Right? I used to bike past the mobile morgues on Fifth Avenue all the time. What a morbid time.

The fact remains that no one knew what this disease was capable of, at first, and then idiots like this were ok wantonly sending children into school for whatever dumbass reasons. Fuck.

Are we talking about the same Florida that went after one of their employees for reporting the fact that they were deliberately defrauding people about their covid numbers? My family is in Florida and Florida is a cesspool with so many problems, I don’t know where to start.

I’m sorry, but if you’re still using these talking points in almost 2023, I can’t help you. Kindly fuck off back under your rock.

Democrats, obviously, right?

That’s the point. I was being sarcastic. As evidenced by calling you a bellend at the end.

Yes. A single event caused this. You bellend.

Capitalists are going to capitalist. They are always going to work the system and eke out every penny. That does not mean the workers should be impoverished to make it work.

Lol. I don't know what FDNY pays and nowhere did I pretend to. I certainly hope it's more than $23/hr. The point is that we shouldn't be discussing how to pay certain people less. Delivery workers should be making at least $23/hr.

> Why don't you to meet up and you can blow each other u/jl2l

Looks like we found the douchebag who doesn't want to pay delivery workers, but has no problem using their services. Probably an absolutely terrible tipper, too.

But probably think nothing of firing up Seamless for dinner in the rain.

Right. OP's is an absolute trash position.

You sound like a real peach. Delivery drivers deserve a fair wage. If $23 brings them up to FDNY’s level, then the discussion should be around why our first responders are compensated so poorly, not that we should pay our delivery people less.

It’s irrelevant. If the job exists, the person doing it should be able to thrive on the wage.

Don’t hurt yourself running those goalposts all over the place.

OP said it’s not money. That’s false. People use it every day to pay for things. You might not be a part of that economy, but it exists. I can’t live my life with the stack of Colombian Pesos on my desk, either. It’s still money.

You avoided the question. And you chose Pokémon cards, not I.

But let’s consider some remote part of the world without access to the means to easily counterfeit these cards. They decide to exchange the various goods and services within their local economy for Pokémon cards. What are the cards, if not “money?”

There’s already an economy around crypto. You may not be a part of it, but it’s there.

Further, exchanging one currency for another is still circulation.

What do you think gives any currency any actual value? You think $100 note is $100 worth of paper and ink?

I exchanged it for goods with a party that could then exchange it further for other goods. How, exactly, does that not fit your description?

How, exactly, is it centralized?

I've purchased actual, tangible items with crypto from registered businesses. Your premise is false.

That’s fine. But to interject you’re sticking to something implies you have a choice.

Brilliant deduction!

I use Lyft, exclusively, unless my hand is forced and it's usually slightly cheaper than Uber during the times I've compared, but almost invariably more than a cab.

Perhaps not. Timing is key. My Chelsea/Harlem experience is pretty consistent.

I travel to Brooklyn and Queens often for shows. I don't disagree that yellow cabs are pretty much gone in those areas, which is a shame. I've had $150 Uber rides back to Harlem, which is utterly ludicrous.

I do Chelsea to Harlem very often at the 3/4am mark. Cabs are always ~$25+tip. Uber/Lyft are routinely $45+.

That's a different discussion. I generally had no trouble pre-Pandemic, as long as I was in somewhat of a population center, regardless of borough. Pandemic + Uber/Lyft appears to have changed things a lot.