aka @JWBananas@startrek.website aka @JWBananas@lemmy.world aka @JWBananas@kbin.social
The business model incentivizes it by not paying a wage. This is an example offer:
This isn’t even the worst one I’ve seen today, and I only do this part time for extra money.
By all means, report safety issues. Get the bad driver canned. But if you stiff the driver too, and you knew the business model of the service you used, then you’re just further incentivizing the bad behavior.
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.
The first one that comes to mind is zoom.us
Banning CFCs went pretty well too
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.
On god sigma gyatt
Straight fax no printer no cap
Skibidi Ohio rizz bro.
Sounds like an orange cat
Only according to that stupid bot
Stupider than Hugging Face?
I feel like this belongs here.
Thanks for the alternative explanation. Completing the square never made much sense to me either, so I never would have arrived there.
Hurr durr what if I just multiply the whole thing by 4a for some reason? Oh and then after that I’ll add b² to both sides, just for shits and giggles. And for good measure, I’ll move a few numbers from one side to the other, and that leaves me with 4a²x² + 4abx + b² = b² - 4ac.
And then golly gee! Wouldn’t you know it? That just happens to let the left side factor neatly into (2ax + b)²! So I’ll just take the square root of both sides…
No!
No!
Bad!
This is fucking voodoo. I hate this shit. It’s like trigonometric substitution.
Math is procedural. Math is algorithmic. Math is repeatable.
“If these numbers looked a little different than they do, I could solve this. Oh, wow! If I just sprinkle these magic values into my problem, everything works out great!”
Oh yes, I can see how if you just plug in this shit you pulled out of your ass, everything works out great! But when you aren’t around for a fecal transfer, I have no idea how to come up with that.
I was top of my class in math. But that voodoo shit never made any sense to me.
And there is absolute value of zero chance I could figure all that out in the heat of the moment if I forgot the quadratic formula. I had to work backwards from the formula to even get all that in the first place.
I’ve been hearing the Donkey Kong song in my head for the last 6 hours. If you know how to make it stop, I’m all ears.
Except in glacier, because English is fucked.
I can. But I can’t hear it at all.
pihole*
And it’s about to get a lot worse if this whole no-taxes-on-tips thing actually happened.