It’s not as much as it seems…

The wage is only “for time spent traveling to pick up riders, and transporting them to their destination”.

• No pay for driving back to the pickup area.

• No pay for waiting when there are no fares.

It’s a per-minute wage, and only for certain minutes.

If you wait 10 minutes for a fare… give a 20-minute ride to some suburban house… and then drive 20 minutes back to the city…

your pay would be $10.83 (with this new deal).

…that’s very different from $32.50 per hour.

• Does an airline baggage-handler only get paid for the “specific minutes” when he is lifting luggage?

• Does a cashier only get paid for “specific minutes” when there are customers in her line?

The original goal of this lawsuit was to classify drivers as employees under state law…

And that goal was ignored completely.

1. To find new communities - go to https://lemmyverse.net/communities, click the top right "Home" icon and input your home instance (ex: lemmy.world)... now you can open/subscribe to every community you like.

2. Get a good mobile app - they are listed here (with a ton of other great new-user tips): https://lemmy.ml/post/1470777

3. Change your default "Sort Type" to "Subscribed + New" (in settings) - now you have a fresh feed of your exact interests, every time you open Lemmy.

4. Communicate in a genuine, open-minded way - to me, Lemmy is a good place to really connect with people, and have honest discussions (versus the often more 'performative' tone of greeddit).

You can see all open feature-requests and bugs in the memmy github repo.

In some cases, you can read dev comments about fixing that issue.

Here’s a human haiku:

bots are part of what
made reddit such a wasteland.
most bots are just spam.

i wish lemmy would
remain a place for humans.
why can’t we just talk?

This is a very short story about sarcasm:

Ted opposes racist rants.

Yesterday - Ted posted a few exaggerated racist rants (sometimes with the /s).

2,177 people saw Ted’s racist rants.

• 50% of them guessed he was joking.

• 98% of them would not have seen a racist rant yesterday, if it weren’t for Ted's little gag.

So the question is:

Despite the sarcasm... isn’t Ted just spreading more of what he honestly deplores?

Is Ted subverting his own integrity?

Why not say how we actually feel?

I love the joy you feel from the appearance of a monarch - knowing what that signifies.

And I love the way you study the overall water channel.

$916 billion = US military budget, in 2023.

Just think of all the good that could be done with that money…

Poverty-reduction, environment-restoration, water-health, high-speed trains, global-aid…

When will we be angelic?

Okay...

Give me the math of how this new wage would help you “make a killing”.

Keep in mind that this wage merely sets a floor for the specific-minutes when you have a fare.

• (And brother - driving for uber is not "running your own business"... it's being maximally-exploited by a business... with no liability-protection, no security, and almost zero rights.)

The central feature of their business IS having drivers WAITING when a ride is requested.

So yes - it would be fair if they included some “waiting time” for each ride (maybe up to 15 minutes of actual waiting time).

These apps ONLY have value if there are drivers WAITING when a ride is requested, so drivers should be paid for that.

This monkey-script is awesome: Lemmy Universal Link Switcher

It converts all links to your home instance (in your browser).

Go to the app store, and install the app called Test Flight.

Then click the invite link here

Yeah Open Source is the foundation, and the future!

“I’d call this bullshit and wouldn’t recommend it.”

• Which statement are you calling “bullshit”?

• You wouldn’t recommend what?

This cleans up the post info very well - it looks great, thank you :)

That’s true - Lemmy displays new comments above “top” comments, allowing them to be seen by everyone.

Yes exactly - living on the edge!

One way to learn the new API is - explore the code of (similar) extensions and browser scripts, to see how they build and send their calls.

Is there a specific API call you'd like to make?

Maybe someone can reveal that method and endpoint.

It’s fun to run test builds - and I love when a new version is ready.

And the new text-size slider is most excellent.

Okay - What value does a haiku bot add?

It only tells you that a post was 17 syllables...

• and then duplicates a comment (spam),
• and then stretches the duplicated comment vertically (spam).