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  • Considering I mentioned taxis… yes. I remember taxis.

    But this goes a bit beyond corporations looking out for their interests. the whole “we’re not taxis” thing was specifically to negate local ordinances that require licensing and provide extensive regulations of taxis services. Like, service inspections, insurance requirements. Background checks to make sure your employees aren’t psychotic ax murderers.

    as fucked as NY’s medallion system is, it’s actually stopping a host of problems that Uber failed to address. instead of complying with the rules… it argued (successfully,) that it was a ride-share matching service, and wasn’t any different than a person paying another for a ride into town.

    Later, in CA they argued (again, successfully, at least in part,) that it’s employees weren’t employees but actually independent contractors. Specifically to get around minimum wage rules.

    and they’re dumping in shitloads of money to stop public service specifically so as to maintain their stranglehold on the industry.

    Government is also fucked up. but Uber and Lyft are a part of why goverment is fucked up. (after all, they’re people too… right…?)


















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    I remember this thing in NPR about the kind of grudges male hippos make.

    The story was about a tour guide that would take people down the Nile (iirc,) and there was this one particular hippo that would come out and be a dick every time he was on the water.

    Well, this guy moves away for whatever reason. The hippo goes away, stops bothering people.

    Then the dude came back, like years later, doing guided tours again. Asshole hippo is on the water and tries to kill him again. Like. Flips the boat then drags the dude under. I forget if the hippo let him go or got shot or whatever, but yeah.