Meh, I’m 38, been very active my whole life (small blip because of the Vid and the crippling depression and chronic drinking that came with it), but I notice recovery time for injury, while not permanent, is way longer than it was at 27, and more for 18. Goes for exhaustion and hangovers too. Shit just lingers.
But we beat on, you know? Can’t just stop.
For sure, I was just coming in with a tush push.
Perfect summation, only people saying one is tougher than the other do so from the other side of the TV screen.
I’m glad you got whooshed because I like seeing the progress pics. It was all for the best!
This would make a killer puzzle.
Don’t lump the entire country in with wherever you are, because I can go to plenty of places within walking distance of my home – in the United States – and just hang out, hard, and it’s fine.
There’s plenty of places by me where you can do this, and I live in the most dense state in America.
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.
I live in Jersey, and we have tons of them. And fortunately they are turning some into pedestrian paths, rails-to-trails style, but we have literal (albeit old) infrastructure for rail lines between places that are only accessible via rail by going to Newark, changing, and hopping on a different line. We’re talking hours for a 30 mile ride.
I need me some eminent domain. There’s some major hubs west of Newark that you can only drive between.
But yeah, seeing them turned into trails is at least better than nothing. But I want moooorrreee.