In modern day America, parents have to work overtime to support their families and because of this, don't have the luxury of stalking their children every waking hour like back in 1956, when mothers were barefoot and pregnant. If only unmarried, nonparent Techno Libertarians/techbros understood this.

Slashdot looks like another echo chamber in the vein of Reddit, where twenty-something neckbeards who never got an actual education think they're smarter than the rest of the human race, because they read Wikipedia. Meanwhile, all their observations are that of the navel gazing 12 year old who thinks they're the first ones in the history of mankind to be aware of or understand something.

Good luck, goodbye and good riddance.

Many of us went to COLLEGE and studied AMERICAN and WORLD HISTORY, where you actually had to get tested and pass a ridiculous amount of exams to earn a degree.

Wikipedia is an over glorified book report by high school dropouts.

Having learned world and American history in both high school and college--a real college, not Wikipedia U--I don't need to learn about anything. You need to pick up a history book, as well as pick up a book on "media criticism." Rachel E. Greenspan, who wrote that Time piece, is not a history scholar. The person she quoted, Saru Jayaraman, is a first generation Indian-American who doesn't know anything about Civil War and just made a false link between it and tipping, because it's become faddish to create false links between one's agenda and the black struggle.

You're not even close to being a GenXer if you're saying this crap, because GenXers LIVED through the Reagan era and saw unfold in real time how Reaganomics cut safety nets and deregulated industries that led to mass layoffs and the outsourcing of jobs. I'm a GenXer, and so you out yourself as a fraud when you cite Wall Street ("greed is good"). The phrase "greed is good" was an expression of Wall Street ethics, not Baby Boomer culture. You have so little unfamiliarity with who or what GenXers and Baby Boomers are, you don't even seem to be aware that Oliver Stone, a Baby Boomer, shot that film as an attack on Reaganomics and a specific industry--stock trading. Michael Douglas, who started as Gordon Gekko, is not even a Baby Boomer (he was born in 1944), so I don't believe you are GenX.

Do you work? People in various sectors are making more money now than they did decades ago. Postal workers, construction workers, health care professionals, etc. did see wages go up. What you call "stagnation" is the LOSS OF JOBS in other sectors that would've also seen increases in wages. Retail, which I worked at, was one of those sectors. There used to be well over 100 million jobs in retail--so many jobs that they used to need people to work the holidays. Where are those jobs now? They vanished into thn air because of Crowdsourcing, the Gig Economy, love of Amazon and the obsession with "side hustling."

Hustling not only destroys healthy jobs, it doesn't create any new ones. Entrepreneuring created jobs. Hustling doesn't. Millennials created a generation of "hustlers" in GenZ--as social media influencers, house flippers, AirBnB hosts, Door Dashers, Etsy artisans and Fiverr artists. There could never be decent paying jobs in this type of cultural environment because the entire concept behind hustling is based around ego stroking and the idea that you get to be your own boss and do your own thing without being part of the "grind." This has caused the destruction of the very jobs that USED to pay well and see an uptick in wages over time.

There are entire generations alive right now who lived in the world for at least three decades before Reservoir Dogs. Are you really using a 1990s movie as a frame of reference for what culture was like in terms of tipping, when there were those of us alive in the 1980s, 1970s, who can tell you point blank what it was like?

How about you look at any episode of The Jeffersons, with the character of Ralph the Doorman? A person who insisted on being tipped was considered so obnoxious and in some cases greedy, lazy and shiftless in the United States, they created a sitcom character called Ralph the Doorman on The Jeffersons to make fun of people like that.

Why actually listen to an actual college graduate from a REAL university--and had world history as a minor--when you can just cite an online dictionary written by neckbeards (many of them who didn't even finish school) writing about stuff before their time and that they had no intimate familiarity with?

I hate to break this to you, but there are people who have at least 30 years on you, easily, and remember when there was no such thing as "tipping culture" decades ago, to where it was considered both mandatory and bad form, to where people had to sweat bullets calculating how much they should leave, if at all. It was considered polite to tip, but it was never something that people had to do. Forcing customers to pay a gratuity was unheard of well into my 20s; it didn't become a thing until 20 years ago, when restaurants started forcing the issue.

There's no intergenerational sniping. GenZs don't need "better wages" from current GenX and Baby Boomer-owned and run companies, which are actually on their way out. GenZs need to create their own companies, which will generate the decent-paying jobs that they need. That is what every generation before them did, which is why we always had jobs. If tomorrow, even a tiny handful of GenZs were enterprising enough to launch their version of all the GenX and Boomer franchises, chains and retail brands that have died recently, there would be tons of jobs.

