Yeah, but the alternative now is a private sector dedicated to forcibly removing people from places. I agree with your sentiment, I personally think cops need to be reminded of the fact they’re civil servants, but I also don’t want private security conducting evictions.

Hopefully. I could see it turning into massive layoffs, cutting things all across the board, and it’ll be a war of attrition, who will cave first, me fighting my crippling desire for potato chips, or PepsiCo. needing to gouge prices. And the problem I see is that they’ve been winning this whole time, and the royal we are weak and dumb. But maybe we need a bigger push.

Beyond that, I’m not sure we can legislate the problem away either. And so we raise the minimum wage, we squeeze the middle class, and we probably end up in a worse position for it. But who knows, maybe we are capable of banding together as proles and speaking with our wallets.

In fairness, taxis in NYC were the wild west for a bit, it was bullshit, and Uber put them in their place. But yeah, as with all things, it’s all fucked now.

Looked into grabbing this with some buddies at one point. Looking at like $1300 minimum. I really want to try it.

Yeah, I think I mixed it up with Long Island.

You can add gap to your regular insurance to cover your job as a rideshare. You just need to tell your carrier.

The thing is, if you’re renting, you’ve added someone in between you and the insurance carrier. Uber does not self insure. I see them often using Progressive. So you rent a car from Uber, pay for the insurance from Uber, but there’s also Avis and Progressive now taking their cut.

It’s just scammy, and the fact that they’re getting people to rent cars to do so is just crazy to me.

So Avis, for example, offers an insurance from Uber for rideshare via Rasier and Portier, and so you’re basically renting and insuring cars from the company you’re being paid by. Yes, Avis is an intermediary there, but the whole idea is crazy to me, that you’d pay your employer to work.

So are they having profitable days? I guess I’m as curious as you are, but I just can’t imagine a scenario where you’re making decent money in exchange for the time you put in. I suppose reliance on tips makes the difference, but Uber is over here cleaning up, charging you and the customer.

Please don’t duh.

Renting a car for use as a ride share is not covered under any rental agreement, nor under whatever your credit card may provide, which as far as I know covers damage to the vehicle at most. Liability insurance is a whole separate animal and the one that’s most necessary.

Renting doesn’t mean no insurance. If you’re operating a vehicle, you need to be an insured driver. Where you get the insurance is up to you.

Depreciation, maintenance, those are lumped into the cost of the rental. Whomever you are renting from isn’t giving you the car and taking a loss on it.

It’s essentially an independent business, but you can rent the car and get insurance and get paid all by the same entity, essentially. At least that’s what I’ve gathered listening to the testimony of some of the drivers.

Well, in fairness, I got 92.3, but I also got 94.1 WYSP out of Philadelphia. Both played rock and rock was all I needed. 103.2 was alt and decent sometimes. 97.5 ended up going way too pop.

Eh, in fairness, I remember the phone ringing and my dad just being like, “Don’t answer it,” because telemarketers were definitely a thing in the '90s.

Ugh, I used to listen to 92.3 WXRK, KRock, all the time. I’m from Jersey and sometimes the signal would be a little weak and I’d have to hold the floppy antenna of my stereo (with five-disc CD changer and double tape deck), but I’d record songs on tape as they came on for later listening, and the double deck was great for making mixtapes.

What are we living on the Belt?

We make a turkey meatloaf (and by we I mean my wife, this one is hers) that is fantastic, we haven’t looked back. And we eat ground beef and red meat still, maybe once a week or every two, but the moistness of ground turkey just works so well in a meatloaf, because it doesn’t dry it.

People rent cars to do it, which just blows my mind. I don’t get how they can be making any money at all.

Yeah, dunno what you are talking about, but I just can’t help but feel skeptical at this point, but I suppose it’s totally acceptable to not feel skeptical as well.

Sometimes my GPS will be like “go left up here,” but left is actually straight and right is the exit. I think it’s just seeing if I’m still awake.

I find starting wars and raping kids disheartening. I find it equally disheartening that it’s plausible someone would try to take attention away from those things by stirring up some shit.

Facades.