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Centrist Committee posted:We probably would have gotten a huge investment in public transit during the pandemic  how do you figure? public transport of the only number allowed - no, required - to go down
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May 7, 2021 05:16
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:They've had class b shares that are effectively identical but 1500x smaller for a while now.
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May 7, 2021 05:50
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I can't fault anyone for using uber or lyft. Despite the terrible problems, they are filling a need very well. I've been in situations where I've used public transit or failing that, Taxi services. They both suck poo poo compared to just calling an uber. I used to catch a 5:50 am bus to catch a metro to catch another bus to get to my trade school by 8:15. Then bus/metro to work. If I was late at work I'd be calling people for rides and if not catching a can that would wipe out my whole evening's pay anyway after a 45 minute wait for the cab. Bus don't run after 8, so get hosed me. Sure these problems can be fixed by modernizing the cab's or beefing up public transit , but america sucks at that stuff. So until then uber is great. Which blows.
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May 7, 2021 06:23
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itskage posted:I can't fault anyone for using uber or lyft. Despite the terrible problems, they are filling a need very well. I've been in situations where I've used public transit or failing that, one other important thing about gig driver apps like uber/lyft is that unlike the taxi companies in my city the uber drivers don't try to scam the poo poo out of me every single trip like, I guess it's technically possible that every cab trip i've gone on since moving here has been plagued with debit machines that only work if you tell the driver you don't carry cash and you're leaving, but that seems like that's the kind of thing that would get fixed after a few years
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May 7, 2021 07:03
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blatman posted:one other important thing about gig driver apps like uber/lyft is that unlike the taxi companies in my city the uber drivers don't try to scam the poo poo out of me every single trip The scam happens on the back end where Uber doesn't pay the drivers enough for your ride to make a living wage once you subtract capital costs, gas, and insurance and then loses billions of dollars anyway because they can't stay ahead of the competition while simultaneously paying drivers anything, keeping your fare low enough that you'll actually use the app, and bringing in enough active daily users to keep the dream alive another year. The entire thing is a pyramid scheme predicated on future profitability that will never happen. But yeah it's convenient.
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May 7, 2021 07:17
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:When Uber and Lyft left Austin for a while, a bunch of competitors just stepped in without any real disruption. It's just not an industry where you can lock in market share. When (if?) the VC money runs out and they have to raise prices what happens. my dad bought 1 B share when they came out in like 1990 something for a couple dollars and hes always bragging that its up like 1250% now. buy me dinner, dad you old bitch!
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May 7, 2021 07:28
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Your dad spent all his gains buying me dinner
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May 7, 2021 07:43
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The Oldest Man posted:The scam happens on the back end where Uber doesn't pay the drivers enough for your ride to make a living wage once you subtract capital costs, gas, and insurance and then loses billions of dollars anyway because they can't stay ahead of the competition while simultaneously paying drivers anything, keeping your fare low enough that you'll actually use the app, and bringing in enough active daily users to keep the dream alive another year. The entire thing is a pyramid scheme predicated on future profitability that will never happen. What we need are busses and trains going everywhere
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May 7, 2021 10:17
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What about the highway to hell
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May 7, 2021 10:33
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What if Uber but the stops were fixed and you could carry like 50 people at a time but also no poor people - some rear end in a top hat in silicon valley approximately every 10 seconds
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May 7, 2021 14:18
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the stops are only fixed in the beta, while we develop a solution for on-demand stops this will require at least 50mm vc funds launch in "2 years"
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May 7, 2021 21:49
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VideoTapir posted:No. In that it actually worked? silentsnack posted:look on my number, ye mighty, and lol. for I am a rich rear end in a top hat and I'm taking it with me. Buffett actually talks a very good game about this, though. He pretty specifically calls out a lot of bullshit, expands on how his wealth has come from being extremely lucky, being born a white man at the right time and the right place to the right people, and societal preferences being grossly warped. "Warren Buffett - The Giving Pledge" I would give Buffett comfortable home arrest until a natural death instead of the guillotine. He's already redistributing his wealth and is intent on it being seen through in his will. He's one of the few rich assholes not trying to take it with them, since he's already pretty satisfied with having won capitalism. tokin opposition posted:What if Uber but the stops were fixed and you could carry like 50 people at a time but also no poor people - some rear end in a top hat in silicon valley approximately every 10 seconds But we already have the Google / Facebook / Netflix / etc busses?
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May 7, 2021 21:51
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itskage posted:I can't fault anyone for using uber or lyft. Despite the terrible problems, they are filling a need very well. I've been in situations where I've used public transit or failing that, Regular taxi services could easily be run off an app in the same way Uber and Lyft are, case in point Didi in China. It's absolutely bonkers to me that U.S. cab companies didn't start trying to adopt that as soon as Uber started making the rounds.
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May 7, 2021 21:55
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Gods_Butthole posted:Regular taxi services could easily be run off an app in the same way Uber and Lyft are, case in point Didi in China. It's absolutely bonkers to me that U.S. cab companies didn't start trying to adopt that as soon as Uber started making the rounds. Cab companies are probably run like poo poo (and don't have access to hundreds of millions in vc funding.)
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May 7, 2021 22:04
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Also there are a poo poo-ton of them.
