nah fam chill it out
Start listening to the working class and the far right won’t even be a fart in the night
they issued me a hybrid van and the electric motor cut out about two hours in.
Theres 4 parties involved. 5 if you count the end customer. Theres the county who ostensibly operates the public transportation service and manages the grant program. theres via, the company they hired to appify the service into an uberish situation. theres avis, the rental company that provides the vans. and theres me. i believe via has hired yet another company to handle their customer service, outsourcing to india, so probably 6.
I select- really, compete for on a first-come-first-served basis- shifts once a week. they are dropped on tuesday at 11. by 1130 all the good shifts are taken and only the dregs are left. when i show up for a shift, a license plate number is assigned for me, which I get to go play hide and seek for in the parking lot. When i start the shift, i go through an inspection and make a rental contract with avis. after that, i do my job, and then gas up and return to the lot at the end of the shift.
somewhere in all that is a very smooth, sensible, painless process that makes a lot of sense. that process is obscured by so much bureaucracy and mismatched incentive and ugh.
so yes, i handle the rental. i hope that clears up some of the confusion.
That's tough. Remember this situation is temporary and that you're working towards improving it. Slow, incremental steps have been key to my recovery.
I'm not sure I'm cut out for this.
I started a new job with the county recently and goddamnit. I already want to quit. On the one hand, I feel there are legitimate complaints. On the other, I'm not sure how much my goddamned fuckedupedness is fucking me up here.
Driving is a dangerous profession. Or rather, a risky one. It doesn't even have to be your fault and you (and now in my case, my passengers) could be injured or killed. They want me driving 7-12 hour shifts regularly, and since I'm a contractor I'm not strictly entitled to a regular "break." Of course I can request a break at any time and they'll happily let me end my current route at the nearest dodgy gas station or dollar mart or literally whatever is close at hand. But of course I'm still running the clock on renting the vehicle while my work pay clock has stopped for break. I know what you'll say, "You're paying to work there?!" And yes, strictly speaking I am. But the gross is almost $30/hr, the rental fee is about $9/hr and the net works out to about $20/hr. No gas, no maintenance, no wear and tear on my own vehicle. A huge step up from uber&co, where I frequently make approximately $8-12/hr busting my ass in my own car on my own gas wearing my own brakes. The work is hourly too, not per-job, so there's no mad rush. Get the people where they're going in a relatively timely manner, safely. People understand that it's going to be much slower than an uber, it's a helluva lot cheaper too.
I know I need to take breaks more often but I just can't stand the thought of burning money while stopped at a fucking dollar mart. I know I'm not as good, careful, safe of a driver or as kind, patient, caring of a person when I'm tired. I know it makes me frustrated and slow and prone to mistakes but goddamnit. I know it's a mental block but goddamnit. It's me. It's the guy who has made all those shitty decisions, or not, that had lead me into the gutter those few short years ago.
I don't like that when I'm having an issue I have to call a person in fucking India who I can barely understand to get them to not help or do some shit I could have done, but worse, with permission. I hate that they have no control over what they or I do, they're just automatons pressing buttons just like me driving through the city following the app. "Sorry sir, that's the policy we can't do that." "But that's what would have happened if this error hadn't occured!" "Sorry sir that's the policy. Is there anything else we can help you with today?" Suggesting they had helped in the first place. I love helping these customers. I love the rare opportunities where I get to stop pretending to be a driving robot and help them with their bags or answer a question. "I'm short on fare." "Don't worry about it this time, sir.", "It's fucking hot outside!" "I keep a pack of water bottles in the back, help yourself, there's the ac controls...", etc.
Today was especially frustrating. I only got about 2 hours into my shift before the van started misbehaving. There's too much minutia to explain and I just realized I don't actually want to get into the frustrating minutia. I asked for help and was told basically to keep working. When I threatened to end my shift they started whistling a different fucking tune and that was the very moment I decided to end my shift. I don't need this fuckery. Give me a working car and get the hell out of my way.
