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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Wasn't this how Uber was supposed to work in the very beginning? Dudes giving rides to other dudes when they were bored for gas/beer money? That was the ad copy. The whole point was to run cab companies out of business by undercutting them with underpaid jitneys.
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quote:constipated goon She died of colon cancer a year later. So in conclusion, go see a doctor, and if the symptoms persist, maybe go see another one.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Wasn't this how Uber was supposed to work in the very beginning? Dudes giving rides to other dudes when they were bored for gas/beer money? No, the original Uber was about getting black cars/limos on demand so you could feel like a celebrity. It was several years before they started with Uber X.
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Subjunctive posted:No, the original Uber was about getting black cars/limos on demand so you could feel like a celebrity. It was several years before they started with Uber X. I thought at least part of it was getting cabs that would actually pick you up if you were black.
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Uber/Lyft/Grubhub/AirBnB/Amazon, functionally all major web-based business models from the last 20 years can all functionally be explained as “an existing consumer service... but deregulated!” which is how these things became ubiquitous and hypernormalized... we all wanted delivery food and cheap taxis and fancy weekend getaways in nice hotels, we just didn’t want to pay what those things should really cost, and as a result the economy has now somewhat reformatted into a terrible guessing game where the only winners are these monolithic companies business boards.
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Nov 6, 2019 13:25
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I thought at least part of it was getting cabs that would actually pick you up if you were black. Nah, that was part of the Uber X pitch; out of the gate it was “everybody feels like a pimp”. It _was_ about actually getting a car to show up in SF, which pre-Uber was generally an experience reserved for the rich, famous, or incredibly lucky. (It’s not clear that either of the co-founders even knew that black people sometimes had trouble getting cabs to pick them up.)
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Nov 6, 2019 13:26
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If cab companies weren't such garbage fires, Uber never would have taken off. It used to be a crap shoot calling a cab to pick you up and if it was for something important like going to the airport it could really gently caress your day up if they didn't show.
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True statement about cab companies. We called a couple weeks in advance to reserve a car on new year's Eve like 6 years ago. They didn't show, and when we called they acted like we were idiots for expecting them to be on time on NYE. Why the gently caress did they accept our reservation if they had no intention in honoring it?
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Yeah but that’s ground floor bullshit. Now we have giant Air BnB development houses that are boxing out renters and taking over entire neighborhoods just to convert them into long term AirBnBs where the tenants have basically no rights, and Uber and Lyft are simply two heads on the same Hydra. Every single Uber driver in my city is also a Lyft driver and works for Door Dash. For many people in the south it’s the easiest way for a POC or an immigrant to get a job, but these people have very little personal protections because so few labor laws apply to them.
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Bust Rodd posted:Yeah but that’s ground floor bullshit. Now we have giant Air BnB development houses that are boxing out renters and taking over entire neighborhoods just to convert them into long term AirBnBs where the tenants have basically no rights, and Uber and Lyft are simply two heads on the same Hydra. Every single Uber driver in my city is also a Lyft driver and works for Door Dash. For many people in the south it’s the easiest way for a POC or an immigrant to get a job, but these people have very little personal protections because so few labor laws apply to them. Many of them have to go into debt to get a suitable vehicle as well; very easy to end up losing money on the whole equation.
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Nov 6, 2019 19:53
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And that's a stupid as hell decision. Don't buy a car to drive for what is essentially only supposed to be a part time job. At some point personal accountability has to come into play.
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Solice Kirsk posted:And that's a stupid as hell decision. Don't buy a car to drive for what is essentially only supposed to be a part time job. At some point personal accountability has to come into play. Sure, but you could also say "don't call a worker a contractor when he works for you full-time". And they do encourage people to make it more than a part time job, they want it to become their full time job but they don't want to treat the people like they're even employees. Pretty sure they even try to hook drivers up with car credit offers
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Solice Kirsk posted:And that's a stupid as hell decision. Don't buy a car to drive for what is essentially only supposed to be a part time job. At some point personal accountability has to come into play. If it's the only work you can get and you don't have a car your options are -go into debt to buy a car and hope you can make enough money to pull yourself out of the hole before you end up on the street -end up on the street Like yeah its "supposed" to just be a part time job but things really aren't working how they're "supposed" to right now and I don't think it's right to poo poo on the people just trying to survive in a world they are increasingly helpless to affect change in
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Yeah, that kind of sucks, but going into debt to get out of debt is not a choice to make and I think it comes down to being educated on poo poo like that which most people never receive until it's too late. One of my clients actually asked me recently if I'd consider going to work for him at his nonprofit that teaches at risk and extremely low income people how banking and credit and investing works. I've been giving it some real thought since I absolutely hate my job.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Yeah, that kind of sucks, but going into debt to get out of debt is not a choice to make and I think it comes down to being educated on poo poo like that which most people never receive until it's too late. Do it. The best thing you can give to another human being is knowledge. Especially if that knowledge is how to navigate the intentionally complex credit and banking system.
