So much for the "rational actor" in the markets.

No, mf, this is not asking for a bribe, this is life and death. But you don't care, you live in some US suburb and have the a/c running.

Speaking as someone who drove for Yellow (ugh) in the mid-seventies, this is NOT RIDE SHARING, this is a taxi service. Therefore, Waymo needs to buy the $37k (last I heard) taxi medallion for each one. That is, until they hit the city's limit.

Waiting to hear some moron go on about the world always needs ditch diggers and taxi drivers, as a way to work for a living.

As long as it doesn't have to be shut down when the river water gets too warm.

100% true. I was out of work for almost five solid years during the W Bush recession (2001-2006). One job I applied for that looked like it was literally written for me, I did something I never did: the day after emailing my resume, I called the recruiter. She said, and I quote, "Well, you're not fresh."
Infuriated, I asked if she were to take a year off to have a kid, whether she would be no longer employable, because she wasn't fresh. Gee, she'd never thought of that. Supposedly, she put me in, I didn't get it.
Then a friend dug me up online, and I fixed his small private corporate website, and listed myself as employed by him. Within six months, I had a regular job again.

They're ASSHOLES. Rather than figuring it's cheaper to hire out of work, they only want people currently working.

Take your wrong-wing bs away.

Follow the money? Sure: All the climate change denial is funded by the oil industry is making aover $100B/yr. Explain who's paying the scientists documenting climate change.

Hey, you never toook science in high school, or jr. high. What are you doing *here*, pretending to be a nerd?

Back in the seventies and eighties, as automation was hitting hard, and offshoring beginning, the talk was all about how everyone would get newer, better jobs in the "information economy".
They at least could point to something.

Now? They have *nothing* at all, and "we'll have fewer people, but other companies will pick up the slack" ... said by every one of them.

Reality check time: until diesel cars finally got through Detroit, diesel was ALWAYS at least $0.10 LESS than regular. Car makers, wholly-owned by the oil companies, preferred gas, which cost more.

A lot of NIH, and other government research, is available - but you might have to subscribe, say, to pub.med... which libraries are.

And no, there's not any study that ever said ivermectin was the answer.

ObDisclosure: I worked as a contractor at the NIH for 10 years, retiring in '19.

Maybe some of you are old enough to remember payphones. As a kid, they were a dime. Then a quarter. Then $0.50.

Twenty-one years ago, my soon-to-be late ex was in jail in Brevard Co, FL for terrorism (yes, I married a terrorist).

It's a proven *fact* that the more contact prisoners have with the outside, the lower the recidivism rate. But not only were the calls EXPENSIVE (trying to remember if it was $50/mo, or more). But also, there were only certain numbers - actually, I think it was one number - that they could get calls from, and landlines only.

A lot of prisoners got zip.

Got it: you have never done anything original in your life. You only do what whoever the "popular" or "important" people tell you to do.

Go fuck yourself.

Yes, I am a published writer, and that's by a small press, not self-published.

Really? So, can you name a single climate scientist who went?

MAGAidiot, why don't you see what insurance companies say and do? You might find that your orange spray-painted deity and the rest of his nut jobs, none of whom has ever taken science, has a clue.

...then explain to me how this is "ride-sharing", and not explicitly a taxi service, requiring a taxicab license, etc.