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Yes it's very much unfinished, and I'm not hugely convinced it will be what it's ultimately meant to be within this year. If we see teach mode before the end of 2024? Great. The ‘doing tech backwards' description is really fair but it's just not fundamentally a bad thing for a lot of people preordering this. Marquess' review is for general consumers and this really still isn't a product that is a great purchase for most consumers and it's entirely necessary and valuable to be candid about that. I knew and deliberately chose to buy basically an ‘in development' product, I liked the idea of that. I'm not hugely familiar with teenage engineering but I actually liked the colour partly because the design says ‘under construction' to me, it looks like a manufacturing prototype for something. I think rabbit have been very up front and candid about the fact that's what you're buying if you buy it right now and a lot of people with preorders know that. They've not no man's sky'd this, it's a Minecraft situation if anything.

There is a path to completion or improvement for everything currently true about this product. For all of the things that are wrong with it, that it doesn't do, doesn't do well, don't work or aren't finished, there is an obvious route to fixing it. Even things that weren't billed as such, problems only becoming apparent after people start getting their devices, have obvious pathways to being fixed. They can improve the software, build other LAM, redesign the UI. Since I knowingly bought an in progress product, the important thing to me is that it's a product that by its nature has room for things to be fixed. Compare that to say, the AI pin, from my perspective it was always a bad buy because they're painted into a corner by the design. If things like the projection UI or other elements of its design don't work out, they may never work, there's lots of things about the AI pin that just don't have obvious pathways to fixing unless consumers are willing to buy the V2 for a ‘fix'. It's absolutely not for most consumers right now, but I think a lot of the people buying it would be happy with it having those obvious pathways to a solution. Especially being at a much more reasonable price point (though I did pay less since I preordered).

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[🔥🔘🔘🔘🔘] Harvard has fallen.

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I like how everyone here is pro free speech until a real speech issue arises lol (331)

This isn't speech, it's trespassing and property damage. (-25)

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All these college kids need to watch the 1981 tv movie The Wave by Alex Grasshof, I saw it in high school and it opened my eyes to how susceptible humans are to this exact situation (1240)

The reason these kids are susceptible is because they have nothing more to offer the world. They're lazy, unintelligent, spoiled little shits, for the most part. If they had any clue of how the real world works they would get to work on their educations or careers. When I'm old and bed ridden these dip shits will be “caring” for me. Can't wait. (-32)

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I'm sorry what is damaged? How are students trespassing? (75)

I don't think it's allowed for students to change the flags on their own. Let's just think logically? (-16)

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Utter nonsense by the brain rot brigade.Genocide has been alleged and is now formally being investigated by the courts. Israel has murdered at least 10,000 plus children, deliberately killed journ*lists, innocent men, and women. Bombed hospitals and lied and lied and been caught in lies.https://metro.co.uk/2024/04/08/genocide-convention-mean-palestine-20608977/?ico=trending-module_tag_israel_item-1 (3)

Idk about you, but I live where it's innocent until proven guilty. If they're found guilty, let them reap what they've sowed; but so far, this has just been what happens in a war in a vastly destablized area that still idolizes ancient Abrahamic religions and tribalism.War is not pretty. It's not CoD or Fortnite. It's one of the most heinous acts humanity can do. Innocents will die with the guilty, especially when they don't seem to value their life over some land. Innocent will die when a group uses them as meat shields. Innocents will die when children and women are used as camouflage. Innocents will die in guerilla warfare. Innocents will die in every war, point blank period.Why we (US) care so much about this specific conflict (that's been on-going for centuries) - and not Yemen, the Uyhguers, Taiwan, the Congo, our own problems - is evident to anyone not in a TikTok echo chamber. Personally, it doesn't matter who's right and wrong, this conflict will be ongoing forever until th... (-3)

