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Yeah, we’re considered contractors legally, not employees, so we should be able to set contract rates. We don’t set the rates, though, Lyft or Uber does.
There are some apps that allow drivers to set their own rates (Empower seems to be one), but they don’t serve my area, and even if they did they’re probably vastly less popular to use exclusively right now until they pick up traction.
maybe it’s just what I tell myself to cope, but I feel like Lyft fucks the driver and the passenger slightly less than Uber. I don’t drive for Uber at all now, I can usually get 100% of my rides from Lyft without much downtime, and when I did drive for both Lyft was never as keen on offering me dogshit rides as Uber was, especially after I started declining the bad offers. Uber, on the other hand, seems to want to punish you if you don’t want to take every <$25/hr ride they offer.
Don’t get me wrong, Lyft will still try to screw with you, but they do it less frequently. I get paid for all my wait times, I check. It’s not much for the shorter ones (a minute late is like a couple bucks, maybe) but the longer delays on meant-to-be-shorter rides (fiasco at the checkout, an argument has begun, etc.) can sometimes double the ride profit.
Blasphemy, Mint is amazing.
It definitely does not answer their question, as the Sentinelese seem to consider everyone and everything that comes near them an enemy. Given how colonialism usually plays out and how contemptible other people are in general, I can’t say I particularly blame them.
Third Red Scare, baby! What’s old is new again!
was this written by the cat?
blink twice if you need help
let me preface this by saying I hate the direction the U.S. government has taken (both in general and more as of late), but
> “Guess who doesn’t bomb countries for breakfast? China”
[squints]
[looks over at China]
Well, not yet they don’t, I guess. But hey, 2026 isn’t even half over yet, we still got time to get this world war started proper.
beep boop, son, beep boop.
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nothing makes money quite as well as separating the foolish from it.
there are dozens of us! Dozens!
Hell, I’m still imagining a world where we had Gore instead of Junior.
When you’re overtaking someone going slow, but they speed up next to you, so you’re stuck now and will miss the exit. Just pretend they were probably lonely and just needed someone next to them for a while.
alternatively, if your vehicle is not driven by unicorn farts and has something with a bit of oomph to it, and you don’t mind risking it: Mash accelerator, assert dominance, make exit.
I always heard it as “women are men, men are little boys, and little boys are Chris Hansen.”
We are a most creative sort, there’s no denying that.
are you and I reading the same comment? It is a relevant anecdote to the topic at hand – the comic, depicting that different cultures have different customs, in this case of acceptable practices for butchering animals – which is not at all a “justification for religious hate”.
Personally, being aware of some of the other more brutal customs human civilization has come up with over the centuries (the Aztecs come to mind but I can name more if you wish), what Moroccans do with their sheep seems pretty tame to me.
I get the feeling you’re not commenting in good faith, though.
it is safest to assume that any and every communication you have on the open internet that is not end to end encrypted has been ingested, identified, catalogued, and stored in an NSA data center and can be called up at any time for future reference – and even the encrypted communications may not be secure for much longer, if quantum computing keeps progressing the way it is. Conduct yourself accordingly.