I don’t know of an international mechanism that wouldn’t require American support. And their entire position is that he must be demonized and punished, so I have trouble imaging a scenario where they let Canada help him out.
Edit: Though, assuming he ends up in Uganda, there’d be nothing stopping us offering him refugee status or something except for any potential from the capricious but mercurial trump.
That is awesome!
If they were approaching this from a truly moral position they would boycot establishments where tipping is expected. Instead they freeload and feel entitled to a server paid the literal minimum wage.
Exactly my thoughts. All this attitude does is punish a probably vulnerable person trying to make a decent living.
You can seek out non tip places etc but to go to ones that are tip and just give a shitty tip… Ugh.
Might be different where you live but at least in North America, a lot of places split tips between front of house and the back (cooks, cleaners etc) and they do that on a percentage of volume, not the actual tips that come in.
Say, back of house takes a standard 5%. If you tip the server 5 quid on dinner and drinks for 4 which is almost certainly over 100, the difference comes out of the waitresses pocket.
Personally, I find that a form of theft from those least able to absorb it. And being a person with empathy, I think that is wrong. But to each their own.
Not tipping for drinks, 5 or 10 on a meal for 3 or 4 is being cheap. (Even if you manage to all spend only 20 a person, 5 on an 80 bill is less than 10% and such a bad tip that depending on the establishment, it may have cost the server money to feed you.)
I assumed you were justifying it with “pay your staff so they don’t need to rely on tips.”
DuckduckGo seems to block all the youtube ads for me.
Fully recommend.
Really depends.
Typically, $1 is for a standup bar etc with high volume.
If I’m sitting at the bar top, getting fed, I’ll tip like I would were I sitting at a table. If I’m just sucking down beers, probably a buck or two a drink and if I’ve been a while, a 5 on top at the end.
But, I’ve known a lot of people in the industry etc… Also I’ve found that being a good person who tips helps out in the long run, it’s nice getting the occasional free drink, having the server on your side when flirting with folks at the bar etc. Best one was the bartender gave me really high end ski gloves that had been left behind a couple nights prior, the cash equivalent would’ve been huge.
As they say, it’s nice to be nice.
You not tipping doesn’t teach the business owner, it just hurts those who aren’t in a position to change things and depending on the place, really need help. I’ve known too single moms who were servers to agree with this.
Lobby your local politicians, seek out places that don’t accept tips but don’t be a cheapskate and act like it’s a noble cause.
What a strange response.
I can’t tell if you’re just unconstrained by objective reality or a not particularly well oriented LLM but either way, you do you.
There’s not much to be gained by someone/something doing the equivalent of “nononononononononononono I’m not listening!”
Have you been sharing fresher memes?
Wow… You really think the above happened? Russia was supposed to walk into Kyiev in a couple of weeks. Instead, Russia’s taken a miserable amount of territory at an insane cost of men, had to reorient the economy, beg Iran and China for drones and clearly is the subservient partner behind China.
You might note that the author’s first defeat scenario is a peace treaty that would let Putin have some trifling territory like Crimea. (Admittedly, as the article is more than 2.5 years old, battlefield conditions changed and there’ll likely be more territorial concessions but the basic shape of the agreememnt is similar.)
But if you want to pretend that the Ukraine debacle has been the glorious adventure outlined above, well, I guess enough RT, or a childish refusal to acknowledge being wrong on the internet, will do that to someone.
Good words to remember!
On this one, it’s a little fun to kinda bully someone being a silly Billy. But I’ve got a note on him so if I encounter in the wild, I just ignore, giggle and move on.
When you say you read and comprehend, are you talking about just the tagline, or are you really claiming you read this article and think it supports your claim that
For three whole years western media promised that Russia was on the verge of collapse both militarily and economically.
Maybe reread the first four paragraphs and try again? Or, double down but, uhhh, that seems pretty silly.
Even just a casual glance through some of these shows they do not say what you think they do.
Choose one, your favourite or whatever, tell me exactly why you think it means Russia’s military was collapsing and I’m happy to explain what the article is actually saying.
Edit: best hurry if you want a response soon. Once my build is deployed, I’m done here for the night. And you are not interesting enough to bother with in my free time.
Lol, show me an article that said Russia was on the brink of military collapse and I’ll show you an article you’ve misunderstood (or some non reputable journalism.)
Oddly enough, saying you comprehend different from actual comprehension.
Most Western media has been “well, Ukraine’s fucked.” “Long term, can Ukraine survive this war?”
Are you getting confused between individual battlefield/operational success versus the strategic reality?
Show me you don’t read without telling me so.
This feels like one of my trailer park boys exchanges:
Julian: Ricky, do you know how stupid you sound right now?
Ricky: Yes I do!
Thanks for the giggles.
Interesting gamble for a government in desperate need of either economic growth or a very public win.