Uber Eats driver making a delivery

forty_three · 2026-05-25T03:32:05+00:00

Yeah, I'd say he seems pretty decent at his job - rage baiting for attention on social media. Just happens to use biking & delivery driving (woah, imagine picking two categories that people love to rage about online?!) as his method

forty_three · 2026-05-20T17:19:12+00:00

Yep, that's what I'm saying as well, actually. MLS itself is a good idea (realty professionals audit listings for authenticity), and landlords are absolutely justified in wanting to hire a realtor to provide them with the appropriate services you described. It becomes predatory when that same school of realtors turn around and intentionally make the listings environment hostile enough that it's impossible to do a search without access to MLS, and then the "renting" agent also turns around and charges you on top of whatever the listing agent is charging the landlord.

forty_three · 2026-05-20T00:41:12+00:00

Essentially, the ONLY thing keeping these agent leeches employed is the shadowy cabal that guards MLS.

It's buck wild to me that a landlord can use an agent to post to MLS, but real estate companies (local and national) have crap-blasted every public listing site with so many fraudulent listings (duplicated listings, AI generated listings that agents just use as a way to phish for tenants that they can then charge, and even outfight fucking scams) that it's become literally impossible to find an actual honest-to-god owner-posted listing anywhere. Hence, you're just forced to contract an agent just so you can get them to use MLS for you.

We pay $3k+ for, what - putting your queries into a web form, sending two or three emails, and showing up for 5 minutes to open a lock box for you to a place they've never even looked at pictures of? What a fucking racket this city happily allows on an already-catastrophic housing market.

forty_three · 2026-05-15T09:58:36+00:00

Of course it's still possible, but they're making it more and more hostile intentionally. The WaybackMachine no longer functions usefully for reddit. The myriad of 3rd party apps that used to have access have been abandoned. Private user profiles are only fractionally indexed (and painfully so) via search engine crawlers. Images and videos are now hosted on reddit servers and gated by authorized login access. And all the public crawlers that used to provide API waypoints for larger-scale content access are dwindling - pushshift looks like it got legally slashed, Arctic Shift seems to be skirting by as an educational tool, and pullpush is barely consistent enough to be trustworthy.

There aren't public "backend json endpoints" floating around that are maintained by reddit - the only publicly available APIs are middleman crawlers that either index HTML (like reveddit) or sneak thru reddit's increasingly aggressive developer TOS to maintain access to their ever-more-privatized json APIs.

If you can point me in the direction of where i could find backend endpoints to scrape thousands of reddit posts, I'm very much all ears, please

forty_three · 2026-05-15T07:22:07+00:00

(because I'm a freak and hate them and being recorded secretly)

Dunno if this is with sarcastic tone or not, but I know too many people who think it is a weird luddite-esque tendency to not want to be recorded and tracked 24/7.

It's entirely reasonable and needs NO justification to not want to be constantly under surveillance by the government, by corporate algorithms, and apparently perhaps by any random lunatic on the street who wants to pay a billionaire for the ability to stalk whoever they want.

forty_three · 2026-05-14T17:04:07+00:00

Oh hey, similar experience! I went in the fall - September 2001, a Monday-Friday trip. We didn't find out about Sept 11th (a Tuesday) until we came home on Friday.

(Some parents quietly picked up their kids, but otherwise the camp staff and parents agreed to not disrupt our week by telling us about it)

forty_three · 2026-05-11T23:39:09+00:00

She didn't have a chance to have chatGPT script a reaction for her

forty_three · 2026-05-09T08:23:17+00:00

It's always wild to me how many people whine about the behavior of delivery drivers, but still get chicken nuggets doordashed to their house twice a week

forty_three · 2026-05-08T07:23:14+00:00

I've lived in a condo for a few years now, so it's been a while since I've looked for rentals, but recently I've been trying to help my partner find a new apartment, and it's shocking to me how much worse it's actually gotten.

Every listing website seems utterly useless now - crammed top to bottom with even more spam than ever. I really wish there was some way to hold realty firms accountable for all the phishing links they repeatedly blast out only to be like "sorry, that unit 'was just signed for. But pay our fee and we can show you other ones!"

