I can’t help but wonder how much of the “oh man, people of my generation will never own a home” attitude comes from people who live in places where a studio apartment is $1m.

It’s almost like everything they say, all the time, is projection 

The drivers are making money. They are literally making a wage. It may not be a good/fair wage all the time, or ever, but they are making money. Similarly, any employee of Uber who draws a salary is “making money.” The investors are the ones who are fucked here, in terms of never making money, because I guarantee you…

This guy is really not smart. I wish people would just ignore him rather than let him drive half of the conversation on this page. When you argue with someone who disagrees with you, it really doesn’t help when that other person is aggressively uninformed and (purposely? hard to tell) disingenuous.

It’s really remarkable to me when the emotional fantasies of owning libs and riding an armored tank under a spewing oil well suddenly come crashing into the actual reality, and you find businesses literally saying “nah man we’re gonna stick with the regulations the democrats imposed on us.”

America is a democracy. If public will builds up behind this, it will happen. Some fucking celebrity’s adorable child has to die in an incident that is 100% attributable to driver misbehavior, and then maybe the needle might staaaaaart to move.

This is a great article. You certainly lay out a philosophy of how to approach this problem, but I have no confidence at all that New York will be able to pull it off. Like, literally none. This is just whistling in the wind.

“I would not have survived my brief stint in corporate America....” 

Then why does every native Californian I know love this shit and talk about it constantly and go there multiple times a month? If we are being honest, a huge proportion of tourists (American or otherwise) have hardly even heard of in-n-out, whose fame seems to be promoted exclusively by people in California

I’m just generally not into fast food hamburgers. There are like 2 dozen restaurants with great burgers in my city and my city isn’t even that big. Just because those burgers are $10 and In-n-Out burgers are $4 doesn’t mean I need to LOVE the In-n-Out burger, it mainly means I need to marvel at the way our food system…

Counterpoint: they do not have good burgers, nor do they have good french fries. I have lived on the west coast for a decade plus and I will never understand the attraction of In-n-Out.

Am I misunderstanding her post or does she talk about losing someone in a motorcycle crash years ago and having to decide whether to get on a bike again? I mean, tacky is not even the word for this vileness 

It’s funny that basically nobody under 30 or so has really experienced this, so naturally our entire society has forgotten and we are heading steadily back in that direction.

This is exactly what gives me pause. I’m not sure if people take hits from these things constantly, everywhere, because they just think nobody cares and the smell isn’t as noxious as cigarettes (very much debatable) or because they are seriously addicted/dependent. 

This blog is garnering a ton of “jeez, so snarky!” and “what, they don’t deserve vacations?” replies.

That’s exactly it. If you aren’t in a protected class, they can fire you for any reason. All the sudden, being pregnant and not wearing a wedding ring in and of itself could be valid grounds to get fired. 

I have a certain pair of pants that I can never wear to work because for some reason I can not explain, they make my crotch look like this.

I feel very much the same and it’s hard for me to separate it from a kind of “man, back when I joined...” thing. I was part of the first wave of facebook adopters and I still have a lot of cognitive dissonance around this. It’s a great tool for me and my friends to stay in touch and share pictures and plan get…

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