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vsuperpower2021 commented on California companies wrote their own gig worker law. Now no one is enforcing it   apnews.com/us-news/califo... · Posted by u/agiacalone
bsder · a year ago
Prop 22 was passed by Lyft and Uber blackmailing a whole bunch of people at the height of Covid whose only income at the time was ridesharing. Those people are now gone, ridesharing is the race to the bottom that everybody predicted, but now we're stuck with a shitty proposition.

And what you are quite conveniently omitting is that AB5 was a reaction to a court case (and it wasn't even about ridesharing!) that sent people scrambling. AB5 wasn't great, but it would have been amended and updated because California actually has a functional legislature. Instead, Prop 22 froze the process in amber and now everybody gets the garbage fallout.

Blast Prop 22 into atoms, and AB5 can be adjusted properly.

In addition, I got tons of political crap pushed to my phone about Prop 22 by the apps and Uber and Lyft should have been fined through the nose for doing so.

But, hey, as long as you have a couple billion in cash, you get to make your own laws. Ain't "disruption" grand?

vsuperpower2021 · a year ago
Who could they possibly have blackmailed? Voters wanted it, because like you said, there were flyers and popups everywhere and people just vote for whatever has the biggest advertising budget. That's democracy for you.
vsuperpower2021 commented on Oakland's new school buses reduce pollution and double as giant batteries   grist.org/transportation/... · Posted by u/rntn
vsuperpower2021 · a year ago
Sorry, we can't improve school buses because Oakland is a shithole. Sorry, no space travel, Oakland is a shithole. No one is allowed to do anything good until Oakland looks like wakanda.
vsuperpower2021 commented on Coding on iPad using self-hosted VSCode, Caddy, and code-server   tailscale.com/kb/1166/vsc... · Posted by u/transpute
vsuperpower2021 · a year ago
I always wondered what would happen when the ipad kids grew up. Can't say I expected them to start trying to use it to program.
vsuperpower2021 commented on Many small queries are efficient in SQLite   sqlite.org/np1queryprob.h... · Posted by u/tosh
prisenco · a year ago
What works for Apple and Google is rarely the best approach for the rest of us.

My concern is over-reliance on client side storage and the complexity it adds to have records of state on both client and server.

vsuperpower2021 · a year ago
Sqlite isn't something that works for only apple or google. Point is it's sufficient for them, simple, and more than sufficient for you. He's explaining to you that this is something that has already happened as you're unaware.
vsuperpower2021 commented on Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women   latimes.com/california/st... · Posted by u/voisin
abeppu · a year ago
This is unhinged. You think women go to university to date? In this country with the cost of higher ed?

- when women were mostly or entirely excluded for higher ed, they still participated in society and courtship and had "functional social skills"

- men and women today who never go to college still participate in society, date and have functional social skills

So maybe women go to university to learn or to launch their career or to appease their parents just like everyone else? And commenting on their growing numbers in terms of the benefits to straight male students looking to date is fundamentally objectifying people who are just trying to live their lives? And when someone points this out you imply that women who have the attitude that universities are for something other than dating are on some track to be broken non-social loners, that's failing to account for the broad opportunities to (a) date someone outside your school (b) defer dating until later because you're focused on learning and paying a huge amount to be at this institution or (c) being open to the possibility that people who don't date aren't doomed to be lonely cat ladies b/c there are other kinds of valuable human connection and the people that perpetuate this myth are invested in continued oppression?

vsuperpower2021 · a year ago
Pearl clutching and shrieking about objectification is so 8 years ago. Doesn't really work anymore because it doesn't drive an emotional reaction; people just roll their eyes and move on. This appears to be your special interest but you're responding to normal, healthy men as if they just killed your dog.
vsuperpower2021 commented on Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women   latimes.com/california/st... · Posted by u/voisin
abeppu · a year ago
Similarly if you advocate for more women in STEM jobs so straight men in those jobs can date in their workplace more easily ... maybe HR should keep an eye on you and you shouldn't consider yourself to actually be supporting real equality.
vsuperpower2021 · a year ago
I don't support "real equality" and never have.
vsuperpower2021 commented on Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women   latimes.com/california/st... · Posted by u/voisin
FredPret · a year ago
It's nice for the guys to have it easy for a couple of years, but it's bad for all of us if an entire generation of women find it almost impossible to date because they want to date men with degrees and those don't exist in large enough numbers.
vsuperpower2021 · a year ago
Men drop out of college; women most affected
vsuperpower2021 commented on Caltech, long a bastion of male students, enrolls first class of majority women   latimes.com/california/st... · Posted by u/voisin
vsuperpower2021 · a year ago
Most colleges and university are majority women. The one I went to had 2 women for 1 man. This was unambiguously a mistake.

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