No doubt he’s a egotistical dick, but to say the world would be a better place without him is categorically false on many grounds.
The man popularized electric vehicles like no car manufacturers have ever been able to do.
SpaceX’s achievement in reducing the cost per pound and reusable rocket tech will have profound implications on our species survival over the long run.
Starlink coverage now provides relatively affordable internet to far more remote areas of the world.
So while I think recent years of criticism is fair based on his behavior (why the hell is he wasting precious time on Twitter again?) to say the world would be better off without him is to overlook the substantial contributions he has made towards technological advancement and global connectivity. It’s important to separate the individual’s personal flaws from the broader value of their work. Just my 2 cents.
Yay, electric vehicles are popular! Only bring loads of issues, cost a lot of rare earth metals which are mined by slaves and children, run on fossil fuel electricity (many coal plants and bio gas which are burned forests) and they are too heavy for the roads we have and electricity network, causing both to require many more replacements and maintenance, which costs loads of co2 emissions.
SpaceX is awesome! Costs less materials, so much easier to launch way more rockets into the sky! Like for starlink for example. Luckily the fuel used for it has zero emissions /s
But starlink is nice. Loads of space junk and coverage in most places is where already a different and faster network is, but it’s nice to have connectivity in hard to reach places. But is it worth all the emissions and space junk? And child labor for all the rare earth metals?
That connectivity in hard-to-reach places—much like free speech absolutism—is conditional upon whether he (or the dictator of an invading force, with whom he agrees) will allow it
[edit] and apparently Starlink may not even be profitable, with its accounting described as “more art than science” which always bodes well
This is also the implied response of every doordash delivery person everytime I pay $35 for what shows up as a cold—ass paninni 75minutes after my order and I’ve irrevocably “pre” tipped them 18% for the delivery.
I’m pretty sure you can adjust the tip after delivery.
Also, the 18% is likely why your food is cold. Dashers are expecting over 25% now (which is part of why I stopped using them).
You’re lucky that the food being cold is all that’s wrong, because some entitled assholes will fuck with your food if the tip isn’t high enough (even though they accepted the job knowing the tip)
Really don’t think you can adjust it anymore, think that was an old feature. I assumed they were blinded to the tip - you are saying the tip amount actually acts like a bidding war for even getting people to accept the order? That’s even poorer design than I thought.
UberEats still allows it, I believe. But people abuse that feature by “tip baiting” someone to take their order, then removing the tip after the driver has already spent the time, gas, and effort to deliver it. The driver could spend an hour on the order and only make $2.50 during that time, minus the cost of gas. Happens a lot with orders that are several miles away from the restaurant especially, because no one wants to pay enough to make the trip worth it for the driver.
I knew someone that was a dasher. She told me she would eat people’s food and totally mess with it, regardless of the tip. After hearing her stories, I never order door dash or similar anymore.
Possibly, but that wouldn’t have stopped her. If anything, it would have encouraged her. She also stole a lot from stores and friends and was an insane liar. She was a complete piece of shit human.
I don’t think most of them are pieces of shit like her though. People respond to incentives, there’s not much incentive or hedonic gain for most of us to mess with each other’s food. If you think me tipping you $7 on top of what you are being paid to do a delivery is some sort insult and you poop in my taco, I’m not going to tip you more next time. This is starting to bleed into a discussion about tipping which is about as fun as having an abortion discussion in the US, so on that note I’m out
Most places have started putting security stickers on their bags. These days if anything goes wrong it’s just straight up that the food doesn’t get delivered.
I really need to shut up about this, but can’t help myself. Who the hell brainwashed society into using percentages on delivery? For a restaurant there is at least a rough correlation between the work done by the server, the time they’ve spent tending to you, and the cost of the meal. Tipping falls apart under any kind of logical analysis, but there’s like at least a little bit of sense in using a percentage here. If I order a $10 burger that you drop off on my porch should I pay you 10x more if you drop off a $100 steak? If you answered yes, please just get fucked.
I agree with you but I believe I have an answer. The implication is, if you can afford to buy the $100 steak, you can afford to tip more. And if you can’t afford to tip more, you shouldn’t but the steak.
Which is horrible, and dumb, and tipping is garbage. But that’s where that comes from.
I drove for a decade before the apps and this is exactly how it worked. Tipping expectation was proportional to distance and most people understood this. If the order was big enough to require multiple trips to the car (basically a catering order or like 20+ pizzas) we’d expect another $5 or so.
As a former dasher myself, dashers are expecting that because it needs to be worth the time, cost of gas, and wear and tear on their car to even do the order.
Doordash only pays around $2.50 per order. If it’s a really bad one (long distance, a slow restaurant that takes up a lot of time, long driving distance) DoorDash might add a dollar or two to get someone to take it. If your food is cold, it’s probably because no one wanted to take your order because it wasn’t worth it, so you have to wait until a driver who doesn’t understand that they’re spending more money than they’re making takes a bad order. Sometimes the restaurant is slow or says an order is ready when it isn’t. The “tip” is pretty much the whole pay for the order. And if the tip is really good, sometimes DoorDash takes part of it without telling anyone.
