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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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The funny thing is gig work (proportionally) makes a lot more in plenty of 3rd wold countries because the business owner isn't taking a massive chunk of the income, and because it started out with everyone paying cash so there's no shoehorned services fees at every transaction.
Its so lucrative that I've seen office workers run it as bonus income on their way to and from work if they travel by car or motorcycle.
I always thought about making a free equivalent platform to stuff like Uber, but I think people would be too scared of the individual liability, despite Uber offering the absolute bare minimum.
I know right? How easy would it be to tie open street maps into a fiverr style so run this errand for me and make it almost free?
But the second someone gets hurt, molested, their house broken into, or carjacked, you're going to need some huge legal team and have a good chance at getting fucked in the process
Wonder if you could add an arbitration clause or something so they can't sue you. Like how Disney did when someone died from food allergies at one of their parks but the husband had disney+ so they couldn't sue or something crazy
They have the luxury of owning a large building full of lawyers. You can make it so that it's hard for people to win, but it's impossible to stop them from suing you. Getting your own lawyer just to defend you from the lawsuits gets expensive really quickly.
I recently saw a presentation form Uber executives panicking because Indian government launched an Uber competitive app, but that takes no cut at all, 100% of what customer pays goes to driver.
Did you know, the government of any country can do this for any service? Government sponsered amazon anyone?
Yeah Uber (thankfully lol) actually died in a ton of countries because of this.
Either government sponsored or just local competition that actually pays well.
There's even tiered niches for each app that go for quality/speed etc, so no one app becomes supreme.