Then there's the sane countries, where tipping culture isn't a thing
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2026
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Tipping culture is just so companies can justify paying their workers less [than the minimum wage].
I can barely keep from palmheeling the touch-screen anytime that there's no human staff to take my order/money, you couldn't pay me to tip a robot that serves me lunch. What the fuck is it doing, saving up to pay for college tuition or take its kitten to the vet for its annual checkup, paying rent, going to the Orthodontist for braces?
If datacenters require handouts your taxes will go up so you may as well pay now.
Can I have a source on this? I bet this was a questionnaire asked by a marketing agency to a paid "control group", making it absolutely useless data
especially if the service is exceptional
Seriously? If the service of the database was exceptional?
Idiots
Clank-ah
This fucking "if the service is exceptional" makes me always think about that scene in Reservoir Dogs, although the sentiment of it was pro-tipping, which is terrible.
Not an attack on you, I've just gone off the use of "clanker". Because why do we feel a need to create a slur? It feels weird after some introspection.
Slurs are used to show distain and disrespect. Thats why it is bad to use slurs for human characteristics like race or gender, and harmless to use slurs for robots.
Yeah, robots and LLMs don't give a shit because they don't think. Which makes it even weirder to try and "demean" it.
People could insult them normally: call them idiotic wastes of water, energy, and investment but they choose to create slurs that the LLMs can barely parse, let alone internalize. Robots can't think nor have conceptions of themselves as anything that a slur can drag them down from. Which means the slur is entirely self-serving for the speaker. What need is the compulsion to use slurs, even devoid of a valid target, serving? At best, it's flirting with taboos because they're forbidden, like a kid puffing on candy cigarettes.
Also this isn't a critique against your reply, just sharing a correction, but "distain" is so archaic that I think you meant "disdain". Pardon if you did mean "distain"; it just struck me as odd.
Do you think the point of the slurs is to insult the llm itself?? No... its to communicate to other humans that you dislike LLMs.
It's not a slur, it's an insult! I don't understand how people get this confused or purposefully attempt to conflate the terms, diluting their power by watering down the meaning of slurs. Slurs do serious harm to minority, racial, and ethnic groups! A MACHINE or SOFTWARE is not a vulnerable person/group that can be harmed by a WORD (a slur is also a dog whistle for other bigots), machines/software are merely tools without soul or mind. Often AI Sympathizers/Hope-Posters try to conflate slur with insult, diluting the ability for people to rightfully call out AI nonsense and mocking the very notion of "AI" which is absolute nonsense.