Yes, I did - as an example of situations just like what you described with your receptionist scenario (which you brought up), where the receptionist (as you have agreed) is not automatically a regular employee of the company simply by virtue of the company requiring specific hours and shifts.

“you sure as shit are an employee of the temp agency.”

You might want to read beyond the first three words of my reply if you are going to try to refute my point. Also, I don’t work as a receptionist or under the terms you describe in the receptionist scenario. And it seems you are unaware of the existence of temp agencies; contracting temps for receptionist work is…

“forcing minimum hours/shifts like Amazon delivery services is bullshit and totally makes you an employee.”

“People aren’t supposed to trash the planet, but they do. People aren’t supposed to hate another because of skin color or sexuality, but they do.”

“If they’re really independent contractors, and not employees, each driver is competing with the other driver, aren’t they? If that’s true, a lot independent contractors are all agreeing to a price for a service is price fixing.”

“This offer from Uber and Lyft is like a kidnapper offering you a softer blanket...”

“Correct”

“They are also not fully independent contractors because independent contractors, by their status, can determine their own price for their labor.”

And by making such a statement, there is now valid reason for surveillance and investigation of any and all communications he has with anyone from that point forward - probably even for re-opoening the Mueller investigation as well.

He is such a fucking moron. That’s like saying, “if someone offers you child porn of course you have to look at / watch it or how do you know it’s sexy?”

He just provided valid reason for surveillance and investigation, by tacitly inviting foreign powers to provide him information on his opponents.

They should have Leslie Jones do it.

Nobody needs to twist his words to see that he said the Moon is part of Mars. One would have to untwist them in order to come up with something different - especially since he had just said (in the preceding sentence) “NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon - we did that 50 years ago.”

“It’s a huge reach to suggest he’s LITERALLY saying the Moon is part of Mars.” 

he promised to “take up my Second Amendment right and shoot you liberals in the head,”

Yeah, it’s not like I called him an idiot for being a writer for a food blog who had to consult a cookbook to figure out how to make fucking hash browns (and still failed). I guess he’s just a whiny baby who can’t handle people responding to him in the same tone in which he responds to them...

Because when she (or any US politician) is on foreign soil, she is there representing our country as a whole - she is not there to spout off with her own personal or political views on other US politicians. There’s nothing weird about that; it’s a show of respect for our country as a whole and for her role in the…

I never said it was a mystery.