Surely they are running out of troops. How many people do they have to toss at the grinder?

Let’s offer to send the magats down there to run things.

Not exactly. The issue is that we have let the idiot’s take control. We have let the idea of democracy and civility lead us to this mess. Those of us with working brains need to start yelling louder than the morons and tell them to sit down and shut the fuck up because the adults are taking back control.

And it sucks. We loved going to Nashville and other parts for concerts, the food, etc but we can’t support this insanity. We decided to nix Tennessee with the last big news story and now this.

Why and how exactly is 23andMe bs?

It connected me with a cousin (I think) who I hadn’t talked to in literally decades and she shared some old photos of my grandparents when they were young.

This comment sounds completely out of touch. 23andMe have been around for a long time now and I remember when it was first starting up and it cost like 10k or more for their service because they hadn’t yet figured out scale and more efficient ways to do things.

This right here. I sent in a sample of my dogs DNA to embark and they got it right, even confirming another breed I wasn’t 100% sure she had in her.

No. Iguanas are awesome and I have the property to give them a home outside when the weather is warm enough. When they are small they should be contained most of the time but when they get bigger they can just hang out wherever they feel like it.

Oh and I don’t do youtube so if you actually know anything about this, try using words instead of expecting others to watch a video you didn’t make.

That’s about par for most reptiles. I really want another iguana, way too much going on at the moment with work so that will have to wait a bit longer.

No. Not all lizards are venomous. If you are into reptiles, you should know that the gila is venomous and it’s not the kind of pet you should have at home.

I’m not an expert but I did work at a reptile shop/rescue many decades ago and a lot of it has stuck.

This is the beauty of self employment. As I said in a previous comment, I’m a driver and one of the apps I work along with my own service give me the ability and freedom to raise my own rates when I feel the need. Truth is though, as it stands, most uber and lyft drivers could make more than enough if the companies were forced to pass on a percentage instead of low balling offers. Very rough math says they could pass on a fixed 80% and charge the rider whatever they feel like at any point in time. This would give them more enough profit along with covering all costs. They won’t do this because they are greedy and states/cities won’t make them do it because they are stuck in the hourly mindset when most IC work is not hourly. This job is all about miles. Watch dead and wasted time of course but it’s not all about the hourly.

Tell us you don’t understand gross revenue versus net profits without telling us.

Uber is making way more money than they let on. They got caught stashing millions over seas. They and lyft both take over half of the transaction on average and have reduced their support teams to mostly bots and people who can barely read.

I’m a driver in another state/city but if I lived in Minneapolis I’d be loving this.

Why?

I drive uber, empower (a service launched in my market) and I’m building my own service. Getting uber and lyft kicked out of town will do amazing things for the industry and the drivers and riders. Regional services will pop up and this will help filter out the drivers who know how to run a business and act professionally and those who shouldn’t be self employed and customer facing.

I’m on track to pull 6 figures in the next year or two. I’m currently in the process of upgrading to an EV, later this year we will be buying my wife a phev mini van for her to main and I’ll use it for business if needed as well as for road trips.

Real estate isn’t that simple. Way too many layers of work and bureaucracy between wanting to build something and making it happen even when you have the cash to make it so. Many of these layers are essential, others like nimby idiots are not. We need more housing for people and it would take a huge increase in available housing to have any negligible effect on any one individuals house/property value.

As for restaurants. It’s also not that simple. Most restaurants fail in the first year or two. You have to figure out what type of food is in demand and then maybe be willing and able to shift to something else if the market gets oversaturated.

True. My creativity doesn’t come out with story telling like this. My creativity is more of the MacGyver type.

I give people rides in my horse and buggy in exchange for cash and sometimes barter.

Iirc tmo has 2 tiers. One with a smallish cap and one that throttles based on tower capacity when you hit something like 30 or 50tb. I had the 30 day trial and I’ve considered getting it as a backup to our cable internet, I’ve held off because most of the time if the cable is out, it’s a bigger issue like a power outage that also eventually takes down the towers as well, plus I think where we are there is only one tower that we connect to and when it goes down we switch to another much further away with barely any signal.

I have spectrum gigabit down and they cap us at like 35 up. I’m watching and waiting while 3 companies aside from spectrum and att rollout fiber all over town. I’m hoping that eventually they get to us. We live in the outskirts and one of the companies expanded south from north of us so I have reason to hope they get to us eventually.

Is it that time again?

Word for word (from what I can remember).

We didn’t go far enough on January 6th, next time we will end democracy.

Yes. They said it out loud multiple times and over the past few years they have started saying lots of quiet parts outloud. We have a decent chunk of this country who are supportive of and helping to install a dictator.

Yep and they said it out loud at cpac.