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I’m glad the regulator is at least taking an interest.

Sadly this is just how large corporations work in 2026. Say what you will about booking dot com, but all of these middle man companies are the same.

Like if you’re an uber driver or door dasher or airbnb host, the company is always gushing with platitudes about how you’re a valued partner, until something goes wrong. At that point there’s no one to talk to and you very quickly discover that they hold all the cards. As in: if you build a business “partnered” with a much larger corporation, you are entirely at their mercy in any kind of dispute.

They will not seek a balanced, fair, or reasonable outcome because they know that you don’t have any choice but to accept what they offer.

People always say this about LO.

I have a small finance consultancy, and we’re a LO shop all day every day.

Its fine.

Its almost always that they’ve been following specific workflows or processes for the last n years and find that particular workflow isn’t directly supported in LO.

I just enable canvas on sites that need it.

Thats the only part of RFP that I find problematic.

I dont think that this is really the problem uber is solving here.

I dont think women passengers or drivers are being physically assaulted during an uber ride, they just feel uncomfortable with men. Maybe its flirting, maybe its a fertive glance, maybe its nothing. It doesn’t really matter whether male drivers have ever done anything to deserve being avoided, the point is that women want to avoid them.

Im a guy. I feel a bit awkward about this, as if someone had said to me “I dont want to interact with you because you might rape me”. Its not a nice feeling but its a misconception of what’s really happening.

Ultimately in any specific instance where a woman chooses not to interact with a man, I absolutely believe its her right to do so. However, I do hope that society doesn’t reach a point where women in general make that choice as a matter of routine.

I’m pretty confident

confidently incorrect.

You could disabuse yourself with a quick search.

Yeah I agree that it doesn’t sound very realistic.

One of the problems with spills is getting equipment on site.

What if your OS just kind of… lies and says it has verified you as a respectable binary cis gendered 30 something white human with impeccable mental health who never engages in wrong think.

This is great news. I mean as long as the lines keep going up right?

Yeah, there’s a lot to good EVOO.

Here i wouldnt really trust anything I can get from the supermarket, and certainly not anything imported.

The health benefits diminish significantly over time.

So the “best before” date might be 2 years, but if you want the health benefits then every month counts. Also the time spent in contact with air.

this is ours:

you’re right, it’s bullshit marketing and it sucks. The front of the tin does say “tuna in olive oil blend”, in fairness. All the other brands are the same / similar.

If it was real, pure olive oil it would cost more.

I just buy the stuff packed in spring water, drain it, and pour olive oil over it.

I mean yeah, but most people will find a low-carb low-fat diet to be very unfulfilling and even depressing in a fairly short period of time.

I suspect most people could easily do it for a week or so with the right support, but as a long term health intervention I’d say 1 in 100 people can adhere to this kind of regime.

Are you joking?

How do you prep this?

I really, really struggle to decide what to eat. I think it’s a neurodivergence thing. I’ve often wished there was some bullshit soylent kind of thing I could consume instead of food.

The tuna in EVOO you buy at the supermarket here is lame. If you look at the ingredients it’s just cheap vegetable oil with a dash of EVOO, and you can bet it’s not the good EVOO.

You haven’t really explained how Musk could ever be poor and homeless?

Any billionaire could discard their wealth “state side” or in a bunch of countries and still be obscenely wealthy.

If you could press a button and instantly delete all of his wealth the world over, he could land a well paid board position with any number of large companies who would pay him many millions just because his name would increase share holder sentiment.

He could just call any multimillionaire who has benefited from his association and say “hey I’m destitute, can you give me a place to stay and some pocket money” and they would gladly agree.

Musk will never be poor and homeless.

Tldr:

You seem to be arguing against a claim that you imagined I made, and / or seem to exist in an alternate reality with dragons and guillotines.

Logically I don’t understand how I can help you understand this, and that’s the only way I know to explain things, I’m sorry.

Sure. I didnt say musk couldn’t be assassinated or otherwise disposed of. Im responding to the commenter that wanted him homeless and poor.

Regardless, things have changed somewhat since the French revolution. A population cant simply rise up and start guillotining billionaires. They can literally just fly away.

Not to mention they effectively control the minds of the population that would take up arms against them.

No i think the comment is less direct than that.

For much of government, the underlying objective is to contribute to GDP. For example, funding healthcare means a healthier population who can be more productive.

So by saying “this policy won’t contribute to GDP” its a very general way to say this is not what’s best for your population.

At least I think thats what theyre saying.

As an aside, savings dont directly improve GDP, by definition.

Sure but Musk will never be homeless and poor.

Thats… not really on the cards.

Well they got rid of the users they didn’t want so from their perspective, yeah.