Contributing to the local economy
Submitted 22 hours ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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JoMiran@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 hours ago
Sounds like a perfect time to have a minimum-wage worker bring you food!
crank0271@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Don’t worry, they’re not paid minimum wage. They’re contractors so there’s no such thing. 😊
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 21 hours 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 19 hours ago
30 below expected? What was expected?
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
“30 below [zero]” expected
someguy3@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
30 below is expected.
Halosheep@lemm.ee 19 hours ago
0 degrees, clearly.
_____@lemm.ee 15 hours 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 17 hours 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 17 hours 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 16 hours ago
I can’t tell if this is satire. So arrogant and superior, and so, so stupid at the same time.
passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
WHAT
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 21 hours 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.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 21 hours 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 20 hours 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 21 hours 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 21 hours 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 12 hours ago
Easily. They cost a small fortune unfortunately.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 18 hours 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.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
That’s…. Not that cold? It gets normally down to -32c/f here, and that’s without windchill.
DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Time to move city lmao
kibiz0r@midwest.social 20 hours ago
In 20 years, it’ll be a temperate climate.
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 11 hours 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 5 minutes 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 10 hours 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.)
Ajen@sh.itjust.works 26 minutes 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.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 6 hours 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
ikidd@lemmy.world 9 hours 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 9 hours 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.
Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 17 hours 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 15 hours ago
Jamaica, if there’s an inch of snow here, the chances are there will never be work again.
Ostrichgrif@lemmy.world 14 hours 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 10 hours ago
Gonna likely be Houston about this time tomorrow. Good luck and godspeed to whoever braves the roads.
Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours 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.
emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 13 hours 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 12 hours ago
It’s safe when infrastructure exists, people used to snow, and everyone has winter tires.
SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world 17 hours 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 16 hours 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 13 hours 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.
Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
I mean, the delivery people need to get paid, right?
Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours 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 16 hours 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.
FPSXpert@discuss.online 10 hours 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 :)
daggermoon@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Ain’t no one delivering to me out in the middle of bumfuck nowhere anyway.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 22 hours 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 21 hours 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 18 hours 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 21 hours ago
a free day
Like… A day when everything’s free? The logic isn’t logicing here.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 22 hours 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 22 hours ago
tipping culture is bad but youre still in the wrong for not tipping… thats dastardly
xeekei@lemm.ee 22 hours ago
Seems to be a meme based on the vibe, but it’d be the first time I’m seeing too.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 20 hours ago
The last part was joke. I was just repeating the other persons joke comment.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 22 hours 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 12 hours 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 11 hours ago
I think you in misunderstood my comment.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 22 hours 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 22 hours ago
I am 100% against “tipping culture” (pay your employees, you fucks), and I’d still tip excessively in a situation like this.
crank0271@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
If you hate tipping so much why don’t you move to Venezuela?
/s just in case
rockerface@lemm.ee 22 hours ago
My delivery app already charges extra when the weather is bad. Mandatory tip = no extra tip
Turret3857@infosec.pub 16 hours ago
most people dont change how they tip based on weather. I used to Drive for dd
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 21 hours ago
That’s how it should be
Blaster_M@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Running a winter-hardened rally car isn’t cheap. They better get hazard pay.
Turret3857@infosec.pub 16 hours ago
Most of the time its +$1 per delivery. Not because its hazardous, but because they dont have enough drivers.
superkret@feddit.org 22 hours ago
No tip though, cause I don’t support the tipping culture.