Funimation, a Texas-based company specializing in dubbing and distributing anime for an American audience, went to Twitter on Saturday and engaged in a bit of virtue signaling. Maybe you haven’t heard, but June is officially Gay Pride Month. Its purpose is to call attention against the discrimination of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.
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I read yesterday that Twitter kicked Eric Lang, a famous board game designer, off its platform. He broke the social network’s Terms of Service (ToS). What did he do to run afoul of Twitter’s ToS? It’s a… mystery. When Twitter gives you the final heave-ho, they don’t tell you what you did to earn the […]
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Today is the 246th year anniversary of the United States becoming its own country. Before July 4, 1976, the original 13 states were English colonies.
If it wasn’t for a bunch of slave owning white men thinking that paying tax on the tea they drink was one of the most immoral things they could be asked to do, we’d probably still be British colonies. Even worse, we could be the most southern part of Canada.
Being part of Canada? Other than being forced to attend a Jimmy Buffett concert, I can not think of no worse fate.
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Today is Easter, the day Jesus Christ arose from his tomb after dying for everyone’s sins. Your sins, your mother’s sins, even Jimmy Buffett’s sins. We’re talking everyone’s sins. All someone has to do to have their sins forgiven is to ask. Not the person who was the victim of their sin, but Jesus.
All you have to do is ask Jesus to forgive your sins. He’s the one who paid for the sins by dying on the Roman cross, so it kind of makes sense when you think about it. He paid for all sins you committed in the past, the present, or the future.
If you do ask Jesus to forgive your sins, you’re good. You’ll go to Heaven as soon as you shuffle off this mortal coil. If you fail to ask Jesus to forgive your sins, you’re going straight to Hell. That’s where the Devil lives.
The way the system works, it doesn’t matter what type of person you’ve been on this earth. You could live the best possible life, helping those in need and choosing to always do the right thing. If you don’t ask Jesus to forgive your sins, you’re spending eternity in a giant lake of fire.
On the other hand, you can be one of history’s biggest monsters and if you ask Jesus to forgive you for everything you’ve ever done, you’re going to Heaven. That means if Adolf Hitler asked Jesus to forgive him of his sins two seconds before Eva Braun shot him in the head, Hitler went to heaven.
That’s just the way the religion works. Hitler might be in Heaven. It all depends on whether he asked or not. Plus, Hitler was Catholic. It wouldn’t be outside the realm of possibilities to imagine Hitler praying to Jesus before he died.
If you don’t like that, take it up with Jesus. He’s the one who set up the parameters used to determine who goes to Heaven and who goes to Hell.
Today is also April Fool’s Day. It’s the one day a year unfunny people attempt to be funny by making up something stupid and passing it off as the truth. In other words, it’s the one day a year people act like Fox News. If you fall for it, you’re the fool. I greatly hate April Fool’s Day and those who participate in it.
When the Internet first started, April Fool’s Day was bad. As time went on, I think more and more people realized how stupid the whole thing was and decided not to engage in its foolery. Good.
I don’t know why Easter and April Fool’s Day are on the same day this year. I’m not a calendar scientist, so I don’t have an explanation. I know Easter floats around on different days each year while April Fool’s Day is locked onto the first of April. If you have a problem with both Easter and April Fool’s Day falling on the same day this year, blame Easter. It’s the one that can’t commit to a single day.
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While driving for Uber yesterday, I found myself in the nearby city of Frederick. While there, I thought I’d stop by the newer Walmart in the north part of town. I checked out the diecast car section in the toy department. I’ve gotten back into collecting Hot Wheels. Not the one-dollar mainline cars like I did before, but the premium cars. They have Real Riders wheels and a metal base.
Walmart only had one on the pegs that fit my new collecting criteria. It was a car from Project Cars 2 video game. It was the Acura NSX GT3, or so I thought. Here is what the Hot Wheels car is supposed to look like:
Here is what I found on the pegs yesterday:
Notice the difference? Instead of containing the Acura NSX GT3, the blister card now includes a crappy, cheap mainline car that sells for less than a dollar. Premium cars like the Acura NSX GT3 sell for $5.74.
My guess is some dirtbag went to Walmart and switched out the two Hot Wheels cars. They then bought the Acura NSX GT3 in the mainline packaging. It saved them less than five bucks. I didn’t see any packaging lying around for the mainline car. That told me they used it to buy the Acura NSX GT3. They probably went through one of the many automated self-checkout registers that are quickly replacing humans at Walmart. I use them myself when buying Hot Wheels. I do this to prevent a sales associate from mishandling the packaging and damaging it. This type of thing happened to me back in the day when I collected one-dollar mainline cars.
The dirtbag who pulled the switcheroo probably went through self-checkout because they didn’t want a sales associate noticing he opened the packaging.
Whoever did this, I hope something terrible happens to them. The world has no place for people like this. I hope they get Ebola, and their significant other leaves them for a Jimmy Buffett roadie.
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Once a week Lyft emails its drivers a feedback summary. It supposedly shows how we did for the week and if there are any areas we can improve. It includes our up-to-date Lyft driver feedback score. That is, it’s up-to-date at the time the email was sent.
I normally ignore these emails. I have a filter set in Gmail that puts them in a special folder. They never appear in my inbox. When I’m bored, I take a look at these emails.
As it happened, I was bored this morning. I took a look at my feedback summaries. I found out my Lyft driver feedback score was at 4.94 out of a possible 5.00. Lyft comes up with this score by averaging the last 100 feedback ratings. Uber computes its feedback rating by averaging the last 500 feedback scores. It’s one of the reasons most drivers who drive for both rideshare companies have a higher Lyft feedback score than an Uber score. Negative feedback ratings linger longer with Uber than they do with Lyft. The other reason is that if a passenger fails to rate a driver, Lyft automatically scores it as a five. Uber doesn’t do that.
I drove only five times for Lyft May 10 – 16. During those seven days, I mostly drove for Uber. I also took Wednesday off, something I’m free to do since I’m thankfully not an employee of either rideshare company. I’m an independent contractor. I drive only when I want.
If I received only 5-stars from passengers, how in the world did my Lyft driver feedback score go from a 4.98 to a 4.94? Mathematically, this is not possible. Not to brag or anything, but I once took and passed a math class at Utica College of Syracuse University.
What’s the giant Lyft AI in the sky trying to pull here? When it comes to driving, Uber is my primary rideshare platform. I’d like to change that. Uber recently rolled out a new class of vehicles in my market called UberX Comfort. It’s for newer vehicles with lots of legroom. The passenger pays a little more and then the driver also gets paid a little more. I drive a 2016 Ford Fusion. It’s a full-sized sedan. It has a massive amount of legroom. I routinely get comments about how clean and spacious my car is. For whatever reason, my vehicle does not qualify for UberX Comfort. I called Uber Support to find out why. I was told there isn’t a list of qualified vehicles. Uber randomly determines what’s UberX Comfort and what isn’t.
Uber has randomly determined the 2016 Ford Fusion has as much legroom as a 2016 Honda Fit. It doesn’t. Normal human beings do not “fit” in the back of a Honda Fit. Why Honda named the car after one of its greatest weaknesses is stranger than a Jimmy Buffett fan.
Because my vehicle was randomly passed over from the new UberX Comfort classification, I’d like to make Lyft my primary rideshare platform and only go online for Uber when things are slow. I feel as though I cannot do that when I see things like how the Lyft driver feedback score doesn’t seem to be based on reality. It makes me wonder what else about Lyft isn’t based in reality.
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