For X-Files fans who might be unfamiliar with the reboot, the reboot has actually one episode dedicated to this - S11E07 - Rm9sbG93ZXJz, Mulder/Scully don't want to tip the robotic self-service and are punished for it.
Treat them as bribes. Punish the one who gives one with fine(1% of income/net wealth) and one who takes with mandatory imprisonment. After that they will quickly go away.
here in Central Europe (SK/CZ) we never done percentage, we were just rounding up the sum, like 283 to 300, but even 292 would become 300, and if it's bill 300 then tough luck for waiter. But not sure what is the situation in recent years with card payments replacing cash, tips must been hit hard, also raising prices and people going to restaurants less and less doesn't help much.
Personally I pretty much stopped going to restaurants completely during COVID when I was treated worse than dog - dogs allowed (to some places), unvaxxed not allowed to enter.
Whenever someone complains about being treated "worse than dogs" I have to wonder how they think dogs should be treated. To be fair, if dogs could catch COVID and pass it onto humans they'd likely have banned unvaccinated dogs as well.
And imagine people bring their own drinks to restaurants in China (for big family lunch it can be even big plastic bags full of many bottles) and nobody even understand the concept of the tipping - why would you tip someone for doing their work and paying for the meal? One of the things I loved about China. They even come running after you if you forget your change.
What I liked much less is smoking in the restaurants which happens in Beijing even in 2026 despite posters on the wall saying No smoking in Chinese and English and everyone is affraid to tell something to smoker. You would think after years of campaigning it will improve, but I don't see much improvement after visiting after many years.
> In most varieties of English, disk is the preferred spelling for magnetic media (hence floppy disk, hard disk, disk drive), whereas disc is preferred for optical media (hence compact disc, digital versatile disc, optical disc).
that's exactly my understanding as a non-native English speaker who haven't even read the article :-)
in my native language, they both share same word - disk (hard disk, compact disk), though floppy disk had it's own word
here another review from my favorite car reviewer Mat Watson (carwow), from what I remember he complains about cleaning rear window wiper, but it feels all in all like paid ad
The fact that Rivan gave preview access to a UK car reviewer while ignoring Out Of Spec who literally have 3 Rivians in their 'fleet' shows that Rivian is not yet serious about building a quality, customer-centric EV even though I truly want them to be successful.
what does it have to do with right? you think 15yo leftist kids don't have sex?
btw. I didn't say it's fine, I said it's not CSAM and it's legal in most of the western world, so it's not really relevant for the article we discuss here
15 is age of consent in most of western world? not sure what 'west' you are talking about. Did you keep going so far west you ended up in middle east? Might have agreed with 16, a lot of US states in the 'south' have 16.
There is a pattern, the more backward, and religious a region, the lower the age is ok.
Dude. A lot of people care about 1 year, especially courts and lawyers.
If we wanted to get actually detailed. We'd probably need to also differentiate between laws that try to protect kids, like if 17 year old boy and 16 year old girl, is different situation than 45 year old man flying them to an island. There should be effort to not victimize young men that are just 1-2 years on other side.
The issue is, why are Republicans rabid about protecting kids until a Republican politician is caught flying them around and crossing state lines. Then people come out of the woodwork with "well actually in ancient times 12 was old enough, indubitably".
Deuteronomy 22:28‑29, "young woman...of tender age".
For Jewish tradition this means 12 year old, age at which the Jews once considered girls capable of marriage.
Lot daughters are also believed to be less than 15.
Famously also the prophet Mohammed consumed a marriage with a 9 year old, and that was seen as normal and approved by all previous text and tradition.
No age is ever explicitly defined for any case, because "csam" and "underage sex" just were not concepts people gave thought to.
Recognizing that some cases are probably fine by today's standard is fine, but refusing to recognize that at least some of them must have been way too young is ignoring a lot of evidence.
1. we don't know their age, we only know they were virgins
2. they could be adult virgins
3. they deliberately made him drunk so he won't know anything and forced him to have sex with them not remembering it
not sure how is this CSAM, just because it's incest, doesn't mean it's CSAM, and by your logic they were his "children", then everyone is someone's child and literally all porn is CSAM then
The situation was such that they lived far off because their city was destroyed. There would've been no more offspring. Oddly enough, Lot is a man and his daughters slept with their father.
Anyway, the sex was incestuous and therefore your conclusion is invalid because it disregards that fact. Of course when adults of different families have sex it's not child abuse, that goes without saying.
But you do have a good point that the age of the 2 daughters wasn't mentioned.
Whatever their age was, they were betrothed to be married to men who didn't evacuate when warned:
14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
Available to watch here: https://www.tvseries.video/series/the-x-files/season-11-epis...
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