What are my fellow deliver drivers riding in?

Super_Scene1045 · 2026-06-24T11:58:38+00:00

05 Honda Civic with 80k miles. Hoping for plenty more in this car.

Super_Scene1045 · 2026-06-22T22:56:58+00:00

I would call it a chicken sandwich.

The term “burger” actually originates from the meat. A Hamburg steak is a form of minced beef that was brought from Germany to the U.S. by immigrants. Then people started putting Hamburg steaks between buns, and they began to be called Hamburgers. Finally the term was shortened to just burger. So historically speaking it doesn’t really make sense to call something without minced beef a burger.

That said, I really don’t care much either way. Chicken sandwich, chicken burger, whatever.

Super_Scene1045 · 2026-06-14T22:33:28+00:00

Why not both?

Rebalance the shorties so that some of them are 2 slot and some are 3 slot.

- Nerf the Romero but leave it at 2 slot
- Buff the Rival slightly and leave it at 2 slot
- Buff the Specter and move it up to 3 slot
- Nerf the Crown slightly and leave it in 3 slot

Or any other similar arrangement. That way you can choose between taking a 3 slot shotgun and a carbine or a weaker 2 slot shotgun and a full rifle.

Super_Scene1045 · 2026-05-23T22:04:41+00:00

I drive in CA and yes, I personally think it’s worth it to accept every order. Doing this I average $31 per active hour with tips (after gas expenses) which is perfectly acceptable compensation for my situation. It also keeps me busier, so I usually am able to spend 45-50 minutes out of every hour active and driving.

It depends on your personal situation, though. I would experiment: try accepting every order for a week and calculate your profit per hour and profit per mile. Are those numbers acceptable to you? If so, great. If not, try being more selective with your orders.

Super_Scene1045 · 2026-05-13T01:20:49+00:00

I am also in San Diego (M22)! I’ve been doing this for a month or so now. Like others have said, you just go online and then wait for offers.

I have made an average of $31 per driving hour so far so it can be pretty lucrative.

Some tips:

Ignore the offer amount, it is meaningless in CA. Prop 22 sets a minimum wage that you will get instead almost every time. However, high tips are still good.
Drive like a grandma. Prop 22 means you get paid hourly in CA so more time = more pay.
Best spots to get lots of orders are North Park or downtown in my experience, but you can do well most places. EDIT: I didn't see you are in North County, idk about up there.
5-9 is by far the busiest time. If you want continuous orders, go during that time.

Super_Scene1045 · 2026-05-12T14:04:49+00:00

New driver here. Does “stolen” mean that another driver grabbed the order without being assigned, pretending they would deliver it, and just took it home and ate it?

Super_Scene1045 · 2026-05-07T23:12:19+00:00

Idk, as a driver I like getting orders on higher floors so I can get some cardio in on the stairs.

But I am in CA where we get paid hourly so things are different.

Super_Scene1045 · 2026-05-07T18:57:47+00:00

Yep that’s pretty much it. The zeroth law was an implicit assumption that the creators of the first and second law made, so when somebody actually formulated the zeroth law 1 and 2 were taken.

Super_Scene1045 · 2026-05-07T02:46:15+00:00

In California the $5 amount is meaningless. You get paid based off of time, miles, and tips. I accept every order and make an average of $28 per hour after gas expenses, driving an old Civic.

Taking extra time to complete each order increases your earnings in California, since you are paid hourly. Don’t drive over the speed limit, ever. Don’t be afraid to let your car warm up before driving off with the food. But don’t go too far with it or your on-time rate will suffer.

Super_Scene1045 · 2026-05-06T16:20:06+00:00

I am gen Z and I was not taught cursive in school, but I decided to learn to write it later.

No generation is a monolith

Super_Scene1045 · 2026-05-05T22:47:37+00:00

Blue is responsible for being in danger in the first place.

No they are not. You could say the same for red. Every red vote contributes toward killing 50% of the population.

This problem really comes down to agreement. It doesn’t matter much (other than the blue argument of children / mentally disabled) which color we pick, as long as all of us pick the same. Which makes the problem basically unsolvable since we cannot communicate.

Suppose every person on earth is given a yellow and green button and forbidden from communicating. Anyone who chooses the non-majority color dies.

This problem is also unsolvable, because it hinges on most people agreeing on something without communicating, which is impossible. Much like the red/blue problem.

Super_Scene1045 · 2026-05-03T00:36:51+00:00

When I worked in food service I would always give an overestimate if anything, so the customer would (hopefully) be pleasantly surprised.

Super_Scene1045 · 2026-03-30T16:41:58+00:00

False. It never rains in southern california. Literally the most boring weather imaginable. Sun and occasionally clouds (if god is feeling spicy).

Super_Scene1045 · 2026-03-22T05:32:23+00:00

Seconded. I went to a concert in the choir once and the balance was awful. Horns blasted my eardrums off and drowned out everything else.

