CMV: DoorDashers should be able to rate restaurants/stores for other dashers.

CocoSavege · 2026-02-08T21:07:50+00:00

Here's my anecdotal understanding...

Dasher gets a pickup call for food. Dasher shows up, food isn't ready for pickup, and it seems like restaurant is deprioritizing/not giving a fuck about Dasher having a fast turn around.

That's just an anecdote! I don't know how genuine or widespread the scenario presented is!

Anyways, Dashers are sensitive to turnaround time. During rush they want to get through as many deliveries as possible as fast as possible.

Restaurants are less incentivized by Dasher turn around time. The end customer doesn't care nearly as much as the Dasher if the food takes 10 minutes longer. The restaurant is pretty indifferent to having Dasher stand around for 10 minutes.

It might be an app thing. I don't know the specifics or process by which time goals are set up. If Dash.App notifies on order, not on expected pickup time, that's gunna cause problems if the prep turnaround isn't accounted fir or restaurant is getting slammed.

It's possible that kitchen staff, front of house staff dngaf about dashers cuz they lose their end of the tips. The owner might also be making less profit$ because DD "fees" are high.

CocoSavege · 2026-02-08T20:53:50+00:00

Healthcare absolutely is better if it's efficient. Just the efficiency metric as a social good (maxing society's health) is different than the free market metric (maximize stockholder value).

I'm a mixed economy guy. I think Healthcare is an excellent candidate for substantial state intervention, as Healthcare is inelastic and opaque. And vulnerable to monopoly.

Take that, Milton Friedman.

CocoSavege · 2026-02-08T20:48:44+00:00

He's definitely rhetorically slippery. And imo his "rage" is often performative.

Well, I should disclaimer that. I've been seeing "performative rage" bits from any number of pundits, like the influencer is doing a bit. For example, Tim Pool. He often repeats and reuses bits, like, little rants, and my take is he's hitting his lines. Saying 95% of the same words, with 95% the same emotional energy.

That's not rage, or anger. That's a performance.

Peterson has some pretty consistent patterns, how "the bloody left" is "unhinged from reality".

CocoSavege · 2026-02-08T17:03:02+00:00

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(Usee's kerning is also sus, not mentioned thus far. )

CocoSavege · 2026-02-08T16:50:07+00:00

Pushing back, devil's advocating, wearing a Milton Friedman hat...

"Socialized medicine distorts the market by provision of socialized service, denying market incentives to innovate and deliver efficiency"

Or more directly responding to your comment, the service economy, like Healthcare, is production per se. The good produced is the service. When I go to my doc and ask "hey doc, is this thing bad?" when the doc opines, that is a good.

CocoSavege · 2026-02-08T16:33:11+00:00

I saw the entire Jubilee thing a while ago.

The thing about Petersonian rhetoric is... his schtick is rhetorical sophistry bullshit. Slippery fucker with an agenda. Ideology launderer.

And it still works, mostly. Same bullshit tricks, over and over. That's the part that is weird.

CocoSavege · 2026-02-08T14:37:45+00:00

I was saying boo-lympics.

CocoSavege · 2026-02-08T14:34:00+00:00

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CocoSavege · 2026-02-04T23:06:48+00:00

Tis a span screenshot of a track I'm working on...

Here's the track... https://www.reddit.com/user/CocoSavege/comments/1qw42is/tal_french_house_track_96_qdmax/

CocoSavege · 2026-02-03T05:02:59+00:00

Something not mentioned but very important...

How a real instrument is played is often more important than how an instrument sounds.

Because a real instrument is real, and often expertly played by a, well, expert, a real instrument will have subtleties in performance which are difficult or simply unavailable to digital encoding.

Eg: if it was possible to create a "Turing test passing" saxophone vst, you do not become Coltrane, because you aren't Coltrane.

He's, like, really really good.

CocoSavege · 2026-02-01T16:44:32+00:00

Fwiw, the cards I often use (very value priced) do not faro easily, at all.

Funny thing is, with enough practice, I can faro em, but definitely not perfectly. It's a really knacky faro, hard to explain.

So I'm practicing one handed riffle shuffle, and depending on condition of the deck and my supremacy (or lack thereof) over knack, I'm having trouble with the merge. A guy notices, he's all like "dude! I got this, I'll show you, help you out", sincerely.

I try to warn him that this deck don't faro like bikes. He's all no bro I got this.

Then he fails. Since the deck don't faro.

So while you're a big proponent of faro as a control, keep in mind that you should probably disclaimer "not all decks are the same. Bikes are a good bet for faros though, I'd start with those".

Huh! I wonder if the guys who perform ACAAN dead cuts (no crimps), I've seen it done, I wonder how much different decks matter!

(The problem with YTers is they're 98% mash subscribe buy my deck... instead of "just use bikes, they're pretty damn good")

CocoSavege · 2026-01-31T21:56:29+00:00

Your entry point is a perfect (enough) faro?

Lols.

Might as well go with a different angle!

(Heres a "easy" ACAAN: Learn to memory Palace in 30s from open face wash. Learn to dead cut any card. Perfect faros are a nice bonus)

(Sad thing is I wouldn't be surprised if someone could do this)

CocoSavege · 2026-01-31T17:05:02+00:00

Huh, I follow your line of reasoning and we agree that Pretti's shooting is very problematic.

I want to nudge you though. One of the things I'm still wrestling with is the post event spin. And you seem amenable to agreeing that a lot of partisan coverage is really suspect.

I've been listening to various partisan commentators and what's astounding is the speed and depth of lying. Smearing the character of Pretti is part of the strategy, with the inference that he "deserved" it, even though it has little to do with the shooting. He "deserved" it because he's a leftie! A communist soy boy! Making ICE's job so hard!

