Bad culture isn't something you can win a lawsuit over. If you treat everybody like shit, you're not exactly singling anybody out for unfair treatment. And I've heard the same thing as ~bhcompy about SpaceX, that it's basically "you're lucky getting to work here at this badass company so we're going to treat you like shit and if you don't like it fuck off." Probably really cool for somebody in their 20s who wants to make space rockets, but if you've got a family, fuck no.
In Fowler's case I would expect she'd be able to get the testimony of the other women who reported the manger who harassed her. The big problem there was Uber HR saying "well it's his first offense there's nothing we can do" but many women told Fowler they had also reported him.
Aren't the batteries expensive to replace when they wear out?
Sure, I agree EVs are a worthwhile suggestion for the future of Uber. I'm just saying driving for Uber under their original/current model is unsustainable. Their drivers are thinking "hey this is better than minimum wage!" but these are people who do not understand capital amortization.
For anything that isn't a Marvel or Star Wars movie, yeah. Write a mediocre script, shoot the first draft, cut a check for $100 million to a chinese digital effects company, slap a franchise name on it and collect a billion dollars.
I have no love for Uber. I've been shitting on them on Slashdot since they started because I think the "sharing economy" is a scam and (formerly?) middle class people running their cars into the ground operating illicit taxi services is not "innovative," it's an indictment of a dying economy and society that's eating itself.
That said I find it interesting we're getting an "Uber is the devil and their employees are evil and their business is failing" article every few days. It smells coordinated. If I were a competitor planning lawfare/regulatory fuckery against Uber in the near future, I would absolutely want to undermine any positive feelings the public might have towards Uber so when the hammer falls there is no outcry from the public defending them because they hate wimminz and are evil and shady.
So, sure, fuck Uber, but fuck "transportation reporters" too.
My thought when seeing this submission was "somebody's got it out for Uber." Now, I have never liked Uber, I think the "sharing economy" is a scam, and it's a sad state of affairs when middle class people are running their cars into the ground operating illicit taxi services because there are no jobs. But when every few days on/. there's more stories about how Uber hates wimminz, how their employees are evil psychos, how they're bad at business and "doomed," it seems a tad coordinated. Establish that Uber is the devil and hates women and minorities or whatever, and they're awful at business, and then when regulators move to crush them Uber will have no public support.
Again, I've never liked Uber, but I don't think these articles are organic, either.
Because removing it turns the country into an empire ruled from the cities. The EC balances out different cultures. Without it absolutely no concerns of rural Americans would be addressed. As an American living in a rural area, this is not in my interest.
It doesn't say he actually grabbed a baseball bat. Needs context. I wouldn't be shocked if this were an "aww, man, I'm gonna kill whoever didn't reload the printer, haha!" that when it's time to get someone fired/smeared is reported as "Bob threatened to murder employees who didn't complete tasks properly."
Okay but if we have 285 reproducible papers that say the value of X is 1.0 and 15 reproducible papers that say the value of X is 1.5, then we don't have a "consensus" that the value of X is 1.0. We have an active area of research in which scientists should be attempting to explain why X appears to be 1.0 at some times and 1.5 at other times.
This is evident in how many Republicans have submitted themselves to Trump, who is hardly a model of a good Christian.
Who cares how much time Trump spends praying so long as he appoints conservative Supreme Court justices and doesn't shove trannies into your bathrooms or force Christians to bake gay wedding cakes?
I don't understand why the only answer to Nazism is censorship/no platform/violence, etc. Are their arguments so incredibly powerful and persuasive that anyone who hears them becomes a Nazi? If you're unable to argue with them, is it because you're terrible at debate, or is it because they're right?
Doesn't even have to be "unpopular." "I support Trump" and "I support Hillary" were both widely held, popular opinions. But you damn well know people are moderating those comments based on their own political bent and not on "toxicity."
This is why reddit is such garbage. Yes, the rules explicitly state that up votes and down votes mean "contributes" or "doesn't contribute" and not "agree" or "disagree." So on any controversial topic what you should find at the top should be the very best, most well thought-out arguments for each side. That would be useful! Instead whatever supports the group think, no matter how trite or retarded goes up and well thought out counter arguments are downboated to oblivion.