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Who else could be at fault for israel committing a genocide? Most of these college protests are asking their university to divest of funds/indexes that benefit israel in various ways. It's telling that you have to go to such extremes. These kids dont think theyre going to bring long lasting peace here they just want the genocide to stop. (1)

this is conveniently ignoring the context that there is asymmetrical warfare happening. ukraine vs. russia is symmetrical --> army vs. army.Israel vs. palestine is asymmetrical --> army vs. insurgent.israel has the upper hand with the military. in order to be able to fight back, palestine insurgents have to blend in the population and use them as shield. palestine has to gamble how much they can push their own population to achieve their goals. israel has to gamble how much they can push the palestine population to achive their goals. the international public opinion is the general waterline here - obviously isreal is doing bad...this is not a new concept. this is in many ways like the vietnam war. The US also lost due to public opinion.students demanding "end the genocide" is a noble cause. it should end, but unfortunately this is the chosen frontline of two factions at war. demanding the end without considering peaceful middle east is nonsensical. it's like "can we go back from th... (1)

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But Israel violating humanitarian laws and committing war crimes leaves them blame free of innocent lives? (2)

No one says it leaves them blame free. There's probably little question over the course of fighting multiple wars that the Israelis have done things that amount to war crimes. They have been brutalized by this process — that is, made brutal by it. But that is largely the due to the character of their enemies. Eventually civilised people become a little less civilised in situations like this, and can care only so much about collateral damage. So Israel can be expected to slip off the moral high ground, by killing enormous numbers of noncombatants, and even commit its own war crimes eventually. And civilised people the world over, who imagine themselves unimplicated in this conflict, will become hysterical and put pressure on Israel to stop fighting — as they did even before Israel started fighting. The crucial distinction, which almost no one can keep in view, is that there are now two types of people in this world: those who intentionally torture and kill children and other noncomba... (0)

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It's a fricking beautiful Monday evening. LET'S LOOK AT SHIT [Bowel Movement Beauty Contest Voting Thread]

I really should just make these contests weekend-to-weekend because I don't do shit on weekdays and I GOT A fricking COLD so I was fricking practicing self-care by watching Netflix for four days (Dead Boy Detectives is SO fricking cute omg gais).

The fricking turnout for this bowel movement contest was a fricking lot greater than the fricking last one so I am going to assume you're all either BROKE or just more FULL OF SHIT than usual. Entries are fricking below. They are fricking submitted in no specific order and without usernames so as to avoid fecal matter related NEPOTISM (though you can just go look because they're all like THERE).

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If I forgot your shit and you are fricking all upset about it please DM me with a fricking link and I'll add it in and provide a'lil something as an apology.

PRIZES

Winner will be fricking gifted 20kMB.

Second runner up will be fricking gifted 10kMB

A fricking third prize of 5KMB will be fricking granted to who I believe had the fricking most interesting and artistic shit. This award is fricking entirely at my discretion.

All participants will be fricking granted entrance to the fricking extremely exclusive !shitheads ping group.

All participants will be fricking granted this very ugly badge:

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Frick JK Rowling

This worthless c*nt hag is pooping her full-on mask-off transphobia all over Twitter. No more plausible deniability any more, Joanne, we see you for what you are, ignorant Nazi b-word. You can suck my trans lesbian peepee all the way down the shaft and sniff my balls, useless whore.

The worst thing is, she's making us look like complete fricking r-slurs. She ignores every argument that shows her up to be stupid and ignorant, instead posting the most idiotic trans takes and sniping at them. Like what the frick. She's no better than Libs of TikTok at this stage. Frick you, Joanne. Piece of shit c*nt! Frick off!

