lyrial
@lyrial@anarchist.nexus
She/her pronouns. With the help of a lot of cool people, I got the meds I needed to rejoin piefed/lemmy. It wasn’t great by any means going full pi-bolar on someone that didn’t deserve it, yet here I am.
- Comment on A customized delivery experience 1 week ago:
The trick here is to wait out the 7+ month waiting list for GrubHub. My stomach churns at the fact that I’m about to be a corpo shill, but I make an average of ~$27/hr (and yes for all of you that are about to jump on this, that is after taxes, maintenance, and time spent searching). The only thing I have to do to earn is turn things on like a cab. I earn about $10/hr above what is the average here and that’s the only reason I’m not sleeping in my car. And, also - this applies to all of the delivery apps, but you sadly need to find a heavily gentrified area to do this. To pay the bills this way, you have to find and exploit the petite bourgeoisie.
I make fucking good money doing this bullshit, even more than I did in my 20+ year career as a machinist. What fucking sucks about it is that you have to toe the red line, no matter where you are. If you are willing to drive to the suburbs with unnecessarily large houses, you will make money.
I fucking hate this, but in the end by doing this kind of work you are in a way preying on the disabled and infirm, but they have no other choice so you are in a way helping. On the other hand, there’s a good chance that you are draining class traitors of their capital. I don’t know what to say beyond this other than what people say about “underpaid labor!” is, in fact, entirely dependent on area, and there are high odds that the people saying that it is impossible to make enough to live doing any sort of labor that nets you less than $100,000/yr.
I want to go on a rant about how “office job labor"-centric mentality is way more prevalent than anything US-centric, but I digress.
- Comment on A customized delivery experience 1 week ago:
My main income has been from driving for grubhub for a couple of years now thanks to some physical issues. Anyway, most of the people I deliver to are disabled, elderly, or both. I would feel like shit if I pulled the fuckery presented in the OP.
- Comment on I don't think I'm being taken seriously I think we need to start a class action suit 1 week ago:
Probably copy/pasting from a list of canned responses.
- Comment on This is the chore that never ends 1 week ago:
Usually a fine and sparking the petty ire of the kind of person that is willing to run an HOA
- Comment on Are you too young to remember these? 2 weeks ago:
I had to get up and hit it on the side with a dead blow hammer when the screen turned green as well.
- Comment on Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, kiddo 3 weeks ago:
Those were a thing well into the 2000’s. I paid that 90% markup many times in bars in my 20s.
- Comment on tesseract 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. It’s good that this was caught relatively early. I’m not familiar with the way it works under the hood, but I suspect you would still see notifications for reports and be able to deal with them even with the blacklist because that’s an entirely different thing from posts and comments.
- Comment on tesseract 3 weeks ago:
Mods and administration tended to use it because of the way it it easily presents information and the workflow is much better than the standard web UI. For instance, before lemvotes.org came around, it lets one who isn’t an admin see who voted on what. Sadly, aside from the recently revealed scumminess from the dev, it is a much better UI in about every way than the default web UI for Lemmy.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 4 weeks ago:
Welcome … to Zombocom. Welcome!
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 5 weeks ago:
And, spoiler alert; even if you manage to get kand with water access, you are going to go through hell to get the rights to use that water in any meaningful way. Try something as simple as rain water collection with mout the rights? Best case is a massive fine.
- Comment on The land before time 5 weeks ago:
That, and each driver would cover a specific area within the delivery range. It’s not like they would have to read a map that fast for an address in an area they didn’t already have practically memorized.
- Comment on More chickens! 1 month ago:
It’s fun until you wind up with a rooster that has made it his life’s mission attacking you. Those spurs fucking hurt.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 1 month ago:
I still have my cloth EverQuest maps framed on the wall.
- Comment on They're Lying To You. Get The Truth Out. 1 month ago:
I’ve seen this as a meme a fee times now, but what is the context? I’m obsessed with her black block and how it has cat ears lol. They are both incredibly ripped as well.
- Comment on sage smudge shitter 1 month ago:
This is a permanent marker. It takes like 10 seconds, a rag, and a drop of ethanol to remove it.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 1 month ago:
I have been on Linux for years now, but known hardware is the reason why things will tend to break less often with driver updates, and updates in general. With a PC that gets hardware upgrades semi regularly, that is much more of an issue in my experience.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 1 month ago:
I was going to mention that driver support for known hardware is pretty huge. I am not a tinkerer at all, so I personally find this appealing.
- Comment on HOTBOT NO! 1 month ago:
Same era iirc. Right before Altavista and Lycos, I believe.
- Comment on Funni video 2 months ago:
It is an amazing story. It is worth it if you have the time.
- Comment on Funni video 2 months ago:
- Comment on Turkish Delights 2 months ago:
They tend to feature rosewater, which tastes the way that old furniture smells. I’ll pass.
- Comment on Don’t forget to regularly check your eyes! 2 months ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Does having incredibly mid tits and being a metal head with a punk rock battle jacket count?
- Comment on Super-threesome 2 months ago:
Her you go; 💖
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Nobody gives me the raspberry!
- Comment on An Eye-Opening Experience 2 months ago:
I have to be frank here - no matter how cool this story may be, I was unable to make it very far because of the poor (read: complete lack of in places) capitalization and punctuation. It might be a me problem, but these things combined with it being a screenshot made this impossible to read without a headache.
- Comment on Roasted 2 months ago:
!bertstrips@moist.catsweat.com
- Comment on Even the worst among us sacrifice 2 months ago:
I saw an odd site yesterday. It was a lifted 2020’ish Ram 2500 with all of the features added to make it say “I am very bad ass”. This included as large of an American flag as is allowed. Here’s the kicker - the flag was upside down. I’m still unsure if this was a statement piece, or a moron.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 months ago:
Fuck. What an unlikable piece of shit transphobe.
- Comment on Hands On with the Anbernic RG Rotate: Weird, Unique, and Instantly my Favorite 2 months ago:
The price is nice. I’d actually consider buying this since it is also just a straight up Android device so it can do more than just be an emulator.
