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[–] 257 points 1 month ago (64 children)

Know what doesn't refuse to pick you up if you're pished? The Night Bus.

PUBLIC TRANSPORT WINS AGAIN! INVEST IN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION!

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  • [–] 84 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (26 children)

    But public transport won't make a handful of people rich, so that's a non starter for many.

    And you might have to reckon with living in a society, with other kinds of people. You'd really ask someone to ride a bus with a {slur of your choice} just sitting there, like they're entitled to peace and dignity?

    In other words, conservatives are fuck heads who make the world worse for stupid reasons.

    Edit: fix autocorrect mistake

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  • [–] 66 points 1 month ago (24 children)
  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago (19 children)

    Yes, but also not a big fan of oppressive religious dress codes.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 month ago (18 children)

    Good news: you don't have to ascribe to an oppressive religious dress code. The people that do want to dress in ways that conform to their religious and cultural beliefs can, and that continues to have fuck-all to do with you.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago (14 children)

    What about the ones who don't want to, but are forced into it?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    That’s not okay, which is why where are not and should not be any laws in our country regarding what to wear, what to read, what you are allowed to do with your body (as long as it doesn’t violate someone else’s or force them into violent, gory, or sexual situations)

    You hearing this, Christians? The USA isn’t here for you to make puritanical.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago (13 children)

    Public transit stops at midnight where I live. Won’t work for someone out at 2am.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    Last time we did the smart thing and we stayed till first train in the morning. Was also cheaper to drink till dawn and eat shit in McDonald's than take taxi home 🤣

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    In the U.S. there are only two places that serve alcohol 24/7 (New York and Las Vegas). Pretty much everywhere else stops serving at 2am

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    [–] 118 points 1 month ago (29 children)

    why tf is the word drunk censored.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Engagement bait. Just downvote and move on next time.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Pretty sure lemmy doesnt track any engagement except votes.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago*

    That's assuming this image was originally made to be shared on Lemmy. But most content in this community almost certainly comes from somewhere else first.

    We inherit secondhand social media engagement metrics.

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    [–] 76 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    Dude I am so sick of all these weird half assed randomly censored posts. You can say drunk on the internet. You can say onlyfans on the internet. You can say fuck these goddamn piece of shit cuntsicles on the internet. Jesus fucking christ.

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    [–] 65 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Far more likely scenario

    Uber can now tell when you're drunk, and don't have a car and will charge you more because you're desperate.

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    [–] 48 points 1 month ago (23 children)

    I’m gonna go out on a limb and say this comes from Uber drivers getting tired of being assaulted and having their vehicles trashed by drunk people.

    It’s not all of them, but it’s likely enough of them to ruin it for everyone.

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    [–] 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    What? Uber had algorithms to determine whether the person is drunk or not and surge the price for them back when I was working for them in 2019

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    [–] 19 points 1 month ago

    My husband and I used Uber for one of the first times to get back home after a long walk, where we were both inebriated. It was pretty clear and we weren't trying to hide it, but we weren't rude, and I was careful not to slam the door or anything. The driver gave us a 1-star rating and it took a long time before I found a few drivers willing to chance it on me in the meantime. I don't remember that driver but I hope I've cut them off in traffic since. You know what, I probably have.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Recovering Uber driver here.

    I drove back in 2017-2018, and at that time Uber was starting to get difficult about reimbursing cleaning fees when some drunk puked in the car, which made fewer drivers want to pick up drunks. I can't imagine the situation has improved since then.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    downvoted for using shitty censorship to fuel engagement

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    [–] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

    Drivers are currently making like $12-$14/hr, so...yup. Delivery drivers are the number one recipients of government food benefits in the U.S. right now. And Uber will just deny my cleaning fee when someone vomits, soooo...yup. Not accepting that shit in my car and paying out of pocket to clean it after midnight (tons of detailing options open then), having to drag an unconscious stranger out of my car, etc.

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    [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    They will just charge drunk fee. Uber not the driver.

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  • [+] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 child)
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    [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    The point of Uber is to make money. As long as businesses can make money by kicking you in the face, they will do it.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    Facebook algorithm pretending that it's not able to read drunk from this "censorship" ╮⁠(⁠.⁠ ⁠❛⁠ ⁠ᴗ⁠ ⁠❛⁠.⁠)⁠╭

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    by this point most people in america probably don't remember taxi cabs. they would often be dirty and driven by a disheveled wildman. these drivers answered to no one other than their dispatcher who gave just as little of a fuck.

    do you have a problem with the driver? did he smell bad, did he talk too much, did he blast a master P song at full volume for the entire ride despite your objections?

    tough shit.

    uber was built in response to this. it was not only based on these occasional bad experiences, but to ensure that every working class person was on their best behavior when in the presence of their betters. it was never about a service or bettering anything, other than sparing the better-off from mild inconvenience.

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    [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Uber, lyft, etc also do a lot of hospital-to-home transport for otherwise ambulatory / self care patients. Wondering if theyre gonna stop picking up my Psych patients too.

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    [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Whew, I sure am glad that somebody haphazardly crossed out that 'u'. I might have had to read the word "drunk" otherwise.

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