I’m pretty sure most of these idiots are refusing treatment from people of colour because they perceive a lack of competence as a result of their inferior genetics, not just because they have dark skin. As others have said, if someone is this stupid it’s probably better if they remove themselves from the gene pool.

Overdrive protip from a librarian: Turn your kindle into airplane mode and retain your checkouts past expiration if you haven’t finished reading them.

Another good e-book resource is overdrive.com . Borrow e-books or audiobooks (free) from your library through it. You can use their overdrive app or their newer libby app too.

Drivers are going to be exploited.

I need to know what the payout is like on the drivers side. Cheap for pax means even cheaper for drivers. And we hate lyft line enough as it is.

While public transit in SF can leave a lot to be desired at times, it is pretty good compared to most cities in the US. Route availability to some of the outer areas is bad, and obviously congestion gets in the way of things, and there can be some interesting characters on the buses – understood. But that is life in a…

yes, it’s a bus. but it’s worse: it’s a fucking charter school. like, you can improve a shared public good (buses) or you can add a private company into the mix, and take away from the public good, thus creating adverse selection for the public good by skimming the customers away. that in turn will lead to worse…

And the techno-libertarian assault on basic public infrastructure continues....

You’re using a 23 year old case that has since been fully incorporated into transit agency decision-making at local, state, and federal levels as a reason why transit sucks today? I work for a transit agency and before we conduct any service change we’re required to evaluate whether that change would have a…

Well, maybe you should focus on investing in public transportation that supports everyone and not isolate yourself any further from the rest of the inhabitants.

I echo what others have said re: bus routes already, but my main issue with this article (and why it sounds just a bit out of touch and elitist) is that the author never mentions how this is similar to a bus at all (except for a throwaway line). I do think there is a market for this sort of thing (and it exists in…

SF MUNI transit used to be perfectly fine. But in recent years its been both overstressed and starved for resources. Instead of a parallel system siphoning money out of this need, WHY NOT FIX PUBLIC TRANSIT

It’s like a bus, but instead of supporting social programs with your fare (ew!!!) you support a Silicon Valley start-up (yay!!!)

No buses serve poor people, the elderly and the disabled and serve a public good.

the “disconnect” is that people like the author can’t imagine themselves using public transportation, basically for class/caste reasons

Because both San Francisco and Chicago (where the service is in beta) are famous for their lack of public transit. This is simply another technolibertarian attempt at keeping poors from mingling with the rest. “Don’t take the bus/metro, take a Lyft Shuttle!”

Yeah I kinda had the feeling it was going to suck when I heard Tom Cruise was starring in it. Say what you will about Brenden Fraser’s overall career (I’m not a movie person so I literally don’t know what people do say) but he and the rest of the main cast made the old movies funny and fun adventure movies, and I…

I have had to hammer into fellow dudes’ heads before that consent can be withdrawn at any time and for any reason. Doesn’t matter if you think the reason is dumb, dude, if your partner says stop or otherwise indicates they no longer want to continue, YOU FREAKIN’ STOP.

It can seem really strange until you read a bit more about what prison-families face.

In my experience, no. My friend had her car stolen. It took multiple follow-ups from her and many weeks before they mentioned, ‘oh yeah, we found it trashed and impounded it like a month ago- you owe us a lot for ‘storing’ it all this time.” When she went to get the car there were pay stubs (of the presumed thieves)…