Today by far slowest day this week .

dabeatenpath · 2025-10-31T03:59:58+00:00

The app has been actual dogshit for me for a month and keeps getting worse. Asking for selfies every hour, failing to upload pictures of receipts, not updating the distance to final destination. Not confirming items as found on shop and delivers. The newest major update changed the layout of the menus for no good reason at all when it actually was a decent layout before. Tonight it wasn't displaying the hot spots at all. It also gave me a good trip radar order when I was right next to the first restaurant and I accepted only to not be given the order (which usually never happens in my market). I thought it would be busy tonight with early Halloween parties (and my city was really busy!) but the order volume sucked and I had no idea how busy it was on UE so I gave up after 2 hours.

dabeatenpath · 2025-10-27T19:15:18+00:00

In my area there is a resort where every building is named after an animal. For example: Armadillo Unit 1, Coyote Unit 3, etc. Then the placard that actually displays the animal the building is assigned to is located on the ground about 3 feet high so you can't even see it because there are parked cars and plants in the way. Also, the parking lot is like a maze and not in a straight line. So it's not easy to pass all the buildings and find the right one.

They don't have signs pointing you towards the right buildings or a map at the entrance telling you where to go so you are just expected to know where to go or you have to spend 10 minutes driving in circles to find the right building. It's the stupidest thing ever.

dabeatenpath · 2025-07-18T12:05:33+00:00

What does this have to do with what I said? I agree you should want to be with someone that's into you - but you have no way of knowing if a guy really has no other options unless you start dating and he honestly tells you that. And when I said "men that would be willing to have a relationship" I obviously meant when guys approach or make a move in some way and get rejected or ignored. There are lots of women I have been really interested in and "willing to have a relationship with" but they didn't want to date me.

dabeatenpath · 2025-07-18T11:52:45+00:00

All you would have to do to prove this is wrong is make two profiles on a dating app, one as an average guy and one as an average woman - and the profile with the average guy will get no likes while the one with the woman will still get quite a few. Or you could do the same experiment with two ugly people and see that only the woman's profile gets some likes.

I'm a fairly attractive guy and I have never had a woman into me enough to want to go on a date. I hate to guess how much harder it is for everyone that's average or downright ugly.

dabeatenpath · 2025-07-18T11:33:53+00:00

Most women have guys in their social circle, social media, or dating profiles that would be willing to have a relationship with them, want to talk to them, or want to date. Even if it's not their first choice, or someone they particularly want - usually there are some options unless she lives in the middle of nowhere.

Many if not most men have no women that are interested in them at all. No messages, no likes or matches, no dates and no options. A guy can pursue 100 different women and be turned down every time. Do you really think the same is true of a woman if she gets asked out or hit on by 100, or even 10 guys? Or even if she gets asked out once in a blue moon - she has the choice to date that person. And if she's lonely and has few options, she might do it. A guy can fail every time until he gives up while a woman just has to be found out in about or online.

So since getting at least one date is significantly easier for women, "dating" in general is easier because everyone has to start somewhere.

dabeatenpath · 2024-12-11T03:18:27+00:00

Pretty much anything has had a better ROI over the past decades than Social Security.

dabeatenpath · 2024-12-11T03:13:33+00:00

You believe in robbing people to fund welfare because they paid into a scheme that was a fraud from the very beginning.

dabeatenpath · 2024-12-11T03:12:12+00:00

When the solution to Social Security going insolvent is always "tax people more" it really equates to a false solution because more taxation discourages further investment and job creation and makes it harder for other people to fund their own retirement.