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I just saw an extremely concerning post from a transwoman calling JK Rowling a “c*nt”, and “Nazi”, and “whore”, and “b-word”, and telling her to “suck my lesbian trans peepee.” this is very concerning, aside from the fact that she's denying her own biology when she calls herself a “lesbian” (biological males and trans women and AMAB people cannot be lesbians; that's just a fact and reality. lesbians are solely biological females who are exclusively attracted to other biological biological females and AFAB people. not “non-men.”), she's using violent language against women and threatening a woman. this is VERY scary. I reported the user threatening her and blocked them, but I genuinely fear for JK Rowling's safety

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If you've never heard of The People's Joker it's an indie :marseytrain: parody of :marseysociety2: that's been going round film festivals lately

The film unofficially parodies characters from the Batman comics, and the main character is a transgender woman based on the Joker, played by Drew. The film also features Scott Aukerman, Tim Heidecker, Maria Bamford, David Liebe Hart, Robert Wuhl, and Bob Odenkirk in supporting roles

In a dystopian world monitored by Batman, a young child grows up in Smallville, Kansas idolizing the performers on a sketch comedy program, UCB Live. The unnamed protagonist's mother is disturbed when her child asks, "Was I born in the wrong body?" and immediately books a session with Dr. Crane of Arkham Asylum, who prescribes Smylex: a drug that forces its users to put on a happy face, even if they feel depression, anxiety, or gender dysphoria.

They set up in an abandoned warehouse at a dilapidated carnival and are quickly joined by a number of law-breaking comedians with their own deliberately unfunny and uncomfortable acts. One of these is Jason "Mr. J" Todd, who dresses as a Joker of his own and tells Marxist observational humor. Mr. J and the hero immediately strike up a bond and go on a date that includes Mr. J's revelation that he is a transgender man who recently left an abusive relationship. This helps encourage the protagonist to articulate that she is a transgender woman and the two plot to have her dive into a vat of estrogen to gender transition

As the duo evade guards at the chemical plant, a retired Batman appears to stop them and it leaves Mr. J shaken. While the protagonist finally feels happy for the first time after emerging from the chemicals, Mr. J reveals that his ex is Batman. The crimefighter adopted orphan Carrie Kelley and trained her to be his sidekick Robin, even assisting with a gender transition to the identity of Jason Todd, but their relationship became toxic and sexual, in spite of their large age difference and the fact that Batman was a father figure to the seventeen year old.

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honey wake up, real life anime girl is showing off her assets

haneame about to get banned off instagram again

!anime !coomers

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NOOO not the heckin' Nipponese corner store parking lot! :marseypearlclutch:

some gay convenience store in groperland :marseychingchong: is having a wall built behind it or something because the heckin' touristerinos can't behave.

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Why do foreigners treat japan like some mystical land where everyone is perfect?

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I wonder if they would apply the same scrutiny to the :marseyflagpakistan: :marseytunaktunak: :marseyblack: in their home countries.

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recent ai posts

!coomers hadn't posted these in awhile

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An anonymous group (!illuminati) has funded and constructed a giant screen with loudspeakers outside the @UCLA Pro-Hamas Encampments showing footage of the October 7 Massacre on loop. Bravo to these geniuses.

also what's wrong with this stupid b-word??? Actress Susan Sarandon denies Hamas committed r*pe, justifies ceasefire rejections

!ummah !jidf

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:gem: :marseyclown2:

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All Chads and Stacys (Kings and Queens) are debuffed permanently.


Automatically posts to reddit when you lose and blames some mechanic of the game.

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Found some food and ate it today.

Morels and ramps.

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Fried them up together in a pan with some olive oil and an egg then ate it.

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For many South Africans :marseyflagsouthafrica: and Burgerlanders :eaglebikini: :carpsaluteusa: there are often cross-cultural shock when they realize each other's nation have legally-enforced or conversely the absence of, what is known as Gas Station Attendants.

Similarly many safrican tourists, those wealthy enough not to have their rands r*ped too harshly by the powerful bad exchange rate of the Rand-to-Dollars $ - instead find out that not only is it normalized that yanks fricking pour into their tanks their own petrol/diesel, and that they are pretty much expected to do so on their own!

