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That camera died, rip.
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Celexi posted:That camera died, rip. the final 20 minutes: https://i.imgur.com/Hcm6NFi.mp4
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Chimp_On_Stilts posted:Any studies / reports / historical examples / etc. of wildfires such as these jumping from the forest into suburbia? Every year. When I first moved here, having grown up in Idaho, I was just like "whatever, we get fires too. Just let a few mountains burn down." Then I realized that california is just sprawling suburbs and single-family housing forever. (also hurricane winds are a thing here. It's insane)
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Aug 20, 2020 08:18
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Rah! posted:the final 20 minutes: I think this one is the next in line to burn: http://www.alertwildfire.org/southeastbay/index.html?camera=Axis-SRVFDStation31&v=81e002f 
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Aug 20, 2020 08:55
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Still Dismal posted:I am, to put it very mildly, not enamored of the prop. 13 landed gentry homeowner class, but I’m pessimistic about the effect that the pandemic will have on our chances of repeal. Homeowners will likely make up a even larger portion of the electorate than usual this election I think. Renters are more likely to have been evicted, in the process of moving and thus not registered yet, or moved out of the state entirely, etc.  hello from rural WA where i live in friends' living room now
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Aug 20, 2020 17:08
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This seems sorta major: Lyft suspends CA operations https://www.lyft.com/blog/posts/ca-operations-update
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Aug 20, 2020 17:50
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GrandpaPants posted:This seems sorta major: Lyft suspends CA operations Uber and Lyft raised a fuss about this, but this must backfire immensely, CA has to be a massive portion of their US business. otoh, it means they'll lose less money this way.
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Aug 20, 2020 17:56
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I love this poo pooquote:For multiple years, we’ve been advocating for a path to offer benefits to drivers who use the Lyft platform — including a minimum earnings guarantee and a healthcare subsidy As if someone was stopping them from giving their drivers health insurance or fair wages. They were totally gonna start, any day now!
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Aug 20, 2020 18:04
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Wicked Them Beats posted:I love this poo poo We just need the state to give us a free hand to decide the minimums for our workers and we will give them fair market wages don't worry!
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Aug 20, 2020 18:06
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pentyne posted:Uber and Lyft raised a fuss about this, but this must backfire immensely, CA has to be a massive portion of their US business. otoh, it means they'll lose less money this way. lol 
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Aug 20, 2020 18:25
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pentyne posted:Uber and Lyft raised a fuss about this, but this must backfire immensely, CA has to be a massive portion of their US business. otoh, it means they'll lose less money this way. They literally can't run their business if asked to run like a business. Their entire business model is designed around not having to actually treat employees like employees.
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Aug 20, 2020 18:31
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Jaxyon posted:They literally can't run their business if asked to run like a business. Their business model doesn't turn a profit as it is. They just keep promising investors that profitability is around the bend and the investors keep shoveling cash into the pit because they don't have anything better to do with their money. If California makes them treat their drivers as employees then they'll never achieve the mythic profitable quarter they've been promising.
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Aug 20, 2020 18:38
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Wicked Them Beats posted:Their business model doesn't turn a profit as it is. They just keep promising investors that profitability is around the bend and the investors keep shoveling cash into the pit because they don't have anything better to do with their money.
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Aug 20, 2020 18:43
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Their entire business proposition is: -hoover up ungodly amounts of VC cash to build market share while losing money -magically develop autonomous vehicles -become profitable by owning the whole market and not needing to pay drivers that second step is 100% not happening any time soon so it is all a farce
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Aug 20, 2020 18:44
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It's giving these companies what they want. An exit plan that blames government
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Aug 20, 2020 18:51
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The shut down is clearly a PR move because they're pushing a prop this November to carve out an exception for themselves. Will it work? Guess we're gonna find out.
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Aug 20, 2020 18:58
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Uber is the most unprofitable company in the history of companies. That's not a hyperbole. They pulled the same poo poo in Austin too over lesser poo poo and eventually came back, although this CA ruling effects their entire business model.
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Aug 20, 2020 19:02
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"What if we got Uber drivers to deliver the mail!?" *Entire conservative think tank roundtable erupts in applause*
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Aug 20, 2020 19:15
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No need to choose. USPS is gubmint and wasting taxpayer dollars (nevermind that it doesn't get any. libs want it to!!). Uber and Lyft are private enterprise being sabotaged by Big Gubmint Regulations. sacramento created rideshare bowl!!!!
