It’s the gig economy which everyone embraces because it’s cheaper/more convenient. It’s also unregulated and these companies are taking full advantage of it.

True, otherwise why even ask how the customer wants it cooked.

Either that or there are way too many good cooks in his area who will work for peanuts.

I agree in the sense that without a major fuckup, there’s no way Biden will beat Trump in 2020.  What will beat Trump in 2020 is someone new who can come out of nowhere and capture the public admiration.  I wish I knew who that was.

Naw, there are lots of players who love loot boxes and would rather skip the grind. Blaming someone else for you clicking on a purchase isn’t helping anyone. Think for yourself people.

Yeah, that was a huge factor in our home purchase. Just say no to HOA.

The answer is simple. Have the driver collect the fare through the app and then pay Uber the “user fee” or commission. Alternatively, Uber controls the whole thing and the driver is a regular employee.  They can’t have it both ways.

I think what you’re saying is that the district doesn’t work for the students, it works for their parents. The idea that most parents don’t want their HS kid reading about another HS kid who chose to work in the porn industry is probably pretty accurate. School district administrations hate unhappy parents more than…

Actually, flying on autopilot during cruise is way easier than driving a car. There’s an old saying that flying is hours of boredom with minutes of terror on each end.

Well said. As a pilot, using an aircraft autopilot is very useful. It’s also a far simpler device that doesn’t need to “read the road” or check for collisions. I think warning systems in cars like sensors that help with parking and accidental lane divergence are great but car drivers are not highly trained pilots…

The X1/9 was my first car.  63 horsepower?  On a good day maybe...

Exactly. Having had a couple of near misses due to another driver not following the rules, this whole thing really pissed me off.

As Bill Gates recently said, the best way of improving income inequality would be to increase the capital gains rate.  I agree with him.  Most people don’t have huge capital gains because 401k’s and IRAs are tax exempt until you retire.  People with a shitload of money have lots of capital gains.

Those cars tend to break apart when hit at the wrong angle. Aluminum and carbon fiber are really expensive to fix. I was stopped and he was going about 5 mph but there just wasn’t enough room...

Same here.  When my neighbor hit my Audi R8 it cost $35k to repair but I also got another $20k from his insurance for diminished value.  I wasn’t happy but I felt a little better.  I would definitely use one of those diminished value claim places that write you a report to submit to insurance.

Lol, the scooter idea isn’t a bad thing in theory it’s just that Bird, etc. are doing what Uber originally did. Use other people’s property to facilitate their business model under the guise of being a public benefit.  If they were non-profit, then fine but if I was a property owner and had these things dumped…

One of the problems of increasing wages is that everything else increases too. If you’re at the minimum wage, you’re always going to be scraping by. The only way to avoid this is to make more money than other people which means figuring out how to become more valuable in the workplace.  If I was the CSA in the…

You do know where this is going? At some point in the not too distant future you will be able to choose (for a nominal fee) a seat where the person in front cannot recline ($25) or can only recline 2 inches ($15).

Lol, Stalinism was evil because the people running it were evil. It always boils down to who’s in charge. China is a better example because they took a very top down, controlling system and have slowly been ‘capitalizing’ it. It’s what the people there want because we humans really like the idea of being able to…

They obviously realized that what they were doing was illegal and stopped...wink, wink