and a bill to cover the damage your husband’s brain did to our tools

Instead you are a choose-your-own-adventure author

I really can’t tell if this is satire? It has to be, right?

I agree with everything you are saying about the implication and the position it puts people in. I’m not sure that its preferable to always include a tip option.

However, people do complain about its existence. I have worked at places that have a tip option, and people do complain to the worker about the option being there. Nobody working there has asked for the option to be installed, just press “No tip”.

Just don’t tip, nobody is making you. Some people like to have the option, let them. I will never understand the incessant complaining on payment terminals accepting tips. Press the big red button and move on?

Does ntfy solve this problem?

It records only when using the app btw

Retail workers will be the ones actually retrieving product from wherever it is locked up. These probably won’t be just sitting on some self-serve shelf at most retailers.

This is why I refuse to wear bras.

They need a hug and to feel safe enough to be vulnerable. The identity of masculinity, the prohibition of displaying or feeling any emotion (other than anger), maybe is what contributes to people being underdeveloped husks. They’re empty shells and the way they didn’t learn to deal with emotions. Lashing out and compensating by “having” (things, people, being feared [‘respect’ to them]) because it makes them feel powerful. But real power is knowing who you are, being able to connect with yourself and others. They’re not allowed that, though. Connection requires being vulnerable and having a strong enough sense of self to not be threatened by that.

It’s somehow made worse that these are history textbooks.