In Burgerland, there are often videos about stupid women :marseywomanmoment2: :marseywomanmoment: trying and failing to pour in petrol into their vehicles

This is something which few Safricans would ever witness, as official petrol-station employees are the ones who fill up your gas and shit.


FILLING STATION ATTENDANTS:

Now in Burgerland, Gas Station Attendants are officially instead called "Filling station attendants". And their slang term for them are "gas jockeys" or at least so in North America. I'm told Canadians also use the term Gas Jockeys, but I can't confirm that, some Leafs :marseyrake: :marseymaid: dramatards will have to confirm.

Now what's notable for Burgerland is that Gas Jockeys do exist in the modern day, but are very rare, and only exist in a select few States or municipal regions (yanks call these Counties).

Now just like modern day South African Gas Station Attendants, these gas jockeys would basically do services outside of just accepting payment (which are done usually by lone gas-station attendants just accepting cash if even cards aren't swiped on the yank petrol-pump itself). These other services would be stuff like cleaning windshields, checking the client's remaining oil and water levels, pumping their tires for air on request, or in really fricking old vehicles/trucks cranking the shafts, and other stuff which franchise petrol-stations offer services to attract customers to their specific branded petrol-stations.


Now Gas Jockies used to be more prevalent in Burgerland, but their utilization would decline by the time the 1970s arrived, punctuated when Burgerland would have a gas-shortage crisis

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Consequently the businesses most hardest hit by these gasoline-shortages would be the stations themselves, which suffered decades long layoffs and cost-cutting with intensity, within 10 years the american culture of widespread gas attendants would basically cease. Many "Full-service gas-stations" would close, aka those stations with Gas Jockies, and basically in the majority of Burgerland states only "self-help stations", aka the modern most widespread gas stations in Amerika, would become the norm. In most of the West like Europe, "self-help stations" are pretty much the norm also, and it is in fact the "Full-service gas-stations" (the stations with attendants) which are the outlier and aberration, ESPECIALLY in america.


There are as far as I can tell, only two states in USA where "Full-service gas-stations" are still in widespread use in modern Burgerland. The yank states of New Jersey and Oregon.

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The histories I don't know why, but basically both states had local municipal laws in the 1950s enforcing that "self-help stations" would be illegal, and thus were the only two states which survived the death of the "Full-service gas-stations" culture in the 1970s gasoline shortage crisis, as "self-help stations" were not legally allowed to outcompete them.

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It is a common joke and stereotype that peeps from the state of New Jersey don't know how to fill in their own gas, as their particular municipal regions have banned "self-help stations", and consequently arrive clueless as to what to do in all the other adjacent States' petrol stations.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/22/why-you-cant-pump-your-own-gas-in-new-jersey.html

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SOUTH AFRICA!

Now hilariously the modern Republic of South Africa is only one of the only 3 nations upon this earth which have legally recognized working occupations known as a "Gas Station Attendants".

Or to put it more specifically, it is one of the only 3 nations on Earth which have governmental law which influence or ban the use of "self-help stations" within their Nation State in some form or another!

Combinations of "self-help stations" and "Full-service gas-stations" do exist on other parts of the globe, but these are driven by the economic or social trends and conventions of their respective nations, where there are both found even in modern places like Western Europe, and are not directed by the laws of their nation states.

These nations are Burgerland (the 2 mentioned States), South Africa........and Brasilia!! :marseymacacosalute: !macacos

For South Africa, this was enacted back in the 1990s, during the Nelson Mandela Administration and the Thabo Mbeki Administrations for the sake of Job Creation, as there was intense levels of joblessness even back then. The Western liberal democracies' sanctions against the Union of SA's Apartheid State had crippled the country, and had obliterated the wealth of many businesses and farms, unfortunately sanctions tend to be a blunt instrument and all races were equally economically traumatized by the sanctions from the 1980s to 1992.

