WW3 began in 2022

I already don’t subscribe to Hulu, but I want to do my part to fight this.

Is there something I can do actively to cost them money?

We need a name

Imagine if Hitler’s crimes stopped at speaking

Either the situation is worth the sacrifice or it isn’t. If you feel like you’re getting the short end of the stick, try taking into account the spiritual benefits of doing the right thing.

If that doesn’t tip the balance into feeling like you made the right choice, you probably made the wrong choice.

When one is actually clear about one’s values, and their relative position in one’s personal hierarchy, it relieves an enormous amount of existential stress.

You don’t need to do asshole actions to guard your money.

Someone with boundaries isn’t consequently an asshole.

I am autistic

People tend to experience and therefore express multiple emotions simultaneously.

If this kind of thing is bothering you regularly, then you probably need to update your definition of “asshole”.

So then what does the green line represent?

You can’t fix society from the top.

Every person has to do their part to fix society.

The idea that societies can (perhaps only) be fixed from the top is a convenient excuse to abdicate one’s own responsibility for taking care of things around them.

ExtremeDullard

Dunkin is a franchise, so the local owner should have the ultimate authority on this policy.

Amen. This Dunkin endangered a customer relationship over a triviality.

For Dunkin’ Donuts as such, that one interaction is a single cell in an enormous crystal of interactions. Dunkin should write a procedure for this particular case because it’s going to happen millions of times.

And their procedure, to keep those thousands of customers, should be to fill up the cup.

cortado

sick of everyone’s shit

This is exactly the problem with most retail employees: they treat everyone like the small fraction of scammers that exist.

If it were my coffee shop, I’d just spend the few cents to fill that cup and I wouldn’t treat it as a problem until a significant portion of people were obviously gaming the system.

Penny pinching just gives off the impression that one doesn’t care about one’s customers.

In my opinion, commerce is a platform upon which community takes place. The people are the point.

What are your x and y axes here?

So catching errors and doing nothing? That exists in every language except maybe BASIC?

Quick! Somebody link to one thing the US government has said about China.

You lose points by googling, because everyone upvoting surely has seen the US government say something about China and knows where to find that document.