rudejohn

87889 pts · September 26, 2011


he/him Michigan USA. Computer programmer, avid camper and swimmer. Politically moderate but vehemently anti-Trump. Have a fantastic wonderful day!

Uber drivers control their "on shift" (online) or "off shift" (offline) status by tapping the "Go" button in the driver app. Being online allows you to receive ride requests, while going offline pauses requests, often used for breaks or to stop working.

I presume "turning off the meter" in an Uber scenario means "going off shift" so they aren't sent new/different rides in the app.

5 hours ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

"How many drugs should we have while making this movie?"
"All of them."

1 day ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

She looks 45-50 to me. That's old. Source: I'm in that age range.

1 day ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

That is not the point. The point is that anti-US haters claiming "all developed countries" don't allow websites to recoup credit card fees are claiming that Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are not developed - among some of the other world's largest economies who aren't called "developed".

2 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Countries which allow convenience fees to pay online: US, Canada, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Egypt, Argentina... pretty much anywhere developed except the EU.

3 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If you want to talk about a regressive tax, it's not vehicle registration - it's the gas tax. Lower-income people in suburban or rural areas tend to have to drive further to get to their jobs, and the gas tax doesn't take into account salary or luxury tax.

3 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"Vehicle registration fees primarily fund road maintenance, infrastructure improvements, highway patrol operations, and state Department of Motor Vehicles administrative costs." Also - vehicle registration fees scale with the cost and weight of the vehicle, so someone driving a Tesla Cybertruck pays $463 on average in Michigan, whereas a Toyota Corolla only pays $153 per year. It is a progressive tax, which hits rich people with big heavy expensive vehicles proportionally higher than the poor.

3 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Who says it didn't? Most major supermarket chains have had modest profit growth in the past 20 years, so assuming the self-checkout saves them money, it would rationally follow that grocery prices would be even higher if they hadn't implemented self-checkout.

3 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I have to go with his versatile performance in Bedazzled or his smug "not racist" performance in Crash as my favorites - but I love ALMOST everything the man has ever done. We don't bring up George of the Jungle or Monkeybone in Brendan appreciation threads.

4 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Don't watch George of the Jungle. 95% of Brendan's repertoire is brilliant, but that is absolute slop, and poorly acted.

4 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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3 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Republican voters can't stop this any more than Democrat voters can stop this. Most of Congress other than the bold progressive heroes aren't doing nor saying shit regardless of political party. Even "almost always level-headed" New Zealand and Canada leadership came out in support of this fucking abomination of a war crime.

3 weeks ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Not to be pedantic, but... pendant.

3 weeks ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'll have what he's having.

3 weeks ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Whether he wrote it himself - or his publicist wrote it - or a fan wrote it - it isn't inaccurate and doesn't sound any more self-aggrandizing than anything I read for other actors on IMDB.

3 weeks ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Ask anyone who has been around Imgur for a long time. There are posts in User Sub with a lot more upvotes than what's in Most Viral. There are posts that seem to get promoted by their algorithms based on being friendly for advertisers. None of this is secret - although, like Facebook, it is their "secret sauce for making money" so it is not documented by the company itself.

3 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Is any of that inaccurate? Thinking of Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, Master and Commander... all exceptionally talented individuals. And he does have a heavy, muscular build (bordering on fat as he got older, but that happens to us all).

3 weeks ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Iran hated Saddam Hussein. They fought a war against him. They did not support him during Operation Desert Storm. She's an idiot.

3 weeks ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It's cute you think that Imgur doesn't have algorithms that curate what we see and what makes front page. And most of it is very tuned to create clicks and rage.

3 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Ummm... Congratulations? Facebook is no worse than Imgur or Twitter or Tiktok unless you use it the wrong way. If cutting it out of your life makes you happier, I'm 100% in support. I use it more than any other social media because my aunts and uncles and cousins are all there, and we all share family photo albums there, and less than 10% of those people use Instagram or Google Photos or any other easy-to-use album sharing app. My kids' swim teams and soccer teams use it for event planning.

3 weeks ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

Love Detroit style pizza.

3 weeks ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Zuppa Toscana, kale chips, pesto, sautéed with ham hock. I grow kale and never run out of delicious things to do with it. Just dont eat it plain uncooked on a salad.

3 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Only Jay-Z can look miserable on a rented jet ski.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

A billion dollars wouldn't fix Trump's bullshit at all. He has a dozen billionaires on his side. Musk alone has $676 billion. You'd need trillions.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Everyone who thinks money would solve THEIR problems who then got money soon realized that money does not solve THEIR problems. A perfect person without money will still be a perfect person with money, and vice versa. If you're damaged, or have problems, and you think that your only problems are lack of money - you're 99.9999% of the time wrong. Speaking as someone who had no money, and got money, and realized it didn't solve most of my problems.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Tell that to Steve Jobs or Kurt Cobain or a million other people who became filthy rich and died of mental health or addiction or drug or treatable illnesses. Money HELPS but is not a cure-all. Rich people in countries with amazing nationalized Healthcare still die. Some preventable.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Money will not fix all your problems. It won't repair broken family relationships. Or get your kids to love you. Or fix the vast majority of serious medical problems. It can't always repair mental health issues. It will fix MANY problems. But people who think it fixes ALL problems should go read about all the tragic lottery winner stories.

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