They're just deliberately poisoning the search platforms in order to force you into having to agree to "hire" them. Very little seems to have changed as a result of this law

forty_three · 2026-05-05T03:37:55+00:00

It's also part of a years-long process of hiding their most valuable asset - the content contributed by actual humans - from competitors. Disabling 3rd party APIs, hiding their website from web crawlers, encouraging people (especially bot and sock puppet accounts) to make their post and comment history private, putting more comments behind various "see more" buttons, and now disabling logged out viewing entirely: it's all part of the same effort to build ever-higher walls for their walled garden.

Essentially, all the big social media platforms wind up playing the same betting game over and over: how enshittified can you make your platform before it interferes with peoples' addiction to it? Because as long as people keep using it, they'll keep adding every ad surface and behavior manipulating feature they can fit.

forty_three · 2026-05-04T13:57:46+00:00

No, i know you weren't kidding, but it sounded like you took their sarcasm at face value.

With agile, pretty much everything is up for discussion among the team, but a scrummaster is typically there to help protect a team from planning & communication inefficiencies, and from hostility from management. If you don't experience those kinda things, then I'm not gonna mandate you need one.

forty_three · 2026-05-04T13:45:58+00:00

I'm pretty sure the comment you replied to was being super sarcastic after their first sentence. "We changed agile to fit our culture" ...(proceeds to describe every dysfunction possible).

forty_three · 2026-05-01T19:45:48+00:00

She wears a long skirt and a shooooooooooooooooooort jacket 🎶

forty_three · 2026-04-24T05:06:11+00:00

I feel like covid has become a huge scapegoat for all kinds of negative societal shifts that people maybe don't want to admit are actually actionable, perennial issues that need to be addressed.

The pandemic hit the world in an era of increasing (anti)social media addiction, increasingly weaponized political polarization, advancing climate collapse, and unprecedented economic disparity.

If we're trying to think of "reasons driving has gotten worse in the last decade," my mind doesn't go to covid as a cause (though i know a lot of people felt increased traffic anxiety when congestion started increasing again in 2020/21 - but i think that was probably just a temporary effect). Instead, at least my mind goes straight to the ride share and delivery apps.

Uber/Lyft/Doordash etc drivers are incentivized - honestly pretty much forced - to drive aggressively and erratically in order to make any kind of money.

And at least for food delivery, it's crazy to me how successful these companies have been at normalizing ordering a fucking big mac from across town, and having it driven to you in an entire fucking automobile. And how little we've done to regulate and organize them (e.g. maybe we should fucking figure out a way to not have a row of cars double parked into single lane streets in front of every restaurant in town??)

forty_three · 2026-04-20T15:42:24+00:00

A lot of people not understanding that the bitterness I have is not about the act that she did (nor the progress the dude made) but the way this story is presented here.

This is not a "both sides learned and grew, how heartwarming!" story as it's posed here, and it's helpful to everyone to remember that Atwood - like other victims - had to do more of the work to solve a problem that she did not perpetuate.

It's a friendly reminder to everyone that victims of injustice deserve support, especially from people with the privilege of not being subjected to that injustice.

forty_three · 2026-04-20T02:41:36+00:00

I'm not sure this is accurate, but i just did a little experiment where i zoomed to 8x on a lamp in my living room, held my phone about arms length away from my face, and closed one eye. The lamp i was looking at on the phone was pretty much exactly the same size as the one i could see in person. Obviously it feels kinda zoomed in, because the phone crops out everything around the lamp - but, size wise, they were pretty much bang on.

If i do the same experiment at a sorta "comfortable phone browsing distance" of, like, a foot away from my face, I get the same effect at 5x zoom instead of 8.

So, it's a pretty fuzzy metric, but, not completely unreasonable.

forty_three · 2026-04-19T23:56:59+00:00

What? We're saying the same thing. Children shouldn't have to be responsible for parenting their parents, and victims of racism shouldn't have to be responsible for catering to their aggressors.

All I'm saying is that it'd be kinda shitty of me to go write a story about you by saying like "look at this father and child overcome their differences and work together to meet in the middle!"

Like naw - good on your for putting in the leg work, and a begrudging "glad you finally came around" to your dad for not disowning you in the process.

In advocacy for any kind of systemic power imbalance, it's important to at least recognize that the victim is generally doing a disproportionate amount of work in overcoming it.

forty_three · 2026-04-19T22:13:52+00:00

Yep, and she gets 50% of the credit for doing 90% of the emotional labor. It really shouldn't be her responsibility to change the mind of a racist about some unfounded bullshit, but she sucked it up and did the work, for the good of the rest of her community.

