Tipping.  It is a real good way to figure out what kind of person someone is.  Are you the type of person that puts 5 $1 down on your table and throughout the meal you start to take away or add money based on how you think you should be served.  (Passive-aggressive A-hole).  Do you tip, but just the bare min.  Like where 3 would be nice, 2 would be okay, you tip $1.25.  Just high enough to get the fake smile from the server.  Or are you someone that understands the plight of the server, and the bills they have to pay, that this cruel instant arbitrary form of performance review is unfair and mean.  You tip 20% or $5, whatever is closer.  You are a nice person.  I like you.  May you have hair where you want and not where you don't.      Now, I know tipping is stupid, but this is the culture norm.  And you are not in the position to be the social warrior that takes up his passive-aggressive cro...

Oh boy.  I don't know how to talk about this one without offending someone.  I have just read this news article, and have not gone to other forums to fine tune my thoughts yet, this is a hot take, my opinion may change or become more nuanced, but I wanted to say something, as part of my own process.      In this article , McKenna Denson was training as a missionary in 1984 in Provo, when she alleges Joseph Bishop, the Missionary Training Center’s president at the time, raped her in a basement room. Sunday she went to the home ward of Joseph Bishop, in Fast and Testimony meeting called him out.  There is a video of it on the site    I'm not sure what I fully think here, it is complicated.  The court has dismissed the charges due to statute of limitations.  But her lawsuit against the church is still ongoing.  These things are hard to prove without any evidence after more than 3 decades.      I want to first talk ab...