[ergocoder]

Mark Pincus (Zynga founder) tweeted that he wanted an option not to talk to drivers.

He got a huge shit storm for not wanting to talk to poor people.

Definitely don't advertise that you don't want to talk to drivers. Progressive politics is weird.

[yieldcrv]

After my first home run in business, which was widely publicized, I learned that my email and phone number were tainted. On craigslist I started getting worse deals, seems everyone seems to google everyone.

I rotated identities, just email, phone number, assumed a different last name in casual arenas, and everything went back to normal as a nobody.

Subsequently, the most amusing thing became reading about women googling all their potential dates. I never do that, but its funny that I’m a ghost and makes me wonder how many other ghosts they're giving the green check mark on. Seems like a waste of energy.

[fnfjfk]

maybe this is different in SF, but NYC taxi/uber drivers never say anything besides confirming you are the actual person and the destination, and maybe asking where you want to be dropped off

[filoleg]

I know it is anecdotal, but I am just glad you didn’t get to experience the Uber ride I took from JFK to Dumbo earlier this year. It was around 1.5 hours of the driver trying to talk to me about Putin actually being a 5D chess mastermind and other conspiracy tier garbage after finding out that I was russian. Yeah, thanks, I will take Waymo to avoid listening to that or deal with the awkwardness of having to ask the driver to stop talking (which I didn’t do because it felt rude).

And while I agree that drivers here seem to be less inclined to talk than on west coast, I still occasionally get drivers who facetime the entire ride on the loudspeaker or watch videos on their phone mounted on the dashboard (while barely paying attention to the road).

Not even mentioning some of the stories my friends who are women told me about their uber/lyft experiences.

[yieldcrv]

That reminds me of when I used to travel alot and conspiratards would tell me about the shadow groups that ran the world, but it would always be local ones

That was hilarious. Instead of Rothschilds, or Blackrock, its a French fraternal order in Paris.

those kind of people never notice the flaws in their theory, such as there being so many shadow groups that they would have to compete for power, the same as if no shadow group existed

[filoleg]

> those kind of people never notice the flaws in their theory, such as there being so many shadow groups that they would have to compete for power, the same as if no shadow group existed

There is a simple explanation for this within their canon, similar to how it works with religions - my conspiracy theory is the real one, the others are all wrong and/or planted by the baddies of my conspiracy theory.

There are sometimes fun crossover episodes between different conspiracy theories. But as soon as some incongruency between them forms a flaw in logic that you pointed out, it instantly goes to “yup, they are wrong, and my conspiracy is the right one.”