tmyakal

They are usually self-employed

That varies wildly depending on city, county, state, and (I’m guessing) country requirements. I drove for a few years in a small-ish city, and neither me nor anyone I ran into at the usual spots were self-employed. We all worked for one of two cab companies, making hourly wages plus tip.

And Bo Duke was from upstate New York.

“Not admissible because it was illegally captured” didn’t give me the warm-and-fuzzies this comment sounds like it should’ve.

When I was in high school, the girls’ running team made shirts that said, “Fast girls have good times.” It’s been more than twenty years, and I still think about how funny that double-entendre is.

So, yeah, you would’ve sold a lot more weiners.

That’s why the move is to edit all of your comments into jumbled nonsense and then delete them.

The pressure of the water against the door would’ve prevented her from opening it regardless of the door’s mechanical features or power supply issues.

The windows not shattering is absolutely a Tesla design flaw, but there’s no way that woman was ever going to open a door from inside a submerged car.

It’s funny how recognizing the legitimacy of the world court would just instantly remove one of the world’s biggest problems.

I remember saying this about George W twenty years ago.

difficult to pin down what they really want

They want to vote for Trump and not have to tell anyone they did. It’s why Trump won in 2016 despite the polling.

They’re saying there was no measurable change in their lives driven by political leadership in the last 16 years? They’re arguing in bad faith.

This. Everyone I talk to says, “but socialized medicine has such long wait times.” But these same fuckers avoid going to the doctor until it’s absolutely unbearable to deal with because it costs to much to find out if it’ll get better on its own. So if you’re getting symptoms of something and waiting two months anyway, how is your system better?

if your goal as a parent is to maximize success of your children.

“Success” is very subjective.

I have a problem if I owe the bank a thousand dollars. The bank has a problem if I owe them a million dollars.

Wait, so you’re hoping that the American government is covertly manipulating the roughly 1 in 3 Americans who watch the Superbowl expressly to retain the incumbents power because it means we’d avoid a fascist autocracy?

Ah, the Andrew Cuomo gambit. I’m familiar.

I agree that it’s got to be how young Lemmy skews. No one who has ever bought alcohol at a self-checkout has said, “This is so quick and convenient!”

I’m having a tough time imagining a scenario where you’re in too much of a hurry to spend 30 seconds returning the cart, but not too much of a hurry to buy your merchandise and load it in your vehicle.

3/5 of a vote. They are only people when it adds political power.

Sounds like you should sell that house, dude…

Did you even read my comment? Yes, without minimum wage an employer could theoretically pay an employee less. But minimum wage already doesn’t pay enough for people to survive. All it is doing is giving employers a solid number they can point to and say, “Well, the government says this work is only worth $7.25!”

No one can survive on the current federal minimum wage, but employers are using that as a guideline when offering wages instead of looking at their business needs or local competition. That means the current minimum wage is actively harming employees. So, again:

Minimum wage needs to be adjusted for inflation to match what it was originally intended for, or it needs to be abolished. Right now, it just gives employers a very low starting point for their bad-faith negotiations.

There will always be wants and needs that go unfulfilled

That’s not what ‘needs’ means.