Yeah, these billionaires really need our sympathy. Things are pretty rough for this guy. Kinda makes me want to start a go-fund-me to help drum up some support for the poor chap.
Nah, actually he can fall into a sink hole tomorrow and slowly asphixiate while I eat my generic cheerios with slightly expired milk dripping down my grinning chin.
Don’t really want to go to YouTube either, but thank you.
The solution did not exist at all. There was a huge market gap. Lots of restaurants didn’t have the population density or resources to support a built in delivery service. I had two restaurants that delivered to my location prior to ride share delivery. It instantly jumped to dozens as soon as door dash came to town.
I don’t share any moral delima with the concept of third party delivery. Conceptually what’s different than the branded delivery drivers? Both by the way rely more on tips than anything else for payout to the delivery person, but at least the base pay rate for the branded driver is typically a tiny bit higher. I am bothered by the ratio of what I pay extra for third party services as compared to what the delivery person receives. You can’t possibly just drive the price up further to fill the gap, the gap is massive and the prices are already a limiting factor for most to utilize these services. I also relate to the cold tossed meal. There is no effort in training these gig workers or supplying them with proper equipment to deliver the food. It often arrives in a terrible state and there is very little in the way of quality control. If I were a restaurant I would hesitate to let these people represent my food. Conceptually I actually rather like the idea of third party delivery. I don’t want to be a domino’s employee and deliver pizza, but give me some freedom to pick my hours and a fare wage that doesn’t rely on tip culture, and I’ll stop by and deliver a domino’s pizza every once and awhile for some extra cash. The real world execution though is currently a mess. These companies took advantage of how badly Americans want food delivery and how hard it is for most restaurants to implement it themselves.
Medically unnecessary = we don’t support the decision making and don’t want to pay for it. It’s the only language they will ever use. This is just the wording insurance companies use to deny claims.
That’s nitpicking. Is it medically necessary to support someone in a coma that likely won’t have a good outcome? It’s always about the money with insurance. That has to be assumed.
At the risk of you all putting a literal hit out on me, I’m going to proclaim the hot take that this is not the best example of insurance company abuse. I am in complete agreement that insurance greed and frankly insurance company power over the entire US Healthcare system is way out of balance. I argue the walls need to come down and things need to be rebuilt in aore socialized model. But as far as refusing claims go, be it socialized or the insurance Co mess we have now, Healthcare resources are inevitably limited. Someone with a brain hemorrhage, in a coma, ventilated, in heart failure is going to be massively expensive to support and will have a low likelihood of functional outcome. Rather than denying dozens of chemotherapy meds, or MRIs for suspected brain lesions, I could see the ugly job of denying this claim as justifiable.
Nah, strong disagree here. There’s no ifs. Systems this broken should be replaced not nurtured. Your attitude is a pervasive on in the states though. The idea of not tipping is viewed somehow as elitist or greedy. I participate in the practice as a member of society, short of massively organized protest type actions, the only way change comes here is legislative, but that’s like hoping for better gun laws. One off individual refusals to tip accomplish nothing, but doing some education is a move in the right direction.
See https://www.huffpost.com/entry/abolish-tipping_n_5991796
As a very easy to read intro, but there is lots written on this. Don’t forget the tipping culture in the US is pretty unique. While present elsewhere the dependance on tipping as income is a pretty rare thing - it’s not a brave wild experiment to try to do away with it. With appropriate legislation workers would only benefit.
This com is a total dumping ground, I’m not too surprised.
What the what? More relevant than ever. How is this a legitimate question? I2p is great but adoption is extremely low.
I come quicker and I’m here to help.
American obsession with tips is second only to our obsession with making sure it’s super easy to get guns. It’s culturally embedded that tipping is a good thing which is exactly what all these employers want people to think as they continue to underpay.
That would be awesome. I’d also settle for non convicted criminals that aren’t mentally retarded pathologic liers though.
I dunno. I think there is probably very high sensitivity for deep forest thermal signals, but near civilization it’s probably much more complicated to separate small fire from other thermal sources. These iot smoke detector things if in somewhat of a decent density and taking in to account thinks like wind direction, could be pretty smart and have a decent signal to noise ratio. Keeping in mind this is where th fires tend to start, it seems like a cool effort.
Not a bad idea considering most fires do start near civilization which is where this iot strategy by far will have the highest density. Seems a little tricky to filter out false alarms from controlled fires though. For deep forest monitoring its hard to imagine a better strategy than high flying drones with thermal cameras.
Well yeah, that’s what being a little bitch is all about!
Is new egg back to being a good site to buy from? Felt like they got pretty crappy for awhile
Yes, but I don’t think they made a profit so giving it another go
Uber / Lyft pay their drivers so poorly and continue to abuse US tipping culture so badly that drivers have to work crazy hours for any reasonable pay. This is now a hazard as it’s not uncommon to find drivers starting to fall asleep at the wheel. I welcome this technology but hope some better players emerge than these usual scumbags.
Suprised? Had you put him on a pedastle in your mind? Did you think him to be more than a sniveling greedy capitalist prick? I’m sorry for this very harsh fall from artificial grace if so. I’d be careful about holding anyone with more than a few hundred million dollars to lose in too high esteem in the future.