Yeah, it’s more concerning that people will be traveling from hot spots in the OR and WA metro areas and Boise.

Americans are insanely short sighted by default. And I’m not going to qualify this statement by saying “some Americans.” The short-sightedness of Americans is deeply cultural and effects most aspects of life, from economics to politics to popular culture.

No, that’s fine because the whiskey comes in a glass bottle onto which corona can’t attach.  It’s also a natural disinfectant of internal organs, so people should actually be safer at this event than anywhere else.  Also it’s outside and the corona can’t live in the outside air because the trees filter it and trees…

There’s a travel advisory now here where people from 16 states are strongly advised to self quarantine for 14 days if they come to Connecticut. My hospital employer gave everyone an additional fourteen days PTO to use if you come down with covid, if you travel to those states though, you have to use your own PTO.…

People seem extremely confused, which baffles me. We can either drastically hurt the economy for a short period of time measured in weeks and minimize death OR we can drastically hurt the economy for an extremely long period of time measured in months if not years and drastically explode the amount of death. Choice is…

Nothing slows the economy down more than mass death.

“Whatever! You know what I mean!" -Jeff Sessions to his press person, probably. 

I participate in a niche outdoor sport and all events have been cancelled this year... but there’s one happening in two weeks in Montana. People are planning on traveling from all over WA, OR, ID and possibly further for a sport that usually has some crowding factor and where everyone shares equipment (and normally…

Phone ordering can really suck, though, and there’s some advantage in being able to accept payments online before you pick-up, especially in post-COVID times.

My parent have been collecting SS for about 2 decades now and get nowhere near $6k. And they have worked all their lives.

Maybe if antisocial assholes had the decency to actually pick up the god damn phone and talk to the actual restaurants and order directly through them, all of this could be avoided. But no, everyone and their grandma has such severe anxiety that no amount of xanax or klonopin can treat that they would rather a…

I used to deliver pizza. Delivery drivers don’t make squat after averaging out the month. So there is high turnover. But it IS usually an easy job to get as long as you have a car.

Many 3rd party food delivery companies have been tried ever since I can remember. I’m talking decades.

I think that’s mostly right. The quasi-cab companies have the best chance as they have an existing market to re-purpose, but the food people? As revolutionary as the Segway was to be.

Yup. A handful of already rich executives and investors will each make millions off of this exercise, so they are profiting. Meanwhile, everyone else involved will just be left in the ruins.

Geeze, and after watching the full piece that just pisses me off more.

Meh, I just drove to the pizza place and picked up a pizza even though they deliver. It’s not hard. Besides if pizza places can afford to have their own delivery people and be profitable, any business with enough takeout should also be able to do it, and cut out 3rd parties completely.

None of these “ disrupter” business models are supposed to be profitable. They just need to get big enough and hyped enough to cash out. Get an established company that sees them as “ the future” to buy them, go public with an I.P.O. and cash out, or trick a hedge fund into investing. Its we olde tymers call “a scam”.

“Why does this business model even make sense?” The investor’s response was, “I’m not sure that it does.”

Good riddance to bad rubbish with the third-party delivery apps. The staggering level of driver incompetence, from getting utterly lost in my apartment complex to picking up the wrong orders at the restaurant to the restaurants themselves clearly giving half-ass treatment/priority to the third-party apps...if I get…