I was just trying to make sense of the numbers. We are all acutely aware of the retail price gouging.

Whoa there, I was just trying to make sense of the discrepancy.

You probably have to look at the price that Home Depot is paying for it, not the price they’re charging you.

Some of you have never watched A Bug’s Life, and it shows.

loosely connected yahoos

This particular yahoo has a $100 million deal with Spotify.

He may not have the multi-billion dollar revenue of Fox News Media. But he does only have a fraction of their staff and operating expenses. That is certainly no pittance.

The rest of the yahoos are emulating him. Together they have a huge impact.

And it’s about to get a lot worse if this whole no-taxes-on-tips thing actually happened.

The business model incentivizes it by not paying a wage. This is an example offer:

This isn’t even the worst one I’ve seen today, and I only do this part time for extra money.

By all means, report safety issues. Get the bad driver canned. But if you stiff the driver too, and you knew the business model of the service you used, then you’re just further incentivizing the bad behavior.

That says more about you

It says I was in diapers when the conviction happened. News to me.

And his real name was Samuel Clemens!

Needs more stop signs and crosswalks

Gig work is tipped work. If they don’t tip, the driver worked for free.

The gig company “pays” the drivers a pittance, but it largely just covers a portion of the owner-operator’s expenses. 100% of the net profit comes from tips.

There are a handful of municipalities with unique laws which do not fit this model; but outside of those areas, that is straight up how it works.

Now, should the driver be reckless? No, that should be reported. But stiffing them won’t change anything.

Worse, to me, is that there is a perfectly grammatically correct way to be just as brief.

Wrong:

The bed sheets need washed.

Right:

The bed sheets need washing.

the car needs washed

Is there a name/term for this abomination? I’ve only ever heard one person speak in that form (omitting “to be”), and it has haunted me ever since.

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/25/the-onion-sold-global-tetrahedron

Thanks, I hate it.

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Unless you habitually carry your passport

This would be a good time to remind everyone that you can actually get a passport card that will fit in your wallet:

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-passport/card.html

The U.S. passport card is a wallet-sized, plastic passport that has no visa pages. The card is proof of U.S. citizenship and identity, and has the same length of validity as the passport book.

It would be funnier if he hadn’t flipped parties after that and ran again as a Republican in 1992.

It used to not be funny. It’s still not, but it used to not, too.

We’re already getting four more years of the real thing.