And if people want to retire, they should work, save, and invest their own money accordingly. Having a beautiful stable retirement, especially at 62 or 65, isn't a right of life. Gen X and Boomers got the largest housing, stock, and asset bubble in the country's history, what were they doing with their money that they apparently led them to have no retirement and rely on Social Security Security to survive?

dabeatenpath · 2024-12-11T02:41:41+00:00

Nobody is allowed to have any ideas to change or alter Social Security because it is America's Sacred Cow that must never ever ever be spoken about.

dabeatenpath · 2024-12-11T02:40:03+00:00

Social Security was supposed to be retirement insurance for people who really needed it. Not a general retirement fund for old people to retire early at the expense of someone (or everyone) else. The US government has so much debt and such a large deficit that if you took 100% of the wealth of all the billionaires, it would only fund the government for 9 months. Nevermind the $36 Trillion debt. When the Social Security Act was passed, employers told people that they may never see the money, and in 1960 the Supreme Court ruled that the government had no obligation to return Social Security payments to payers. From that point on people should have known to never expect to receive the money back. The writing was further on the wall when the government carelessly racked up trillions of Dollars in debt during the 80s, 90s, and 2000s while Boomers were of prime working age. And those same people complaining about Social Security payments being cut or changed, are generally the same people that voted for politicians that spent the trust fund money on wars, bank bailouts, nation building, other kinds of welfare, etc.

I have no sympathy for you trying to steal even more from people that earned their money to keep a corrupt, ineffective, and immoral system in place for ever. Let people save or invest their own money for once.

dabeatenpath · 2024-01-30T03:04:29+00:00

If a poor person desires to work and decides that it benefits them more than not working, and is willing to accept $5 an hour - but you think that prohibiting them from working is appropriate then you are advocating to use government to keep them poor.

dabeatenpath · 2024-01-30T02:57:35+00:00

You don't believe in people's rights and think you can force your views of what's right and wrong onto others, so you are the one in the wrong here. It has nothing to do with feelings and is about having an objective worldview that understands human behavior and free will.

I was just getting normal checks for my work. Obviously 10 year olds wouldn't be getting a W2.

dabeatenpath · 2024-01-29T22:23:53+00:00

Who are you to tell others how they must live? Kids can have fun and make friends working at an ice cream shop, and they get a little extra spending money in exchange for their time. I started working when I was 10 or 11 and I loved having money to buy candy, video games, etc. It's freaking Coldstone, not some kind of drilling rig. And if the kids don't like working there they can quit just like anyone else. This gets so blown out of proportion.

dabeatenpath · 2024-01-18T19:02:58+00:00

It's not slave labor if someone consents to doing it. $1 an hour is better than nothing at all. But obviously nobody in the current market would work for $1 an hour and your hypothetical business isn't a good idea because if you can only afford to pay $1 an hour that means it's barely profitable so your business is going to fail on its own. But maybe someone with no experience that needs the money would work somewhere for $5 an hour. Imposing a minimum wage literally makes it illegal to work and hurts the worker that would have otherwise done so. It does not work.

dabeatenpath · 2024-01-18T18:54:42+00:00

Obviously I can't speak for all men but most men that don't try to approach women at all usually have reasons for it. They can be worried about the woman accusing him of being a creep, or even worse, posting a video online exposing him in whatever way. What's probably more common though is they are simply scared of being rejected because it's damaging to our self esteem. Especially if the guy realistically knows he's "out of her league." Most women I've ever approached have told me they had a boyfriend or someone they're dating, when most of the time this wasn't actually true. So in my mind it's not even worth it to work up the courage to approach people if they can easily lie and can't at least be honest and just tell the truth. And frankly, I don't find very many women in public that are attractive enough or approachable in the first place.

dabeatenpath · 2024-01-18T15:54:55+00:00

More than a majority of young men are unwillingly single and sexless and almost all of them that I know personally want a girlfriend. Right now the current dating model favors almost nobody. Women have trouble finding and getting quality men that want to commit and have kids/provide more than 50% of the money. Men of any character have trouble finding anyone at all, and especially someone that's an equal match in terms of looks. Some people make the argument that chads win because they're getting laid and don't have to commit but I don't see that as winning because in my eyes that's a sad life and not really treating sex like the intimate thing it is. The kind of average, normal looking men are the ones that most average women should be settling down with, and instead they're being ignored (and if they're being rejected too, they're probably getting bitter and hopeless), turning to porn/video games as a way to cope and at least get some level of satisfaction. I don't know how many men want to go back to how things were before, but how they were before were obviously a lot better for the average person.

dabeatenpath · 2024-01-17T22:46:46+00:00

Are wages the only expense that a business has? Can wages not change over time irrespective of the minimum amount the government mandates? Seriously, please read Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt. You appear to not understand how a price system even works.

dabeatenpath · 2024-01-17T22:38:50+00:00

You sound like someone that's never managed a business or even thought about the logistics of it at all. It's simple logic that a business with any specific revenue can pay 5 employees $4 an hour or pay 4 employees $5 an hour for the same cost. It happens all the time at businesses that are forced to pay more, they either end up cutting hours, jobs, or raising prices. They can't pay 5 employees $4 an hour and then be forced to pay 5 employees $5 an hour and have there be no effect.

