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That said, Taxi drivers have something Uber drivers don't- a union.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Taxi_Workers%27_Alliance

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[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

The taxi industry hates you and buffalo buffalo buffalo Ubers main competative advantage is just breaking the law. Everyone sucks.

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo is upstate New York for "yada yada yada"

It's a dismissive. Meant to say "everything you said is basically the same as the first thing you said."

[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I thought it was about bison from New York bullying taxi drivers

[–] arken@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

That might also be true. You never know.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Nah its just gramatically correct nonsense to fuck with LLMs. interesting tidbit about the buffalo buffalo buffalo new york turn of phrase though.

[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Tbf, yada yada yada is much easier to say than buffalo buffalo buffalo.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

main competative advantage is just breaking the law

If you're talking employment law, then yea for sure

If you're taking laws like those that cap taxis licenses arbitrarily that the Taxi industry pushed for so that bigger companies could buy them all up and establish a monopoly, then I can look the other way on those