I have always thought Vincent Gallo was hot in that really gross, shameful way. Like, I would but I wouldn’t want my friends knowing about it. But he’d have to buy the drinks: ain’t no way I’d pay a red cent for a night with him.

Meanwhile if women aren’t agreeable once they’re labelled “difficult to work with.”

I think they behave this way because society allows and encourages it, and especially Hollywood, they are obsessed with dickish, tortured “genius” white males and the narrative that they can only express their genius by being total assholes.

Bus drivers aren't using their personal vehicles.

“...that they can’t be profitable anymore...” Uber & Lyft spent $233 for each driver in Austin for propaganda that flooded our mailboxes to win a vote that they called for (about 10 million dollars), but they can’t pay $40/driver for a fingerprint background check? Uber also pays 28 lobbyists in the city to push…

No, I’m pretty sure the fucking moron who chose to drive drunk takes the responsibility for failing to call a cab. Fuck Uber and their insistence on not fingerprinting their employees. Yes, they’re their employees. Did I say fuck Uber yet? No? Oh. Fuck Uber.

Are you sure it’s not them taking Red Dawn super personally? Like John Millius imagining a world in which the fucking commies rolled right through Texas on up into the Plains didn’t cause them to take extra defensive measures of making your entire wretched state un-navigable?

and? Swerving the argument to taxis is a distraction from the playbook of Uber and has nothing to do with Uber operating in the city of Austin. It’s just an image that works to portray them in a good light, “ew don’t you hate going in a dirty taxi with shady taxi drivers?” This was never about taxis. Austin didn’t say…

Counter point from an article in The Atlantic in 2015:

I would say that covers at least the Bay Area, if not all of California.

Uber says that they want passengers to think of it as a “the tip is already rolled into the price” thing. Which, like everything Uber management says, is total bullshit. What they’re not saying is that they are not in business to make money for the drivers. They consider the drivers expendable schmucks who should be…

no you’re not and you’re not expecting to force you to give you one either. That’s the point:

The problem with Austin traffic was the liberals at first. They thought that if they didn’t build the roads the people wouldn’t come (they were wrong). Then the problem became the suburbs around Austin quickly filled with people decidedly not liberal and we got huge interference from non-liberal state-legislators…

My favorite from The Bay was when Palo Alto was considering preventing yard work during certain hours because people working from home found it too distracting.

Your city can be progressive as it wants, but few are immune to NIMBYism.

Being from NYC: removing tips and harshly punishing declined pickups were ways of trying to remove the bias of individual drivers as demonstrated in the yellow street-hail cabs here.

The worst part about Austin isn’t driving in Austin, that is second. The worst part about Austin is how everyone complains about driving in Austin yet refuses every possible actual solution other than “all these newbies need to move out of my city!”

A degree of regulations for ride-sharing is a good idea and Uber and Lyft are being shady and ridiculous, but Austin is a fucking mess. As a resident, it has been frustrating as hell to vote time after time for better infrastructure, only to have the majority of voters go against the, admittedly imperfect,…

I think I spent less than an hour driving around Austin before concluding that I did not care how many cool things people listed about the place, I would never live somewhere where people obviously hate traffic engineers. And that was in the mid 90s! I assume it’s much worse now.

Thank you! I started telling nosy people asking me when I would have a second that I almost died having the first one. (Which is kind of true— I ended up with pretty severe pre-eclampsia right at the end.) That usually shuts them up. Except my MIL, who then took it upon herself to start asking family members if they…

ugh the number of people who casually hassle me about giving my son a sibling; MOTHERFUCKERS IT IS NOT FOR LACK OF TRYING, I PROMISE YOU THAT