I'm not saying you're wrong about gig economy apps, but the tipping culture being described here goes way beyond that. Pretty much anywhere that uses one of the popular point of sale systems like Square has a tip request screen you have to click through in order to finish your transaction
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I'm sick of being told that I'm non-confrontational and I avoid confrontation
Why are you sick of this? In the context of what you're saying here, are those bad things?
Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if this is an intentional plan by right wing tech billionaires to sideline Trump and install their man Vance, but I'm curious how the MAGA rank and file would react. Trump has become many people's entire personality
Yes, but you'll barely feel that. They sting with their stingers, which are so small you typically won't even feel it at first. If you watch them sting up close, some of them will grab onto you with their mandibles and furiously sting you with their stinger repeatedly. Ants evolved directly from wasps and are basically wingless wasps, which is why they're such dicks
Same for scorpions, wasps, and ants
He was on Trump's good side then...
There, I deleted the sentence where I said you're regurgitating worn out jokes. Care to respond to any of the actual thoughts I laid out? Or are you still too concerned I've been tainted by Big Buddhism
I work in homeless services now and help meet people's very basic needs and try to get them housed. I don't need you to lecture me about people's actual experiences, I've seen the worst.
Recognizing that anyone can learn to exert more control over their own internal experience does nothing to delegitimize anyone's life experience. Not only that, I believe it empowers people.
What's funny is in my anecdotal experience, the group most resistant to the concept of mindfulness are people of privilege
I'm struggling to understand your point. You're 1) accusing me of perpetuating "the medical model," and 2) disagreeing with me that mindfulness meditation (literally a free thing you can do alone in your room) can help people take more control of their internal state? The implication here is you think more people should just be on antidepressant meds for the rest of their lives, I guess?
If your takeaway from everything I've said about mindfulness meditation helping people take some control of their thoughts and feelings is that I'm telling people to "just be less sad," you just aren't listening.
"We gave the steel companies a break when they needed it. Know what they gave themselves? Raises. The Golden Rule: He who has the gold, makes the rules. They close one more factory, we should take a sledgehammer to one of their fancy fuckin foreign cars."
Everyone knows we're only allowed to think and talk about Trump right now, right?