http://slatestarscratchpad.tumblr.com/post/145471809566/uber-is-having-a-hard-time-finding-enough-people
>Uber is offering leases that give them a car and a job all at once. The terms of the lease say that they need to put down a $250 deposit, and if working for Uber doesn’t work out for them, they can give them back the car and lose the deposit. If you work for Uber a reasonable amount, you’ll be able to pay off the car and make money to afford things like food and housing. I don’t know if Uber’s terms are the best, but they come bundled and easy for people who don’t have the resources to comparison-shop and coordinate a bunch of different actors.
>What I find shocking about this is that the only way anybody can think of to help poor people is to wait for it to be convenient to Uber to do so. Uber is like the only functional part of our society right now. Banks, governments, other businesses, etc, say “leave these people to die”, and Uber is actually coming up with win-win solutions.
>And so of course everybody hates them and wants to destroy them, and probably they’ll succeed. They’ll just say “It’s ‘exploitative’ because if you don’t pay the lease, they take the car back”, and everyone will ban them for being mean. Okay. Good luck finding someone willing to offer a non-exploitative loan then. This is why there are no good routes out of poverty anymore.
>>76242691
Uber is not having a hard time finding enough people. If they paid more they could easily get more drivers.
Uber has lowered prices several times to be more "competitive." It used to be a bunch of cool hipsters driving their honda civics in their free time, but after the price drops, Uber has gotten desperate in their hiring. The only drivers I've met in the last few months are ex-taxi drivers and old people driving beaters. If uber wants better drivers, maybe they should pay better wages.
>>76242691
>local taxies want ~$70 + tip to get from train station to my town, about 20 minutes/10 miles away.
>pull up Uber and say beat this $40 quote or get fucked
>get cheap(er) ride and don't have to wait
win-win
>/pol/ wants to deport this
ugh..
Grande is cuban
>>76242841
And Greek with some Arab
We sadly can't deport this coalburner.
will bernout be completely knocked out after california? what kind of level of butthurt and tantrum can we expect from berniebros?
Well, he hasn't had a chance for months and they've ignored it. I'm guessing they'll ignore California's results as well.
Berniefags are so fucking stupid they still throw protests even though he has no chance. He needs to actually fucking die for them to finally give up, and even then they'll still keep phonebanking.
>>76242786
This. Those unemployed retards don't see how dead in the water Bernie is.
>Leave 45%
>Remain 41%
Press F to pay respects to the EU.
>he thinks the referendum is binding
>>76242596
>paying respects to the EU
i'll piss on its fucking grave
>>76242822
Don't listen to this scared shill.
>>76242596
>>76243988
We got your backs, Bongs.
Choose wisely
>>76242465
I'm torn between Gaddafi and Saddam. I think I might lean more towards Gaddafi though. Libya seemed like an ok place before shit went south.
>>76242465
I would pick saddam. Because yes he was an asshole, but he kept the muzzies in check and prevented terrorism!
None of the above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQq_kkdAMy4
How will he ever recover?
*Stefan
>>76076033
varg is pretty based but he is against trump and capitalism which i disagree with him on
>Dan Aykroyd was rushed to the hospital on Saturday. The 63-year-old legendary comedy actor was rushed to the emergency room after complaints of stomach pain according to a Sunday report from TMZ.
>The Los Angeles City Fire Department told the gossip site that they had responded to a call at his house at 10am before transporting him to a hospital in Santa Monica.
source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3626631/Ghostbusters-star-Dan-Aykroyd-rushed-emergency-room-complaints-stomach-pain.html
Dan recently claimed the new Ghostbusters "has more laughs and more scares than the first 2 films". Is feminism to blame? Does feminism cause cancer?
>>76242456
kek wills it
It was so bad, he shat himself to death.
RIP
>>76242456
Did he shit talk the god emperor ?
Let's settle this once and for all
Is marijuana GOOD for you?
Does it have medical value or is it just a massive scam?
>>76242278
It can be good for you if you use it in a way that helps you. I use it for pain because I have Crohn's but I either cook it or vape it.
It's only not good for you if you have no self control.
I suppose it can have medicinal uses, but sitting inside and watching Seth rogan films all day while you hit your bong isn't going to benefit your health in any way, shape or form in fact breathing in the smoke is probably damaging your lungs.
It can relieve pain but there's not much more except extremely iffy stretches.
I think it should be legal for rec use but if you smoke it as a "hobby" or even worse, a "lifestyle", you are a waste of oxygen
This film is pretty red pill.
>>76242260
Nice thread. What movie retard, and why?
>>76242260
makes you think...
>>76242308
>file name
its the pianist..
i liked it desu
How do you feel about legal english speaking hispanics in America?
