Odd Stuff (Part 5)

So… it’s just like a taxi, only worse in almost every detail.

If only anyone had been able to predict that in the early days of its business model. /s

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Also, back then the original business model was “We’ll have robot cars in, like, five years from now, tops, and then won’t need drivers!” At least that’s what Uber told investors, and the investors swallowed it hook, line, sinker and copy of the Financial Times.

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So is this how it ends?

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So they change the labels, someone dies because of inadvertent cross contamination and the company gets sued for not having a warning.

Aug. 08, 1964 - Hamburg Police Gets Seaborne Amphibious Cars: Criminals in Hamburg, Germany, cannot get rid of police patrols by fessing on the water. The patrols operating on the harbor area are now using Amphi-Cars, which are a motorboat as well as an Ordinary car.Photo Shows Police patrols cruising on the Hamburg harbor in their new amphibious crafts.

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They could if they were in a normal boat-shaped boat. I bet those Amphi-Cars didn’t last long. :grin:

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FDA officials acknowledged Tuesday that statements that a product “may contain” certain allergens “could be considered truthful and not misleading.”…

The “may contain” label follows the ingredients list. It’ll say something like, “This product was made in a facility that processes peanuts, tree nuts, sesame, dairy, wheat, Marmite, and horseshoes,” and it serves to warn esp sensitive/allergic consumers.

{ETA dairy & wheat}

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Oho

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It sounds like some techbros reinvented the train.

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That’s the name they’re going with?

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“…transport system could carry the same amount of freight as 25,000 truck drivers every day”

Wait, what can the average truck driver carry? It can’t be more than 40 kg or so.

Or does it mean freight weighing as much as 25,000 truck drivers? If so, what does the average truck driver weigh, and is the kilotruckdriver a standard unit of mass in Japan?

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That video was almost exactly like having a conversation with my dad- he had this film on VHS, and had pretty much this enthusiastic rant about the stellar casting.

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