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[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I feel awfully called out as a 1994 white Kevin...

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Do they bring their own leash or can you use your own?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Can I use the one with the fuzzy collar?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Dude there’s probably a business in that. People typically just get hookers for that weird situation where a rich powerful man has to go to an event and bring a plus one, and he can’t find a woman who doesn’t hate him so he has to rent one by the hour.

Make it an app. Fuck it. Lets let the business majors ruin that too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They usually get escorts, which actually isn't the same thing as a hooker and not all of them actually do sex work. I have no idea why I know anything about that, but it was something I was just kinda aware of as a young adult.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

"not all of them actually do sex work" is one of those fictions that everyone on all sides is happy to play along with.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

unlike other comments, I'd argue, like most tech, it was incredibly profitable for anyone except the people funding it.

Business is not about extracting money from goods and services, it's about tricking VC funders to give you 50 million dollars a year

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Hilariously unprofitable. They even came up with creative accounting to show how, despite never being profitable they may turn a profit if you don't count their debts and losses.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Never has been Earth astronauts gun meme

No, but fr Uber is a masterclass in creative accounting and strategic acquisitions for further creative accounting.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

Their whole business model is "wait for self driving and then $$$" as they'll no longer have to pay anybody.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago

“In 2023, Uber reported its first annual profit since going public in 2019, with a net income of $1.9 billion. This follows a period of consistent losses for the company.”

[–] [email protected] 80 points 5 days ago

Both see the same offer, neither get the money

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Is this real? I wouldn't be surprised

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Nah, just a meme.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I don't say this much but that is actually a good idea, considering the amount of people that live very lonely and isolated lives. Maybe this can help some people to talk, enjoy another's company, etc. Maybe. Everything else the effing internet and tech companies tried only managed to push people apart...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Except that it gives predators an easy way to be alone with drunk women. I wouldn’t trust Uber’s security checks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Same risk with a driver, I'd guess.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Revamped the concept.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

sure, it's nice to do something about loneliness. Makes me think of human libraries, where you can borrow a human to have a talk with. But please, let's do these things voluntarily and not for profit. There's something nasty about "I'm only willing to speak to you if you pay me".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Isn't that a japanese thing? With cafes where you go to talk with a person?

But back to the subject at hand.

I could see this as a way to get someone's help to take some groceries home or some large object a single person can't, as it is too akward to hold alone.

Or as a personal guide or to have company to go to/through somewhere someone does not feel comfortable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Did not expect Uber entering to pimp industry.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Is the hand holding optional or?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Your preference will be determined through biometrics and you will be billed on a scale determine by your Uber rating.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 days ago

Compulsory.

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