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One of the things I’ve been trying to do with The GigMan’s Life is find a balance between planning ahead and leaving room for current events. For a while, I was scheduling articles weeks in advance. That gave me consistency, but it also meant that when something important happened, I either had to move articles…
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Growing up Gen X means remembering a lot of advertising slogans that got burned into your head before you even understood what advertising was doing. One of those was Dr Pepper. Be a Pepper. Wouldn’t you like to be a Pepper too? At the time, it was catchy. It was harmless. It was soda. It…
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Every rideshare driver eventually encounters a situation where doing the right thing costs them money. That shouldn’t happen. Recently, I accepted a trip that looked like it was going to pay around $17. I drove to the pickup in good faith, expecting a routine ride. Instead, I arrived to find that the passengers had a…
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RideShare Pro recently posted a video discussing a frustration many drivers are feeling in different markets: the summer slump. A lot of people look at lower earnings during the summer and assume there are simply fewer passengers. That is part of it, especially in college markets, but it is not the whole story. There are…
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Subject: Adversarial Content Conversion — “Thank You for the Content” Response PatternStatus: Active Analysis Observation The subject continues to display a recurring behavioral response when confronted with inconvenience, poor judgment, platform dysfunction, avoidable conflict, or general human foolishness. Rather than allowing the incident to remain a simple annoyance, the subject smiles and says: “Thank you…
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Hey folks. Today we are recapping the hype mind. And yes, I know some people want to call it the liberal hype mind, the conservative hype mind, the corporate hype mind, or whatever other label makes them feel like they are on the correct team. But really, it is the same broken machine. It is…
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Okay, folks, this is one of those things I just have to say. If you want to have a real conversation about immigration, law, enforcement, temporary protected status, public resources, assimilation, and national priorities, then let’s have that conversation. But let’s not pretend the conversation starts and ends with slogans. The United States has one…
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Yes, the asshole tax exists. A lot of industries have a nicer phrase for it. They call it adjusted pricing. They call it inconvenience pricing. They call it a difficult customer fee. They call it a special handling charge. They call it whatever sounds professional enough to put on paper without saying what everybody already…
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A lot of the early money in gig work is not really profit. It is reinvestment. That sounds absurd at first, but hear me out. To make money doing certain kinds of work, you have to own, borrow, rent, or otherwise have access to the things that make the job possible. In rideshare, that means…
Read MoreNo, no, no, no. The problem with She-Hulk: Attorney at Law was not simply that She-Hulk broke the fourth wall. That is the lazy version of the argument. The problem is not, “She-Hulk should not break the fourth wall because Deadpool does that.” That is wrong. If anything, She-Hulk has every right to complain that…
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