“We want to be a middle man”
this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2024
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They say that during the California gold rush, the people who got richest were the shovel salesmen
Pretty sure it was the people who had the money for heavy equipment and labor that could get the deep gold the prospectors found, but couldn't reach.
Pretty sure it was the few people who controlled the amount of supply to the people who wanted the gold after taking the gold from the miners
That came later.
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They are fools, the richest were the people who bought the mines.
To be fair, Trainline started up years ago as a middle man that charge the same for tickets as train operators do (the price is regulated by National Rail) but with a surplus for a service that doesn't convey any extra value, and they're still quite popular.
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If this meant that Uber was actually investing in the U.S. passenger rail system, then I’d cheer them on. It doesn’t, though, so Uber can continue to suck my ass.
Is this from the US at all?
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I can't help but imagine actually using Uber to call for a train and when it arrives, it's just some old-timey blind guy on one of those old-timey hand-carts singing prophetic songs about what your day is gonna be like.
Fuck gig economy reform, intimidate your way to disability justice in the workplace via ominous clairvoyance and getting absolutely fucking yoked enough to suplex a train like it’s Final Fantasy VI
To be fair, it was a ghost train. Not being corporeal might make it incredibly lightweight.
You shall see a... cow... on the roof of a cotton house.
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Imagine if this actually worked like the main rideshare function. You order a ride in Roanoke and N&W 611 just rolls up to your doorstep.
Brings a new visual to the phrase "choo choo motherfucker"
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I’m gonna play extreme geoguesser here, but is that bridge at Battersea park road/Queenstown road bridge, right near Battersea Park Station?
I'm gonna guess the side of Waterloo station
Correct!
51.503, -0.111
Bingpot! I think it was the glass on the left with the blue lines on it that did it for me, that's by the Bakerloo/Jubilee escalators isn't it?
First use of "bingpot" I've seen in the wild. Thanks for making my morning!
Ooooh you’re good. Nice score!
I'm not particularly fond of Uber's bussiness practices but if it is well integrated then it might encourage people who use Uber anyway to take a train instead of a car
It's not going to be well integrated. They will provide services only on profitable routes. All companies providing services on not profitable connections will lose out until the whole system is worse than before uber joined
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How does that work? Like you put out a request and a conductor drives a locomotive to pick you up?
I'm pretty sure you can just buy train tickets on Uber or some shit
Maybe automatically chain together and Uber and a train or something
I figured out what you meant but my initial mental image for "automatically chain together" was a long line of Hondas and Teslas connected by short tow straps.
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Fuck cars and fuck Uber but this sounds like a reaction to Lyft being integrated in the (excellent) Transit app
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It's a pretty neat system they got, all you got to do is say "I like trains" in a monotone voice and BOOM! Train!
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This appears to have been available since at least October last year - you can buy train tickets through the Uber app. Thread from another forum here.
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