Yeah, it is socal thing.

I found some original 1952 plates to put on my truck, a 1952 Dodge M37. So they want me to pay for vanity plates even though they are real plates. I don’t see why they can’t be considered just normal plates. I have a 240Z with original plates from the 70s and they are not considered the same as 1952 CA issued plates??…

You spelled Dodge wrong

All the best designs are from the 1980s. We should reïntroduce these graphs. Here’s a mockup of a depreciation graph for a Chevrolet:

1) Common Sense.

Did... you just call basic scientific discussion “weasel words”?

Question: What studies have you been reading that are ever 100% sure that they have found what they have found?

Because I will say that I’m CERTAIN that uncertain words are generally typical of most scientific and technical conversations.

For example:

If you…

It’s worse because it gives the illusion of safety without any.

I think Lucid is full of shit, especially when they start off with “Our proprietary technology...”. Timothy Leary was more lucid when on Lysergic acid diethylamide.

Nothing - they’re just a lot more visible.

I’m a 1099 and the last thing I want is to be classified as an employee, primarily for tax reasons, but also like the flexibility of being my own boss.

I’ve been doing 1099 temporary contract work for 60-80hrs a week for a well known e-interwebs company since 2003. I get zero vacation, zero benefits, zero sick days.  I understand that’s all my responsibility. Why has California cherry picked Lyft & Uber to force them to include their gig workers as employees and not…

It’s some California specific bullshit, they aren’t by federal law. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/california-gig-worker-law-AB-5.html

Most taxi drivers are contractors and yet somehow Jalopnik never had issue with that either. 

This about sums it up. I wonder if Raphael really believes this posture? Or is it just the reality that nuance does not generate clicks? 

It seems that what’s left of Jalopnik is in a constant state of panicked rage. Are they getting enough food?

This ruling is based purely on emotion. Drivers really don’t meet the standard of being employees. They aren’t scheduled like employees, they aren’t accountable like employees, and they aren’t paid like employees. The design of rideshare platforms and the appeal to a large number of drivers is to let you make extra…

I think the ultimate downside of this is that there’s going to be a LOT less drivers. If they’re W2 employees, that means that all sorts of payroll taxes/etc need to be paid, they’ll absolutely have people working for more than 32 hours a week and need to offer them benefits, it’ll be harder to hire and harder to fire…

Today, California ruled that Uber and Lyft must stop pretending that their drivers are independent contractors and start treating them for what they are: employees.

Drivers are meant to feel lucky to be given scraps as the company itself rakes it in.

Technically he is right, we aren’t yet in a depression. Unemployment is very high, and GDP did nosedive off a cliff, but most commonly definitions require a recession to last a few years before labeling it a depression. So far we are only 2 quarters into this so it is still defined as a recession. We might still get…