The vast majority of full service restaurant transactions are by card. Something like 80% of restaurant transactions are by card, and full service restaurants with servers are even higher.

There’s not a ton of cash tips at this point, so underreporting cash tips doesn’t make as big of a difference as it used to.

Isn’t that just what Lemmy shitposts is?

I don’t think most people consider dates to be the same as dressing up for work. One can look “nice” without having to look like a white collar drone in a boring workplace.

For example, I have different suits and ties for the workplace (conservative, standard dark colors) versus for things like weddings (brighter, more expressive colors and patterns and fabrics).

But even short of that level of formality, there are fashion choices that can attract attention. If you’re in an environment where the dress code is to wear a collar and some buttons, there’s a difference between a plain polo (whether cotton or some kind of performance polyester athleisure) or a short sleeve buttoned shirt with some fun prints (whether we’re talking about Dan Flashes or a Hawaiian shirt or something more subtle), on top of the decision on whether to wear that shirt tight or loose or baggy.

Or, some people make conscious choices for their athletic wear, when they’re going to the gym or for a run or a bike ride, or playing sports like golf or basketball or tennis.

For people who are going on dates, the attire can convey a message, either intentional or not. And people might choose to send completely different messages in the workplace versus on dates versus just out with friends.

It can basically move a blade along an electronically controlled path, so it can cut intricate shapes.

It can also use a pen or marker attachment to draw on paper, so that you can have things that look like handwritten script. So for example, if you want to send out a bunch of wedding invitations and you want to make “hand written” addresses on the envelopes, you can use certain script fonts with your existing address book, or even try to design a custom font from your own writing, and use that as a mass produced “writing” tool. There are a bunch of ways to make drawings and things like that, too.

By my count that’s:

16g carbs (64 calories)
45g fat (405 calories)
56g protein (224 calories)
14g alcohol (100 calories)

That’s about 800 calories per day, with enough protein to maintain at least some lean mass while on a significant calorie deficit.

Doesn’t seem healthy but I think it would work.

That’s literally what the headline is. “Deadnaming” is a term for referring to transgender people by their previous names, rather than their current names.

I’m giving 1-star ratings to weather apps because it’s too cold outside.

Oh this line of comments was serious? I thought we were making jokes.

I’m just trying to extrapolate to being supportive of government surveillance, and proving that other commenter right.

If they go and follow 200 users on 20 different instances, then they’ll most likely get followed back by someone on 90% of those instances. It’s not that much effort.

I don’t know, this sounds like an unnatural way to interact with a service. Following 4000 accounts and trying to spread it out evenly between servers sounds like a terrible way to curate one’s own feed and consume content on a service like this. I rarely follow more than 100 on any given service, and think it’s weird when people follow more than 500.

Following back seems like a pretty foreign concept to me on this type of service, and seems to me to be inconsistent with how people actually use Twitter or Bluesky. To me, these hiccups in user experience as either a lurker (can’t find anyone in-band who another person on your instance doesn’t already follow) or publisher (can’t be found easily from anyone off of your server unless you actively go try to spam follows in the hopes that some will follow back) would be a dealbreaker for anything less than the biggest server.

But do the naked gay men have an exhibition fetish, especially by government agents?

So if you set up on small server A, and want to be discoverable by users on server B, C, D, and E, you have to do this for many different users and hope that they follow you back just so that those servers’ users can find you.

And it basically defeats the main use case for where I actually understand microblogging, which is one-way announcements by semi-automated accounts that are widely followed that do not actually follow anyone else back.

It just sounds like a bad arrangement for discoverability and search.

hashtags are big on Mastodon

But I can’t view the posts of any users by hashtag if those users aren’t already being followed by someone from my server, right? That means I’d never want to join a small server if I’m just a lurker who doesn’t really want to actively interact with others, because my own feed would be limited.

there’s no algorithm

Sounds like an algorithm that’s just more complicated and has unintuitive human inputs in it.

Yeah I remember seeing some stupid post somewhere about this guy saying “can you believe this man is only 45” and everyone in the comments saying “um yes that is what 45 year olds look like.”

Follow people and hashtags and interact with them and you’ll get followers.

That sounds like a convoluted method of self promotion, almost like SEO fake engagement, just to be discoverable. And if everyone on the network had to do this to be discoverable, how can I trust the discovery methods to find people worth following?

And if the cross instance discoverability has these kinds of hurdles, then the promise of federation isn’t going to pan out.

At least with Lemmy the nature of the platforms, users following a smaller universe of potential communities, makes each community much more easily discoverable for people who don’t necessarily want to be active posters. Mastodon’s user-focused follow is much more limited in seamless federation.

Marvel licensed the film rights to Spider Man to Sony.

Then X-Men to Fox.

Then Hulk to Universal.

And throughout all of this, the lawyers have fought over which villains or characters properly fall within each category, signing new deals or borrowing characters and rights.

The Disney-Fox merger made things simpler for X-Men versus not-X-Men characters. But the Spider-Man cross licensing for Sony-produced Spider Man movies that take place within the same universe as MCU makes it more complicated, too. So did the Netflix rights to Daredevil and Jessica Jones and a few other characters in that orbit.

Wtf is it for?

To make money, including making sure that rights don’t lapse from non-use.