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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It’s catastrophic’: Italian restaurants in London struggle to find staff post-Brexit⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not Italian, but I am moving back to the EU in the next few months.

  Life isn’t perfect anywhere, but (at least for my wife and I) we decided that it’s much better for us elsewhere.

  Biggest things are the cost of living and the unwillingness for anyone in politics to talk constructively about solutions.

  We basically realised that we could be paid similarly but have our CoL cut in half, while living somewhere we find nicer than London. It shouldn’t have to be this way, but the current situation is outrageous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they mean “reign supreme” in the sense that, given the choice, most people these days would choose the bluetooth anyways.

  Its just so nice to not have a cord…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2908: Moon Armor Index⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting mix of kilometers and inches…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good games with *zero* replayability?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Escape Simulator definitely fits the bill.

  It’s great, but all about the discovery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tipping culture npcs⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or they could have been kitchen-staff. They are one of the biggest victims of tipping culture.

  Essentially chefs are generally paid much, much less than wait-staff and it is very difficult to correct this balance. The reason is that in a normal business you would raise prices to afford to pay higher salaries, but since tips are percentage based this also raises the wages of wait-staff. This becomes a bigger and bigger issue the higher the tipping percentage goes. Restaurant margins tend to be razor thin as well, so raising prices would be the only way to raise kitchen-staff wages.

  It’s one reason why many restaurants are struggling to find kitchen-staff, because even highly trained chefs can make 2-3 times as much working front-of-house. There are quite a few restaurants which are trying to fix this by banning tips, but it’s difficult due to resistance from customers and wait-staff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tipping culture npcs⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you English speaking by any chance? In Germany I often notice that the waiters act totally differently whenever my American parents are visiting than when I’m just out with friends and speaking German.

  With Germans they just show up with the card reader and we pay one by on; often people will ask to round up their bill to the nearest Euro but it’s not expected.

  With my parents (or other Americans that have visited me) they often act like American waiters and bring the bill and then kind of hover next to us and wait for us to initiate what we want to do next. I think they’ve learned that most Americans will assume ‘this is the part where we work out how much tip to give’ and the waiters often end up with a (for German standards) gigantic tip. At least this always works with my parents since ‘we feel bad not tipping!’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poignant post on the state of things⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are plenty of people in your situation (I’m also one of them), but the fact is that (unless you’re at the very top of the pyramid) nearly everyone (including people like us) is a bit worse off than they would have been at a comparable stage in life 30 - 60 years ago.

  I had to work hard and make sacrifices to make it, however with my qualifications my parents (and even moreso my grandparents) generation would have just walked into secure, high-paying jobs with real prospects of advancement. Instead I’ve got to constantly be switching jobs and looking out for myself in order to not fall behind. I know the rules of the game, so I do what I have to do.

  Now just imagine people who 50 years ago would have been ‘making it with sacrifices and hard work’, since (virtually) everyone is now a bit worse off, their situation has shifted to ‘underwater despite sacrifices and hard work’.

  TLDR: The average millennial is poorer than past generations and it’s harder to make it than before. This doesn’t mean that there aren’t large amount of individual millennials (like us) who DO make it, although even for this group (unless they are at the top of the pyramid) it’s harder than before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games that force you to make hard choices⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yeah I see!

  I was just thinking of trying to do it without erasing anyone’s game or making them start over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games that force you to make hard choices⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t the original only have a single save slot?

  So you’d need at least a third copy for both of you to get all three.