It’s everybody’s responsibility not to spray piss in random directions hoping some of it will hit somebody they hate.

I agree up to “forever”. People with too much wealth and power tend to feel invulnerable until they find out they aren’t.

Not sure if you’re saying AI searches and non-AI searches look at two completely different internets or what.

Well I don’t. So apparently you don’t have psychic powers. Comments on what I said are welcome, personal attacks belong on reddit.

1. No, I’m talking about Washington state. How other states do it is none of my business.
2. No, I never said taking odometer readings was simpler than collecting a flat fee, I said it was fair and a flat fee is unfair.

Charging a flat gas tax would be simpler than metering every gallon of gasoline sold, but it wouldn’t be fair, and we don’t do that. So why should we do it for EVs?

I sure hope there’s better control of and auditing of voting machines in swing states this time. No last-minute system updates followed by immediate re-updates after the election.

Response: “You’re right, but neither party is ethically pure enough for us to soil our hands by voting for anyway.”

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When Washington state used to do emissions testing we would take our cars through a place every 2 years where they put test equipment on it. If they could afford to run that whole operation I really don’t see why it wouldn’t work to have electric cars stop at a licensing office once a year for an odometer reading, and base the elecric car fee on the mileage. So simple. There’s no excuse at all for charging all EV drivers the same flat fee no matter how much (or little) we drive. For me the annual fee is twice as much as the gas tax I would pay if I drove a hybrid. That kind of sloppiness is unconscionable.

edit: emissions testing was every 2 years not every year.

I pay over $250/year for that privilege in Washington state. The goal is to make up for the gasoline tax I don’t pay - which is fair in principle, because gas tax is used to maintain the roads we all drive on. What’s not fair is that it’s a flat amount. I drive less than 6000 miles/year. The electric car flat fee is approximately the gas tax a Prius driver would pay to drive twice that far. So to drive an all-electric car I’m being taxed twice as much tax as if I drove a hybrid. Insane.

Yes I’ve been noticing that for years. Talking about it is always well received on social media.

I’ve also been noticing people’s attention spans and analytical skills deteriorating, as they take as little time as possible to process an item, make a superficial judgement that confirms what they already think, and continue scrolling. The goal of information consumption seems to be to process as many little items as fast as possible, spending as little time and brain power as possible on each one. But talking about that on social media isn’t usually as well received.

One thing that never changes is people’s selectivity about problems they’re willing to face vs ignore.

That means it’s infected EVERYBODY’s searches. And everybody is cheering, as if peeing in the pool is ethically pure behavior now. Or do people not understand that AI uses the exact same data we do?

I remember when the Always Sunny gang sold him his cosplay suit.

Fair point, although that’s more info than this article provided. But since Doordash came into the picture at the same time as the new software, we don’t know whether the same things would or wouldn’t have happened with the old software. In any case, with claimed losses of $100 Million in sales the plaintiff definitely isn’t a lone pizza place, it’s some large-scale multi-unit franchise business that owns tons of them, and I’m fine with them clawing for each other’s piles of money.

For some reason this reminds me of a college class I cut so many times, when I showed up for the final the professor had grown a beard since the last time I had attended, and I didn’t recognize him. It was about 10 minutes into exam time and people were just happily chatting away. I started to take a breath to announce loudly, “If he’s not here in two minutes I’m just gonna leave,” when this guy leaning against a desk talking to students suddenly said, “Welp, I guess we should get started.” It was the freaking prof. If he had waited another second it would have been total embarrassment.

Right! They must be guilty of something dammit!

Our budget is $2.9M and 20 years. We hope to send Kaiylleigh and Brngn to college with their own custom grown chairs.

Did you read the article? Or even the headline, which pretty clearly puts the blame on Doordash drivers gaming the system.

To me it sounds like the suit should be against Doordash not Pizza Hut.

I worked for a company whose ancient accounting system could be described as Software of Theseus.