I’m glad you got whooshed because I like seeing the progress pics. It was all for the best!

This would make a killer puzzle.

Credit where it’s due!

America Bad, of course!

Don’t lump the entire country in with wherever you are, because I can go to plenty of places within walking distance of my home – in the United States – and just hang out, hard, and it’s fine.

There’s plenty of places by me where you can do this, and I live in the most dense state in America.

In fairness, taxis in NYC were the wild west for a bit, it was bullshit, and Uber put them in their place. But yeah, as with all things, it’s all fucked now.

You can add gap to your regular insurance to cover your job as a rideshare. You just need to tell your carrier.

The thing is, if you’re renting, you’ve added someone in between you and the insurance carrier. Uber does not self insure. I see them often using Progressive. So you rent a car from Uber, pay for the insurance from Uber, but there’s also Avis and Progressive now taking their cut.

It’s just scammy, and the fact that they’re getting people to rent cars to do so is just crazy to me.

So Avis, for example, offers an insurance from Uber for rideshare via Rasier and Portier, and so you’re basically renting and insuring cars from the company you’re being paid by. Yes, Avis is an intermediary there, but the whole idea is crazy to me, that you’d pay your employer to work.

So are they having profitable days? I guess I’m as curious as you are, but I just can’t imagine a scenario where you’re making decent money in exchange for the time you put in. I suppose reliance on tips makes the difference, but Uber is over here cleaning up, charging you and the customer.

Please don’t duh.

Renting a car for use as a ride share is not covered under any rental agreement, nor under whatever your credit card may provide, which as far as I know covers damage to the vehicle at most. Liability insurance is a whole separate animal and the one that’s most necessary.

Renting doesn’t mean no insurance. If you’re operating a vehicle, you need to be an insured driver. Where you get the insurance is up to you.

Depreciation, maintenance, those are lumped into the cost of the rental. Whomever you are renting from isn’t giving you the car and taking a loss on it.

It’s essentially an independent business, but you can rent the car and get insurance and get paid all by the same entity, essentially. At least that’s what I’ve gathered listening to the testimony of some of the drivers.

People rent cars to do it, which just blows my mind. I don’t get how they can be making any money at all.

Facades.

Sure, and we need that proof. Him being an idiot as a kid isn’t proof of what we’ve been hearing about him as an adult.

Except if you’ll condemn him for pissing on a bush when he was 20, I promise you you’d sentence me to death. He’s doing plenty wrong now. Let’s get him on that.

Listen, I’m confident half of Lemmy has done this. And I was an idiot as a kid, but I grew up. Unless he was also the director of the FBI them, or in route to it other than through the passage of time, it’s pointless to bring up.

I appreciate your distaste for him. I’ve got it too. This ain’t it though.

They’re really streets ahead.

The L in Lemmy stands for “Literal”.

I’m not going to comment on the veracity of it all, other than to say that I love that Iran’s nuclear secrets are guarded by shift workers, and that nobody was on the night shift, leaving Mossad a window to get in, torch the safes, and get out, before Allied Security showed up in the morning.

You talking about the old Italian tune-up? I’m all about it. I drive a WRX, and the majority of my trips are with my kids to and from where we walk to school. Tiny trips. So I feel inclined to really get on her when I have my occasional trips elsewhere. It’d be wrong not to.

It’s also a manual, and I know it wasn’t you (or maybe it was), but I don’t drive manual because it’s the best performance option. I know that flappy paddle gearbox, to steal a line from Clarkson, is a faster, more accurate shift than I ever could do, but it’s just fun driving stick. I just feel more connected to the road driving stick.

I got this car new in October '24, and it’s my goal to keep it forever, because I’m not sure how long for the world stick is in general. Or ICE engines. And that’s okay, it’ll be a relic.