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Celexi posted:can't get any more villain with hiring Pinkertons lmao I mean, you could work for them, but yeah.
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Celexi posted:can't get any more villain with hiring Pinkertons lmao just wait until he starts hiring
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Inceltown posted:https://twitter.com/emilycmulligan/status/1330986990397841408
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Is there something about Uber Eats specifically which is causing accidents or are drivers just really, really poo poo at dealing with cyclists of any sort?
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PT6A posted:Is there something about Uber Eats specifically which is causing accidents or are drivers just really, really poo poo at dealing with cyclists of any sort? i imagine some of it has to do with amazoning the workers
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PT6A posted:Is there something about Uber Eats specifically which is causing accidents or are drivers just really, really poo poo at dealing with cyclists of any sort? It's both. Every independent-contractor delivery app puts its workers under insane pressure to hit metrics that are essentially impossible to make if their Also, most drivers are somewhere between ignoring the rules of the road when they see a bike, and actively lusting for cyclist blood.
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Space Gopher posted:Airplanes are incredibly useful, and they're not going to go away even in a perfect post-carbon world. Hydrocarbon fuels are also almost certainly going to stick around in general. Their energy density is just too drat useful to pass up. Yeah, this. Assuming civilisation doesn't collapse in the next few decades there will probably be aircraft using hydrocarbon fuel for centuries to come.
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Space Gopher posted:It's both. I'm quite familiar with a lot of those delivery riders (mostly because I'm a commuting cyclist). Frankly since the pandemic started cycling around Sydney has gotten considerably easier and safer. There is simply not the volume of traffic and there has been a real push to put in extra cycling infrastructure in places where it was desperatly needed. Drivers have been in the main far more considerate and observant of cyclists too so it's not a bloodsport to cycle in Sydney anymore. The crazy idiot rule breaking cyclist have been replaced by a larger number of law abiding not reckless commuting cyclists so visibility is way up. So if anything, cycling accidents should be down even witth he increases in cycling activity The delivery riders have increased too but these riders are noticably problematic. Many are not particularly skilled cyclists on heavy hard to hand e-bikes with heavy backpacks. A number also ride on multi lane roads that most commuters and experienced riders wouldn't even dare even on the best of days. It's noticable delivery riders as the ones who regularly break traffic rules. Many of these riders I think are foreign students who would be normally working other jobs that arent availible at the moment. So you have a group of riders who are not familiar with cycling in Sydney, are not obeying formal road rules and informal rules commuting cyclists have learned. Also on top of that, the weather has been windy and wet. Oh and commuting cyclists are going to be more sticking to cycling infrastructure, delivery riders don't have that luxury - like their GPS is telling them to take Parramatta Road because thats the fastest route and they dont know any other way while a commuter with years knowledge would be OH gently caress NO I'm going via Harris and Drummoyne. While I believe some of these riders have been found on the face of it to be at fault for the accident, you should not (I dont) dismiss "Yes well they did the wrong thing so...." - there is something else going on that is pushing these delivery riders to make mistakes. There is clearly something not right in how these delivery riders are trained (Do they even GET training???) and monitoring that they are remaining safe while doing their job. There is clearly something not right in making sure the delivery riders are competent riders. And there is def something not right in making delivery riders have heavy and large back packs that must be a right gently caress to have on your back on a bike in crosswinds. So here's my take. It's delivery companies who dont give one iota of a poo poo about employing unskilled riders working on unfamiliar roads in adverse conditions with poo poo equipment and demanding they make unrealistic metrics that leads to so horrible risk taking and accidents that your core problem. And I aint seen anyone say poo poo about how to fix it, except the same loving handwringing "Oh what a tragety"
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:While I believe some of these riders have been found on the face of it to be at fault for the accident, you should not (I dont) dismiss "Yes well they did the wrong thing so...." - there is something else going on that is pushing these delivery riders to make mistakes. There is clearly something not right in how these delivery riders are trained (Do they even GET training???) I feel it's a safe guess that they don''t. Gig economy!
