Yes, good point. The services are definitely filling a unmet need for a large portion of the population.

They’re not usually the ones driving. In Chicago, drivers have to specially licensed with background checks, etc. It may be different elsewhere.

I definitely feel safer in a medallion taxi and I talk to drivers a lot. There just isn’t enough data from the unlicensed drivers to say whether attacks are more prevalent in one than the other, but anecdotally, it would appear that more women have been attacked by an unlicensed driver than a medallion driver, per…

Medallion taxi drivers are bonded, have to pass extensive background checks, and undergo regular inspections.

The irony is that Jez might have just run the thing as a blog post, for free, if asked.

Aw, thanks.

People have different values and place emphasis on different things, while also believing different roads will get to the place we all want to go.

No! Sorry, I should have said “one’s”. It was the general, not you specifically.

Right, but none of that matters if our opening axioms are different. Even if our beliefs about what constitutes a best outcome are different.

It gets people riled up in an “us versus them”, “good versus evil”, “righteous versus worldly” binary, which has historically activated people to go out and vote. Then you attach that to candidates who enact retrograde economic policies that favor the rich at the expense of everyone else and voila!

Basically, any name besides Travis would have worked. Like, they picked the whitest name on the planet, and applied it to someone who would have been born when the name was only in occasionall use in a couple of Southern states.

They both looked about 27 to me. (Shrug) And the guy who played... Tobias? looked around 35 to me.

This is true. Have you seen Fear of the Walking Dead? I’m distracted by the younger HS aged daughter looking older than the ex-wife of her stepdad (who also has a teenaged son). My husband and I couldn’t stop riffing on it.

Yeeeeeeeees. This is the man I wanted to be my president in 2008. This is the president we needed.

I gotcha. Thanks for clarifying.

Not if you’re a parent who has to commute to work. How are you supposed to drop off your kid and get to work by eight or nine. Oh, right, you’re supposed to be independently wealthy.

a person who objects to war into the battlefield, or forcing a person against capital punishment to carry out an execution.

That would certainly make life more interesting.

I’m definitely more intrigued by stories involving women perpetrators. It does seem less.... I dunno, cliched or something.