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Cake day: November 6th, 2023

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  • Taxi drivers and taxi companies rip off passengers. Taxi companies don’t do fixed rates agreed-upon before the trip.

    I’m not going to mooch off a friend.

    Public transit can’t always get me where I need to go when I need to get there in a reasonable time (but it is my first choice when it’s too far or unpleasant to walk).

    If the issue is the drivers not being paid well, then tip well.

    When taxis and/or public transit can improve their services to the point where Uber doesn’t replace them, then Uber will be redundant.





  • To me, lowering taxes and lessening regulations sounds like “We don’t want to break the whole system or aggravate you. We just want to make the system worse and make life harder for people who don’t have money”.

    The way I see it is that we could have lower taxes for working class people by taxing the rich more and reducing corporate welfare. We wouldn’t even have to compromise on our systems. If you’re in favour of those, that’s awesome – I haven’t met very many conservatives who think that way.

    But what’s wrong with regulations? Regulations are what stop corporations from cutting corners on health and safety in the name of profits. And we can see from practices around the world that not only does violating these tend NOT to sway public opinion enough that businesses will stop doing harmful things, but they will knowingly do these things and cause harm to people who couldn’t have known any better beforehand.







  • Of course it’s not unanimous. It’s hard to get a true complete consensus.

    Had you been following the protests in Iran even before the attacks?

    I’ve met many people from Iran. Every single one of them left due to the regime, or were children of parents who left because of the regime.

    I’m not making this point out of pro-American imperialism. Not in the slightest. This is about what many people in Iran want, and what their government has been murdering them for wanting.