[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.”