
Samyan Elrod
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I love dark red-purple, murder mysteries and scented candles. Writing is my life.

Samyan Elrod · commented on 10 posts
about 2 years ago

god is angry with the wicked every day. just i hope you realise who the wicked truly are. hint: it's not gay ppl
that was my childhood and i still ended up mentally ill :(

Samyan Elrod · upvoted 30 items
about 2 years ago

Being cousins isn't a big deal, it's common in many parts of the world. In the long run, generation after generation it will have bad effects, but 1 couple once in a while isn't gonna have a big impact. And I think the word 'incest' should be reserved for people who actually grow up in a family bond, I think when 2 people are strangers and only later find out they are technically cousins, it isn't incest. But when 2 people grow up in the same family but are not technically family, like step siblings or 1 child is adopted, then it should be called incest in my opinion.
That's b/c people who work jobs where tips make all the difference are typically making terrible wages that don't come close to covering their meager living costs. We're talking just the basics. It's why folks in the "gig economy" have to have multiple jobs to break even. Decades ago, most workers (including in the service industry) made fairer wages. Tips were more of a "bonus". But now, minimum wage hasn't increased in a long, long time - although inflation sure has! Today, service staff they'd better be in *Top Form* or they won't get fully paid. Even if they're perfect servers, that pay still isn't guaranteed. Did the kitchen mess up a dish? Guess who the customer will likely blame, unfairly. Even when hard-working staffer receive good tips, they must *split* them in many establishments. That means anyone who may be slacking gets part of the "bonus" that should've gone to the person who earned it. But it's how mgmt chooses to "make things more fair" in the face of folks who are too tight to tip for decent service. In some places, the mgmt also grabs a portion of the total pooled tips for the kitchen crew, whom they're also paying poorly. It's an expensive, competitive industry.. Those who succeed are usually doing so on the backs of their poorest workers, who are also "front line workers" experiencing the widespread lack of public manners that now grips a divided nation. We are a culture where a large % of the Richest folks still demand slaves to abuse. If we weren't, then things would change. Please tip your wait staff at least 20%, and more if they went out of their way for you. And no, I'm not a waitress. I just don't view empathy as any kind of joke. As it vanishes, nothing improves.