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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

32 states have a minimum wage higher than federal minimum wage.

However, federal law is the one we are talking about. Federally, servers are paid $2.13/hour. A restaurant needs to supplement income if a server's wage plus tips is less than $7.25/hour (US minimum wage). The Fair Labor Standards Act only requires restaurants to pay up to federal minimum wage, not a minimum wage that any state legislature has come up with.

Federal minimumm wage is $1,160 / month gross income, if you work 40 hours for 4 weeks. This is unheard of in the restaurant industry, servers never hit 40 hours. Restaurants dont schedule that many because they dont want to risk any overtime, where they would have to pay time and a half ($10.85 /hour) rather than $2.13/hour and insurance.