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Hey poop goon get some powdered ginger and drink 1/2 tsp in water 2 or 3 times a day. Anti inflammatory compounds collect in the cells of your intestines and I won't go into it more than that because it sounds like retarded hippy poo poo but read this meta study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92775/#!po=9.75000 Ginger is cool and also good
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MustardFacial posted:Do it. The best thing you can give to another human being is knowledge. Especially if that knowledge is how to navigate the intentionally complex credit and banking system. Which has been deliberately kept out of the public educational curriculum and even generational skills usually aren't passed down.
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I think a Home Economics class should be mandatory for all high school students. That and auto repair are the two courses that have helped me the most in adulthood.
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Solice Kirsk posted:I think a Home Economics class should be mandatory for all high school students. That and auto repair are the two courses that have helped me the most in adulthood. I took both of those and I'm a huge dumb rear end
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:There is no therapy that will put empathy into someone with anti-social personality disorder/whatever umbrella term is appropriate here. You can only teach someone afflicted with this to practice aping empathy and to curb their worst impulses. It's super depressing no matter how you look at it. I got more of a schizoid personality disorder vibe from that post, which is entirely benign.
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quote:I'm office donkey dick. I liked that moniker, by the way. maybe stop pestering this lady, honestly, I think the well is extremely dry. You can get sexy pictures from the Internet quote:A small confession. Honestly my parallel-parking success rate is 45% at best, it seems to be a pretty common thing
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loquacius posted:You can get sexy pictures from the Internet You can? Holy poo poo this changes everything
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I have acknowledged that I am not a great parallel Parker.
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:You can? Holy poo poo this changes everything Sure thing donkey dick. lovely parker goon: Do you have power mirrors in your car? Pretty much everyone does so..... Just point them fuckin mirrors down when you're trying to park. Works for backing in to parking spots too when you care about staying in the lines.
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I didn't parallel park once in my life until about a year ago. My driving test was in a suburb so I just faked it parking behind one car. I don't see why going and practicing somewhere isn't an option. That's what I did once I had to start doing it. Like how the gently caress else are you going to learn?
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When you’re in a narrow, one-way street with cars parked on both sides, trying to fit the behemoth the rental company gave you into a spot that’s about a foot too short, while three drivers piled up behind you honk their horns in unison. Isn’t that how everybody learns it?
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Go practice. At some point a switch will flip and it will seem easy from that point on and you can be a smug rear end in a top hat about all the people that suck at it.
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I never had to parallel park for my drivers test. I have never even attempted to parallel park to this dah
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In theory, looking at a schematic of how to do it from a top down perspective, parallel parking is a piece of cake. In reality, it is one of the greatest pains in the rear end ever invented by man.
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I never got how people have a hard time with parallel parking. You just pull up parallel to the car in front of the spot, crank the wheel to the right, gas it and smash your fender into the car in front and speed off while crying and looking over your shoulder.
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You’re all terrible drivers parallel parking super duper easy
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Bust Rodd posted:You’re all terrible drivers parallel parking super duper easy
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Parallel parking is easy if you don’t care about scratching your wheels or about your car at all. I recommend getting a car with huge tires that are bigger than the curb and have at it until you lose the fear.
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How the gently caress do you scratch your wheels they rub against coarse asphalt all day 
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Colonel Cancer posted:How the gently caress do you scratch your wheels they rub against coarse asphalt all day "curb rash"  It's where you rub your wheels against the curb and scratch them or as my wife calls it "parking sonar" she's lucky she's cute...
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LoL it must’ve been rad learning to drive in a car your family could afford to fix up if you hosed it up, I learned to parallel park immaculately because if the car came home scuffed I lost my loving keys.
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Bust Rodd posted:LoL it must’ve been rad learning to drive in a car your family could afford to fix up if you hosed it up, I learned to parallel park immaculately because if the car came home scuffed I lost my loving keys. My dad wouldn’t let me practice our family cars and said I’d have to buy my own and insurance first then wouldn’t let me get a job either until I was 18 so it took me over a year to save up enough to buy and insure a beater. Congrats on keeping me alive dad. I guess.
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My dad taught me how to drive by bringing me into the city and making me drive home to the burbs on the side streets after a Sox game. You want to learn how to drive stick quickly? Try stalling out at stop signs/traffic lights while 100 cars behind you are honking and screaming at you to go.
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The Management posted:Parallel parking is easy if you don’t care about scratching your wheels or about your car at all. I recommend getting a car with huge tires that are bigger than the curb and have at it until you lose the fear. true story: back in 2010 or so I worked with a guy who had a ford hatchback covered with 4chan meme stickers... pedobear, whatever else was popular at the time, pretty much the most embarrassing vehicle I could imagine owning one time my idiot boss made us move our entire lovely datacenter basically overnight since he'd violated the lease terms and use our personal vehicles to haul equipment between the old site and the new one anyways this guy had to parallel park his weird car and he scratched his rims and then he got out and almost cried the end
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quote:I really thought today would be the day I'd do better and really try. There's always tomorrow Seriously though depression is a hell of a thing and not many people can manage it alone. If you see (old) thread title you don't have to talk about where you park to jack off, you can just talk about the stuff that's really bothering you. quote:My wife was watching something the other day where one of the characters farted and said they'd been holding it for hours. I've heard this joke in movies my whole life, so I commented how unrealistic it was that someone could hold their farts for that long. I dunno maybe I could but I don't I just straight-up fart at work who cares
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