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You're obviously trying to be thoughtful, and to a certain extent this is entirely subjective. If you, as any decent person would, think there are lines that you do not cross and that you treat service professionals with respect, then where is the line? You definitely don't throw shit on the floor intentionally, but you also don't offer to help cook, which you might at a family dinner. Every non-shitty person person will land somewhere in between, though hopefully a good ways away from throwing shit on the floor.

I think you're just running into a situation where your line is in a different place than other folks', to the point where you're a little out of step with the level of "help with the chores" that most people expect at a sit-down restaurant. If you continue to treat staff with respect, thank them for their help, and (if culturally appropriate/economically necessary) tip generously, then you don't have to feel bad. My wife waited tables and tended bar for many years, and it's not the specific tasks that are part of the job that ever made it feel degrading, it was people treating her shabbily and acting superior. No one expects you to clear the table when you're out; just don't act like you're too good to.

"You don't face your fears, you ride them."

Sorry, y'all, but if you're already into tornado chasing, then something that scares you enough to stay home is probably simple prudence, not an emotional block. Either this guy is our protagonist and shouldn't be, or he's an antagonist and his Faustian temptation is unconvincing.

I dunno, maybe the CGI will look cool.

It's getting better, and it's critical that it do so, if for no other reason than to raise the floor that commercial offerings have to surpass to retain small-to-medium customers. I haven't committed to it, but I'm rooting for it and following it closely.

Sorry about that. uBlock Origin knocks it all out for me. This should be better, and much more extensive anyway.

Trump, who handpicked McDaniel to run the party in 2016, has done nothing to quiet rumors of McDaniel’s potential demise in recent days.

And nothing of value was lost, not even the pale glimmer of relief that comes from a GOP that merely tolerates being racist idiots' preferred party.

Jack Donaghy could supply your entire inventory, and I feel you should figure out a way to get the first part of your gif included.

“Ambition is the willingness to kill the things you love and eat them in order to stay alive. Haven’t you ever read my throw pillow?”

No sources noted, no complainant identified, and most of the stories seem to come out of outlets financially supported by RM or their backers. Anything is possible in football, but let's just say more should be on offer before we feel too bad for Real Madrid.

The local cryptid in my home town was the "Humanzee" reported to have been created at the "secret lab" of a Yale psychologist/primatologist/eugenicist.

We're verging on a being a theocratic petro-state, but (therefore?) we do invest in roads. Your average Farm-to-Market is nicer than the US highways in many places. Our crony-capitalist toll roads are mostly very nice to drive on too, smooth even up to 100mph, though you pay for the privilege.

I haven't been on the road a ton in recent years, nor have I driven every state, but I have driven at least some in every state from Vermont to Florida, across the entire American southeast, and down I-10 to California. In my experience, Louisiana was the worst.

Ergonomics are great, very gentle. Feedback and performance slightly lacking. 🤣

I still keep reddit as a read-only resource, and yes, plenty of people still use it. There are niche communities that I sure do wish could hit a critical mass on the threadiverse, and the archive of advice and (mostly) human reviews of stuff are helpful.

That said, either it's reddit or it's me, but any community that's even slightly large seems to have a lost a little thoughtfulness and vibrancy. The takes are more boring, the jokes more repetitive, and I run across others' "goodbye overwrites" a lot more often than I thought I would, and generally in places where it seems like the original posts were genuine attempts to be helpful. Reddit is not gone, but it is reduced, and must eventually fade into the west.