Contributing to the local economy
Submitted 4 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Sounds like a perfect time to have a minimum-wage worker bring you food!
crank0271@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Don’t worry, they’re not paid minimum wage. They’re contractors so there’s no such thing. 😊
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Homes in this are built for it. The big risk is a power outage, and even then the basement should stay above freezing for at least a day.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
30 below expected? What was expected?
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
“30 below [zero]” expected
Halosheep@lemm.ee 4 months ago
0 degrees, clearly.
someguy3@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
30 below is expected.
_____@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Funnily enough meteorologists have all sorts of short phrases like that that I find equally confusing, it’s like half broken English but it works
StopJoiningWars@discuss.online 4 months ago
The Celsius temps should not be the addition at the bottom, considering the US is the only place in the world using the archaic and useless Fahrenheit. Celsius should be the norm with an addendum of Fahrenheit.
Yay for American exceptionalism once again. Dumbfucks.
Anders429@programming.dev 4 months ago
This comment is completely irrational. The fahrenheit temperature is in a screenshot of a text message that was sent in the US. The only temperature in the message you replied to that isn’t in the screenshot is in Celsius. How is that “American exceptionalism”?
cazssiew@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I can’t tell if this is satire. So arrogant and superior, and so, so stupid at the same time.
passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 4 months ago
WHAT
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
IT’S GOING TO BE COLD OUTSIDE, BROTHER. MAKE SURE YOU DRESS APPROPRIATELY, THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS BAD WEATHER, JUST BAD CLOTHING.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s…. Not that cold? It gets normally down to -32c/f here, and that’s without windchill.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
I’d be curious if I could find enough clothes to be able to withstand these temperatures for half an hour. The coldest I’ve ever experienced was −20°C some 15 years ago.
hinterlufer@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There are research stations in Antarctica where it has like -60°C or lower on a typical day. There’s an interesting post on stackexchange referencing the US Antarctica programme on about what clothing for these conditions should look like.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s not that cold? Almost any winter gear you buy in Canada will be rated for atleast -30c. It gets that temperature normally without windchill regularly.
In fact, it was just -20c without windchill the last 2 days here.
v_krishna@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
It is wind chill not actual temperature. Still cold cold cold but not as bad as it sounds in terms of your internal organs freezing or whatever.
someguy3@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Easily. They cost a small fortune unfortunately.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
It isn’t the amount but the quality of the clothes. My wife and I were skiing yesterday at -8°f without issue. So that’s temp plus actual wind chill and windspeed while riding.
DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Time to move city lmao
kibiz0r@midwest.social 4 months ago
In 20 years, it’ll be a temperate climate.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
I’ve seen an ad on German television (yea, yea, I still do watch it) whose whole point was that Saturday should be a free day, but it’s marred by having to do grocery shopping. The climax of that ad was a woman shouting “Let’s take back our Saturdays” Braveheart style.
The ad is for a service that has people shopping for you. I wonder when their busiest day will be…
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I’m a bartender. I work when other people are off work. I thrive on their days off. I have days off too, just not yours. Not everybody wants to work a 9-5.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
My years of hospitality were pretty darn convenient. Sure, it was hard scheduling things with people working 9-5, but errands were always a breeze. Virtually no lines anywhere, everything open, negligible traffic. I could swing by the DMV on a whim.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
a free day
Like… A day when everything’s free? The logic isn’t logicing here.
Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
It irks me when people order delivery when the roads are unsafe - no one should have to put their life on the line like that. I know some people rely on it, though. The snow has been terrible here for days and Meals on Wheels has been canceled so I cooked a big pot roast today to share with elderly neighbors. We’ve all gotta look out for eachother.
SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I don’t see how that’s the customer’s responsibility. The order should be rejected by door dash if they can’t safely deliver.
Turret3857@infosec.pub 4 months ago
If youre driving for doordash you already aren’t in a good financial situation. If they tip large (keep in mind on doordash a good tip is anything above $5 because tips on doordash are fucking garbage) youre going to be incentivized to take it to feed your family another day.
Source: I was a DD driver for 2 years and it sucked shit.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
There’s always someone else we can blame. Door Dash execs can just say if they don’t deliver then one of their competitors will. Everyone’s being shitty and it’s no one’s fault.
emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
I mean theres nothing that unsafe about the roads in the picture. Thats like regular for a lot of places and people don’t just stop living. I worked as a delivery driver and had to drive in way worse conditions, whats shown wouldnt even have registered as a hazard at all.
Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
It’s safe when infrastructure exists, people used to snow, and everyone has winter tires.
Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
I mean, the delivery people need to get paid, right?
Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Those dollars won’t mean much when they’re being buried. I lost an employee many years ago when the company insisted we go into the office during an ice storm. It was an entirely senseless and avoidable death.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
That’s kind of the cruelty of capitalism. You can coerce people do unsafe or unpleasant things, but it gets framed as a favour because hey they’re getting paid.
