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[–] Beacon@fedia.io 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is fake, right?

EDIT

The more you look at it the more obvious it becomes that it's fake.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For now. If you could explain one gig service to the people who fought for labor rights circa 1900, they'd be astonished we let it happen again.

[–] theUwUhugger@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You do know this is a us problem right (as in the geoup of first world countries, not that third world countries…)?

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, I assume it's not common to developing nations. Sorry if I didn't communicate that well. How did you interpret it?

[–] theUwUhugger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nononono, I am just sure someone would have made the pointless distinction

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Oh, I get it now. Yeah, whataboutism has been running rampant even more than usual lately.

[–] teft@piefed.social 28 points 1 month ago (3 children)

0.3 what? meters? km? AU? Parsecs?

[–] FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's by the Ohio river, freedom units are implied.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 month ago

Ah 0.3 bald eagles it is.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So fathoms? There's so many freedom units.

[–] FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yes, one can not fathom all freedom units.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But what freedom unit?

If it's 0.3 miles, wouldn't it be replaced with some other unit? So, it's 0.3 of the smaller unit (whatever that is), or miles? Or do people not convert small values when working in freedom units?

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

0.3 miles is 2.5 stonethrows, 3 thighbones, 87 feet, and 2 thumbs (or 1.5 toes)

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Gigameters

(If anyone is curious, 0.3Gm is around 1491290 furlongs, 8 chain, and 61.37links!)

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

0.3 distance. Can't you read?

[–] teft@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's like those math problems.

"Hiro drives his deliveries at an average rate of 40 distance per hour. Given a neighborhood with side lengths of 1 distance what is the total travel time for your ubereats driver after he crashes his e scooter 0.3 distance from your house and has to hoof it the rest of the way?"

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Assume he's carrying the 30 watermelons you ordered and is not subject to wind resistance.

[–] guy@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

Are those European or African watermelons?

[–] teft@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just assumed we were going with a spherical pizza delivery driver in a vacuum as usual.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

It gets worse. He has angular momentum, but he's not spinning.

[–] bubblybubbles@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Send flowers" $29.99 and all the dasher gets is the flower emoji 🤣 💐

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Don't give them ideas. I remember back when they were, unkownst to the customers, taking dasher tips.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think this might be more of an “are you really gonna do that for some ‘za” notification.

[–] mgnome@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Damn, imagine getting berated by some Karen for failing to deliver their pizza while getting loaded in an ambulance.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think the big, giant, amoral, corporation that's misclassifying employees as contractors is more to blame, but yeah, that would be the icing on the dystopia cake.

[–] mgnome@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd say that's also on lawmakers, because contractors should also be subject to worker protections in the same way as "standard issue" workers are.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Agreed, but historically that conversation ends in something like, "But that would limit their freedom to negotiate their contract!" which is disingenuous because dashers aren't negotiating rates with doordash. They'd have to be organized to do that. Reelection requires funding and large companies contribute a lot more to campaign funds than individuals. That's one of the reasons unions are so important. As you can imagine, the instant unions form on a large scale, lawmakers start dusting off antitrust laws at the behest of their funders.

[–] stroz@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago

I ordered DoorDash in Vegas a couple of years ago, and dude got pulled over by the cops in the parking lot of my hotel before he was able to deliver lol

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

I was at a game night where the delivery driver for one of my friend's orders had to call and say he wasn't going to name it because of an accident