Unironically, this makes me pine for the old days where usenet discussions were lively.

Quartile

https://simplyfun.com/products/quartile?srsltid=AfmBOop09ABddbZdM5bz8rjCiUxzoa2F35ERKOhxo6exVtLh0V3D2MCD

Closely followed by Mexican train domino

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Train

Tradwives

How so?

…or following people and interests you want to follow and keeping up with their updates.

ffs stop gatekeeping social media

Twitter has 106 million users in USA.

Prove it

Shakes fists at clouds

Sorry, but I pay for the food and if I feel its deserved, the service. Being a mooch would be not paying g for the food.

Do away with tipping and food prices go up by the cost of paying workers a fair wage. To the consumer it ends up being an even trade. Ultimately, the only group getting hurt is the owners.

It works fine in other countries but can’t in the US because…?

Ultimately, the restaurant industry’s management tier collectively agreeing with wait staff that wait staff doesn’t require a working wage and depending on handouts from customers is a fine solution is the problem.

Quite honestly, that isn’t my problem. I’m there for some food, not to be guilted into running a charity function to make up for greedy management and a staff that prefers this bullshit.

Overwhelmingly when polled, waits staff much prefer to keep tipping over a living wage. They make far more from tips. Trust me, me not giving a waitress a tip isn’t the line that keeps he kids from dying of hunger.

So in confused. Do I need to install thunderbird or…?

Not the answer you want, but for me, I quit cold turkey after smoking a pack a day for 15 years.

The thing that helped is that I wasn’t being forced to quit for health or social reasons. I simply realized that all smoking a cigarette was doing was making me not want to smoke another cigarette for 30 minutes. I felt I had no more desire to continue the trend.

The first week sucked. I ended up rolling loose-leaf paper into the cylindrical shape of a cigarette, putting Scotch tape on one end, and poking holes into it so that dragging on it felt like dragging on a cigarette. That actually got me through week 2.

After that, the pull to smoke was far, far weaker. It’s weird. It ends up coming in waves. You’re fine, you’re fine, then you get an overwhelming urge to light up. The need lasts for about 30 seconds and goes away quickly. Over time, the frequency between those cravings gets longer, and the cravings get smaller. At some point, I just didn’t feel like smoking at all anymore.

But yeah, the first few weeks are not great.

Best of luck!

Edit: my main advice here is that if you don’t feel like you really want to quit, you’re going to have a much harder time. If your plan is to taper down, it may be torture. If you’re plan is “I’ll only show myself this one” every so often, it’s going to be a long, drawn out losing process.

Alternative:

“Can I scan your badge?”

…quietly walk away backwards, staring them dead in the eye

I’ve never seen an illuminated logo from manufacturers other than those I’ve listed. Large, sure. Though some like Kia or Hyundai I haven’t seen get huge. Honda, maybe?

“African American culture is the antithesis to your argument. Even the most wealthy individuals sporting logos of all kinds, literally as status symbols.”

Really you’re describing the difference between striking it rich and generational wealth.

“Free”

The amount of money that those conferences cost my job and the amount of time I spend blocking cold calls from vendors that gave me shwag…

I find the same to be true when people buy cars with illuminated insignia in the grill. Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen, for example.

Yes but the layout is pretty much Amazon at this point. Didn’t used to be. Used to be one item per day and then some awesome t-shirt as a side offer and some other tchochkes

Yeah the differentiation is the trick.

How does one engage sometime who thinks that Harris is literally the antichrist?

Whole i agree with most of your comment, I’m not really reading any solutions. I’d my attitude is the problem, what’s the proper attitude to have to deal with these imbeciles?