TWIT 1003: CrabStrike

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We are seeing similar disinformation and the right wing supporting the invasion of the Ukraine as a good thing, “let them have it”.

I find it very confusing and disturbing that right wingers and social media influencers are listening to an ex-KGB spymaster.

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Really great show this week.

One of the nice things about taxis in Germany is that they have to have a calibrated meter and the prices per KM are defined by law - the local council sets the rate, but all taxis have to charge the same amount.

This is one of the many reasons why Uber was banned for such a long time, they weren’t using calibrated meters and they weren’t using a fixed price per KM. It also didn’t help that they would let anyone drive for them, with no checks - in Germany it is a legal requirement to have insurance if you drive a vehicle and if you are driving commercially you need commercial transport insurance and you can only get that if you have a professional driving license. Uber didn’t care, so most of their drivers weren’t insured (the private insurance was null and void if they have paying passengers in the vehicle) and thus found themselves liable for all costs in an accident and lost their licenses and faced heavy fines as well, if they were pulled over or involved in an accident.

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Hopefully someone will ventilate his cranium before too long

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I don’t think the issue with shelf labels that the store can change on a whim is ‘surge pricing’, it’s the workers that the store will no longer need to change said labels.

I work at Target for 28 years, and there was a team of 4-5 people that went around every weekday and did ‘Price Change’. Figure 4 people per store times X number of stores, and imagine how much the store can save (and how many people that will get their hours cut or their schedule F’d up so they can work freight or some other crappy job).

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