I have a 5 year old kid that only wants to pee standing but (despite me telling him not to) he never lifts the seat. Unfortunately some guys never seem to grow beyond 5 years old...
As a guy please leave it up, when I need to poop I really don't want to sit on a seat with pee splatter all over. If it's really unisex I think most women rather put it down than sit on a wet toiletseat.
I started using them back in the day, when most phones had a very limited launcher. I have used nova for many years, it has a ton of customization options. I'm not sure how it is these days, but previous phones also came with thing that I did not like and could not disable or remove. Like a permanent Google search bar, or the Google assistant being a dedicated page on your home screen.
I can totally understand, the American example would be.
As a kid you are told about Santa Clause and his little helper elfs.
Now that you are an adult you have learned that the elves are actually based on slaves and the color of their skin is als based on that (let's just imagine elves and slaves have the same skin color)
To you it's just an elf and you never associated them with history or slavery. If fact as a kid you are told they have this color from the chimney.
So in reality both are true, people that grew up with zwarte Piet are not necessarily racist, but the entire tradition is based on historical context and therefore racist.
I'm not from Japan, I'm from Europe. I understand how fucked up the US is for regular hard working people. That is why those people should be paid a living wage, not depend on the kindness of people tipping. This entire system needs to be replaced, and it can start from either the government or people refusing to tip. If people stop tipping wages are going up, or restaurants basically can't find people willing to do it anymore.
I'm just going to say it, I kind of like her Christmas song, just hearing it once or twice around Christmas is fine (for me).
I don't listen to radio or watch (cable) TV, so I don't get bombarded with Christmas songs. It's like one of those hipster beers with ingredients like strawberry short cake, in small doses it's fine.
I was pretty close to this option, but in the end we moved to a much nicer house. So now our expenses are a lot more. I don't regret it, it's a much better place to raise kids.
I did took a sabbatical for about a year, and will probably do that again in 5 years or so. It doesn't have to be a binary option, you can do sabbaticals (mini retirements) and still work.
Don't get me wrong I'm all for a better system but it's not that simple.
Like communism sounds nice, but if you don't do it on a global scale you still have the problem of other countries trying to influence elections or referendums, wars would still be started etc.
Capitalism with a lot or guard rails seems like the most realistic option. Maybe a mix of systems could work, where people that work for a company automatically become part owner or something.
A system where the government has full control over everything is going to lead to authoritarianism.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
We can probably make some positive changes with better democratic systems. For example no 2 party system, but a combination of coalitions and ranked voting.
I'm not an expert in any way, but just saying capitalism bad, without any real alternative isn't going to do anything.
Go to the govt? Really? In Japan there is no tipping culture, in fact a tip is seen as an insult. Do you really think that has anything to do with their government? Well maybe the exception is that the US allows this BS by not having a decent minimum wage for any job.
Second you completely ignore parts of my response, so if you need to tip the full amount, why is is fair to tip lower at a cheaper restaurant? These people work just as hard.
But let's go even deeper, you say I'm selfish because these people provide a service? So what? My mailman provides a service, the roadworker that fixed the road I use every day provides a service? Why is tipping even a thing? I need to pay extra for someone doing the job they got hired for?
Don't feel sorry, thanks for the wall of text. I also watched some videos on communism and socialism, from what I understand we never really had communism only socialism, but socialism could lead to communism.
But from what I also understand is that all socialism counties had massive problems with corruption and authoritarianism. So I'm not really convinced that communism could ever work. But thanks for the reply anyway!
Redistributing the wealth sounds easy when we talk about billionaires. But what about people like me that make an above average salary because we also put in the effort, like a degree, learning new skills outside work to get better at work, etc.
I have friends that never cared about money and basically did the absolute minimum at work, so part of my savings should go to them? That also does not sound fair.
And what about leadership? Is the leader a dictator because that's a hard no for me. Do we still use the democratic system? Because we already have an issue with idiots voting for populist parties. If we all "share" the wealth that is going to get much worse. Don't let those brown people in they will steal all our shared wealth (offcourse that's not even true, but people will vote like this anyway). People voted for brexit because they all believed a buch of lies, it's unfortunately too easy to manipulate people.
Is there even a real example of communism where it worked for a long time, without leaders getting corrupt or production and GDP going down?
To me the more European version of capitalism sounds like the best system we have so far. If you have a system with good free education (giving people equal opportunities), strong consumer and environmental protection, plus strong workforce protections, high minimum wage, etc.
Just so you know when they say invitro that means in a petri dish, maybe a better example than a gun is bleach, yeah it works against any virus, but it will also kill you.
I have a 5 year old kid that only wants to pee standing but (despite me telling him not to) he never lifts the seat. Unfortunately some guys never seem to grow beyond 5 years old...