What do you mean by "peripheral" NATO countries? If you mean NATO countries other than the US, then I can inform you that some do have F-35 jets.
Yeah, we are really, really bad. You should leave before you start transmuting yourself into a tank and begin involuntarily rolling over capitalists.
Worrying about sealions on Lemmy in particular is just vanity since one really has the option to move on and ignore, or even block, at will. There is no way to force an answer, but it is perfectly okay to ask politely for one on a forum-like platform.
Most people can't focus really hard for 8 hours either.
ThiS IS nOt wHY i jOiNed ThE BlAde!
Literally everything on Lemmy was said for a reason.
Yeah, I just love defying the existence of causal relations. Sigh. It is not like you are totally misquoting me and yourself at all here and making "needs to be said" into "literally any fucking reason to say something".
But you as an individual choosing not to tip doesn't really impact that.
Maybe my original idea was to create awareness around an issue to maximize my individual impact? (this is also the reason why above, though it still does not count as on a "need to be said"-basis that you first introduced as the bar for saying something).
So now I already spent way too many words to make something clear that you only wanted to obfuscate in, what I assume must be, bad faith. Lastly, another obvious thing is that contributing to a greater whole is actually contributing towards it. Therefore I also care about my personal actions that say contribute towards climate change.
You are free to look at the statistics of how many more are paid less than the minimum wage (where that even needs to be a thing) in professions with tipping than those without. Also, please tip your teachers, cashiers at the grocery store, bus driver, garbage man, etc.. It is very nice when employers can use their god given right to labour without adequate compensation. You only make the world better by doing so because they get more $$$$$!
No, it does not because that is not how genes work. You are also not applying logic properly (and no, being wrong twice does not make it more right). A better analogy would be throwing garbage into the sea. Sure there might be some scraps of food on it that animals may eat, but you are also in fact contributing to killing them.
Yeah, I am an asshole for actually caring about worker's rights... Have you seen a single union that is pro tipping?
Nothing on Lemmy is posted on basis of "needs to be mentioned", which kind of makes your question moot. Tipping causes lower wages because it relieves the employers of the obligation of paying their workers. Also, I am talking about systemic change, so what is "occasional" or otherwise conditional is not really a valid counter to the general point.
Norms are susceptible to change. Just as they are perhaps changing for the worse where I live, it could change for the better somewhere else. This is dependant on people not being idiots, so I am rooting for you.
Sorry, but you are wrong. I am not from Burgerland and tipping is not the standard here. I will not contribute to normalizing it either just because some restaurants hate their employees.
Thanks for the tip (pun intended), but I usually do not. However, most establishments that rely on tips are not upfront about it in any capacity.
You did ask a question that I attempted to answer... That does not entail in any way that I did not understand the other stuff you wrote nor that I dismissed it.