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I’m extremely suspicious of a 20 year old car with mileage this low and a beat up interior. Something doesn’t add up here.

Damn 3 hp for a skateboard sounds nuts. Thinking back to the spills I took as a kid and how much less limber I am now I would definitely kill myself

One very interesting comment you made: Read more

Awfully bold to assume that someone using the term "regulatory suicide" can find thier nearest college.

Or you could just do what we did before: call a cab or have a DD within your group of friends

And yet, still the world’s fifth largest economy...

Fuck Uber. Fuck Lyft. Fuck these tech bros - pay your employees or stop pretending to run a business.

There’s still a ridesharing service called taxis.

And with terms and conditions set by the companies, not the “independent contractors”

“If you get rid of slavery, then all the slaves will starve!”

There already are taxi drivers everywhere, Uber was just undercutting them to steal the business. I admit I’ve taken venture-capitalist subsidized rides in nice Ubers but if they disappear then big shrug, was good while it lasted.

“Regulatory suicide” is the type of dipshit catchphrase college libertarians try to use as a debate gotcha.

For starters, it’s not just U/L, it’s all the companies including Doordash, Grubhub, Instacart, Shipt, and so forth. And these, unfortunately, are often the sole source of income for many of the people doing the work. It’s not a gig job to supplement their income. Read more

Because if there is a demand for the services that Lyft and Uber provide, then when they crash and burn for having a shitty unprofitable business model, someone else will step in and make it work without attempting to evade labor laws, and the drivers can work for whoever that is. Free market.

Sounds like the same logic people use to argue for elimination of the minimum wage. “We’ll have many more low-wage jobs that don’t pay enough to cover your bills!”

The fact that U/L’s business model is fundamentally unsustainable is not a particularly compelling argument for allowing them to exploit their workers to help make up the difference.

Where “regulatory suicide” = actually enforcing existing labor law, instead of letting techbros abuse loopholes in the law to reduce labor costs.

A Ballsy move would have Uber/Lyft pulling out of California completely negating any tax revenue generated by company and drivers. Read more

Never forget that MADD has been run by lawyers for over a decade and the original founding mothers were kick out long ago, so fuck whatever they say about anything these days.

I wonder if she’s actually, you know, a queen. Thinking of Isis from the TOS episode Assignment: Earth.

As much as I want to be optimistic about a ruling like this, I can see Trump’s lawyers convincing him to make the declaration that the tweets were not to be taken seriously and that the docs should not be declassified. Let’s remember that consistency isn’t any more important to his supporters than it is to Trump. The… Read more