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:So here's my take. It's delivery companies who dont give one iota of a poo poo about employing unskilled riders working on unfamiliar roads in adverse conditions with poo poo equipment and demanding they make unrealistic metrics that leads to so horrible risk taking and accidents that your core problem. And I aint seen anyone say poo poo about how to fix it, except the same loving handwringing "Oh what a tragety" If the rules for a contractor are similar to the US they literally can't train them or it make them employees and we can't have that.
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Sodomy Hussein posted:The Comcast data cap of 1.2 TB has been around for years. I've gone over it once because I downloaded the Geocities torrent looking for one specific file. they didn't have the cap in markets that they had competition, now they don't care because gently caress you
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Sodomy Hussein posted:The Comcast data cap of 1.2 TB has been around for years. I've gone over it once because I downloaded the Geocities torrent looking for one specific file. Wait, is that like, every single geocities site? Well poo poo, I gotta go 
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aware of dog posted:Wait, is that like, every single geocities site? Well poo poo, I gotta go Don't worry, the most important one was mirrored: https://www.angelfire.com/nc/KARMA2BURN/trailerpark2.html
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:I can't find the Tweet or story now, but I remember that fun story from CES, I think, where a network or power outage locked everybody's phones in a fancy, locking charging case. What the gently caress. Never buy anything that doesn't work if it can't phone home to the mothership.
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You mean, like a MacBook?
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My Mini is perfectly capable of working without my crappy Canadian internet, goml.
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Everyone ready for the stupidest thing you'll see this week? https://twitter.com/Scobleizer/status/1331768622960635906?s=20
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Senor Tron posted:Everyone ready for the stupidest thing you'll see this week? Don't read the replies
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Jose Valasquez posted:Don't read the replies I did and I look what I found! https://twitter.com/jamesdpitley/status/1331847221633925123?s=21
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Solkanar512 posted:I did and I look what I found! Thank you for your service 
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Jose Valasquez posted:Don't read the replies Ayyyyy https://twitter.com/crowkneecapital/status/1331800190265815043?s=21
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Every death brings us one step closer to an extra few minutes of sleep on our way to work and by God Elon Musk is willing to pay that price with the best labor he can bilk.
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The currency of the future is stock in companies that have no path to profitability. https://twitter.com/ReutersLegal/status/1331351888600707080
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They'll be more profitable once they have to pay fewer of those pesky wages!
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What will be the exchange rate between Uber stock certificates and bullets in the future?
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Doggles posted:The currency of the future is stock in companies that have no path to profitability. loving lol Equity in a company that is openly, proudly haemorrhaging money, brought in just as the company hits a growth plateau I can't imagine why the shareholders of these companies are willing to give away stock
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We’re five minutes away from company scrip again, aren’t we?
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California's Prop 22 is bearing all sorts of fruit, you just hate to see it.
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Capt.Whorebags posted:We’re five minutes away from company scrip again, aren’t we? You get more pay but have to buy through the company app and can only spend your ubercoin at company approved vendors. Pay your rent? gently caress no.
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Somfin posted:loving lol I doubt it will involve selling shareholders' shares. But in true gig economy style, it will probably be lose-lose for everyone. If they're issuing these shares from the employee stock option pool, then existing employees get screwed. If they're issuing more shares for it, then other shareholders would get diluted, too. Ultimately the only people who will have benefited will be those who got in very early and then handed off the bag and bailed when the timing was right. It's like the financing version of food delivery services that end up being more expensive, less convenient, and less profitable for all stakeholders, including users.
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super sweet best pal posted:You get more pay but have to buy through the company app and can only spend your ubercoin at company approved vendors. Pay your rent? gently caress no. Oh but the company partners with a 'bunk sharing' app that will be happy to take your ubercoin in return for a slot at one of their barracks 6 hours a day.
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Smeef posted:It's like the financing version of food delivery services that end up being more expensive, less convenient, and less profitable for all stakeholders, including users. well there is one stakeholder always winning: the banks doing the transactions
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Why limit yourself to just company scrip, we're heading back to the full on company town https://twitter.com/alexnpress/status/1332389952890564608
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