They may be able to work for multiple ride sharing companies, but do they actually do that? And can they set their own rate? Where I live, you may claim to be a contractor, but if your income is largely coming from a single organisation, then the fiscal authorities will view you as an employee anyway.

This code of conduct seems to follow a trend in that it tries to regulate inter-personal interactions on a microscopic level. I find this somewhat worrisome in that I think it does not benefit a healthy society in which people take responsibility for their own mental well being. Indeed, a code of conduct as this is somewhat insulting as it implies that persons can not look after themselves when they interact with other people. For personal reasons I have had my fair share of psychotherapy, and one of the more important lessons I learned is that in a robust, equal-leveled relationship people assume responsibility for their own (mental) well being. That is, I am not responsible for your happiness, nor are you responsible for my happiness (assuming a level playing field, obviously). I have learned from experience how a relationship can become lopsided and toxic when the people involved thought otherwise. There should be some general framework within people should interact, but within that framework people should be able to determine how they do (or do not) deal with each other.

The Apple patent has most probably been worded in a peculiar way as to make this unique, but the just-released Moto One Zoom uses the "Batwing" logo on the back as a notification light. Kinda cool, I think.

... have known this already for a long time; use \frenchspacing to turn this off explicitly.

Or maybe put less people in prison? As a European I can not suppress the impression that the US is using its prison system as a giant rug under which to hide some structural problems in its society. Alas, I see the same tendency here in some political parties, so it is probably only a matter of time ... but one may hope as long as one can vote.