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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.
Third Red Scare, baby! What’s old is new again!
was this written by the cat?
blink twice if you need help
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nothing makes money quite as well as separating the foolish from it.
Hell, I’m still imagining a world where we had Gore instead of Junior.
I always heard it as “women are men, men are little boys, and little boys are Chris Hansen.”
Do giraffes have long necks, or long torsos?
Yeah, the first one obviously.
Yeah, no shit it’s not Trump he’s gotta fear, Vance is the pope killer. We’ve established this.
you know what’s really gonna chap your ass?
when you realize that this cycle of the rich and powerful being assholes, becoming rich and powerful specifically through being the biggest asshole in the room, and setting the rest of us fighting against each other; has always happened and presumably will continue to happen for as long as we’re around. It’s never getting better. It’s never going away. It ebbs and flows with time, and society frequently course-corrects (often with much bloodshed), but barring a hostile alien invasion I simply do not see a future in which all mankind is enlightened and united to do better than tribalism and hierarchy; as we should do when we are literally incredibly lucky walking, talking, thinking, loving, feeling stardust that can cure diseases and travel to other planets when we work together.
We are, instead, in this latest of shitshows; going to use the gift of our own genius to create the Torment Nexus and hand the keys to it to Sam Altman and Peter Thiel (among others), while killing the planet and bombing brown people; because that is better for making made-up numbers go up, and/or because we find those people over there (whoever they are) distasteful in some fashion and they will suffer more for this. This is not defeatism or doomerism or whatever you’d prefer to dismiss it as; this is reality knocking, it is already happening, it is already here and it isn’t going to get better in our lifetimes unless something happens that hasn’t happened in the past however many thousands of years of this bullshit. When it gets better – and the world will recover from the likes of Trump and Netanyahu and Putin, that much is true, I freely grant you – the reprieve will only ever be temporary and fleeting barring the most extraordinary of circumstances.
yeah, that gets me salty nowadays. Not just Israel getting free bombs. The entire system that puts psychopathic despots in charge of WMDs in the first place, and will almost certainly keep putting them there through sheer inertia.