I’m JHarris on Metafilter, and rodneylives on mefi.social. I help run the gaming blog Set Side B, I do Q&As for the website Game Developer, I wrote sometimes about roguelikes, and I used to write the column @Play long ago on the (now sadly deceased) website GameSetWatch.
I DoorDash regularly. I frequently get offers so low that it’s not worth it in gas+time to deliver them. There’s a chance that a lowball offer will tip me after the fact, sure, but it rarely happens, probably only one time in ten.
If the initial offer doesn’t tip, and not just tip but enough to make it worth it relative to the travel distance and time, then I don’t accept it. No experienced driver would, and no driver should.
From what I remember of the original announcement, there were a couple of other topics that Apple also found it annoying that Stewart might cover, and one of them was the things companies are calling AI. NYT source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/business/media/jon-stewart-the-problem-ends.html
To people asking why Stewart would make a show for Apple in the first place, in some circles Apple is seen as a basically ethical company. I won’t comment on whether it’s valid to see them this way, but they make a lot of comforting noises regarding privacy and green tech. Plus, being what amounts to a broadcaster, one might expect them to keep their hands off shows being made for them.
What I find interesting to think about is, if China is able to apply pressure on Apple concerning shows made for them, what kind of pressure could they have over TikTok?
It remains the only good way to track hundreds of websites at once.
Who even asked them?
Steven Universe (it’s accessible to adults on a different level than kids)
Much of the old web is still there. A lot of old sites have gone dark, but there are still some that remain, and some have persisted for surprisingly long.
Usenet and IRC still exist! As public and distributed services, like the Fediverse and the World Wide Web itself, one node can go down but others remain. Things that don’t remain? AOL IM; Yahoo Messenger; MSN Messenger; Google Talk (in its original form).
When everyone chased after social media, many people declared the old web dead. They were wrong. When mobile platforms hit it big, a lot of people thought the days of the desktop PC were gone. They were wrong too. The demise of Google Reader was an attempt to kill off RSS, but a lot of sites still have feeds. And a lot of blogs still exist, even if it’s getting harder to find them due to Google Search’s ongoing decay.
Corporations have big PR budgets, and a lot of tech reporters are uncritical about what they hype. Witness the attempts to get cryptocurrency, NFTs, and now LLMs, to take. But we do not have to buy what they’re selling.
We don’t need a new internet. The old one survives, for now at least. But we have to remember it exists, and make it easier to find.
Finish that last thought. “I don’t know what else you need… to never talk to your parents again, ever.” People can change, and the grave is cold and final. (Although I just realized, I only read the TL;DR version. There might be stuff here I’m not getting. Did the initial post change after I wrote my first comment? Anyway, I may be wrong here depending on the full story.)
This may go against the general tenor here, but parents are people too and make mistakes, sometimes big ones. Your life is finite, and so is theirs. When they are gone, you’ll never have the chance to see them again. I would let them back in, maybe at least hear what they have to say. Could be just me though.
I can do both! Doordash really REALLY should pay more. But also, practically, I can’t take offers that are not worth it economically to do so. And I can only decide to do that with the information I’m provided before I take the offer.
I’ve been asked to drive a total of 24 miles (12 miles there and back) for $3.75 before.