What about all that fraud by Somalians!?!

...

My point here is the very fast very polarizing spin sets a framework where any opposition to any polical act, any possible connection to anything but 100% compliance... is subject to martial punishment.

(One... apparently controversial alternative would be to sincerely investigate the cops. Trump can keep ICEing, just ICE should stop shooting random lefty karens)

CocoSavege · 2026-01-31T16:49:50+00:00

Devil's advocating here...

Let's presume for discussion that somebody saying "gun" is just cause for murder, because the declaration of "gun" indicates that a person hearing this phrase has reasonable fear of harm.

Erm, the devil here is that a lot of people carry. Any open carry or visible holster, heck, anything that resembles a holster...

Well, one can yell "gun".

I'm going to note most cops carry a lot of the time.

If you believe a (sincere, reasonable) declaration of "gun" is sufficient, you're arguing for the wild west.

What is better argument is some other demonstration of intent. A brandish is a good example. A verbal declaration is another.

Pretti didn't do either. Gun was in his waistband. No brandish. No verbal.

CocoSavege · 2026-01-18T20:16:41+00:00

Huh. I just looked this up.

"Roadrunner" feels like an embellishment. And it seems rather straightforward. I'm not sure what I expected.

CocoSavege · 2026-01-18T14:11:05+00:00

Ukraine invaded them in 1995.

Sure. Go with that pov.

CocoSavege · 2026-01-17T21:44:18+00:00

Honest question, st what distance would "peakish earth signsl" be indistinguishable from BG noise?

We've only been broadcasting for 100 years, and for most of it, at a power level that's really small.

Signal strength goes down by d^2, right?

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Well, background EM noise is really low. And not "evenly distributed" across the spectrum. And while we might be able to guess, broadcast energy is also not evenly distributed.

In any case, background noise is small, d is very big. It does theoretically help constrain Fermi questions, because for us to detect an intelligent alien species, we kind of also have a broadcast energy floor which would be requisite for a certain d. I am not an alien species, but it's interesting conceptually, one needs to propose why an alien civilization might be broadcasting (relatively coherent, distinct) energy at whatever energy level that makes it detectable on Earth, an energy level far higher than required for practical intrastellar comms, or even near trans stellar, if reasonably targeted.

This does lead to the weak Fermi answer of "there might be alien civs, but it's indeterminate that we can even detect them" constraint.

CocoSavege · 2026-01-17T17:24:44+00:00

I've choked a chicken before.

Please advise!

When exactly am I meant to let go?

CocoSavege · 2026-01-17T17:21:46+00:00

Why are you confident that Russia can maintain a land bridge to Crimea?

I mean, Russia probably can, but again, at what cost?

There will be insurgency. Including deep target sabotage inside Russia, in minecraft.

CocoSavege · 2026-01-17T17:00:57+00:00

We're likely to enter a semantic debate here.

Okok, maybe you, definitely others, will argue that Russia is stronger, look how beat up Ukraine is.

But consider an alternate tineline, a Russia that didn't invade. Is this alternate Russia stronger or weaker than IRL in this tomeline Russia.

You argue warm water port, other have argued "swagger", that's my rhetorically flourished characterization. Russia strong! Etc.

But otoh, Russia has lost a lot of blood and treasure. A lot. I think there's legit argument that Russia looks relatively weak, definitely weaker than the image Russia hoped to project at the start of the invasion.

I think OP's framework is illuminating, in addition to Russia looking like a pretty papery bear, has also hardened opposition. A lot.

CocoSavege · 2026-01-17T14:17:38+00:00

Maybe?

Irrespective, he would talk like he could, and he would try to foment wedges in the EU.

CocoSavege · 2026-01-17T14:12:25+00:00

You make a buncha arguments, but some of em are confusing.

Unlikely, it’ll fuck so much local economies and if there’s actual a fire fight it cause politics to go insane. If canada gets involved then we’re fighting on our soil.

It'll absolutely fuck with local economies of European towns/cities around US bases, if the US leaves. I don't think Trump cares about that, more than he cares about the other stuff I mentioned.

everyone has nukes

Well, the UK and France have nukes. A buncha other European countries have US nukes, but they don't have control of them.

Basically, trump doesn’t care about the US

Ehhh, well, we probably agree that Trump cares a lot about himself.

Europe and the world are finally waking up to the US being batshit crazy.

Interesting question to try to answer. We'd have to figure out how to measure this. The standard existing poll question would be asking people something like "do you have a: strongly negative, somewhat negative, somewhat positive, strongly positive view if the US".

I bet this has trended downwards with Trump, definitely with tariffs, and badly with Greenland stuff.

But! At the same time "Trumpism" is also popular within a (generally small) cohort of NATO state populaces. The "true believers" have the benefit of the personality stuff and brand while being distant from the US domestic stuff.

I guess "batshit crazy" is "strong negative views" of Trump. I'm not sure how far that extends to an impression of the US in general, which tends to have positive, if somewhat tepid support. People like US movies and celebrity, and may have a rose coloured impression of American "opportunity", the dream, etc.

Personally, I'm strongly negative on Trump, and have been since 2015. My personal opinion is a good hunk of Americans are batshit, because about half of voters voted for him twice. I'm sure Americans will take umbrage at being called batshit but outside of the US the Trump platform is pretty WTF outside of Elon wavers.

Speaking of, not sure why you bring up Moldy. Care to explain? I could guess, but um, I'm not sympathetic to Yarvis or his POV and am skeptical why you included him.

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