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May 7, 2021 22:12
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we have taxi apps in denmark, but its been so long i dont remember if theyre any good. back when i went outside, i usuallt just flailed my arms whitely by the curb. anyway the govt told uber to follow taxi safety regulations and they got all huffy & took their ball and went home, i think some 5 years ago. big loss
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May 7, 2021 22:14
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Cab companies are probably run like poo poo (and don't have access to hundreds of millions in vc funding.) It's a cab hailing app Michael, how much could it cost? $10?
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May 7, 2021 22:50
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Lyft and Uber both offer me some token option to call a taxi via them It's always cheaper than any of their options And there has never been one available If this is some kind of psyop it's very confused
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May 7, 2021 22:58
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Taxi Magic predated Uber. I used the sort of successor of it, Curb, but after a few years of Uber/Lyft it became impossible to get a cab basically. This is in Chicago, where taxi medallions used to cost like well over $100k
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May 7, 2021 23:11
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tokin opposition posted:Lyft and Uber both offer me some token option to call a taxi via them "how do we keep chasing after monopoly market share, but make it look we're legitimately trying not to kill the competition?"
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May 8, 2021 00:12
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Gods_Butthole posted:Regular taxi services could easily be run off an app in the same way Uber and Lyft are, case in point Didi in China. It's absolutely bonkers to me that U.S. cab companies didn't start trying to adopt that as soon as Uber started making the rounds. They did, actually. There's some NYC ride hailing app that the taxi companies panic started, and it was garbage that wouldn't let you actually hail a cab last time I tried. The big problem is that you've got a whole cornucopia of yellow cab companies, and all they can agree on is the legislated rates for fares. I very much want to support local taxi services, but if I don't even know what companies are nearby that will dispatch a car, I don't know how I am supposed to do that.
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May 8, 2021 01:35
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Lol that SpaceX blows up rockets on the reg, but a Chinese rocket fuckup is now on the local news.
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May 8, 2021 04:16
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Way back in the day when I did retail I once had a client that needed a ride somewhere. I called 4 different cab companies before I found one willing to pick them up, and even then they said it would be 2 hours until someone got out there. Cabs are the worst.
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May 8, 2021 04:27
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Nothus posted:Lol that SpaceX blows up rockets on the reg, but a Chinese rocket fuckup is now on the local news. yeah sone spacex garbage hit some farm in Washington state last month https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/2/22364582/spacex-rocket-debris-falls-farm-washington
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May 8, 2021 04:39
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silentsnack posted:look on my number, ye mighty, and lol. for I am a rich rear end in a top hat and I'm taking
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May 8, 2021 04:46
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Remember back when uber was a "ridesharing" company and it was just a way for people to carpool on demand haha no seriously it's for sharing a ride like if you're both going to the airport shut up shut up dude
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May 8, 2021 05:58
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Volmarias posted:In that it actually worked?  https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/warren-buffetts-mobile-home-empire-preys-on-the-poor/
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May 8, 2021 07:18
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in spain we have an app now named FREE NOW and you can use it to easily order a cab. it works great; you can use it to pay. you can even book a cab for some time in the future like if you need to get to the airport at 5am or some crap i have no idea why anyone here would use uber
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May 8, 2021 07:42
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https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-57020862quote:Coldplay's Chris Martin says that the pandemic has forced him to reassess his relationship with fame.
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May 8, 2021 10:03
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my friend called an Uber to take him home from my house last night. got this 10 mins later
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May 8, 2021 11:39
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smellmycheese posted:my friend called an Uber to take him home from my house last night. got this 10 mins later lmao
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May 8, 2021 12:46
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this feels like it should be illegal
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May 8, 2021 12:50
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smellmycheese posted:my friend called an Uber to take him home from my house last night. got this 10 mins later… I had exactly this experience except in Seattle. Thought I was going to die while the driver ranted about how he has road rage and speeding up while trusting the car to brake
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May 8, 2021 14:19
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The one thing that is useful about these apps is the ability to see where the car is.
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May 8, 2021 15:18
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exmachina posted:The one thing that is useful about these apps is the ability to see where the car is. That and paying with a credit card in the app without having to worry about having enough cash to cover the tip. It took Uber to force regular cabs to do that.
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May 8, 2021 16:03
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they also show up approximately on time the only reason uber/lyft exist is because united states taxis are absolute dogshit
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May 8, 2021 17:30
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My old car rusted out too badly and I can't really afford anything atm, so I have to get a taxi/uber/lyft anytime I can't carpool to work. The taxi service here has gotten better lately and they have a functional app now, but unless it's like, 3AM 95% of the time I'll be waiting about 10 minutes for lyft or about 25-30 for the taxi.
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May 8, 2021 17:35
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:
 gently caress, I just want to have someone I can point at and say "they're not a total piece of poo poo", it seems like such a straightforward thing to request. Is there anyone who isn't Fred Rogers (don't your loving dare tell me about anything bad he might have done I cannot handle that right now) or Tom Hanks who I may have heard of and who isn't loving garbage? goatsestretchgoals posted:they also show up approximately on time Yes this too, though the local taxi service in the last town I lived was actually very good about this although the cabs were clearly Lovingly Used crown vics. Volmarias has issued a correction as of 01:34 on May 9, 2021 |
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May 9, 2021 01:32
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Volmarias posted:
Bob Ross? unless you count inventing ASMR recordings
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May 9, 2021 01:52
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Volmarias posted:
 the only way to become a billionaire is to steal from hundreds of thousands of people
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