Trump couldn’t pick Tiffany out of a crowd

Ah, I remember the first time I found this guy, in Gold:

Oh. It’s a tree pokemon. Cyndaquil, use ember.

*IT’S NOT VERY EFFECTIVE...*

It’s almost like someone already figured out all the business logistics for this kind of business, how to pay employees and how to structure fares in order to make a profit. But shit, they weren’t tech bros, they were just a bunch of blue collar nobodies so that doesn’t count.

Wanna bet Uber could have made a fortune…

This notion is predicated that Uber and Lyft did not massively benefit from the full-time drivers. You can’t reap the rewards of someone using your platform in a manner in which you made no attempt to limit or dissuade - on the contrary, encouraged - and then throw your hands in the air and say “well I didn’t intend…

^ this. This the term “gig economy” and not “self-employment”.

$20 bucks for 3 hours is less than minimum wage.  That doesn’t sound great at all.

When I am hiring independent contractors, one thing stands out: Independent contractors can set their own price, and they aren’t required to bid on every job we open.

Exactly. I can pull $20 on any night and that’s only driving for 3 hours or so. It’s great side gig money for me and I actually enjoy it for the most part. It’s just going to screw it up for the people who aren’t full timers.

And this people is why we cant have nice things. When it started Uber was a side gig for people that already have jobs to make a few bucks on the side. Then a bunch of people decided to do it full time and bitch about how the system doesn’t work as they assume it should. Uber/Lyft didnt do anything to discourage this…

One story about a completely normally-functioning US government.

I’ll take “guy who knows things” shtick over your “performative outrage” shtick any day of the week, thanks.  

starring this because out of all the “no, U shut the fuck up” comments this is the best one

I’d kinda prefer you take your own advice instead of attacking one of the few people in the world with a platform, who’s actually trying to educate and make people smarter so maybe this sad dystopia we’re heading for can be averted.

Hard disagree. This country is woefully uninformed about science, and that leads to the anti-vaccination movement and climate change denials, among many other problems. NDT is obviously being pedantic with this, but it draws attention to being informed and accurate about representation of physics principles.

Counterpoint: NDT has taught me many things, and Jack Crosbie has not enriched my life in literally any conceivable way.

He just taught me that water crystals have six-fold symmetry. That probably wouldn’t have happened without his input. I don’t know. Learning stuff can be kind of good.

I’d bet my last dollar the chant was started by plants, hired agitators, with his full knowledge.

“United States Congress foolishly gave 92 Billion Dollars for hurricane relief”; “more than twice the amount given to Texas & Florida combined”.

• Where’s the GoFundMe so Ilhan Omar can hire a whole football team of bodyguards?

the idea of traveling around to real-world locations to pretend to catch Pokémon is fulfilling the exact fantasy presented in those games. Harry Potter isn’t quite as directly translatable.