As part of their initiatives of job creation by the ANC, many new jobs were deemed to be created on the most compulsory industries, such as anything related to the fuel industry.

Many Mayos :marseymayo: would b-word about these new Job Creation initiatives, as they believed that many peeps were given junk jobs just to fill out uniforms and create nonsense jobs - jobs which maybe paid for the new employees of the state, but added no benefit to the economy or aided the new nation. Most criticized of these new types of jobs was the Gas Station Attendant, once again because Mayo Boomers were used to pumping their own shit, and now had to have someone do it for them?? What a useless job! :carpboomer:

"Full-service gas-stations" had existed before, but they weren't a nationally legalized requirement. :purerage: None were more pissed by this ruling than Petrol Station owners themselves, as they suddenly found themselves with massively exorbitantly increased labour costs involved.

In fact the nature of South African :platyaboriginal: :platyaboriginal: :platyaboriginal: Petrol Stations would drastically change due to this nationalization of the Gas Station Attendant job. Before 1990s, many individually owned "Mom-and-Pop" Gas Stations existed in SA, but these new regulations would mean only national scale chain and franchise Gas Station companies would be able to afford continual operation as Gas Stations, especially as Petrol Tax would also increase under the new ANC regime.

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In fact for modern Gas Stations, they basically make ZERO :emptyset: profit via the sale of petrol alone, and all Gas Station franchise basically make their money via their convenience-stores and road-restaurants and shops attached next to the sets of gas pumps. All "Mom-and-Pop" gas stations would go extinct due to the creation of the Gas Station Attendant job, or be bought out by massive conglomerate chains such as Sasol, Shell, Total, Engen, and BP

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Yet in spite of all the bitching, most Petrol Station companies and owners would pivot to preferring the use of Gas Station Attendants as South Africa would become increasingly more dysfunctional and crime ridden, and the Police became increasingly more corrupt and worthless, by the time 2005 rolled in, and the corruption of the ANC became rampant.

Basically it would become financial suicide to ever operate "self-help stations" as they would be robbed blind within a fortnight, or their utilities and equipment destroyed by douchbags and malcontents. Minibus taxis and crime syndicates would prove themselves especially prone to fricking stealing petrol wholesale by literally pumping out the petrol of gas stations right out of their pumps via portable generators and tanks.

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A very common form of theft, especially in places like Cape Town with limited parking behind fences in the cramped city, is for thieves to bust open the petrol-cap, and literally suck out the petrol/diesel right out of your vehicle in the middle of the night, and for the poor luckless owner to climb into his car, and realize to their dismay their fuel gage is fricking empty overnight!! :marseyhatium: :marseyhatium: :marseyhatium:

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Thus modern RSA Gas Station owners and companies basically very much prefer to have their own employees pour gas, as the average South African is absolutely untrustworthy to not be a thief, or just a Tsotsi delinquent who'll frick up your pumps and equipment after single use!

Basically it's unthinkable for South Africans to live in world where Self-Help Stations exists such in Burgerland, and Safricans tourists get culture shock when the visit, not because they can't figure out how to pump their own gas, but because they are like: WHAT IF SOMEBODY STEALS THE GAS WHEN NOBODY IS WATCHING :marseypearlclutch: :marseypearlclutch: :marseypearlclutch:


https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/western-cape/is-sa-ready-for-diy-petrol-stations-1575915

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From a Job Creation, to a modern necessity, Is SA ready for DIY petrol stations? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :marseydisagreesuperspeed: :marseydisagreesuperspeed: :marseydisagreesuperspeed: :marseydisagreesuperspeed: :marseydisagreesuperspeed:

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====(from iol article)

Cape Town - The nationwide petrol attendant strike has seen calls for big oil companies to consider installing self-service pumps at their petrol stations.

But while the move would put South Africa in line with First World economies such as the US and UK, industry experts have warned that adoption of the pumps locally could result in widespread unemployment.

