National Security Advisor is a CIVILIAN office, not a military billet. McMaster is a former military general serving in a civilian role.

What else can you do? It’s otherwise wholly exhausting.

Many conspiracy theorists are highly educated. Colleges tend to be conspiracy theory hotbeds, and plenty of the worst offenders have doctorates in something or other. I don’t know that anyone has ever studied it, but I doubt you’d find an abnormal inverse correlation between education and belief in conspiracy…

There are incredibly intellegent, educated people that, nonetheless, believe in conspiracy theories. To assume it’s the sole purview of the uneducated is a mistake.

“Acknowledging we are wrong about something is difficult to admit.”

I love my mother in law like she’s my own mother but when she starts about the illuminati I walk away.

Wow.

Now just wait a damn minute. Andy is telling us about conspiracy theory? It’s in the editorial page clear as day.

“What advantages does this war have over, say, an ethnic cleansing, which I could also afford?”

They are extremely popular because they are cheap. They are not making a profit because they are cheap. if I sell something for half the price than other do, my products/services are likely to be very popular. But I also will li,key not be able to make a profit, because other prices were likely higher for a reason.

“They either need to replace drivers with automation, or monopolize the market significantly enough to set profitable rates.”

You sound like a big dumb queef-face-head dummy who is stupid and poops and then eats it and throws up and eats it again and then poops poop eating throwup eater smelly poop poops.

It’s a true argument because you’re talking about a service, not a product. If you sell widgets, and 10 widgets cost you $50, but 20 widgets cost you $75, because you’re buying more of them. When you have the business growth to buy the 20, you make more profit, which offsets your other costs of growing the business.…

I see where you’re coming from but there are a couple of points that need mentioning.

Your Amazon/MS comparison is incorrect and has been debunked before.

Yup, Uber is bleeding cash. Yup, its valuation is high. That was also the early history of Microsoft and Amazon.

You make some points. But those points are not the ones that will cause Uber to succeed or fail. The issue is that they are losing money now and do not enjoy any economy of scale - meaning that the bigger they get, the more money they lose.

And as for investor’s judgment - Uber likely lied to investors the same way…

This is the sticking point for me. I know a lot of people who have gotten through tough times, layoffs and whatever by driving for Union Cab here in Madison. The hours are reasonably flexible, they pay is solid and they offer benefits like health insurance. And as cool as uber is, and as convenient, I know I’m just…

If your goal is to ultimately work “crazy hours” and get paid pennies, and that “the shittier parts of Brazil or Nigeria” is where the bar should be set for worker protections all so some of the most grating people on the planet can be billionaires, well brother, I hope you achieve it.

This was great. You know why? Because, for all of 2 minutes, I wasn’t thinking about the next four years.