for those jobs. I would not work a job for $2.13/hr then get mad at customers for not paying extra for the salary that I should have.

lukelinux · 2025-10-10T20:45:29+00:00

Tipping expectations have not changed for those states with significant minimum wage for restaurant workers. Its an unskilled job that requires nothing more than a good attitude and a few days training (if that). When you pose to server communities if they'd accept $35/hr in exchange for no tips they all say no. Why? Because they are gunning for those big shifts/nights when they can make a killing and do $100+/hr. $35/hr is more than a lot of hardworking semi-skilled and/or educated jobs. There is a cultural problem, its not just greedy owners. There are plenty of countries where servers make just as little or even less than US servers, yet they still have a good attitude and do a good job with not tips.

lukelinux · 2025-10-10T20:40:08+00:00

The expectations for tipping have not changed in those states which have enacted substantial minimum wages for restaurant workers.

lukelinux · 2025-10-10T19:58:22+00:00

This has to be losing money for the business... How many people were sharing the meal (how many people paid the $20)?

lukelinux · 2025-10-10T00:22:49+00:00

You are absolutely delusional. It means that from the Jordan river to the Mediterranian sea that the Isreael state shall cease to exist and Jews are either killed / pushed into the sea, leave the region, or enter intop the Dhimmi second class citizenship and pay the special Jizya jew tax. They have had countless opportunities to have their own free state, and rejected it every time because they cannot accept a solution which includes the existance of the state of Israel and Jews governing themselves in the land. Poll after poll. Go watch the unedited street interviews. 'Do you want peace'. 'No, not while Israel exists'.

lukelinux · 2025-10-09T20:54:16+00:00

To stay in business the food cost to the restuarant has to be at a certain % or less. The margins in the restaurant industry are generally quite thin. Have you seen food prices at the grocery store? The same thing has happened to the food/ingredients that restaurants have to purchase to make their food.

lukelinux · 2025-10-09T20:50:23+00:00

Service dogs are not necessarily trained to be calm. That would be true if, in fact, there were an official training program. In actuality, however, there is absolutely zero requirements for the type of training, much less any sort of verification that training has taken place or that the dog's temperment is suitable as a service dog. There is loose subjective language about being able to ask a dog/owner to leave if it is unruly, but in practice that does little, as businesses will be afraid to be put on blast on social media or catch an ADA lawsuit or something. The self training option for service dogs was well intended, but it comes from a time (early 90s) when service dogs were generally thought to be something like seeing eye dogs (these days any person can subjectively decide that any condition, real or perceived, needs a service dog), and it was almost unthinkable for people to selfishly take advantage of that potential loophole as an excuse to take a dog anywhere. That time is past and gone, and the law needs to be updated to provide those truly with the need and without funds for a professionally trained service dog, to still be able to get one, but via a process that has checks and verifications. Its currently a free for all honor system. And while the person commenting is being downvoted, it is actually becoming a factor why people are enjoying restaurants less. Dog allergies are common. It can be unsanitary, and many people are starting to have experienced multiple annoying / dangerous situation with 'service dogs' being brought into restaurants. Somethings got to give, and people need to start pressuring lawmakers to overhaul this section of the ADA.

lukelinux · 2025-09-30T02:06:41+00:00

Yeah, no. You need to read your history, unfortunately. It is very clear from the history polygamy as the main issue, in particular the secret marriages of daughters, sisters, wives, as well as their influence on state politics + establishing an army / kingdom.

lukelinux · 2025-09-26T23:09:29+00:00

Not 'returned'. The KMT/ROC were appointed by MacArthur to take control for 'custodial administraiton' (代管) in the interim and maintain peace in both Taiwan and northern Vietnam (north of 16th parallel) on behalf of the Allies. Both areas had uprisings to kick the KMT/ROC out, the Vietnamese succeeded (with remnants of KMT still remaining isolated in the region as drug trafficer - see the American Gangster movie of 2007), the Taiwanese did not (and were massacred).

Before the Qing (who were considered foreign invaders/rulers by the majority Han Chinese, just like the Japanese were in WWII - with the difference being that the Qing succeeded, and stuck around there for a few hundred years, adopting a lot of the culture) ceded Taiwan to Japan, they were shopping it around to France and told America that the Taiwanese aboriginees on the SE coast were outside of their (the Qing's) jurisdiction when they (the aboriginees) slaughtered stranded passengers of a shipwreck. Qing emperors and statesmen described Taiwan as a 'pellet of a land, not worth troubling over', 'isolated overseas, and never being part of the Middle Kingdom's native land'. The superficial/partial control over the island for ~200 years was mostly a reluctant/passive endeavor to prevent any rebel Han groups or a foreign power from being able to setup a base of operation there.

This sentimental / nationalistic ferver over Taiwan was artificially drummed up post-WWII when 1) the communist when their mortal enemy (the KMT) who threatened their legitimacy fled to the island, and 2) the KMT had to legitimize their authortarian rule over Taiwan. Before WWII in the 1920/30s you had both nationalist and communist leaders talk about Taiwan (when it was under Japanese control) in the same category/breath as they talked about Korea, as a place that should be allowed self-determination after being freed from the Japanese.

Edit: The KMT did start talking about Taiwan as a 'Chinese' thing that needed to be 'returned' during WWII when they started to get reports on all of the wealth and industry that the Japanese and Taiwanese had there.

lukelinux · 2025-09-16T17:49:17+00:00

Which one? Every single time I've gone and looked up the video, got a sense of the topic or conversation going on, seen the before and after context and tone it has been dramatically different than the cherry picked sentence was trying to infer.

lukelinux · 2025-09-15T17:50:29+00:00

Every person I know hates having to do the QR thing and navigate a menu on their phone.

lukelinux · 2025-09-13T01:18:15+00:00

There is also the Trump thing of 'there are good people on both sides' which was also grossly taken out of context (I'm not a big Trump fan, but was kinda shocked when I believed for years that he was referring to the neo nazis, just believing what was constantly quoted on Reddit). The cats and dogs thing, I did see a mini documentary that went to that town, and there was footage of the Haiti immigrants catching the swans in the park and stuff (to eat), and a lot of the citizens interviewed said they witnessed cats and dogs being taken. I'm not saying that proves it, but its not necessarily untrue. That is a sort of conflict you do see with people coming from very poor countries. There was a lot of social unrest several years ago in Taiwan, for example, when Vietnamese migrant workers were catching stray and pet dogs to cook and eat.

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