Whereas if the person you were paying was truly comfortable and didn’t need money for survival, there is a chance that they would forego working on that kind of night.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 months ago
I mean, it’s still optional, per driver. Once it snowed so much my little sedan was stuck at work. Tried hard to dig/push it out with no luck. Ordered a ride share even though it was snowing, icy, and late at night. Driver was genuinely happy for the work. There were obviously less of them on the road, so he had his pick of rides and I’m sure got bonuses for them. Ironically, he showed up in another small sedan (but with chains and 4-wheel drive)…
FPSXpert@discuss.online 4 months ago
We did do that once as bored teenagers on an off day back in maybe 2006. Though the pizza shop let us know it was going to take about two hours, which we were totally cool with, and tipped the driver like 20 bucks (on top of a $15 order) because we knew it was probably hell getting there.
Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do, I get that. But if you’re gonna be doing that, please tip your drivers very generously and give them plenty of time and don’t be an asshole to them :)
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I made an order for the next morning… and the first heavy snowstorm hit overnight. I wrote it off as well im not getting that order.
But the crazy driver actually delivered. I felt so bad for them! No tip though, cause I don’t support the tipping culture.
pugsnroses77@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
tipping culture is bad but youre still in the wrong for not tipping… thats dastardly
xeekei@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Seems to be a meme based on the vibe, but it’d be the first time I’m seeing too.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 months ago
The last part was joke. I was just repeating the other persons joke comment.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Agreed, if that’s not a meme then they are evil. it’s one thing to not tip on a normal order, but to not tip after they risked their life delivering it is just unessicarily evil
Godric@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah, I got some pizza delivered during yesterday’s snowstorm. Fuck tipping culture, my tip for the driver was to reccomend they get a better job that doesn’t have them driving in a blizzard.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I think you in misunderstood my comment.
Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Man where do you live that an inch of snow is enough to call off going out?
And how much is rent?
meliaesc@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Jamaica, if there’s an inch of snow here, the chances are there will never be work again.
Ostrichgrif@lemmy.world 4 months ago
A few weeks ago Georgia (the state) got an inch and a half of snow and the whole state shut down for two days. It’s for the best honestly no one has snow tires or snow driving experience, and very few places store salt for the roads. It used to only snow every couple years and that’s turned into about 1 in 5 now so it’s best to just shut down for a bit tbh.
FPSXpert@discuss.online 4 months ago
Gonna likely be Houston about this time tomorrow. Good luck and godspeed to whoever braves the roads.
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I used to run a pizza place. Bad snow was some of the worst. Half the staff would call off and we’d have double the orders. We were in a mostly flat city on a grid, so we would cut delivery down to just the grid. People would be furious to be denied delivery pizza. “I just drove up the hill an hour ago! It’s fine!” Yeah in your truck. My delivery driver is in a beat up twenty year old four cylinder.
One day I tried to take our car to work and immediately put it in a ditch. I called my boss while I walked to work. I said we can’t do delivery today this is too extreme. He said oh just do the grid like usual. The only driver who showed up that morning wrecked his car on his third delivery. We always told them, take the topper off your car and hide it in your trunk. If insurance finds out you were doing commercial business they will not pay.
bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
Remember, if you drive your own car for work, and they aren’t insuring it, you are double subsidising your employer.
dx1@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Technically it’s not the power of the engine but the AWD/4WD. Subarus are pretty cheap 4 cyl boxer engines known for great handling in snow with some clever differential systems they have (viscuous coupling diffs, active torque split, etc.)
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There is a reason why the Italian mountain police uses the Fiat Panda (other than it being an Italian car)
That fucker will go ANYWHERE
Ajen@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
AWD might help you avoid getting stuck, but it does nothing to avoid getting in an accident. A cheap 4 cyl FWD with chains or winter tires would do better than a Subaru with crappy tires in icy weather.
ikidd@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I just shake my head at people that think if you’re spinning out on the ice, just press the throttle harder. Fucking idiots.
ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 4 months ago
With that said, a beater with snow tires and chains on the trunk (and a driver that knows how to put them on before they are needed) will do better than a Subaru with all season tires.
Source: Subaru forums, even a RWD like a BRZ/FRS with snow tires can be safe if driven with the car’s limitations in mind.
Pandemanium@lemm.ee 4 months ago
One time it snowed a foot or two in Seattle. I had a set of studded tires on a little Toyota Tercel and I swear I was the only fucker driving around. Uphill, downhill, cruising down the lumpy hard-packed freeway, didn’t have any problems. Besides, if you get stuck in a Tercel you can just lift the whole rear of the car out of the snow with a second person. I really miss that car.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Seriously are there people out there who don’t OVER tip when the weather is horrible but they still get their delivery?
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
I am 100% against “tipping culture” (pay your employees, you fucks), and I’d still tip excessively in a situation like this.
rockerface@lemm.ee 4 months ago
My delivery app already charges extra when the weather is bad. Mandatory tip = no extra tip
Turret3857@infosec.pub 4 months ago
most people dont change how they tip based on weather. I used to Drive for dd
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
That’s how it should be
daggermoon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ain’t no one delivering to me out in the middle of bumfuck nowhere anyway.
Shapillon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
We have someone in one of the neighbouring villages that delivers some burgers and local stuff (e.g. aligot) if you order before 6pm.
Blaster_M@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Running a winter-hardened rally car isn’t cheap. They better get hazard pay.
Turret3857@infosec.pub 4 months ago
Most of the time its +$1 per delivery. Not because its hazardous, but because they dont have enough drivers.
superkret@feddit.org 4 months ago
No tip though, cause I don’t support the tipping culture.