Uber

Westcity
15 minutes as reply to The Night Before

Abraham Kim
Uber
James was out of it. Only realized a minute into the ride that the  Uber driver was the same as before. The one Chad had ordered on his behalf. Funny how that worked. Chad orders James a ride home. James arrives there. And there Chad is tied up.

How did Big...

Get Yourself Out as reply to the lighter

Drew
Uber
James friend called him an  Uber , he was a consultant so that kind of thing didn't matter to him. It was just what people did. In the car the driver asked "Had a good night?" James replied slurred "Once I get home I will." It sounded like a euphemism...

Westcity
Love loves as reply to Real Work

Abraham Kim
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The casino had it's draw. Time sunk away. You entered. Then before you noticed it was night. When it was night, you need not leave.

Marc did leave early. One thing he enjoyed more than hanging out at the casino was picking up cans early in the morning. That's when people...

Westcity
the phone virus as reply to Sunflowers

Abraham Kim
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The company was late on its rent . There was nobody to resolve the issue so they assigned it to an  intern . However the intern didn't take care of the issue and so the startup was getting kicked out of the office. Not because the building they rented a...

affleck gets decked as reply to Ben Affleck Cheats on

Abraham Kim
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Affleck giggled. Then he was about to take a sip of his  cold brew when somebody came over and decked him in the face. That was the last thing he remembered. He woke up in an  emergency room . He thought about saying "where am I?" but that felt like...
Uber Idea
I've had that same thought 
dealingwith
. However then I thought about how the driver would still probably use 
Uber
outside of our arrangement since there wouldn't be enough people like me and they'd want to maximize their transits.
Abraham Kim

Flash Fiction Practice
may 17 as reply to Dialogue

Abraham Kim
Uber Tesla coworking space May 17
He held the top of the steering wheel with his large hands. In college he had played basketball. Now he drove for  Uber . It was an electric car, although not a  Tesla . But because he could charge the car it meant he got to take home more money...

PO Box 915
alone as reply to Cool dog

Abraham Kim
Uber Tesla photos rent dogsitting
His car was finally ready for pickup at the garage. But because he was no longer splitting rent with his girlfriend and had started eating out every meal, he was flat out broke, unable to  Uber there. So he had to ask one of his friends.

He wished he could ask...

Abe's Blog
Big Tech is the Downtown of the internet

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The  Church of Twitter has had a busy week. The mobs either crowning Elon Musk as contemporary Martin Luther or another  billionaire buying his way into societal  infrastructure .

Independent of this, my friend remarked that if Facebook were to disappear tomorrow that there would be non net-negative impact to society....

Flash Fiction Practice
How things go

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There was a bar. Outside of town. Just beyond city limits technically; this allowed them to avoid a few laws or something like that. But nobody gave a damn about that and they called this their favorite bar in town.

It was my favorite bar in town. In fact it was...
The Hidden Cost of Everything
What this illuminates to me is how I care more in this physical situation ( 
DoorDash
or 
Uber
) than I do when I am buying something via a website using 
Shopify
. Because even the latter there is an opaque wall between consumer's awareness and the costs associated with the service provider. But for some reason in my head the people running Shopify seem less disadvantaged than the ones running under DD or Uber.

You can even see it in the language I used above. One party runs an app, while the other runs under one.
Abraham Kim
Humor
you're right that it's unfair. But you benefit from some of this unfairness though. As in on first writing you were already able to evoke caring and empathy while other people could try to write like that for years and still not reach your level. 

btw if there's one thing that's been loss from this world with your recent downswing in health and energy it's that there's less of that Keni-love out here in the internets. I hope that it hasn't affected the way you love in your physical life with family.

Yesterday i actually took an 
Uber
 with a Ethiopian driver and we jived so well that we exchanged phone numbers so we could hang out in real life. I believe he is around your age.
Abraham Kim