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Popular Thug Drink posted:Yeah. I keep hearing about how Lyft and Uber are these game changing disruptive things when you've been able to use your phone to summon a taxi for decades. The main thing isn't the app, it's that they're unregulated and unlicensed taxi systems using our poo poo economy to provide transportation in the same underpaid manner as pizza delivery. I live out in the country, so I've literally never seen a Lyft or Uber car in my life. The nearest place of business to my house is 1.7 miles away according to Google Maps, and the actual town I technically live in is 3.1 miles away. Who the gently caress is gonna drive out and get me for cheaper than it costs me to just drive myself? They look at what happens in their little world where they live and assume that's what it's like everywhere.
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I was gonna come in to post about Illinois introducing a bill to regulate ride sharing apps, but it seems like we've moved onto something much more hilarious.
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mastershakeman posted:As an illinoisan, I'm interested, what's the bill? Honestly these ride sharing companies all seem to be based on paying their employees very little while also not having sufficient liability insurance so once a few lawsuits happen they'll disappear. Liability insurance, vehicle standards, all drivers must obtain chauffeur's licenses and the companies must provide at least some wheelchair accessible vehicles, among other things. I can't seem to find the full text though. It's supposedly HB4075, but the text I can find for that doesn't look like it, unless this stuff was tacked on as an amendment. The Warszawa posted:Cartel behavior is so pre-cyborg singularity, but the settlement from the e-book price fixing suit was distributed today. High five for thirteen bucks! I got $0.73. 
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Mar 25, 2014 21:39
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A sea of big red titles, as far as the eye can see. Is this what hell is like?
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etalian posted:I wish SF would have a new ordinance allowing you to hunt anyone wearing google glasses in public And risk an uprising by the Cyborg Panthers? EDIT: My first red title. 
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Mar 26, 2014 00:04
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No you see, they have a ball pit therefore they're fun!
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She managed to fit thee, didst, thou and thy into a single tweet. That's impressive levels of twatbaggery. VVV You should get better friends VVV
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Jul 25, 2014 01:59
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He's not a scam artist, scam artist implies that he realizes his product is bullshit.
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Jul 25, 2014 22:29
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Obdicut posted:I don't even understand the desire to have servants. It'd feel incredibly awkward to me for someone to clean up my messes and drive me around and be all deferential. How is it not awkward, and if you treat them badly, how do you ever feel certain that they haven't, like, pissed in your whiskey? And I think it goes without saying she'd treat them badly. Lack of empathy.
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:poo poo's blowing up, for real: Reading the Gawker comments on Facebook and on their site is, as usual, depressing. They all think she's trolling and that the "Dark Enlightenment" isn't a real movement. So if you're wondering why she thinks what she's saying is okay, it's because there are plenty of dumbasses who don't get that she's completely serious and egg her on thinking it's all a joke. 
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Jul 30, 2014 20:41
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Jesus gently caress, take this dumbass derail to a different thread already, no one gives a poo poo besides the couple of you arguing back and forth. Even the "Why do programmers worship Ayn Rand" thread would be a better place for it.
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Jul 30, 2014 21:05
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Nintendo Kid posted:It is true that it is not a real "movement" in the sense that it's a bunch of terrible nerds whining online, who can't be bothered to do anything about it besides smugly blog about how blacks and the poor are beneath them. They do still believe this stuff and have their internet circles and all that, but it's hard to call it a movement independent of other things. I don't mean they didn't think it was big enough to matter, the commenters are accusing them of also being trolls or even a hoax from big businesses to make Tunney look bad.
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Jul 30, 2014 21:56
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I vote we replace the Silicon Valley with a Silicon Arcology.
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Jul 31, 2014 15:28
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Hodgepodge posted:I know we're referencing Shadowrun, chummer, but isn't an actual arcology a good thing? Oh, I totally forgot that they did that in Shadowrun. I was being serious, arcologies are boss as gently caress and Paolo Soleri was a genius.
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I like Shadowrun, I just prefer the Denver area and ex-Chicago as settings.
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