Also, DoorDash doesn’t always show you the whole tip amount. There’s a note that says “the actual tip may be higher.” Usually it’s not, but they leave that “maybe” in there to bait you into acceptimg orders that cost more to deliver than you earn.
There are definitely some shitty drivers. But a lot of people don’t have a choice but to do gig jobs. People with disabilities who need to have flexible schedules because they don’t qualify for disability assistance and they can’t commit to a schedule because of random symptom flare ups. People with criminal records. People with social anxiety. Minorities. People learning English.
DoorDash is to blame here, not the drivers. They need to call it something other than a “tip.” The suggested “tip” amount should be based on the driving distance, not a percentage of the order cost. And they should pay drivers more out of the “service fees” they get for sitting back doing nothing and letting the app print money for them.
And back during covid, it was the drivers that helped keep some places from going under because they would have otherwise not been able to have customers at all.
I may not be able to afford the cost, but I respect the fuck out of people doing the work and want them to get paid properly.
Every… time? That is just absolutely insane to me. I’ve literally never used that kind of service and I can’t understand how so many people pay so much money for that it
You must have a lot of disposable income or something
It’s a mixed bag. Imagine having only three restaurants that deliver to you (and two suck) and then all the sudden you have a whole city of restaurants that are available to you and you hardly ever have time or want to deal with going into the city to do a pickup. That’s my experience. I don’t use it everyday or every week, but it just stinks that when I do it’s very expensive and hey, maybe that’s justiable (freemarket whatever), but to have service issues where clearly zero effort was made to transport the stuff appropriately feels like a real “hehe”.
Or like, what if you’re drunk/high and traveling isn’t really an option, but you’re hungry? I’ve never used DoorDash, but it seems like that’s the type of thing that’d get the majority of business.
It makes more sense if you are actually in an urban area. I get hot food in 20 minutes from the places within a few blocks. I assume the people complaining are out in the suburbs or are ordering food from far away.
We are self-funding. The Postal Service generally receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.
They’re a meme beyond discord as well, but not hugely mainstream, existing in a similar space to mentions of Ohio in a positive light. Just more Gen-Z ironic humor.
It’s a take on “doth protest too much.” Because Poland is super conservative, therefore secretly specialized in femboys.
The true horror begins, when the customer calls for support, because some things are awkward, and you know instantly the cause, also that you will have to fix this now, 5 years later.
I don’t think it’s dead Internet theory. But this is more dystopian in that private corporations are censoring our speech and searching based on their own criteria.
I find csam repulsive, but having a corporation or ai restrict unrelated content because their system construes an innocent search as potential bad is almost worst.
Lady does sound like an older woman. Gal, woman or chick would probably work, but that’s all besides the point, it’s very common to use <whatever> girl as a search term: biker girl, skater girl, ring girl, bikini girl, racer girl, etc. It’s just dumb to automatically assume any search with “girl” means “child”.
Maybe because I’m older idk, but boy and girl make me think of children.
I’m so old that I don’t sprinkle my comments with kid-pidgin like ‘idk’, and I don’t equate ‘girl’ with ‘young girl’. Bat Girl, Girl Friday, Ring Girl, “I married a girl right out of college”; it’s about context.
Idk, I’m 31 and my girlfriend is 27. I don’t call her my woman friend or lady friend, and calling her my girlfriend doesn’t really make her sound underage to me
Especially since “woman friend” and “lady friend” specifically mean “friend who is a female, no romantic entanglement” or “I’m specifically NOT using the word girlfriend here.”
Which does expose kind of a scar on the language; the terms we have for unmarried romantic partners are inherently juvenile, which puts 50 year olds who are dating in the awkward position of calling each other boy and/or girl. Or you get to spit out all ten chapters of the phrase “significant other.”
We have different forms of such tech for a century now. For most people it reduces the work load to zero, as in they get fired. All the while one person (with this new tech) has to do the work of many and their load doesn’t get reduced. Finally, the person not doing any of the work, the owner, pockets the extra profits.
We've had over a century of continuous development of technologies that effectively work as a force multiplier in terms of work done per person. The current "AI" craze just being the latest of those.
At every point, business had the option of using this technology to improve the work/life balance and improve overall the lives of people, or improve the size of their bank accounts. They have always chosen the latter.
AI, if it improves threatens to be the straw that breaks the camel's back here. It cannot replace all human workers, but it can certainly reduce the demand for them (and thus how much they need to pay those that remain).
Now, I'm not going to say we're at the point where capitalism cannot function any more. While society needs work done by humans. There will still be a place for the carrot on a stick method it provides, and I'm yet to be convinced there's a better way to achieve this. But I do think capitalism needs to be heavily regulated to prevent this wealth accumulation by so few that could never in a million years spend all their winnings. This is the primary failing with the system, and all the other problems stem from this accumulation culture.
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