>>76241993
You mean Americans
They watch too much anime
>>76241993
nothing wrong with them as long as they're legal and good people.
How we can end racism, xenophobia and gun violence?
>>76241986
By killing feminism and all their other Jewish made-up beliefs
>>76241986
inb4 everyone says we must kill X race
Why not add "war" if you were going to make a list of impossible wishes?
The girl in the pic is a friend of a friend, so I friended her on Facebook so I could see more of her pictures and posts.
Post after post and picture after picture continues to amaze me.
What causes someone to act like this?
>>76241921
Act like what?
I always wondered about that style of ring they put in their nose. I'd becoming a fad recently. What does it mean? I am sure it is Arabic, but what does it mean in the Arabic culture to have that style of ring, let alone have it in the nose.
White men do experience a certain privilege, but not in the conventional sense that the progressive left maintains.
This picture encapsulates the actual privilege.
In the Harry Potter universe, Draco Malfoy is cunning yet morally questionable. He is usually accompanied by two other students, Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle, who are both severely less intelligent than Draco. The relationship between these two and Draco flits back and forth between friendship and fealty, with Draco exchanging his planning and logic for muscle and service from his two friends.
Crabbe and Goyle are fully aware of their mediocre minds, and their explanation for this is very simple, that their parents were stupid and so are they. There is no belief in some inherent bias against their racial or cultural identity that prevents them from performing as well academically or accomplishing intellectual endeavors that more gifted people are able to accomplish. Their stupidity puts them at a disadvantage, and to compensate they engage in a relationship with someone much brighter, Draco.
1/2
All three members of this party are fully aware of the dynamic at play. Draco does not need to convince his two friends to follow his orders through underhanded means; his two lackeys willingly obey him as they understand that Draco possesses mental gifts that they lack, and that Draco also has their best interests’ at heart. The two understand that Draco lacks physical size and strength, and that he relies on them to effect his own designs.
This relationship is only able to be formed because the three white men do not view themselves and their position in society through any lens other than one of absolute objectivity. That unclouded, unemotional mindset is white male privilege. Though non-whites and women are sometimes able to achieve this clarity, it comes naturally to the white man. Were Crabbe and Goyle to be some sort of non-white, they would be able to blame prejudiced forces that they perceive to exist. If Crabbe, with his pudginess and brutish features, has his advances of a girl rejected, he thinks, “she doesn’t want me because of my lack of intelligence and attractiveness.” If he were black, however, he could fall into the trap of thinking, “she doesn’t want me because I’m black.” When Goyle fails a test he thinks, “I failed this because I am dumb,” but were he to be a woman he could think, “I failed this test because old white men established this subject of study and made it intentionally esoteric to other identities.”
This is white male privilege, the inherent protection that white men have from falling into unclear thinking, and being able to explain and understand their human experience in a more true sense than non-whites and women.
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>>76241906
well put OP, documented and noted. anything else?
>>76241886
Did Draco ever get a gf?
I wish Draco were my BF and I were a slitherin girl pawing at him and doting on his every need and going "kyaaa~ draco hit me more~"
Was this documentary liberal propaganda to convince us that the government should interfere with our diets?
>>76241618
of course it was, it pretends that people did not know that McDonalds was not the healthies food to eat for the rest of your life.
People who can't control themselves will die anyway, and maybe some are okay with it. Only the ones who bitch about being fat while eating fries and GMO burgers really bother me.
no you fat fuck
>>76241742
I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it’s a peach of cake.
>Source: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ac9b4d33fac7404592b6f316b4ca6c28/us-cities-see-unexplained-rise-violent-crimes-year
>CHICAGO (AP) -- Violent crimes - from homicides and rapes to robberies - have been on the rise in many major U.S. cities, yet experts can't point to a single reason why and the jump isn't enough to suggest there's a trend.
>Still, it is stumping law enforcement officials, who are seeking a way to combat the problem.
>"It's being reported on at local levels, but in my view, it's not getting the attention at the national level it deserves," FBI Director James Comey said recently. "I don't know what the answer is, but holy cow, do we have a problem."
>Americans have grown accustomed to low crime rates since a peak in the 1990s. But law enforcement started seeing a spike last year that has continued unabated. What's unusual, however, is that it's not happening everywhere. Chicago and Los Angeles are seeing homicides on the rise, but other places like Miami and Oakland are not.
I wonder what's causing it, /pol/?
>>76241363
Surely Trumps violent rhetoric?
The leftists getting more aggressive because of Trump's rise in popularity, the nignogs being supported by BLM, leftists and the media, the so-called refugees, and the spics ?