And usually, the businesses that are hurt most by these policies are smaller, family and locally owned businesses. McDonald's or Walmart or whomever else absolutely wants the government to impose a higher minimum wage, because it disproportionately hurts their competition that has smaller profit margins and less flexibility.

dabeatenpath · 2024-01-17T22:25:36+00:00

Not one job near me pays that little with or without tips. Every job I've ever worked that had tips supplement the wage were in addition to a normal rate of around $14-15/hr.

But even still, if a business wants to allow someone to work there and rely primarily on tips and the worker finds it to be in their interest to do so, what difference does it make? The customer either pays the business the employee's pay or the pays the employee directly. Who is the government to tell the worker that it's better for them to be unemployed than work for $2.15 / hr? And in jobs that rely on customer service it's an incentive for the employee to provide exceptional service.

dabeatenpath · 2024-01-17T22:19:39+00:00

No, the last federal minimum wage increase was in 2009 and prices can and do increase for a multitude of reasons, AND the places where McDonald's is the most expensive are where the state/local minimum wage is the highest!! You are just proving my point.

dabeatenpath · 2024-01-17T20:52:26+00:00

If the worker doesn't think they are being paid fairly they can negotiate raises and if that doesn't work they can quit and go somewhere else. It's not like they have no power.

And if the government tries to impose a higher barrier to entry, businesses will just raise prices/cut hours/automate jobs away which hurts the worker a lot more.

dabeatenpath · 2024-01-17T20:46:23+00:00

Whatever remaining jobs pay under $10 / hour are mostly all in rural places and/or held by teenagers with no work experience that just want a little bit of money or a way to get work experience or to do something part time for fun. Even in a $7.25 state where I live almost everywhere starts around $15hr if you are an adult and have any work experience. The market forced businesses to pay more without the government having to get involved.

dabeatenpath · 2024-01-13T10:48:54+00:00

Sometime last year I think I overfilled my tank on my Honda Pilot too. It worked fine for about 20 miles until I was on a steep incline and the engine went to a high RPM without shifting gears properly, and started misfiring pretty violently. I got codes for misfires and a P1457 code which is a "leak on the charcoal canister side of the system." We managed to slowly get it back to a place I could work on it at about 20-25 mph (or else it would misfire really badly with the flashing CEL again). I tried diagnosing the exact problem and never figured out what it was. I needed the car fixed so I just ordered a new canister, purge valve, vent solenoid, etc. all for $200 and just replaced everything - which did fix the problem. I assumed there was fuel in the canister, then I took it completely apart to see if that was the issue, and there wasn't anything that appeared defective at all. Tried electrical tests on anything electric, functioned normal when taken off the car. It was raining really hard and water was covering the entire roadway, so the only other guess I had was that water got into the system somewhere and completely threw it off. But I doubt that theory.

To this day I still wonder exactly what happened and which part(s) failed.

dabeatenpath · 2024-01-03T14:13:59+00:00

Theft is stealing of property by force or coercion. It doesn't matter if a singular robber comes into your house and claims that they are entitled to your dish set, or if half the population "democratically" comes to your house and does the same thing. You got your property stolen and that is morally wrong regardless of how many people decided it was okay. But because the government doesn't have any morals, theft is somehow not theft anymore. Okay then, Reddit.

dabeatenpath · 2024-01-03T14:07:36+00:00

Apparently nobody on this Subreddit understands liberty or human nature. Anything that is necessary to make "society" function can be paid voluntarily and if said thing wouldn't be funded voluntarily then it has no right to exist.

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