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Cake day: June 16th, 2023
  • marx2k@lemmy.worldtoGreentext@sh.itjust.works•Anon doesn't tip
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    3 days ago

    Sorry, but I pay for the food and if I feel its deserved, the service. Being a mooch would be not paying g for the food.

    Do away with tipping and food prices go up by the cost of paying workers a fair wage. To the consumer it ends up being an even trade. Ultimately, the only group getting hurt is the owners.

    It works fine in other countries but can’t in the US because…?

  • marx2k@lemmy.worldtoGreentext@sh.itjust.works•Anon doesn't tip
    11·
    5 days ago

    Ultimately, the restaurant industry’s management tier collectively agreeing with wait staff that wait staff doesn’t require a working wage and depending on handouts from customers is a fine solution is the problem.

    Quite honestly, that isn’t my problem. I’m there for some food, not to be guilted into running a charity function to make up for greedy management and a staff that prefers this bullshit.

  • marx2k@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•How do I quit smoking?
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    9 days ago

    Not the answer you want, but for me, I quit cold turkey after smoking a pack a day for 15 years.

    The thing that helped is that I wasn’t being forced to quit for health or social reasons. I simply realized that all smoking a cigarette was doing was making me not want to smoke another cigarette for 30 minutes. I felt I had no more desire to continue the trend.

    The first week sucked. I ended up rolling loose-leaf paper into the cylindrical shape of a cigarette, putting Scotch tape on one end, and poking holes into it so that dragging on it felt like dragging on a cigarette. That actually got me through week 2.

    After that, the pull to smoke was far, far weaker. It’s weird. It ends up coming in waves. You’re fine, you’re fine, then you get an overwhelming urge to light up. The need lasts for about 30 seconds and goes away quickly. Over time, the frequency between those cravings gets longer, and the cravings get smaller. At some point, I just didn’t feel like smoking at all anymore.

    But yeah, the first few weeks are not great.

    Best of luck!

    Edit: my main advice here is that if you don’t feel like you really want to quit, you’re going to have a much harder time. If your plan is to taper down, it may be torture. If you’re plan is “I’ll only show myself this one” every so often, it’s going to be a long, drawn out losing process.