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Gig work is tipped work. If they don’t tip, the driver worked for free.
The gig company “pays” the drivers a pittance, but it largely just covers a portion of the owner-operator’s expenses. 100% of the net profit comes from tips.
There are a handful of municipalities with unique laws which do not fit this model; but outside of those areas, that is straight up how it works.
Now, should the driver be reckless? No, that should be reported. But stiffing them won’t change anything.
ITT: People on the spectrum
The first one that comes to mind is zoom.us
It’s called dead butt syndrome. The gluteus medius atrophies from the sedentary lifestyle.
The events of Prodigy largely involved wormholes across spacetime in one universe (and incursions into that universe by bad guys).
The quantum fissures in Lower Decks are connected to other universes. While this season of Lower Decks does canonically occur in the same time period as season 2 of Prodigy, I doubt the two are related.
That said, with the specific call-out, I definitely see them having some significance later in the season.
I was more surprised that the crew of the other Cerritos weren’t responsible for opening the fissure in the first place. The setup felt like it was leading toward a reveal that Captain Becky’s crew had ulterior motives.
It was a bit disappointing that the twist only turned out to be Captain Becky opportunistically trying to swap universes. I was expecting something more like Stargate SG-1 9x13 (Ripple Effect) wherein an alternate-reality SG-1 is after me Lucky Charms a ZPM.
Banning CFCs went pretty well too
All of them.
I’m sorry.
What was it they said back then? They’re from the South or some such?
I would like to second this, particularly the line “through a slightly O’Brien-esque process.”
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He also launched it from a space station.
Discord should take a long hard look at what other stuff happens on their platform.
Discord surely does, as surely does the government of the land which hosts their infrastructure.
If Discord hasn’t been asked/told to block Russia from their side, there is a reason.
This chair appears to have the reflection of a back, but not an actual back.
There is also the legend of some military base having too much reddit traffic too.
It was no legend. A (since-deleted) reddit blog post called out Eglin AFB by name.
The other two cities listed under most “addicted” have large data centers.
The conspiracy theory though… Meh.
There used to be a bar on the right-hand side that showed how far each day’s Reddit Gold purchases had gone towards covering the day’s server costs.
There were always people costs too, and plenty of others. Breaking even on infrastructure doesn’t stop the bleed of the venture capital. And investors do expect a return.
Literally the first sentence of that article:
Although cable television was never conceived of as television without commercial interruption, there has been a widespread impression - among the public, at least -that cable would be supported largely by viewers’ monthly subscription fees.
The premium services mentioned in your quote (HBO, Showtime) also still do not run ads even today.
Needs more stop signs and crosswalks