An outside individual purchasing shares is not the same as employees accessing liquidity.

As one example, SpaceX is privately held but routinely does funding rounds with large investors so employees can sell shares and access liquidity[1][2]. A $10,000 minimum purchase amount is trivial for those investors.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/elon-musks-spacex-raises-...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/spacex-fu...

I use DDG multiple times a day, every day. I don't find ChatGPT to be a suitable substitute for helping me locate resources on the web; hallucinated links waste my time trying to get to useful information.

Do restaurant service fees next! "Here's the bill, with a 10% service fee added so we can pay our staff more without raising menu prices."

Narrator: It's not so they can pay their staff more.

We almost eliminated those here in California until they chickened out and exempted restaurants.

> The rule would require service fees, resort fees, and other charges commonly added to bookings to be included in advertised prices.

Sounds like that's what will be happening if the rule sticks.

> If the chopsticks are catching the rocket by the grid fins

The chopsticks don't catch the rocket by the grid fins. There are dedicated supports (pins) sticking out the sides of Super Heavy that support the load. It does negate some of the savings from removing the legs, but by returning not only near the launch site like Falcon 9 but literally to the launch tower itself, they can save a whole bunch of time on transporting the stage back to where it will be launched again. They want to launch these things at such a rapid pace that every hour they can save in the refurb / repair / refuel part after landing matters.

The judge in the case put the brakes on the sale after it was revealed that the bankruptcy trustee did not accept the highest bid, and instead allowed the Sandy Hook families to 'assist' by pledging their massive judgement towards the auction.

It isn't reasonable to pledge money they didn't have because the families aren't the only creditors of the estate. The rest of the creditors get a lower recovery if the assets are "sold" for the price of one group reducing their claim.

And nothing of value was lost.

That's who went on strike. "Tens of thousands of machinists voted Thursday to reject a proposed deal between the company and the union." This was the IAW manufacturing folks rejecting a contract, not the SPEEA engineering folks.

> Where was the concern for human life?

In the laws that assign liability to the at-fault driver and in the most heinous cases charge them with vehicular manslaughter. I'll accept autonomous driving on public streets when the vehicle manufacturers accept liability for accidents caused while their self-driving functions are active. My understanding is that currently Tesla always says "actually the driver is at fault because our Terms Of Service say they should have intervened when the computer didn't know what to do." That's not autonomous driving and they don't get credit for vehicle-miles driven as long as the system is allowed to throw up its hands and say "your problem now, human."

I used to order pizza delivery 2-4 times a month. The drivers worked for the store, knew my address, and provided prompt delivery.

My local Pizza Hut has since outsourced their delivery to DoorDash. Now, even though I'm only two miles away from the store, it takes 30+ minutes for the DoorDash driver to bring my order once the store says its "out for delivery". I no longer order pizza delivery.

Same here, most of our town's local pizza deliveries have moved away from having in-house staff deliver, and are now outsourced to DoorDash. And the service is slower, the pizzas sometimes arrive cold, and it's more expensive for customers than in-house deliver used to be. We've also stopped getting delivery.