"Toxicity" is just a way of maintaining the status quo, whatever it happens to be. 70 years ago a comment that "blacks should go to school with whites" would be toxic and unproductive.
Yes, every Christian and every conservative is a hypocrite. It's impossible to live up to our own rules, that's why we're always trying and failing. You are not a hypocrite, however, because you'd have to have standards in order to violate standards. A pig who thinks rolling in shit is just swell is hardly hypocritical when rolling around in shit, is he?
I actually know the bible reasonably well, well enough to know that your allegedly religiously derived rules are nothing of the sort. No, instead you have a bunch of extra-biblical philosophy and selectively cherry pick bits of the bible to support it all the while ignoring the bits of the bible that don't support it and in fact say the opposite.
Yeah, you have it backwards. Catholicism is a philosophy. The Bible is a liturgical tool we compiled to help with our teachings some 400 years after Christ, but it is not the religion itself. This is why protestants are so fucked up. Physics books are written by physicists who understand physics. You then have people who read the physics book and think memorizing it means you understand physics. Wrong. You just know how to recite a book, but not what it means.
Apart from a desire for oppression and a return to glory days of the 1950s where everyone except people like you were repressed, you mean.
Well here we 60-odd years later and everybody's still pretty damn oppressed aren't they? Blacks are burning down the cities, 25% of the women are getting raped on campuses or whatever (which are not exactly bastions of right-wing trad Catholic indoctrination are they?). Seems to me whatever the progressive social movement was trying to do failed miserably. Keep digging that hole though. I'm sure it'll all work out any time now.
I didn't say I think it's okay, I said the girls think it's okay.* We know this because the determining factor in whether a guy is "creepy" or "hot" when coming on to a girl is not the manner of the approach but the attractiveness/social status of the man.
Fat nerd: "Oh hello m'lady, I would very much like to buy you dinner and get to know you better, if that would be all right with you." Polite! Nice! Creepy. Reported to HR.
6'2" Tom Brady looking motherfucker with money and a nice car: "I'm gonna buy you some furniture and then fuck your brains out on it." Bizarre! Awful! Hot. Gets laid. "Teehee he's so aggressive I just love it!"
Now morally I don't agree with any of this casual sex hook-up crap and I think it's ruining civilization turning the women into trash objects and the men into either vapid playboys or bitter loners and now 70% of men 20-35 are unmarried. Kind of disastrous for the next generation. But this is how women behave. It's called "hypergamy." Eggs are expensive, sperm is cheap, don't waste expensive eggs on low-quality sperm.
When I was younger I was selectively famous in a niche artistic circle. People knew who I was. I'd go to a convention and girls way out of my league would want to climb me like a tree. Just because I had a little bit more social status. Go back home and go to a club where I was just another guy and not a second look. That's just how humans are wired. This is why 80% of the women on Tinder are only fucking 20% of the guys.
* I went and read your article and it says basically the same thing I did: whether something is creepy or hot is determined by the boundary set by the woman. However women set very different boundaries for rich hot guys than for fat nerds. The moral of the story is "don't be a fat nerd."
And this makes it OK to harass and coerce women into sex... how?
I never said it was okay. My point was that he was so pathetic his girlfriend was out banging other guys, and then so hard-up he thinks it's a good idea to go begging subordinates to do his girlfriend's job. I'm just laughing at the entire situation.
That's a good point. I am not doing anything in the bedroom that will get our city firebombed, so you can rest assured.
Then again I recall Jerry Falwell saying that Hurricane Katrina was God's justice on New Orleans for the gays. But since the flooding mostly skipped the gay district, it seems to have been God's justice on the gay-adjacent. I guess we need more data points to figure out who exactly God is hating these days.
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Bad culture isn't something you can win a lawsuit over. If you treat everybody like shit, you're not exactly singling anybody out for unfair treatment. And I've heard the same thing as ~bhcompy about SpaceX, that it's basically "you're lucky getting to work here at this badass company so we're going to treat you like shit and if you don't like it fuck off." Probably really cool for somebody in their 20s who wants to make space rockets, but if you've got a family, fuck no.
