Please could you define the threshold for “enough men have”, just so we can use it for other causes of discrimination?

Yes tipping in Canada is weird, agreed. But from the time I lived in Toronto I didn’t feel it was as mad as the US is nowadays.

Thank god we don’t have a law that allows some lines of work to basically be unpaid, which forces tipping.

That’s the thing us Europeans have to remember. People who work for tips actually need tips or they make no money.

It’s an incredibly evil and dumb system. But a foreigner huffing about it while visiting the US isn’t going to change the system. Tip.

Children. Once there’s children you have 0 hours to look after yourself. It requires a Herculean effort for both your partner and you to carve out 30 minutes per person per two days

Fastmail is probably the best alternative, feature wise at least. They’ve got their own draconian mail access laws in Australia, so from a five eyes point of view it’s not a great deal different. No AI reading or training on your mail at least.

Constructed vs evolved.

I think authentication will be huge.

Lots of commercial alternatives are starting to bet on the future (eg https://swear.com/), where something gets fingerprinted and the fingerprint gets signed and put on an authentication block chain (something block chains are actually useful for).

I imagine a future where this gets built into browsers (ie “this picture was verified by NY times, and it went through this editing chain, starting from a canon camera which recorded on this date”) and you can switch over to have unauthenticated assets highlighted.

I actually do. For some reason my children are fascinated where it all goes, so we’ve seems lots of videos on plumbing, in house and on the street. They’re absolutely bowled over by how it all works and it’s made me appreciate it so much more.

It’s also an enormous hygiene booster; running water, waste management etc. If you have a working water system in your neighbourhood you’re blessed. It’s one of those things Stone Age people would barely believe was real.

Which reminds me of a comment I read on Lemmy not too long ago - someone was wishing for a robot to handle the laundry. And I was like: “What do you think a washing machine is?!”

Discord is a fucking plague. I loathe it for communities. As soon as there are more than 10 people in a room, no one can follow what anyone is saying. Threads? No dude, this isn’t the 90s! Let’s slack it up!!! 🤮