Yes, and with close to $9M spent on this election, we can be SURE that no money from Luber has found its way into anyone’s pockets.

They’re not employees they are contractors. Uber and Lyft are screwed up companies. They sell it as “people making extra money with their cars. This is in part a fallacy. Many people “rideshare” as a full time gig. Myself included. Because of this I have zero problem with having to jump through that hoop. If they can…

It’s easy and cheap in Texas. We have to get fingerprinted for our carry permit so fingerprint services are at every other gun range.

That’s assuming the city council here was bought for a grand total fo $54K. You can easily argue that it wasn’t.

A lot of folks seem to forget that, even if Uber and Lyft throw a corporate hissy fit and leave Austin, they can’t take the market for ride sharing with them. Someone else will step in (in fact there are already several competitive services waiting on the wings).

the worst part about uber/lyft ( i live in austin ) is that they fucking clog up traffic. You don’t know if its just some dumbass parked in the street, or if its an uber driver waiting on their customers.

The downtown area should have degisnated pick up/drop off spots on the weekend nights, and they need clear car…

It’s worked—the number of DWI crashes has dropped since Uber entered the Austin market, according to Politifact. While it’s true that updated DWI crash figures released by the Austin Police Department Thursday show less of a drop than the Ridesharing Works for Austin PAC claims, per the Austin American-Statesman, a…

I find it funny that the Austin City Council is pushing for more secure background checks and at the same time trying to get local employers to not to any background checks or questions about criminal history of job applicants until they actually extend the job to the candidate.

If they want to run a taxi service they should follow the same rules as everyone else.

Yeah I think llamaguy was being facetious, but it is hard to distinguish from the real thing.

Except that’s really just the excuse, Uber’s using legal loopholes to fuck both their customers and their “contractors”, and in some cases they also fuck the cities they operate in for good measure (some cities restrict the availability of taxi licenses to control traffic, for instance), because libertarianism, and…

Wait, hold on. Costco in Northern Virginia carried those big bags of refrigerated Christopher Ranch garlic, grown and peeled right in Gilroy. $10 gets you enough garlic for a year or more, unless you’re a Sicilian grandmother or are running a Chinese restaurant.

As a resident of Gilroy, I do not approve.

Well, what we can get mostly now is from Spain or China (do not buy the Chinese garlic. It is shit.) and it is not as good as California garlic.

named for Gilroy, Calif., a city famous for its garlic crop causing motorists on the 101 to scream, “OMG must stop here because it smells amazing!”

Gilroy McGassy

IKR?
The crazy, puzzling part is as a whole San Diegans are somehow usually still *kinder* than angelenos. (Guess Hollywood pretension is crueler than even GOPism?)

OK, but how many voters actually live in Madera County anyway? I’m guessing two ranchers and a meth entrepreneur.

Cops are looking back to protect the good kids. They’re heart broken good kids are exposed to criminal acts by gang-associated violence. And if you think it doesn’t kill them that kids with potential go the wrong way, and have to go to jail, than you misunderstand the role cops undertake in a community and the very…

Yeah. My mother was a teacher, and one of the kids routinely assaulted the other kids (violent assaults, the little shit used blunt items and umbrellas). But the only way to stop him was to grab him and hold tight while he kicked and bit, and if you did that it was considered “assaulting the child” and you could get…