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Aug 20, 2020 19:18
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Oh god what if trump turns lyft/uber into the new post office
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Aug 20, 2020 19:32
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Areas bidding in an online portal to get their mail delivered
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Aug 20, 2020 19:39
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Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds thanks to the new surge pricing feature that we're rolling out today!
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Aug 20, 2020 20:33
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As does this https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1296528342305275904 quote:OAKLAND, Calif. — Uber and Lyft threatened to suspend ride-hailing services throughout California on Thursday night, a defiant reaction to a judge who ordered the companies to reclassify their drivers as employees.
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Aug 20, 2020 20:40
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Did Prop 16 get discussed yet? I went back like 5 pages and it's all fire chat. My knee jerk reaction is no on 16 but i am thinking on it.
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Aug 20, 2020 20:58
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Give it time give it sweet time and thus country will not pass a single law before a board of directors of global corps decide it's viable or not. FB Google and the big tech Bois will next start suppressing journalism and buying up media platforms to propagate pro tech propaganda.
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Aug 20, 2020 21:03
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Enigma89 posted:Did Prop 16 get discussed yet? I went back like 5 pages and it's all fire chat. That's the repeal on the affirmative action ban? Vote yes, affirmative action is good and "race blind" policy would only be useful in a society that wasn't as viciously racist as ours.
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Aug 20, 2020 21:05
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Maybe Uber/Lyft could spend all that money and effort lobbying for Medicare For All, then they won't have to pay for health care for their "contract" workers?
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:FB Google and the big tech Bois will next start suppressing journalism and buying up media platforms to propagate pro tech propaganda. Start?
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Jan posted:Maybe Uber/Lyft could spend all that money and effort lobbying for Medicare For All, then they won't have to pay for health care for their "contract" workers? Yeah but then a bunch of their drivers wouldn't need to work, making drivers in higher demand and increasing the wages they'd have to pay to maintain a healthy retention rate. If we want to truly support the market we should actually go the other way and give everyone $20k in undischargeable debt owed to their employer, and only payable in their employer's scrip so as to prevent poaching of quality workers.
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Aug 20, 2020 21:13
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Wicked Them Beats posted:That's the repeal on the affirmative action ban? Vote yes, affirmative action is good and "race blind" policy would only be useful in a society that wasn't as viciously racist as ours. Yes but isn't this a slippery slope?
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Aug 20, 2020 21:21
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Enigma89 posted:Yes but isn't this a slippery slope?
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Enigma89 posted:Yes but isn't this a slippery slope? To what? Black people getting hired?
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Is there any reasonable take to the ride-share stuff that isn't just going back to the old status quo? It's one of those I never talk about here because I'd rather lick boot of Lyft/Uber than turn the clock back ten years. I feel like the way to help people in the gig economy is the same M4A and UBI formula that helps a lot of society. Maybe California should look into that. Unfortunately, it's not just the big two tech companies. Women Driving Women told my Mom they're winding down over this too, and they provide a useful service for at-risk riders like seniors and children in a couple counties.
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Craptacular! posted:Is there any reasonable take to the ride-share stuff that isn't just going back to the old status quo? Abolish the medallion system and increase the number of taxis. Probably with some regulation that makes it so drivers can't dodge fares just because someone has the wrong skin color / gender / is going to the wrong neighborhood. As an example: Taxis in Stockholm are very deregulated - no limit on how many there can be, and a very generous upper limit on pricing. It used to be that independent taxis would charge hilarious amounts for short trips and scam cruise ship tourists, but this was OK since the placard with comparison prices did indeed point this out. They've since added a price ceiling. All taxis have apps, all taxis are clean and the drivers are pretty good. When Uber opened in Stockholm, my perception was that nobody really took it because it didn't really fill a niche - it was priced similarly to taxis and the taxis all had apps by then too so it didn't differentiate on that. What I didn't reflect on, as a cis white male, is that my friends with mideast background would prefer Ubers since they would regularly get ignored as fares, esp in peak traffic (think, coming home from bars).
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I just posted this in the LA thread too but this appears to be our response to all of this and it seems...good? https://twitter.com/metrolosangeles/status/1296538762705620992 I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop but tentatively this seems pretty positive.
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bawfuls posted:Their entire business proposition is: it’s about destroying what’s left of public transit
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GrandpaPants posted:Start? Somebody isn't familiar with Amazon Presents the Washington Post lol
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