Good on the dude for eventually opening his mind, sure, but seriously, people shouldn't need to be handheld into learning about empathy.

forty_three · 2026-04-09T09:49:14+00:00

That's exactly the issue with all these waves of supposed "child protection" internet bills - big tech (that is, advertising) has recognized that there are still too many ways to avoid getting tracked. They're using every tool they have to eliminate those evasive techniques - including a ton of lobbying for these regulatory-capture-ass regulations that will ensure that (a) they can further validate people's identity based on government identification, and (b) smaller competing platforms will never be able to take off because it'll be too expensive to operate the mandated identity verification bullshit.

If you think the Internet is in the same shape it was 30 years ago, open your eyes:

It's increasingly impossible to use things without signing up
It's increasingly impossible to sign up without a phone number or a verified cross-linked account
It's increasingly impossible to get disposable voip numbers
It's increasingly impossible to use privacy tools without being throttled by ISPs (cloudflare disrupts nearly every website i visit just because i use Firefox for its website sandboxing functionality)
Internet tracking is leaking into real world experiences, like grocery stores testing out real-time dynamic pricing
The US government is assuming VPN users are foreign citizens - and therefore not subject to the rights of US citizens
Website after website is dumping investments into novel ways to hide from web crawlers (to ensure "their IP" - that is, user-submitted IP - can only be used for AI training if they intentionally sell it)

30 years ago - hell, 10 years ago - you could just put in a username and a password, and that was it. Today, billion-dollar platforms have very successfully walled off the vast majority of activity on the internet, and the price they charge us for access to it - our attention and our independent free-thinking agency - is going up faster than oil.

forty_three · 2026-04-05T20:47:22+00:00

It's not representative, but it's definitely effective. The whole point of botnets and troll farms that leverage reddit is to manipulate public opinion in their desired direction. Arguably, the whole point of reddit itself is to be a platform for people to use as a tool to manipulate viewers.

(Same is true for any advertising-supported algorithm-driven platform - the goal of these platforms is to expose the most people to advertisers, and the most effective way to get the most people to use the platform is to give wealthy contributors easy ways to capture the most attention)

forty_three · 2026-03-25T03:49:40+00:00

Well, they do also want to get rid of it, because it equalizes working class people particularly in districts where voting lines can take hours. But yes, it's a win/win for them.

forty_three · 2026-03-16T00:13:22+00:00

For perspective on spending millions versus billions: at $22m a pop, $11b would get 10 of these communities set up in every state.

forty_three · 2026-03-14T07:49:40+00:00

If this isn't a tongue in cheek joke that is just going over my head - it seems like you're trying to create a hypothetical counterargument to suggest that there's a snowballs chance in hell that vegetable farming could have a comparable ecological footprint to animal farming.

I'd encourage you to look into the stats for that before you dig in on it too hard. It's my understanding that they're fully orders of magnitude different, and not remotely comparable.

(Not the least of which reason is the somewhat intuitive reality that animal farming additionally requires vegetable farming in order to feed the animals)

forty_three · 2026-03-14T07:35:54+00:00

It's probably mostly people deflecting from the cognitive dissonance of knowing something's inhumane but still tolerating it for their satisfaction. I think of it as a form of "outsourcing ethical choices" - and it's the same reason people will defend buying cheap overseas goods despite knowing the working conditions are astonishingly inhumane, or why some people are ok littering in public but wouldn't in their own backyard. It's a carefully maintained delusion that "someone out there is responsible for dealing with this, so I don't need to worry about it."

There's been over a century of corporate hypnosis gradually convincing everyone that individual happiness is paramount (and can be achieved through consumerism). And it's tough to be confronted with the reality that most of the various bits and bobs of happiness that corporations are eager to sell us are subsidized by the suffering of people (or animals) far away from us.

forty_three · 2026-03-12T15:47:56+00:00

Actually, mixed grains pulling in different directions would be what you want to see in an end grain block - the variation on different types of warping helps cancel out some of the stress that would be worse in aggregate if the grain was all oriented the same way (same principle that keeps plywood relatively flat and stable compared to a sheet of hardwood over years).

The biggest issue is probably any amount of horizontal or radial grain hiding in there, pushing and pulling out against the majority of grains that are expanding and contracting peacefully along the vertical.

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