In Fowler's case I would expect she'd be able to get the testimony of the other women who reported the manger who harassed her. The big problem there was Uber HR saying "well it's his first offense there's nothing we can do" but many women told Fowler they had also reported him.
Also, buy both seats and bring one of the hookers with you.
Aren't the batteries expensive to replace when they wear out?
Sure, I agree EVs are a worthwhile suggestion for the future of Uber. I'm just saying driving for Uber under their original/current model is unsustainable. Their drivers are thinking "hey this is better than minimum wage!" but these are people who do not understand capital amortization.
They're losing money because they suck.
For anything that isn't a Marvel or Star Wars movie, yeah. Write a mediocre script, shoot the first draft, cut a check for $100 million to a chinese digital effects company, slap a franchise name on it and collect a billion dollars.
I have no love for Uber. I've been shitting on them on Slashdot since they started because I think the "sharing economy" is a scam and (formerly?) middle class people running their cars into the ground operating illicit taxi services is not "innovative," it's an indictment of a dying economy and society that's eating itself.
That said I find it interesting we're getting an "Uber is the devil and their employees are evil and their business is failing" article every few days. It smells coordinated. If I were a competitor planning lawfare/regulatory fuckery against Uber in the near future, I would absolutely want to undermine any positive feelings the public might have towards Uber so when the hammer falls there is no outcry from the public defending them because they hate wimminz and are evil and shady.
So, sure, fuck Uber, but fuck "transportation reporters" too.
My thought when seeing this submission was "somebody's got it out for Uber." Now, I have never liked Uber, I think the "sharing economy" is a scam, and it's a sad state of affairs when middle class people are running their cars into the ground operating illicit taxi services because there are no jobs. But when every few days on /. there's more stories about how Uber hates wimminz, how their employees are evil psychos, how they're bad at business and "doomed," it seems a tad coordinated. Establish that Uber is the devil and hates women and minorities or whatever, and they're awful at business, and then when regulators move to crush them Uber will have no public support.
Again, I've never liked Uber, but I don't think these articles are organic, either.
Except in this case, people who pay the bills are venture capital firms
Also the drivers who run their cars into the ground in exchange for rent/grocery money. They're basically eating their cars.
I see zero reason to keep the Electoral College.
Because removing it turns the country into an empire ruled from the cities. The EC balances out different cultures. Without it absolutely no concerns of rural Americans would be addressed. As an American living in a rural area, this is not in my interest.
No one called Fowler a man-hater because she didn't want to get propositioned by her manager.
manager to grabbed the baseball bat
It doesn't say he actually grabbed a baseball bat. Needs context. I wouldn't be shocked if this were an "aww, man, I'm gonna kill whoever didn't reload the printer, haha!" that when it's time to get someone fired/smeared is reported as "Bob threatened to murder employees who didn't complete tasks properly."
Let's just all vote that anti-gravity exists and boom, hoverboards!
Okay but if we have 285 reproducible papers that say the value of X is 1.0 and 15 reproducible papers that say the value of X is 1.5, then we don't have a "consensus" that the value of X is 1.0. We have an active area of research in which scientists should be attempting to explain why X appears to be 1.0 at some times and 1.5 at other times.
How is that any different from the left?
This is evident in how many Republicans have submitted themselves to Trump, who is hardly a model of a good Christian.
Who cares how much time Trump spends praying so long as he appoints conservative Supreme Court justices and doesn't shove trannies into your bathrooms or force Christians to bake gay wedding cakes?
I think most people would consider that a toxic point of view to express
Depends on whether you're advocating for the exclusion of white people.
It's not some government control, and it's not something you can't already do on your own.
The issue of "government control" is moot when the companies that control the government also own the social media platforms. See my .sig.
I don't understand why the only answer to Nazism is censorship/no platform/violence, etc. Are their arguments so incredibly powerful and persuasive that anyone who hears them becomes a Nazi? If you're unable to argue with them, is it because you're terrible at debate, or is it because they're right?
Doesn't even have to be "unpopular." "I support Trump" and "I support Hillary" were both widely held, popular opinions. But you damn well know people are moderating those comments based on their own political bent and not on "toxicity."
