The problem is that, when the bubble pops, they’ll just say they are too big to fail. They’ll take your tax money to keep them alive and those nice CEO anual bonuses coming. They always win, either way. The game is just rigged.

Oh, he’s riding them alright.

Take it easy friend, there will be other workers to take their place! Don’t blow it out of proportion.

/s duh

Everyone in the west knows about tipping

That’s a bold assumption. I’m in the west too. Tipping is not a thing here (at least not in that way). Having a price on the menu and asking for more is also frowned upon here, not to mention illegal.

No, no, no. They just take the money! It’s the customers responsibility to pay the servants. Don’t you guys know capitalism?? /s

So, you are actually defending intentionally misleading your customers?

I’m just curious, do you speak Portuguese or Spanish?

“I FIGHT IRAN!!”

You missed a space there, buddy.

Something worse happened in my city. The city hall expropriated some land from the owner with the justification it was needed for a public interest project. The project wasn’t very detailed and pretty much half-assed like it wasn’t serious. The owner was pissed since the land was sure to raise its price by a lot in a few years. The city was experiencing a major boom and the land was right where the city center was expanding to. But he loses the land and receives a “fair market price”.

Right after the land is expropriated the city hall cancels the project and, since it was no longer needed and the land is considered useless sells it very cheaply to a known real estate entrepreneur with ties to the (very corrupt) Mayor. In a couple of years construction has started in the area (by other friends of the mayor) and the value of the land explodes. The entrepeneur sells it back for a fortune to the city hall. The city hall justifies the huge payment due to the need for a mall there. That mall never turned a profit and was bankrupt in a few years.

The original owner sued city hall and the old mayor. The case is tied in courts for decades now. It’s ridiculous. My city is the capital of corruption in a corrupt country.

Wait a second! A femboy wank makes me b…I mean makes someone bissexual?

I’m surprised nobody posted THAT gif. You know which one.

You guys need to get a life

I’m talking shit to the indoor fundamentalists here, but the fact is that, even here, it is more nuanced than that.

I’m very lucky since I live in a calm street. There are enough cars to not let my cats be complacent but they’re slow enough to be avoidable. It also helps that both my cats came from the street and both have PTSD towards cars. You won’t find them near one. Even so I try to keep them away from the front door where the road is.

My neighbors are also cat lovers and all of them are very tolerant of their antics. But I have friends who weren’t so lucky, especially with black cats.

Also, I have no dogs near me. No wild animals or any possible predator. And my cats are coddled enough to not want to be far from the cuddles. They wait for me in the front door or go lie in the neighbor yard, but most of the time they’re napping in the backyard or in the couch or following me and my mother around. I’m very lucky.

If I lived in an apartment or a busier road, or had neighbors I don’t know or trust…I’m not sure I’d let them go out like this. But, then again, I wouldn’t have cats in those conditions.

Even here, you have to look into the surroundings, evaluate the risks and make your own conclusion if it’s safe to let them out. But you are the best person to make that decision, not Ashley Leash or Matthew Catio.

K, bye

I don’t mind being society’s bottom as long as there’s a safe word.

Dude, you just made my day…

Oh, the irony…

I’m not having this discussion again. It’s not choice, deal with it.

It’s not your place to tell me if I can or can’t have a cat. Stick to your own rules, we’ll stick to ours.

Fair enough. If my cats are completely happy indoors they can stay inside as much as they like. Nobody forces them to go out.