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…

Well yeah, but way too many lazy guys just pee.

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.

And as a second point, we all know that when companies or people depend on AI the price to use that AI will go up to the point where it is almost as expensive as having actual people doing the job. All these billions poured in AI need to be earned back, so now your business will fail unless you basically pay them whatever they ask.

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.

Thank god in the Netherlands we first have to have the zwartepieten discussie.

For anyone out of the loop this is a tradition that is changing but some boomers get really mad about changing it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Piet

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.

So does the air you breathe, it’s very possible you just inhaled a molecule the last dinosaur exhaled.

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.

I have been using (re)vanced for many years, it’s free and takes a lot less effort.

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?

Sorry bucket is full of seamen

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.

Well actually… it turned out that is probably true.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/german-spy-agency-concluded-covid-virus-likely-leaked-lab-papers-say-2025-03-12/

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-10-2025-001403_EN.html

The thing about it costs about the same as Spotify is not really true. I have been using Spotify family for a long long time (maybe 10 years). I use it with 5 other “family” members and we split the costs.

I don’t really follow this reasoning, so a drink cost X but you calculate Y because at other times it costs Y.

So if you go to a cheap restaurant you increase your tip because the restaurant next door has higher prices? The staff in the cheap restaurant works just as hard, maybe harder.

This whole tip thing need to die ASAP. If everybody just stopped tipping staff would get a normal pay or a better paying other job. But if you don’t tip, how do you show appreciation?? Well, do you tip your wife when she does something nice for you?? No, so people can show appreciation without money.

Wait so you get scammed but still give 20% tips? This would be an automatic 0% tip

I really want to know the people I’m meeting with, so I know who to ignore and who should be send away.