So what’s stopping me, a random guy who doesn’t work for uber eats, from walking in, pretending to scan a reciept, and walking out with free random food? What happens when the real driver shows up? Does McDonalds hold their line that they already made and packaged that order? Or does Ubereats insist they never picked it up?

Not a whole lot, actually. It happens on occasion, but less than you’d think - and in places where it happens frequently they hand out the orders rather than doing the shelf thing. If the person ordering has tipped well (yeah the drivers can see the tips) sometimes they’ll get the restaurant to remake it and you’ll actually get hot food, or some of the nicer delivery folks will let the restaurant know the order got snatched before unassigning from your order. And the restaurant has some incentive to remake your food because if you don’t get your food they don’t get paid - support is not good but it’s usually pretty obvious when some kind of screw up has happened. The whole system relies on people being decent, and thankfully people are - at least poor people in cities generally are.

The local places are generally good at using a heat lamp, at least the places near me that allow you to order through their website, for pickup - which I’m usually picking up my own order because, like you said, those delivery apps are stupidly expensive even if you’re ordering from somewhere actually worth ordering from.

Where did you get it? I’ve got a roommate who loves pigeons and I ran across this on AliExpress a few months ago but the listings I found were expensive and the reviews said they were cheaply made and didn’t work well.

I’m sure someone would be into it, but I’d prefer not to have to shit on my neck.

Special shoes that hook into the floor.

No, wait, that was Michael Jackson.

Polk woman with ‘most Florida name ever’ accused of shooting BB gun at car

I’ve thought about doing food delivery on my ebike for UberEats to make a little extra money, similar bullshit gig job structure.

Don’t forget the not actually public transit! Back when I worked at Disney and went to the parks with friends on my day off, we’d decide which park we’d end at, park there at the start of the day, and just take buses or the monorail to go between parks.

Motorcyclists also believe a loud exhaust makes them more visible to drivers - to what degree this is true is debatable but sometimes the motivation is not pure malice like with cars.

Well, at least I’m not hungry anymore. 🤮

The one exception to this is probably MASH. If I recall correctly they didn’t want the laugh track at all, and when it aired in Europe it didn’t have the laugh track and was better for it.

I got worried seeing the headline, but this bill on the surface doesn’t seem that bad, it’d probably affect class 3 ebikes and maybe cargo ebikes though (are those sometimes over 100 pounds?). The guy who wrote the bill isn’t great and I’m worried the bill would have some unforseen consequences though.

Also the article is kinda awful, it mentions things without finishing thoughts about those statements and reads like one of my comments on Lemmy after I’ve eaten an edible.

I’m in the Twin Cities, I’m guessing the person you’re responding to is in a first or second ring suburb (and I’m not dismissing their experience for that - ICE never left Minnesota, they’re just operating in the suburbs now where it’s harder to build a response against them so they’re seeing some shit right now), but concealed carry permit requests are way up right now in the twin cities proper. People here are buying guns in response to the gestapo. I don’t know anyone personally who has purchased a firearm, but I’ve seen the local news articles about the phenomenon.

I live in a city with that kind of temperature variability and I commute by ebike about nine months of the year since I can’t get studded tires for my bike and my route just isn’t safe without them. That said, I’m only traveling about 40 minutes each way (~7.5 miles) - I’ve done rides of 90 minutes each way and there’s absolutely nights I want to keep riding rather than going straight home, but there’s also nights I’m happy to get home and have a bowl of soup. That said, I know of at least one lemming who does that kind of commute but I think she lives somewhere with less extreme winters and I think it’d be weird to tag her for this lol.

Also at that kind of distance you’re looking at range issues if traveling at full pedal assist on most ebikes if you can’t charge at work.

… And this is assuming your car commute time isn’t due to traffic gridlock. Although I assume you’d mention it if you lived somewhere like that.

I don’t know the full story and I never received any of the messages, but apparently the last few got really dark.

Beautiful weather and sunset we had tonight though.

Report it on the Minneapolis 311 app, usually bike lane parkers are gone by the time someone finally shows up to investigate, but they use the reports to direct infrastructure improvements to try to keep this from happening again.

I had some asshole parked in the protected bike lane on my ride home elsewhere in Minneapolis tonight and I really should have reported them but I didn’t.

This is the right call. They’ve got a “harvest veggie burger” that’s primarily chickpeas and cheese so not appropriate for vegans and it’s pretty mid. Skip the cheese puck, go for the curds.

Probably when it becomes about protecting the public, and the shaming is to prevent harm to others. Is it okay to dox the rapist Brock Allen Turner (and sex offender registries in general)? How about doxing brownshirts in Nazi Germany (and those they’ve inspired)?

I think this would fall under a public safety situation, and at least some of the pushback to this is rooted in how normalized traffic violence is in the US. There was a woman killed by a driver in a hit and run in my city last week, driving should be treated much more as a privilege than a right in urban areas where there are other options. I don’t love the privacy issues potentially enabling this doxing though.

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