In Portland, basic UberX rates are a base $1.50 fare, plus $1.55/mile or $0.30/minute (typically used when driving at very low speeds/stopped). The minimum fare is $5.35.

Uber’s app makes it damn-near impossible to tip, and most drivers won’t take cash tips.

America isn’t a country, it’s a business.

It seems like it should be a requirement for the gas companies to build the 2nd relief pipe before they extract the methane to make incidents like this less of a burden on the environment. We will need natural gas for a long time to come, so saying let’s just use renewable resources is not going to help anything in…

“Fat people don’t know they’re fat because the chemicals in their brain make them think they’re attractive. (Is this a peer-reviewed study, and can I see?)“ = hilarious, also. This whole piece is filled with an easy, quick wit. Is Jezebel hiring because I’d read the hell out of anything Hale writes!

The dead end was frustrating, because, as a fat feminist, I was hungry to find out who the original poster could be so I could then eat them.

Yep. I've worked in the progressive movement for almost 15 years, and there's a ton of misogyny and chauvinism that goes on, and not nearly enough done about it.

Yep, but the headline erases that distinction. I was also thrown by the ambiguity.

DC. There has been a number of news reports on this. NYC, too. And when you get out into the 'burbs, those places can also be quite a bit more expensive simply due to the longer average mileage of the trips.

I would have put it at more like 61%, but that's just quibbling on my part, isn't it?

He looks 53% more bangable with a touch of grey, touch of the grumps and that beard, IMO.

Too much botox. That’s my point. He looks really waxy.

So the Phoenix is rising from the ash...er...ass?

THE SOCKS MAKE IT WORK, people.

Hearing "Namaste" from some appropriating Gwyneth-wannabe makes me homicidal.

It must suck to hate every single Gawker article but have the severe OCD that forces you to read them all anyway...

ISIS spells OPPORTUNITY with a whole lot fewer letters.

All to create ISIS, which their leaders will tell you could never have existed without US prison camps in Iraq.

Jeezus. I suggest finding a new job. That sounds like the worst thing ever.