Blue Train posted:

hobbesmaster posted:

federal labor regulations require breaks during an 8hr shift

qirex posted:

most people here work for normal companies

Chris Knight posted:

how can they afford it?

Luigi Thirty posted:

I guess someone from 8chan is trying to pirate as much Patreon art and rewards as possible because he's mad at people making a living off commissions instead of getting a real job so he wrote an art scraper and is just posting it all on the internet so nobody will ever have to pay for art again and they'll all have to get STEM jobs

Luigi Thirty posted:

I guess someone from 8chan is trying to pirate as much Patreon art and rewards as possible because he's mad at people making a living off commissions instead of getting a real job so he wrote an art scraper and is just posting it all on the internet so nobody will ever have to pay for art again and they'll all have to get STEM jobs

Nintendo Kid posted:

finally, someone is liberating all the bizarre fetish art

Forums Terrorist posted:

outside of like loli poo poo i don't really begrudge artists who make bank off fetish poo poo their lucre. fetish porn is literally the only thing keeping normal porn business solvent

Luigi Thirty posted:

so he's an idiot who's hurting small time people while making a statement against people who make all their money off Patreon? lol what a doofus

Ali Aces posted:

do people actually sign up and pay on Patreon specifically for the rewards because I just think of it as donation

why are people so weird about money

Tatsujin posted:

i dont begrudge them either but it has to be really demoralizing when you get better and start getting more than peanuts for legit work but there's always more money for fetish stuff

Luigi Thirty posted:

I know plenty of artists who do weird furry fetish poo poo because they can charge out the aaaaaass for it and make bank off these loving weirdos

Pinterest Mom posted:

Greatbacon posted:

Probably the only thing keeping my dad from driving for Uber is a lovely "middle class" car coupled with a fear of modern technology.

The man has a landline, a burner flipphone, a laptop w/ Windows 8 (), and no internet :smh: slash rofl


But....... say what you will about old people, they fuckken love to talk.

Luigi Thirty posted:

I guess someone from 8chan is trying to pirate as much Patreon art and rewards as possible because he's mad at people making a living off commissions instead of getting a real job so he wrote an art scraper and is just posting it all on the internet so nobody will ever have to pay for art again and they'll all have to get STEM jobs

Pinterest Mom posted:

Luigi Thirty posted:

I guess someone from 8chan is trying to pirate as much Patreon art and rewards as possible because he's mad at people making a living off commissions instead of getting a real job so he wrote an art scraper and is just posting it all on the internet so nobody will ever have to pay for art again and they'll all have to get STEM jobs

Pinterest Mom posted:

Wild EEPROM posted:

you know what the worst thing about the tech Michael buble is?

people think that all millennials are like that.

then they go on their Alaskan cruises and why can't you just get a 100k job it's not really that hard

qirex posted:

this will be followed by

I thought you had a 100k job how are you broke

The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network posted:

One Saturday afternoon that summer, as we lounged on couches in the pool house, half surfing our laptops and half talking, sometimes sending AIM messages though we were sitting three feet away from each other, Thrax told me a story from his precollege years. One day, Something Awful’s moderators decided that, finally, he’d gone too far with his trolling and banished him from the site. To Thrax, this was worse than a very public high-school breakup. “That’s when I realized how much of an rear end in a top hat I was,” he recalled, with a seriousness that verged on what almost seemed like tears, “It really affected me and I felt devastated.” As I listened to Thrax talk about the dark days of his ban, slightly confused by the amount of emotion he felt for his banished Internet profile, I perceived a new, strange kind of existential crisis that affected these young men: a failure to exist virtually.

The Internet of Garbage posted:

Garbage is simply undesirable content. It might be content meant to break the code of the site. It might be malware. It might be spam in the specific sense of robotically generated commercial text. It might be a “specific threat” directed towards another user. It might be a vague threat. Or it might be a post sprinkled with a few too many four-letter words. In heavily moderated communities, posts that are deemed to be merely off-topic may be deleted. Posts that might be neither frightening nor offensive nor off-topic can also be deemed to be garbage. On the SomethingAwful forums, postings that are judged to have little value to the community are referred to by the evocative name, “shitpost.”

compuserved posted:

i've been reading some books mentioned in this thread, and two of them mention these fine forums. it's strange to find references to SA in books





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Pinterest Mom posted:

At least four men ticketed by Los Angeles International Airport police while driving for Uber’s low-cost car service have criminal convictions that would bar them from operating a taxi in Los Angeles, records show.

The drivers have been convicted of child exploitation, identity theft, manslaughter and driving under the influence, according to court records. Each offense would make them ineligible for a Los Angeles taxi permit.

The criminal histories recently came to light when a representative of the taxi industry presented a city official with a binder containing citations and court records for eight Uber drivers who were cited for minor violations at the airport over the last 18 months. The Times obtained a copy and independently confirmed that the records were accurate.

One Uber driver ticketed at LAX was convicted of 14 counts of felony identity theft in 2012. Under the terms of his five-year probation, he cannot have access to any “personal identifying information,” including credit cards and debit cards, according to court records. All Uber passengers are required to pay with a credit or debit card.

Another driver was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in 1998 and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Parole records show he was released last year. That conviction would not necessarily bar him from driving for Uber, but it would make it difficult, if not impossible, to get a taxi permit.

kwinkles posted:

this is horrifying but uber drivers don't see the credit card it happens through the app right?

THC posted:

Uber is touching base with Vancouver once again — but this time it won’t be driving around people.

Teaming up with the Companion Animal Advocacy & Rescue Effort (CAARE), the San Francisco transportation company announced it will be providing “puppy playdates” on Thursday, August 6 to anyone in an office in downtown Vancouver.

Between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., those at a downtown office can open the Uber app to find a new option labelled “puppies.” A puppy will then be delivered to the office, and 15 minutes of playtime will be provided.

Each playdate costs $30, and the funds will be given to CAARE.

According to Uber’s website, the eight canines that will each be transported around town are also all available for adoption, and there will be CAARE staff with them to answer questions about the adoption process.

Uber previously hosted the same event in other Canadian cities on National-Adopt-A-Shelter-Pet-Day. Residents in Toronto, Edmonton, Montreal and Ottawa had the same event come to their separate cities on April 30, 2015.

Uber previously operated in Vancouver for six months back in 2012, though after the province imposed a minimum $75 fare, the company halted operations in B.C.