My current car hauls so much ass that I sometimes enjoy waiting a second to annoy someone and then hit the next light before they cross the line.

Just don’t be the mofo watching the cross lights and honking as it turns green, give them at least a half second.

They should try driving in Charlotte. Mfrs are honking on the horn as the light turns. I’m now up in Winston-Salem and these mofos will definitely take their time to decide if they should go on a green.

This one is actually good.

They knew what they were doing on that show. The main woman in it has been scantily clad in a ton of stuff before and since that show.

You should watch more scifi, it’s all like this, especially the stuff from the 80s through 2k.

That it was.

Cleopatra 2525 is the one I’m talking about. I always feel like that show is older than it actually is.

It was also the opening theme song to an old scifi show from decades ago.

This is false. They aren’t really that much heavier, 1k lb or so. It’s not the weight that tears up tires it’s the instant and 100% torque when you hit the accelerator. If you go easy on the launches your tires will last longer.

Just did, again no issue.

I sent it from my tmo number to my GV number. I can do the inverse as a test too but I don’t think anything will change.

GV is a voip carrier.

I texted myself “fuck this” and it went through no problem.

I just tested this myself between tmo and GV and no censorship here.

Everyone should have a main account with a local credit union and then secondary accounts with whatever “fintech” banks you want. I keep multiple accounts and everything flows through a local account first and then gets moved elsewhere. Currently I’m using revolut as my secondary to help budgeting.

I’m not assuming anything. I’m going on the presumption that they will do what they will do and that politicians are going to be similar regardless of country or tax laws, etc.

It’s also clear that as I said, you have no idea how these companies operate. They will find a way to fuck the workers over as much as possible.

As I said and you clearly missed. I’m a so called gig worker except I’m making an actual job out of it. I refuse to do the food deliveries because I can’t see how they make any money after the time and mileage invested. I drive uber, empower and I am building my own service. I’ve also been self employed most of my working life and I know how these companies operate.

If you can prove that Canada is somehow impervious to what they have done everywhere since these companies have existed, I’ll move asap. For example, if I’m not mistaken, California has similar laws on the books and I am fairly certain that uber and lyft include tips in the hourly min. They will probably do similar up your way unless your law makers are some how much smarter and tougher than ours and thought through the possible ways they could work this law.

The above said. I’m done here. I’m tired of talking chess while you assume we were going to play chutes and ladders.

I am and you apparently aren’t aware of just how these companies operate. You also clearly didn’t read everything I wrote (or didn’t comprehend it).

And if you look closer at the verbiage and the way they are known to operate, you are highly likely to be “on the clock” for 50 but only paid for 40. Then deduct standard taxes from that and you end up with way less than if you had been smart about things and they paid fairly per mile, etc.

Considering how clueless the lawmakers are here in the states about this stuff (despite best of intentions), I wouldn’t expect this arrangement to be any better than being free to cherry pick the best offers, best times to work, etc. The beauty of being IC is being able to say fuck that, not doing that one. What I fear about this is that the gig workers will have to accept bullshit offers to keep their metrics in the right zone so they don’t get “fired”.

It’s a start but even if you are guaranteed that amount per hour worked you can still end up making way less after operating expenses unless they are also pushing the companies to reimburse for mileage on top of a min hourly. I drive for a living, uber, etc and I run my own service. When you are self employed in most industries, hourly is actually counter productive to profitability and success.

I would absolutely NOT work this kind of job for as little as $20/hour even if that included mileage reimbursement. If you track your earnings hourly then most days you will have an hour or two where you make like $10/hour or less and then it goes nuts and you clear $100 or more in an hour or two or less sometimes. One of the benefits of being self employed is the various tax benefits depending on the country you live/work in. I’m in the USA where I can deduct 64.5c/mile iirc but if I was getting reimbursed I may not be able to take that deduction which would mean I earn less after taxes. Not to mention the control these companies have over drivers when they are considered employees versus independent.