Not just the mining (chronicled in this WaPo article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/mining-turned-indonesian-seas-red-the-drive-for-greener-cars-could-herald-a-new-toxic-tide/2019/11/19/39c76a84-01ff-11ea-8341-cc3dce52e7de_story.html?fbclid=IwAR2QIhC0lqh_AqkrLLOdbthB8D7vYFo7YWzAG0WnXRl70q1DgBVO_972S…

pure fucking hogwash

I’m sorry but the answer isn’t always “tip bigger”. All these “disruptive” businesses are premised on the same pyramid-scheme concept; use buckets of VC money to undercut an existing service or business and then gradually and incrementally screw everyone who uses or works for the service to build up a false impression…

Someone should teach you how to use your legs. 

Conundrum: How can we maintain the viability of an industry which makes it’s money selling shitty, unhealthy food to an ever-increasingly unhealthy America (which drives up everybody’s healthcare costs) while paying its workers poverty wages (which makes them dependent on safety-net benefits to get by?)   

I think a requirement to call something a joke is that it be funny.

So basically they’re at Tesla’s “beta” Autopilot stage, but correctly calling them prototypes and using them in controlled situations and absorbing liability rather than giving under-prepared car users an EULA and letting them go nuts with a deceptively-named feature?

Can we ask why the hell she’s at a conference by an organization who’s goal is cutting social security?

I have not now, nor would I ever, order a “plank” of something at a restaurant.

I thought it was call back to the Fiesta ad (the most energetic of them):

Let’s get something clear here: