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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • There are times these apps make sense. I crashed my motorcycle doing an ubereats delivery and broke my collarbone, and then used the service myself a bunch of times while healing. Ironic, but that’s life.

    Side note for the people wondering what happens when you don’t tip upfront (on UE at least): Prospective drivers see an offer of $4-6 for a job that will take them 45 minutes and say “fuck that” while they slam the ‘no’ button. This will go on for a while until the system is able to find another order on the way to combine it with, or someone accepts it anyway.












  • In the coming decade, China will dominate technology because it has focused intensively on the important partnership between the public and private sectors with stunning results.

    It’s the “partnership between the public and private sectors” in particular that lost consumer and foreign government trust in technology originating from China.

    How is China going to “dominate” anything when it’s spent the last 20+ years shamelessly ripping off R&D through reverse-engineering and corporate espionage? What can it even claim of its own as true innovation?



  • Like most drivers you probably just don’t notice the ones that aren’t loud / ridden by asshats.

    Many bikes have basically the same performance as a civic, you are painting with far too broad a brush here.

    In a decade running a motorcycle as my only transport, I’ve never been remotely a threat to the 5,000 pound tanks I’m forced to share the road with, but almost been taken out by left turning stop sign and red light runners more times than is reasonable.