JWBananas

Gig work is tipped work. If they don't tip, the driver worked for free.

The gig company "pays" the drivers a pittance, but it largely just covers a portion of the owner-operator's expenses. 100% of the net profit comes from tips.

There are a handful of municipalities with unique laws which do not fit this model; but outside of those areas, that is straight up how it works.

Now, should the driver be reckless? No, that should be reported. But stiffing them won't change anything.

Worse, to me, is that there is a perfectly grammatically correct way to be just as brief.

Wrong:

The bed sheets need washed.

Right:

The bed sheets need washing.

the car needs washed

Is there a name/term for this abomination? I've only ever heard one person speak in that form (omitting "to be"), and it has haunted me ever since.

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/25/the-onion-sold-global-tetrahedron

Thanks, I hate it.

Unless you habitually carry your passport

This would be a good time to remind everyone that you can actually get a passport card that will fit in your wallet:

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-passport/card.html

The U.S. passport card is a wallet-sized, plastic passport that has no visa pages. The card is proof of U.S. citizenship and identity, and has the same length of validity as the passport book.

It would be funnier if he hadn't flipped parties after that and ran again as a Republican in 1992.

It used to not be funny. It's still not, but it used to not, too.

We're already getting four more years of the real thing.

Was it not gagh blood?

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