Taxi app giants Hailo and Uber are offering free taxis to voters this Friday. This is the perfect and unlikely marriage, also giving you the chance to try out both of these taxi apps and see which you prefer.
Free Hailo Trip
Hailo are providing a €15 voucher to get you to your local polling station. Hailo have been very vocal in their support of a Yes vote, with rainbow colour cars and most recently a brilliant Heterophobic taxi driver showing how all discrimination is ridiculous. Check out the Hailo website for more taxi credit information.
Two Free Uber Trips
Growing from strength to strength following a strong start to the taxi battles from Hailo, Uber are also offering some discounted trips. Arguably, their promotion is much more straight forward. Simply enter the promo code Uber4Equality and you’ll receive 2 free trips up to €15 to polling stations around Dublin.
No rainbow cars from Uber, but it’s a great gesture. Both companies have been extremely impressive in the run up to this very important day for equality in Ireland.
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Of course, while it is great to see the public support of a Yes Vote for the May 22nd Referendum, adding a stamp to your profile photo is a small act compared to going out and having your voice heard. The Yes Equality app contains all the important info you’ll need to vote. Just in case you can even set a reminder to vote on May 22nd.
To us, this seems like a poorly designed device with the dongle being a huge inconvenience. For us a small wire is a better sacrifice. What’s most interesting about the HearNotes is the Kickstarter reception they’ve received after just a short campaign. Already less than $7000 away from successful funding, these will surely fly past a $75,000 funding target. There is a lot of people out there who believe this design is the way forward.
From the settings panel, Facebook users can now select “Custom” where a field allows the user to enter the gender definition they would like to be recognised as. Furthermore, they can also choose a preferred pronoun.