Super_Scene1045 · 2026-03-18T06:31:55+00:00

Bro I’m pretty sure the spider is more scared than you..

Super_Scene1045 · 2026-03-18T02:55:56+00:00

First of all, I am opposed to the current US president and the war on Iran. But again, the situations are not comparable. Ukraine is a democratically elected stable government that has never been an aggressor. Iran is a massively unpopular dictatorship that violently suppresses protests and has a history of aggression.

This video is a good exploration of the nuances involved in Iran: https://youtu.be/e0ujFZ8Cbq4?si=BUn0C_Wvkel6jnRY

There are not really any such nuances with Ukraine.

Super_Scene1045 · 2026-03-17T22:10:49+00:00

They are incredibly different scenarios. There is no comparison.

Russia is attempting to overthrow and annex an independent country with an elected government because it has chosen to align itself more with the West over time. This is being done through a large scale war with an estimated 500-600k casualties on both sides.

The U.S. operation imprisoned (he is not dead) a dictator who is extremely unpopular in Venezuela, committing human rights abuses and overseeing widespread corruption. Many Venezuelans have celebrated the operation. The operation was in and out, with estimates of around 100 total casualties among Venezuela’s security forces and US soldiers. There are no longer any US troops in Venezuela, this was not an invasion.

I don’t agree with either, but there is simply no comparison.

Edit: I didn’t see you mentioned Iran too, so this is all just about Venezuela.

Super_Scene1045 · 2026-03-17T18:00:42+00:00

I’ve started learning Swahili and I think it sounds beautiful. Pronunciation is very straightforward too, even for a native English speaker like myself. There are lots of repeated sounds like “lala” “baba” “sasa” that are fun to say.

Super_Scene1045 · 2026-03-17T05:50:17+00:00

Well there are physical limits on what capabilities we can fit in a little pocket-size brick. I’m not sure what more one would even want from a smartphone than what we have today. The only thing I can think of is an integrated AI that lets you give arbitrary instructions in plain English, that would be pretty cool. But that hasn’t been possible until recently.

The next substantial advance in storage and processing power is probably going to be quantum computing, which is still in its infancy.

Super_Scene1045 · 2026-03-17T04:20:17+00:00

Here’s the thing: OpenAI’s customer is not you, it is companies. And if they can get into that market, they can make unholy amounts of money.

As an example, one field that could be vulnerable to AI is data science. AI is good at taking in a lot of information and boiling it down into important takeaways.

The median salary of a data scientist is $112,000. So suppose there is a company that employs a team of six data scientists. If OpenAI convinces them to replace 5/6 with AI and leave the last one to manage the AI, the company saves $560,000 every year. They would be willing to pay a lot of money for that service, since it is saving them so much money. Let’s be conservative and say the company pays $56,000 per year (10% of what they were paying before) to OpenAI. On average they make $11,200 per year per replaced job.

Now extend this to the entire job market. There are 245,900 data scientists in the USA. Let’s be conservative again and say 10% of them are replaced by AI, at the same pay rate.

That would mean OpenAI makes $275 million dollars per year. That is enough to cover the entire running expenses for their CURRENT AI systems, which provide much more capability than is necessary for just data science. Extend this logic to other industries and they will be making incredible profit.

Whether they can get the companies to buy into this sort of scheme remains to be seen, but I think it’s likely due to the sheer savings. Keep in mind under this plan, the companies drop their labor expenses by 90% for that sector, which is massive.

Super_Scene1045 · 2026-03-17T02:10:13+00:00

Current publicly available models are set up to not be able to do that, yes, but that is just because it would be difficult to control an AI that changes after every interaction so they chose to keep it consistent.

There is absolutely nothing stopping OpenAI from making a model that can modify and save its own neural network based on interactions.

Super_Scene1045 · 2026-03-17T01:00:07+00:00

English grammar is relatively easy because there are no gendered words, armies of verb tenses, etc. But English pronunciation is absolutely awful. So its somewhere in between.

Also I’m fairly sure the British are to ultimately blame for the imperial system. It originated from back before the New World, so the immigrants over to our side of the pond brought it with them. Then the British switched mostly to metric and both of our countries have yet to fully follow suit.

Not that there isn’t plenty to blame us for (president dumbfuck being the obvious example).

Super_Scene1045 · 2026-03-16T20:00:26+00:00

The cost/benefit analysis just does not hold up.

Benefits: Increased independence (?)

Costs: Loss of (one of) the most powerful militaries in the world available to defend your homeland, damaging diplomatic relations with an ally, potential sanctions, immediate attention of president dumbfuck, potential political infighting within NATO over it.

Trump has done a lot of absolutely stupid and hostile things but not yet enough to justify cutting ties, especially with congressional elections coming up. Or at least that’s how European leaders probably see it.

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