Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

Has your experience dropped lately?

The car service guy I use joined Uber a year ago. He was praising it. This October he had quit because they were squeezing the driver's share to stay competitive with cabs in Manhattan. He told me he, and most "good" drivers he knows said "fuck no."

We got in our first Uber in Manhattan a few days later. Lower east to 93rd and Broadway. Every cab ever takes Houston to West Side highway to 95th. I looking at the guy's GPS and there were no directions, just a spinning symbol. He started off on Houston, but then veered off into a small street in the Village, me thinking "shortcut to WSH?" But then he turned south on an avenue and was headed for NJ. I finally stepped in. He admitted he really had no clue.

I appreciate getting into a car is important, but it has to be good thereafter too. Contrast to positive experience from Bk.

fixed typo- NJ not NY

Re: Vaccines and the GOP
 

I wish. Instead, we face the scary specter of the Fox News contingent going full anti-vax.

Which would be scarier still if there was any meaningful part of the Fox News audience that is still young enough to breed.

Re: Vaccines and the GOP
 

I was worried about that as well, but I was seeing a counter-reaction to the anti-vaxxers among the circles I know, starting a few years ago.

Back when we were in a child-birthing class (nearly 15 years ago now), people were asking about autism risks, etc. And while there is a frighteningly-large culture of anti-vaxxers around here still, it seems to have receded, among the left, to the overly-crunchy Marin types and the wealthy non-working "Thinking Moms" groups who have too much time on their hands and use it to do "internet research."

I think a lot of those people are getting a wake-up call with the current outbreak. And there will be more and more pushback in the private schools -- people are spending 30-40k per year, at some "elite" private schools in SF, to be in a school where, in some cases, more than one-third of the kids are not vaccinated? Fuck that noise. The minute a severe measles case hits the Hamlin School, the people with brains who don't want their kids living in platinum pitre-dishes will get seriously up in arms, and more private schools will enforce vaccine requirements.

On the other hand, the anti-guv'mint right-wingnuts (the Keep the Government Out Of Medicare types) are going to get more extreme as Rand Paul makes this an issue of Freedom and the Baby Jesus. I mean, Obama has called for getting vaccines -- it must be evil, with Death Panels just a few days away.

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

Have you ever fucked your Uber driver, or is that phenom strictly a female-passenger, male-driver thing?

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

my wife and daughter have the app:(

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

First time I took Uber, the driver missed an exit on his way to come get me and didn't seem to notice until I texted him to ask where he was going. So he was at least 20 minutes late. I was at an airport and could have just taken a cab, but wanted to give Uber a try -- my mistake. But then I was locked in, because I figured that if he gave me a bad rating, I'd never get the chance to try it again.

Re: Vaccines and the GOP
 

Thesis: On the left, anti-GMO is just socially acceptable anti-vax, because people don’t imagine their own children dying of food-borne pathogens or, more broadly, of the starvation effects of scarcity.

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

Don't worry, they developed an app for that. Well, at least they tried.

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

France has a different standard for crossing a sexual boundary than we do, and you already made clear that you can't call out companies for not applying US norms in their home countries.

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

It seems like I'll never understand, though, why I should be lecturing Indians on minimum wage. Alas.

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

Holy Shit! You drew those threads together!

Can you explain to me what I'm supposed to lecture Indians about?

Re: I want to drive a Lincoln and spend my evenings drinking the very best Burgundy.
 

It's a way for you to show your non-UMC cred.

Re: Vaccines and the GOP
 

Or watch their children go blind for lack of beta-carotene.

I have a strong urge to bitch-slap those people whenever I see them. Even though it's a bit easier to understand mistrust of agribusiness, at a conceptual level.

Re: Vaccines and the GOP
 

I was wrong. The GOP anti-guvmint, anti-science strain leads to even weirder, crazier, ever-more-batshit places.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...51423006539317


I love the line "Isn't requiring a sign a regulation?" I mean, should the true freedom-lover say that the restaurant can opt out of that policy, too? I mean, a private company could do hygiene ratings more efficiently and objectively, the way S&P and Moody's did for bond issues.

Re: Vaccines and the GOP
 

No, it isn’t. It makes no more sense to trust a pharmaceutical industry driven by profits than an agricultural commodity industry driven by profits. The only difference is the social acceptability of saying “I don’t trust them.” Which means you don’t “understand” one objection over another; you’re just more tolerant of one than the other. “Understand” implies a level of rational distinction. I just find GMO objectors to be a more likely demographic among my friends, but I don’t kid myself that they’re any less crazy (or selfish).