bradlys

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Just another fool trying to get their payday in the bay area
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Comment · 1 day ago
So, you're just dumb?

People have the opportunity to walk away from minimum wage jobs all the time. It's unironically the easiest job to walk away from in this world because they are very common and easy to get hired on/off of. Low pay jobs are very common and easy to not take.

The jobs that are hard to walk away from are ones that pay enough for someone to live.

Man, you really sound privileged and like you've never worked a minimum wage job at all or know anyone in these positions. Stop talking!

Comment · 1 day ago
Incentivize them to what?

I don't do tips. If the company wants to not pay well, it's up to the person to choose to not take the job.

You realize you're posting on a hyper capitalist website right? Even by socialist or communist standards, it shouldn't be up to the individual to choose to pay more for an arbitrary reason. That's not how any economic system out there works.

I feel like people posting on here have drastically lowered in quality. Am I speaking with bots?

Comment · 1 day ago
You're welcome to leave the job. If you're working a job that has tips - get a different job. I don't work a job that has tips and never have. I have worked from minimum wage to 1m+/yr.

There are an endless amount of jobs out there that don't have tips involved at all, require similar levels of experience/skill/craft/work-ethic, and pay similarly.

Comment · 1 day ago
It's really not the case. I'm talking like 2x the price of products. They basically started charging ridiculous prices because they wanted to gouge on whales. Unsurprisingly, these places are empty when I go into them now compared to ten years ago. They also have no one working at them.
Comment · 1 day ago
These grocery stores are all going to continually lose market share to Amazon, Walmart, etc. as online ordering increases. The pricing of in person grocery stores is outrageous and the experience shopping at them is annoying. I hope to see many go out of business sooner than later so we can have better businesses take their place!
Comment · 1 day ago
I don't tip. I don't believe in the practice of tipping and especially with digital platforms I don't trust where the money goes.

If I am tipping, it will be directly and usually in cash and there's only one person who gets that and it's the person who cuts my hair.

Get a different job if you don't like it. Minimum wage jobs are dime a dozen and have joke requirements to get onboarded. It's not like competing for faang or whatever.

Comment · 1 day ago
So far it saves me money. Nearest Walmart is 10+ miles away.

I haven't really had too many issues with ordering online. It works for me.

I haven't noticed a price difference shopping in store vs online. The local grocers massively overcharge in comparison to Amazon and Walmart.

Comment · 2 days ago
It's the time. 10 hours vs a couple hours.
Comment · 2 days ago
It's believable to me. I exclusively use Walmart and Amazon for groceries now. The nearest grocery store is 10+ minute drive away and with gas prices, my time, etc. I'd rather just buy online and wait for someone to deliver to my door. It's much quicker than going around the store looking for items too.

It used to be there was a significant premium for this service and that's why I wouldn't do it but not anymore. In places like NYC - it's actually much cheaper than local options.

Comment · 2 days ago
The stores often charge higher prices on app for the same items. If there's a sale on items, you won't likely get them on the app. You can say it's a shakedown but you can always refuse DoorDash business and just operate like every other place that doesn't use it. It's not end of the world.
Comment · 2 days ago
This has a much bigger impact. The impact of having to reroute all of a major freeway's traffic is huge. Easily eating an hour from 100k+ people.
Comment · 13 days ago
I don't see this outside of NYC. Where are you specifically?
Comment · 13 days ago
Because this is just a thread for people to whine about Meta with no real solutions. Most threads about Meta have nothing constructive or insightful to say at all.

And, in this case, it lasted all of 90 minutes and speaks of a typical autoban ML feature. This happens all the time. False positives are going to happen constantly with a company that literally has 4 billion people use.

Comment · 14 days ago
This makes more sense because moving to a place like Japan permanently (from what I know) is very difficult. Or, at least, moving there and getting to act like a real citizen. Unless you marry a Japanese person, I don't think your children are ever considered Japanese citizens either. (And same with their children and so on)
Comment · 15 days ago
Probably allowed outside of California.

The suction system is interesting. It's possible for it to work on the street but incredibly dumb. The kind of gap you have to keep is millimeters off the ground and your typical streets in the real world have so much damage and inconsistency it's hard to imagine it working for anything but straight line acceleration on a newly paved road. This would be a suicide mission to drive this on Skyline with the expectation to get 2-3g in the bends.

The concerns about debris and so forth are somewhat valid but can be taken care of. Similar to dust collectors for woodworking - this will have a cyclone separator, mesh, and whatnot that will prevent the blades from getting wrecked by a rock. But wouldn't want to tail this thing. It'll be pelting your car.

It'll be another "car goes really fast in a straight line" feature which electric cars have always done well with. While it'd be cool to use the suction system to get incredible g forces in bends - it'll be too dangerous for public roads. You'd immediately fly off the road if you lost any suction and I don't know what public roads (especially in the Bay Area) you could run such a system reliably on.

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