My favorite part of all of this is that if you believe it’s a child trafficking scheme, you’d have to believe that the people buying kids via Wayfair are doing so with a credit card, which has got to be the easiest form of payment for anybody to track.
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I keep thinking that defunct shopping malls would be good for this. They’ve got lots of small, divided spaces, restrooms, food service, delivery areas, plenty of parking, usually decent transportation access, power, etc. Would cost some money to transform them, but I would guess most if not all metro areas have a…
I cannot begin to tell you the number of times I have been shocked to discover that what I consider to be basic math, basic information, basic understanding about the world is actually foreign to many people. For example, if someone told me to just tell the bank I wouldn’t be making anymore payments on my loan of…
Or her friends do.
The regulations surrounding the use of a flying car would on their own push its adoption out 10 years, if not more.
He’s not very smart. He also misspelled “Al Qaeda” some months ago.
Are taxis part of this gridlock, or only rideshare cars going to this new lot? Could you just take a $5 taxi ride offsite to a corner market or something and call your Uber/Lyft from there?
I’d bet just about anything that the contractor they hired kind of hurridly went around the crew on hand that day and said “uh, so the President wants experts to climb this thing, any of you ever climbed before?” and they took the two dudes that once hiked up a hill and said “ok, climb it!” and gave them no equipment,…
As we learn more about CTE and other forms of trauma with neurological consequences, I think saying that “willing participants know said risks” might be inaccurate. Was Patrick Day capable of assessing his own physical condition shortly before he was knocked out? Does a 40 year old boxer with 50 fights under his belt…
Yeah, Josh Marshall has said that when you read Trump’s comments more than anything else you’re left with the impression that he’s a guy who believes he is constantly being wiretapped.
“According to the paper, this was on account of a phenomenon known as “mating discrimination,” in which females of the native species began to avoid mating with modified males.”
While we’re on the subject of pieces of conventional wisdom that make no sense, I’ve never understood why coaches ALWAYS call a timeout to avoid a 5 yard delay of game penalty, even when it’s midway through the 1st/3rd quarter and it wouldn’t kill them to lose 5 yards. Yet announcers are always like “gotta call a…
Very true.
Yes.
I made good (well, decent) money the first few times I did it as well, it’s almost as though the app gives more/better rides to new drivers to convince them it’s worth it. The second week I drove (probably 20 hours total), I spent more time waiting for rides than I spent driving.
“Ensuring you earn a minimum of approximately $21 per hour when driving with a passenger or going to pick them up”
I was “that one kid” growing up in the 80s who didn’t have a TV, and *that* made it harder for me to connect, socially. And TV had nothing to do with communication between friends, so I can’t even imagine how difficult it must be, socially, to be “that one kid” at the school who doesn’t have a smartphone. Doesn’t mean…
I really worry (and wonder) about these stories where people try contacting the app for issues that are beyond the app’s control. Like, if someone collapses on your door, goddam, call 911! Just because Guac’R sends a guy to your door to make molcajete guacamole, don’t call them if he has a stroke.
I think there’s this weird loop wherein the crazier Trump gets, the more people like Cruz and Graham will support him because they very much want to be seen by Trump’s base as the closest thing to him, and the crazier he gets, the closer he gets to quitting, and the closer he gets to quitting, the closer they get to…