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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • I think if he made all crimes legal, for 12 hours- and gave people plenty of warning, he’d be dead in the first.

    I mean, it must be an exercise of immense self control to be on his security detail, and not constantly wonder about the good that could happen. If they just.

    Also. Throw in all his cooks and food delivery people, the people that maintain his vehicles. The people that maintain the golf course… the mail people. The people that do the laundry. Change his diapers. The people that manage his medications.

    There’s an awful lot of people that he relies on to survive. Any one of them could end it, and he shits on them near constantly.

    Remove the threat of consequences? Oh yeah. It’d be a battle royally, and he’s the king to regicide.






  • 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…?)