Sans titre

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I almost blurred out this guy’s name but he was proud enough to post on twitter and seems to be enjoying all the comments. If you never understood tipping, let me help. Tipping is just...a thing we do. And because it’s a thing, the government likes it and dips their fingers in it. So pretend you’re a server. You bill the table $100. The government and their taxes, goes, “Okay, $100 to the restaurant eh? And the server must’ve gotten, what? $10-$20? THEY POCKETED IT?! PWAAAAA? I DONT THINK SO! TAX EM!”

Basically Uncle Sam assumes you were tipped. Those tips are taxed. So let’s SAY you make $120 a shift, just working your shift. Now, if you pull in an additional $100 from tips alone...like I said, Uncle Sam wants some. If you pocket the cash tips and pretend you didn’t get tipped, or get stiffed on a tip, you could OWE MONEY come tax time. Why? Uncle Sam wants some of that tip money baby.

So when you have a shitty night and only get X amount of tips, it can hurt you if it keeps happening. Uncle Sam assumes you’re stealing money (“How do you keep not getting tipped every night?! You must be pocketing it and not telling anyone grrrrrrr!!”). Pretend you serve a huge banquet—$1,000.00 bill. The party pays $1,000.00 cash and dips, no tip. The server is fucked because it’s hard to believe they didn’t make a dime in tips—again, Uncle Sam would assume the greedy server pocketed $100-$200 for themselves.

Anyway, if you can’t afford to tip—stay in. This asshole had a $10.67 bill. Even a measly 10% would’ve been a fucking dollar. You’re paying for food, yes. But you’re paying for service too. Refills, making sure your food comes out, offering suggestions, setting and clearing the table...it’s a service. Pretend you’re paying someone to cook, do the dishes for you, and make sure you don’t have to stand up for anything. Otherwise, stay the fuck home or go to a buffet where you can feel you’ve won something by not tipping. Which even at a buffet you should drop a few bucks for the folks making food.

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Tumblr is an even playing field compared to websites like Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube. Which means its up to us, the users, to spread the word of people we enjoy-- the way the internet should be.

Like ok, sure, sometimes it’s hard to believe you’ve made any positive impact on the world. But it’s pretty easy to believe you’ve made a sock. Look at it. There it is. Put it on, now your foot’s warm.

There have been studies done on rats and dogs where they develop learned helplessness in the animals by giving them impossible tasks. Eventually the animals stop trying, even when the task stops being impossible. (I.e. put a rat in a maze with cheese it can’t get to until it develops learned helplessness, then put the cheese somewhere it can get to it and it won’t even try.) But once they show the animals they CAN do something - i.e. physically moving the rat to the cheese - the learned helplessness goes away.

No one can move you to your cheese for you, but the book says DOING something - which they define as “anything that isn’t nothing” can help. Make a food. Work in the garden. Clean a thing. Do a favor for a friend. Call your elected officials.

Knit a sock.

“We’re going for a Riiiiiiiide!”

Lyme disease can become very serious, it can infect the nervous system and cause neurological problems especially in young children who are often bitten on the head or the neck, undiagnosed it can cause chronic health issues that mimic other diseases. Without safe prophylactic measures beyond trying to minimize contact w ticks, this has driven people who have had lyme disease, have chronic effects from mass-disseminated lyme disease infection, or people who believe they have chronic lyme disease to go to quack doctors and undergo unsafe, unapproved medical treatment in an attempt to stop suffering.

This would not be happening on the scale that it is if antivaxxers didn’t straight up execute a supervillain plot to sabotage the lyme disease vaccine bc this happened the same year andrew wakefield published his fraudulent research on the MMR vaccine

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/7/17314716/lyme-disease-vaccine-history-effectiveness