You must log in or register to comment.
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.
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.
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.
Facebook algorithm pretending that it’s not able to read drunk from this “censorship” ╮(. ❛ ᴗ ❛.)╭
Know what doesn’t refuse to pick you up if you’re pished? The Night Bus.
PUBLIC TRANSPORT WINS AGAIN! INVEST IN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION!
BE PUNK IN DRUBLIC
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
how is this not posted as straight satire? Why is every one of these images cooler than the last?
Yes, but also not a big fan of oppressive religious dress codes.
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.
What about the ones who don’t want to, but are forced into it?
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.
The men forcing women to dress like this aren’t using the law to force them. Laws forbidding dressing like this are, theoretically, to protect them from being forced.
The ones forced into it, I pity. In my area, it’s fairly common to see a women (and girls) out in the park in full religious garb, while their husband is in sweatpants and flip-flops. It definitely makes me angry. I honestly don’t think anyone chooses to dress like this unless they are forced to by a man.
I see this sometimes from a distance, even with children. The boys are wild and loose, the girls on a tight leash.
Unfortunately, trying to address that with the sledgehammer of The State is not easy to do safely.
I’m open to the probability that there are such women. But I can’t imagine that they area anything but a sharp minority.
Unfortunately the people that don’t want to conform to the dress code of their religion get beheaded.
Or have their genitals mutilated
Nah liberals are people like Hakeem Jeffries. This is the future that actually free people want.
(Also phone girl can get it)
Stop leading with the first sentence, you’re giving it strength not being smart.
Public transit stops at midnight where I live. Won’t work for someone out at 2am.
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 🤣
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
Truly a fascist country
Big difference between serving alcohol and selling alcohol. When I was doing 3rd shift, we’d get out at 5AM, head straight for the gas station, and pour tallboys into paper cups and drink in front of the store.
First bus home came by at 6:30. I was usually pretty buzzed by then.
Meanwhile in my country you can serve alcohol all night, but you can only sell it (to go) between 10 AM and 10 PM
New Orleans is all night as far as I am aware
I forgot about New Orleans!
Better start early then 🤷♂️
Sounds like a you problem. I dont live in a place where they run 24/7 but they run long enough at night on holidays. Also, if you are partying until 2am don’t be a weak sauce, party until 6 and then next day transit starts.
I have a somewhat vivid memory of sprinting through NY Penn Station around midnight to get the last train home, back before I lived in the city. Was a deciding factor in me moving. Had to leave my friend’s Halloween party at like 10 to get the last train.
Yeah, the issue there is that public transport wasn’t extended for Halloween. Here on holidays public transport either has an extended timetable or we get a separate night bus routes that start at the city centre (around 200k “city”) and send you to anywhere in the city. Those run until 6am when normal bus service starts so you get 24h service. For people from nearby towns they have their own bus/train service which in holidays runs 24h too.
I understand being fucked in a random weekend, but on holidays? That’s fucked up man.
Edit: just to be clear here anything over 30m is kinda fucked too, but that’s like a different province already so people from that far tend to have a plan. In any case if you were on a big city like Barcelona or Madrid where 30m you are still in the city, this wouldn’t be an issue ofc.
and cop cars
I’m not going back to shitting my pants in a common taxi cab.
I’m getting used to the smell of peed pants on the bus.
It’s just ammonia.
This is something I’m to European to understand.
Not my fault your country disinvested in public transport to force your to drive, killing off third spaces for the enrichment of car companies.
I just said I’m riding the bus, where did this come from?
why tf is the word drunk censored.
that’s it now they know you are dr*nk
OP can edit and claim this as their own work:
EXCUSE ME??? CHILDREN MIGHT SEE THIS???
Engagement bait. Just downvote and move on next time.
Pretty sure lemmy doesnt track any engagement except votes.
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.
Pretty sure you can sort by activity. Also, most stuff on here was on a different platform first.
Sort by active is calculated from votes and age of last reply, but the number of comments itself is pretty useless.
People copy stuff from elsewhere. This is the internet. Blaming OP is just st*pid
Nah, fuck anyone normalising this shit.
Useless censorship has become a shibboleth for social media brain rot. People do it to mark themselves as current on social media trends. That’s all it is. There’s no evidence that it has anything to do with content strikes.
Your use of the word shibboleth is a shibboleth
Thanks you 🙏, I had no idea what that word was
Mind your fucking language! /j
They didn’t even cover the entire letter. It just looks like there’s stuff stuck to the fourth wall.
Information is monetized by censorship.
on lemmy?
No, in general. I just think it’s funny that the internet was invented to transfer information and the first thing we did with it was figure out how to censor it - copyrighted media, news, p*rnography, the word pornography, etc.
C*nsorshp really has gotten outta hand.
It’s not to censor the idea. It’s that dupe detection bots use ocr text detection and fucking with letters can defeat it
And the bots would then take down the image with the offending text?
yeah. thats not lemmy though right?
Well, I mean it’s right there in the image. Although, I guess Lemmy doesn’t have anything directly to do with censoring it.
I asked why OP censored the image.
Is it to fool censorship bots that use OCR to recognize banned words?
Engagement bait
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.
Once had some drunk guys shove a girl in my cab and give me enough cash to get her home. She puked in the back seat. And I had to get her dad to get her out of the cab and her tiny little brother was upset. You get this kinda service from an uber?
You can never really get rid of the smell of vomit in your car, either.
For the $300 they charge you for it. You absolutely can.
Ozone should do the trick.
Won’t that fuck everything else up though?
Yeah your car will smell better in general. What a horrific thought.
Dealerships use ozone all the time for used cars that were owned by cigarette smokers.
Only if it’s organic afaik.
Ah yes, grass fed free range Ozone. Remember, If it doesn’t come from the -Layer region of the atmosphere, it’s just Sparkling Oxygen.
Organic chemistry.
Organically produced ozone is not a thing, like asking for a free range Ford Mustang.
Since when does corporate give one fuck about what their wage slaves want?
Probably lawsuits, or the growing threat of lawsuits.
Statements aren’t questions?
The question mark can function as an intonation marker
New service: Uber-Giving
