Rant Of The Day

[briantrumpet]

AI-slop posters for just about everything on Facebook. Please make them go away.

 

[Beebo]

Tipping etiquette.
It’s hardly a world exclusive rant, but my current beef is the suggestion that the fixed percentage we tip should rise due to economic pressures.
This is economically illiterate as if prices go up the overall value of a tip as a fixed percentage goes up anyway. So increasing the fixed percentage when prices are high is effectively a double increase.
I will always pay a fixed service charge of 12.5%, but rarely tip on top of service. I would struggle to justify a 20% service charge.

 

[Pblakeney]

I would struggle to justify a 20% service charge.

I wouldn't even bother justifying not doing it. Even in the US, but especially so here.
I will tip what I think is deserved and no more, with my maximum being 15% for exemplary service and food/drink.

 

[Pblakeney]

Weather forecasting app inaccuracies. I use 3 and all of them have forecast 90% rain starting in one hour. Every hour since 08:00.
Amount of rainfall so far today? Zero. Could have been out on the bike today. Forecast for tomorrow? Rain. Will it though? Rant over.

 

[briantrumpet]

Weather forecasting app inaccuracies. I use 3 and all of them have forecast 90% rain starting in one hour. Every hour since 08:00.
Amount of rainfall so far today? Zero. Could have been out on the bike today. Forecast for tomorrow? Rain. Will it though? Rant over.

Met Office ditto for Exeter today - was about 3 hours premature with its timing for the arrival of rain.

If I really want to see what the models are saying, then I go to Meteociel, which has the raw graphic output of several models, and you can see the divergence/convergence. The basic one got the timing right for this morning (or rather, afternoon), as did one or two others.

https://www.meteociel.fr/previsions/53250/exeter.htm

 

[Pross]

Weather forecasting app inaccuracies. I use 3 and all of them have forecast 90% rain starting in one hour. Every hour since 08:00.
Amount of rainfall so far today? Zero. Could have been out on the bike today. Forecast for tomorrow? Rain. Will it though? Rant over.

But there was a 10% chance it wouldn’t rain so they got that right.

 

[Pblakeney]

But there was a 10% chance it wouldn’t rain so they got that right.

True.
I console myself in that I popped into town to pick up some things and the hills that I would have been in were particularly gloomy.

 

[Pross]

Just realised what thread this was and that I broke my own rules sorry!