We USians are so hooked on, and controlled by, car infrastructure that we’ll come up with any lame ass excuse to undermine public transit. “Busses (or trains or any other form of public transit) aren’t perfect because of X, so we should just keep destroying our health, our communities and our planet”

My therapist thought my significant other was a socio path, and I was like “you took everything I was saying at face value?” Part of being a good listener is letting someone rant without necessarily believing everything they say as rock solid gospel.

1. Pay employees a decent wage.
2. Long past time to get rid of the lower tip minimum wage
3. I will choose to go to no-tip places

They can pitch a fit and protest all they want, but the only real way to get traction is to show there is a viable alternative. Want to renegotiate your Oracle license fees? Run a credible fraction of your enterprise on PostgreSQL. Want to get WotC to stop screwing 3rd party publishers with a new license? Start playing pathfinder. These are only two examples that I’ve experienced. Twitter will never improve as long as people keep using it. If reddit API users (3rd party apps) shift 5 to 20 % of use to Lemmy, you’ll see API pricing drop incredibly fast.