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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that’s the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.

  • @Madison420
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    47 months ago

    That just isn’t true, you just said you could ride a train. You choose not to, that’s a big difference.

    But saying rail is significantly slower you narrow your nationality to maybe 5 major nations one happens to be significantly more represented on Lemmy. The “need” to drive safe over reaction to the guess means I’m almost certainly correct. Am I not?

    • @[email protected]
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      17 months ago

      Tbf to the guy you’re responding to, getting the extra 2-3 days of PTO necessary to take the train may also be a contributing factor. There’s a hidden work reform issue baked into this that also needs addressing.

      • @Madison420
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        37 months ago

        There absolutely is, the fact that most other major countries get 6 weeks mandatory minimum and we have zero mandatory minimum is crazy.

    • @aidan
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      17 months ago

      They said they’re an Uber driver…

      • @Madison420
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        07 months ago

        An optional “profession” that steals money from qualified taxis and is also super abusive towards its employees. That’s not an excuse, that’s an explanation an kinda of a bad one at that.

        • @aidan
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          17 months ago

          An optional “profession” that steals money from qualified taxis

          It’s not stealing if it doesn’t take it out of their wallet. Maybe the issue is instead the expensive restrictions on becoming a taxi driver? Or the virtual monopoly many taxi companies have. Or just that almost always a taxi is a worse experience.

          • @Madison420
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            07 months ago

            That’s literally what it does. Taxis didn’t have monopoly, they have a licensed job specifically because unlicensed taxis were dangerous and people at the time were getting shanghaied.

            • @aidan
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              17 months ago

              Did Spotify steal from radio?

              they have a licensed job specifically because unlicensed taxis were dangerous and people at the time were getting shanghaied.

              Do you have any source for that happening significantly more frequently with Ubers?