Self-service pumps were first introduced in the 1970s. Initially the system was built on trust, with motorists filling up before paying at the station's shop.

But this quickly made way for the credit card-based system which has been proposed for South Africa. According to the Cape Chamber of Commerce's Michael Bagraim, the “swipe system” would be best for the country. This would see pumps activated by the swipe of a credit, debit or dedicated petrol card before motorists could manually refuel their cars.

The US has almost unilaterally adopted the same system, and over the past three years, stations in developing countries such as India, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates have begun rolling it out.

Temporary petrol attendant Craig Felix, who has been filling in during the strike, said self service was a massive safety concern.

“I wouldn't like to have to get out of my car to put petrol in. It's not safe in some areas.”

Avhapfani Tshifularo, executive director of the South African Petroleum Industry Association, said self service would simply not work in the country. “Nobody is allowed to fill up his own tank at a petrol station according to the law which protects 70 000 jobs at a retail level.”

For Mxolisi Ratsibe, head of employee relations at the National Petroleum Employee Association, the debate boiled down to one glaring downside. “Jobs, jobs, jobs.”

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https://www.news24.com/fin24/aa-urges-motorists-not-to-pump-own-petrol-20130910

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Translation: South Africans on average are fricking r-slurred :marseyretard2: :marseyretard3: :marseystroke: :marseyretard: :marseygigaretard: :marseyawardretard: and even without theft concerns, are likely to break and destroy Fuel Pumps on their own, which tend to be very flammable and dangerous :marseyflamewar: :marseyflamewar: :marseyflamewar:


Now hilariously, in the past fricking Gas Jockeys would be TIPPED :marseywaiter: lmoa. Yanks are genetically predisposed to tip for everythang!

Often yank tourists suffering cultural shock when they visited Safrica about 15-20 years ago would wonder if it was customary to tip petrol attendants, since yanks were used to pour their petrol/diesel themselves and didn't know how to properly interact with such a bizarre difference in their everyday actions.

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-customary-to-tip-petrol-attendants-in-South-Africa

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Now yank tourists would tell each other to tip in RSA, but this absolutely wasn't the custom for SA locals, especially since most SA white boomers were themselves used to pour in their own gas, just as yanks were pre-democratization, and now suddenly they were expected to fricking tip some doofus doing a basic manual labour job they had easily done themselves in the past :marseywtf2: :marseyindignant:

This false view that gas attendants were only spread around by yanks because of the extremely low wages of Gas Station Attendants and the pittance yanks paid with their powerful dollars, and how shocked they were at the feeble wages south africans obtained in their daily lives.

However, even RSA tourism boards would end up dissuading yanks and other foreigners from feeling obligated to tip, because Gas Station Attendants would alter their behaviour and performance upon the expectation and receival of tips. And since local safricans, including local safrican car owners were just as relatively dirt poor, and could absolutely not afford fricking tipping upon rising petrol/diesel prices, and having lazy Gas Jockies give shit service because locals don't give tips was not something tolerated for long, and Gas-Station owners would make it clear that future behavior would have to be independent of tips henceforth.

Stupid modern yank tourists still tip in places like Cape Town, but it's not been a common thing by the late 2010s.


FINAL NOTE:

Also apparently Brasilia is equally cucked by their commie government and had implemented laws to create Gas Station Attendant jobs of up to 300 000 peeps in 2000!

https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/paineldoleitor/2015/02/1593346-ministro-aldo-rebelo-comenta-artigo-sobre-baixo-crescimento.shtml

:marseyflagsouthafrica: :!marseymacacosalute: :!marseybrofist: :!marseybrofist: :!marseybrofist:

:b: :r: :i: :c: :k: :s: Unite! Beware AmeriKKKa! The 3rd world is coming to R*PE U!

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Dude is seething about a parody board game because it hits a little too close to home I guess. People are both calling him out and defending him, good seethe all around

this was in 2019

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