Sprokes

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[–] Sprokes@lemmy.ml 16 points 7 months ago (3 children)

No I eat garlic but the one they put in the plate has a bizarre odor.

[–] Sprokes@lemmy.ml 18 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I was in some European city and there is one Chinese restaurant serving hot pot. So I wanted to try it. I ordered and selected the items I want for around 50€. The waitress asked me : "is that all? Do you want the menu?". So I was wondering if I didn't order enough. At the end, what I ordered was enough for at least 3 people. I was in a table for 4 people and it was full with all the dishes. The waitress then asked me if she need to bring a bowl of rice!

They brought the sauces and there was garlic on the plate. The odor ruined the whole meal for me. I couldn't eat most of it and I was disappointed as I don't like wasting food.

[–] Sprokes@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ah they posting adult content? I didn't read the article and I thought they were using OF for their music.

[–] Sprokes@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes I am interested in the details.

[–] Sprokes@lemmy.ml 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The tipping culture is very rooted in Americans. I was at restaurant in Europe and there was a customer (certainly American). He ate during 30 minutes or less, the waiter was nice but he wasn't doing it for tips and the customer only saw him when he ordered the food and at payment. The prices are high end.

When he paid he was surprised that there was no tipping options (unfortunately we started seeing them in some European countries) and asked him to pay another 10€ as a tip.

[–] Sprokes@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

If you are paid $15/h that is 20% of $75. Don't you think that the clients you will serve will pay way more than that during an hour?

[–] Sprokes@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago (13 children)

Waiters are against it as they may get way more than if they were paid by the owner. Also they automatically get raises when menu prices increases.

What blows my mind is that American do tip everywhere and also give cash to some workers at the end of the year (mail man, garbage man,.. Etc).

[–] Sprokes@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I was watching the show Good Times about the struggle of poor black family. But after some episodes I felt it wasn't realistic and the family isn't really poor.

 

I have an old computer that I use for storing and streaming my media. It has an attached external drive. I would like to increase my storage and build something that could be extensible to at least 100TB. I am not worried about backup.

I looked and I think I need a HDD rack or enclosure. Some people gave me links to good deals on ebay and some other sellers but they are based on the US and shipping fees are high. I saw this HDD enclosure and it seems to be what I am searching but I don't if they are good.

Do you have some advices for me?

[–] Sprokes@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's just an excuse because many drugs are sold at prices much lower what they are sold in the US. They are not selling them at loss in other countries.