I've heard so many stories about drivers being shitty or negligent or driving erratically or just being generally bad at their job. After only 1 month in this, I'm starting to understand what might lead a jaded person towards that sort of thing.
I just want to help people. Let me do that; pay me for my work: that's all this needs to be.
/rant
fuck that was a lot.
Congress to Secret Service chief: "No shit."
We've been very lenient with traitors since 1865.
Did you notice homegirl backing it up for chet in the hat, top left? Just above the unconcerned guy with airpods in working diligently on his spreadsheet. See also: Daddy double-legs and halfskirt/halfjeans.
It's pretty much got office chairs down though. Guess that's something.
This was my first guess as well. Literally $.
Huh. There's a whole snopes article on the subject. tldr; You're right, apparently it was the shooter who donated.
I've been knocking out the trig problems in this section with minimal difficulty so far, but I've run straight into a brick wall on this "Algebraic" part. I'm asked to find sin(x)=0 between [0,2π). If I graphed the unit circle this would be a trivial exercise to show sin(θ)=0 when θ=0 or π.
Where I have trouble is- I'm very explicitly being told here that the solution is ALGEBRAIC, and I'm struggling to figure out a way to rearrange sin(x)=0 to come up with the known answer. Further, unit circles are not in this chapter, they wouldn't likely ask me to exercise a skill taught in another chapter. What am I missing?
It's not just 31, either. Looking ahead at eg 37, I can easily show sin(-x) = -sin(x) on a unit circle. I could maybe fuck around with inverse trig ratios but those are in section 3- this is only section 1.
Help me out here, drop a hint, share a link: how do I solve sin(x)=0 on [0,2π), but algebraically? I suspect it's something glaringly obvious and/or very very simple I've overlooked.
I believe I've found a bug. I intermittently go back multiple pages when pressing back button. It frequently happens on youtube, and occasionally happens elsewhere.
In the picture, find my history where I started with the google search for "the chain" (please forgive me for having history from multiple tabs all mixed up). From here I went back and forth with the expected behavior a couple of times looking for the version I remembered. When I found the correct version, I settled in to listen to it in the background for a few songs minutes until it switched to gypsy which wasn't what I wanted to hear. Naturally enough, I went back once- straight from gypsy to the google search, skipping rhiannon and dreams and the chain. This is reflected on the rightclick drop down from the forward button- observe the three intervening pages which are in the history are not in the forward/back list.
In general, I frequently notice this unexpected and unwanted behavior when I go to youtube. I often go to the homepage, select a video, and then try to back to the homepage only to find it take me back to the blank tab, and when I try to forward it takes me to the video without the intervening homepage.
I seem to recall times when I experienced similar behavior, but cannot put a pin in when or where and cannot at this time, despite trying, reproduce it anywhere but youtube. I haven't tried downloading chrome or shudder using edge, mostly because fuck that, but also slightly because I am very lazy.
I also didn't notice this behavior on my laptop which had win10 and firefox (that is, before I switched to linux as a trial over there, but I digress). I tried to search for this error, but google search is terribly corrupt and difficult to get useful results beyond eg song names. I also searched this forum for "back pages" and "back page" and didn't find anything relevant going back a year.
Do I set my computer on fire for its disobedience, or...?
It's homework help, but I'm not asking for the solution. The problem only asks for cos, sin, tan, cot, csc given sec. I found those pretty quickly on my own, and confirmed solutions with the back of the book.
Where I run into confusion is when I try to find angle theta on my own. Arccos of found cos gives 2.06, arcsin of found sin gives 1.08, and arctan of found tan gives -1.08. Problem givens exclude possibility of the negative angle found by arctan(-15/8), but the other two are possible and conflicting. And why wouldn't they all be the same? I reattempted because there were so many erase marks from trying to figure this out that it was almost illegible.
Am I wrong? Did the book give me a point not on the unit circle or something, assuming I wouldn't try to find theta on my own? Have I used arcfuncs wrong- I checked the domains against the function definitions? Have I found a hole in math?
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