This is why reddit is such garbage. Yes, the rules explicitly state that up votes and down votes mean "contributes" or "doesn't contribute" and not "agree" or "disagree." So on any controversial topic what you should find at the top should be the very best, most well thought-out arguments for each side. That would be useful! Instead whatever supports the group think, no matter how trite or retarded goes up and well thought out counter arguments are downboated to oblivion.
"Toxicity" is just a way of maintaining the status quo, whatever it happens to be. 70 years ago a comment that "blacks should go to school with whites" would be toxic and unproductive.
And we will define "toxic" as anything that doesn't support authoritarian technocracy.
can we change this, so societies don't have to go through this cycle with inequality rising until the next revolution comes and levels out everything?
No. See Polybius. See Strauss-Howe. The Fourth Turning is upon us.
i.e. a massive hypocrite.
Yes, every Christian and every conservative is a hypocrite. It's impossible to live up to our own rules, that's why we're always trying and failing. You are not a hypocrite, however, because you'd have to have standards in order to violate standards. A pig who thinks rolling in shit is just swell is hardly hypocritical when rolling around in shit, is he?
I actually know the bible reasonably well, well enough to know that your allegedly religiously derived rules are nothing of the sort. No, instead you have a bunch of extra-biblical philosophy and selectively cherry pick bits of the bible to support it all the while ignoring the bits of the bible that don't support it and in fact say the opposite.
Yeah, you have it backwards. Catholicism is a philosophy. The Bible is a liturgical tool we compiled to help with our teachings some 400 years after Christ, but it is not the religion itself. This is why protestants are so fucked up. Physics books are written by physicists who understand physics. You then have people who read the physics book and think memorizing it means you understand physics. Wrong. You just know how to recite a book, but not what it means.
Apart from a desire for oppression and a return to glory days of the 1950s where everyone except people like you were repressed, you mean.
Well here we 60-odd years later and everybody's still pretty damn oppressed aren't they? Blacks are burning down the cities, 25% of the women are getting raped on campuses or whatever (which are not exactly bastions of right-wing trad Catholic indoctrination are they?). Seems to me whatever the progressive social movement was trying to do failed miserably. Keep digging that hole though. I'm sure it'll all work out any time now.
I didn't say I think it's okay, I said the girls think it's okay.* We know this because the determining factor in whether a guy is "creepy" or "hot" when coming on to a girl is not the manner of the approach but the attractiveness/social status of the man.
Fat nerd: "Oh hello m'lady, I would very much like to buy you dinner and get to know you better, if that would be all right with you." Polite! Nice! Creepy. Reported to HR.
6'2" Tom Brady looking motherfucker with money and a nice car: "I'm gonna buy you some furniture and then fuck your brains out on it." Bizarre! Awful! Hot. Gets laid. "Teehee he's so aggressive I just love it!"
Now morally I don't agree with any of this casual sex hook-up crap and I think it's ruining civilization turning the women into trash objects and the men into either vapid playboys or bitter loners and now 70% of men 20-35 are unmarried. Kind of disastrous for the next generation. But this is how women behave. It's called "hypergamy." Eggs are expensive, sperm is cheap, don't waste expensive eggs on low-quality sperm.
When I was younger I was selectively famous in a niche artistic circle. People knew who I was. I'd go to a convention and girls way out of my league would want to climb me like a tree. Just because I had a little bit more social status. Go back home and go to a club where I was just another guy and not a second look. That's just how humans are wired. This is why 80% of the women on Tinder are only fucking 20% of the guys.
* I went and read your article and it says basically the same thing I did: whether something is creepy or hot is determined by the boundary set by the woman. However women set very different boundaries for rich hot guys than for fat nerds. The moral of the story is "don't be a fat nerd."
And this makes it OK to harass and coerce women into sex... how?
I never said it was okay. My point was that he was so pathetic his girlfriend was out banging other guys, and then so hard-up he thinks it's a good idea to go begging subordinates to do his girlfriend's job. I'm just laughing at the entire situation.
That's a good point. I am not doing anything in the bedroom that will get our city firebombed, so you can rest assured.
Then again I recall Jerry Falwell saying that Hurricane Katrina was God's justice on New Orleans for the gays. But since the flooding mostly skipped the gay district, it seems to have been God's justice on the gay-adjacent. I guess we need more data points to figure out who exactly God is hating these days.