Tipping culture is a direct result of GenZ's concept of "job creation," which was to parasitically destroy preexisting 9 to 5 jobs in the taxi industry, restaurant and retail industry and turn them into Gig Work, in which workers were forced to subsist on tips. Thanks to their love of gigging, well over 100 million steady-paying jobs have been destroyed over the past decade.

On top of all that, this is a generation that doesn't see the wisdom in working the type of job where they could earn their way to a retirement with pension, because they all want to be social media influencers and YouTubers.

If GenZs rejected the Gig Economy and saw the wisdom of going back to the way things were, they'd create plenty of well-paying jobs for themselves, just as GenXers, Baby Boomers, the World War II generation did before them. Instead, they insist on taking the remaining steady paying jobs that are left and still apply the logic of the Gig Economy to them (relying on tips).

Being acquainted with something doesn't make you an expert on this topic, and it comes across as smug and condescending.

Anyone who's studied psychology and also remembers similar pseudo-scientific fads like lobotomization and forced gender assignment for intersex babies will know that the transgender phenomenon is a fad-ification of a mental disorder called body dysmorphia.

Dysmorphia is a direct result of children and young people being bombarded with conflicting media images, like when young women become bulimic because of fashion magazines, blacks bleached their skins and whittled their noses down because of colorism or Asians alter their eyelids because of European standards of beauty.

Gay youth became infected with this disorder because of both social and mainstream media shoving conflicting images in their faces in which gay boys had women as their gay male icons and porn actors like Buck Angel made a fetish out of being a "man with the p-ssy." Homophobic parents jumped on the trans bandwagon because for the longest time, conventional wisdom was that you could tell that a girl would become gay if she acted like a tomboy and a boy became gay if he acted like a sissy. So, trans surgery has become a subversive form of gay conversion.

...and the primary risk all LGBTQ+ youth face is, sadly, an increased likelihood of suicide. So, if your goal is to prevent LGBTQ+ youth from coming to harm, your best bang-for-your-buck effort would be making them feel like they're a normal part of society.

Do you understand what suicide is? Suicide is an irrational act from a troubled mind that is not thinking rationally. and needs therapy to figure things out. There's never been such a thing in the history of mankind of curing suicide by giving the person with suicide tendencies what they THINK will make them happy. It's why people who THINK being rich and famous will make them happy wind up killing themselves anyway or why people who THINK that landing the American Dream will make them happy and wind up killing themselves anyway.

When people like you make this argument that transgender people need to have procedures done to make them feel like they fit in (with the implication that they won't commit suicide), understand that it's about you and the rest of the society wanting to reduce body dysmorphia into a neat and tidy bow so it's easier to deal with. Wouldn't it be great if curing suicidal feelings in gender-confused gay youth was as easy as just giving them surgery and blocking their puberty. But it doesn't work that way, and it never will.

--no one is supposed to really, really like porn, because just seeing your significant other should be enough of a turn on to have great sex. Sounds like you and your GF are really, really bored with each other or lacking so little sex appeal or chemistry that you need porn to motivate you to have sex with each other. Or maybe you've confused a friends with benefits relationship with the kind where a couple are supposed to be naturally hot for each other?

Point is, a sex therapist would have a field day with you guys. Just saying.

Wow, how Slashdot has fallen. From a forum for the most geekiest of techs, to users who have no idea what the difference is between:

1. A website
2. A piece of software specifically designed for mobile devices and only downloadable through an app store.

The edits to the bill was to broaden awareness about the fact that it's not just China-owned Tik Tok that is harvesting data from American citizens but other apps as well (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.). The reason why this was added is that Americans became so hung up on China, China, China and banning Tik Tok, they started thinking that the problem will be solved if they just ban it. Well, there's also Facebook and all the others, too.

I can't believe that a "tech site" like Slashdot has users who have so little comprehension and critical thinking skills, they couldn't read the article and amendments to the bill proposal themselves to determine the truth.

...and explicitly refers to social media apps. Slashdot is not social media or an app.

You have eyes. You can read. The "edits to the bill are posted in the actual article at Tech Dirt. Why not just read the actual edits and use your brain and comprehension skills to understand what the edits mean, as opposed to letting the hack writer of Tech Dirt confuse you into what they mean?

If a bill passes that turns out to have unintended consequences, the beauty of American politics is that it can be overruled, overturned or tweaked after the fact. It can, for example, be tested in a court of law and taken to the Supreme Court. That's why the "slippery slope" doesn't exist in American politics.

I wish Techno-Libertarians would stop using laws as a pretext to misinform Americans into how American politics work. We don't live in a Fascist state, where once a law is passed, there's absolutely nothing that can be done about it after the fact and it will only lead to a slippery slope. Arguing that a badly written law could ban social media entirely is ridiculous and makes no sense.

How is it that a tech site doesn't know what social media is?