I get that, but some of them take it too far. Like fighting traffic to get as close to the door as physically possible, such that it actually takes longer than if I had just been dropped at the corner and walked the half block or whatever.
It would take a lot of bullshit for me to not give 5 stars, but I know not every rider will be like that!
It probably pulls from whatever’s already on the license. I assume there’s a verification process to drive.
It is performative, but it could also help the male dominated app become not so male dominated, if women are more in demand.
This is the exact problem it is trying to solve.
They’ say they’re doing it for women’s safety, which makes sense. On its face I agree with you that it should be global, to let everyone express their preference for whoever. Assuming men create most of the harassment/assault issues, though, it could be a bad idea to give those same men the ability to get a woman (or a man) delivered to their location at the push of a button. We could even see cases of that ability attracting unsavory types who would otherwise not even consider using Uber. I don’t exactly put a lot of faith in them creating a culture of safety that would prevent it. I myself prefer not men as drivers, and would like the option, but I’m also not a fuckin’ creep.
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I’m a man, but I also prefer women drivers. Their cars tend to be better taken care of and cleaner. they also do a lot better at respecting and pre-empting preferences in regard to heat/music. Maybe it’s just my area, but I’ve actually never had a “normal” experience with a male Uber driver.
Either their car is all clapped out, it’s dirty and smells bad, they’ll be blasting MAGA rap, or they get real weird with the dropoff. (Like, bro my legs do function and I can walk across the street or down the block a little bit, it’s ok, I gave you a different address from where I’m actually going anyway). Never had any issues like that with women as drivers.
I get that they’re doing this for reasons of rider safety, but they should let both men and women express a preference.
I feel bad for the forks and spoons in the drawer which didn’t get used that day… My amygdala must be an absolute fuckin’ HOG
Yep, I’ve noticed a very common idea around relaxation/meditation, physical exercise as well, is that “I’m just not good at that. I’ve tried ‘everything’ and it’s just not for me”. Well, I can tell you that they haven’t tried everything, not even close, but there is this idea out there that there is only one correct way to do everything. Or the opposite problem - we understand that there are infinite valid ways and suffer from decision fatigue.
Even with meditation in completely silent darkness, you are taught to feel your body, focus on the spot where you’re touching your chair, where your feet touch the ground, feel your breath rise and fall, etc. You’re literally just noticing things, and then letting them pass, that’s all it is. Physical sensations, thoughts, emotions, sensory input. A thought comes up, allow it to float away. Then do the same with the next one. Of course it’s hard at first. You will probably “fail” the first time, or the first hundred. Just like literally everything else, it becomes less hard. But every human brain is capable of this, if not primed for it.
Eventually there will be an empty space between each “thing”, and that space will get larger and larger. Then you realize the “space” itself also has some perceivable quality - it’s not just nothingness. And so on and so forth. That’s when it starts to get fun.
Despite what some self-described “gurus” might claim, you can do meditation anywhere, anytime. Some people find it helpful to be moving. I like to do it while walking.
It goes even beyond that, their comment is just wrong on multiple different levels
I like this comment every time I see it posted in response to this meme. Then I hit subscribe, then I SMASH THAT BELL ICON SO YOUR MOBILEK SHIVERS WITH ECSTACY IN YOUR POCKET WHENEVER I POST AN UPDATE
Interesting. I must have mandela-effected myself. It’s been a few months since I last looked at the thing. It does have photos on it - they must have been transferred from iTunes.
One of the perks of working for a tech company on a hybrid schedule. They inventory the issued laptops, but that’s about all they have time for. And every once in a while they clean out and let us take stuff home. After 5-ish years, I and the people closest to me will always have monitors, monitor stands, at least one working UPS and all the peripherals, HDMI and Ethernet cables we could ever need.
Story time:
I was over in rural Western Ireland at the end of 2023 when a relative, who was cleaning some junk out of the house, offered me a white 1st gen iPod Touch. I had previously expressed my soft spot for tech history, so this wasn’t completely random, and they would have binned it otherwise. It was seemingly unharmed by the intervening years albeit missing a charging cable.
The weather outside was what the Irish (with their particular brand of humor) might describe as “a soft fine day”, and what I would refer to as “a relentless bone-chilling mist”. We had no plans that day, so I located the nearest tech shop.
I arrived at this tiny shop in the nearby village, thinking they might have this specific proprietary cable. I describe to the guy inside what I’m looking for. He presumably owns and runs the wee place alone, but he has no fucking clue. I couldn’t really blame him though, because Apple had just gone to the USB-C standard at that point, at least in Europe, so this was a cable 2 generations of proprietary connectors ago. Not the previous “lightning” cable with 8(?) pins, but the OG one, a thick, wide fucker with hella pins. Some of you might remember these, as they were seemingly in every room, car and backpack by around 2010.
The guy had a pegboard on the wall behind him with all his wares hanging up. I scanned the various cables, adapters, and peripherals until I landed on a small box containing “cable: 30-pin apple dock connector to USB A” in trademark Apple white. Come to Papa. It was the very last one, surely at this particular shop, maybe in the entire region. After making sure it was actually still in the box, I forked over 8 euros for the thing while expressing immense surprise and gratitude to the shop guy for having stocked this kind of item. I went back home with my quarry.
I plugged in the iPod. Not only did it take a charge and boot, it was unlocked too, and worked flawlessly! The thing was a veritable time capsule – chock full of era-appropriate pop music, mundane notes and voice memos, and even some silly photos and videos taken with the shitty little onboard camera.
My wife still ribs me for this one: the time I “spent a whole day of our Irish holiday ignoring us to play with obsolete tech”, but for me it’s a fond memory, and I’m serious about that. I still have the device in its unaltered form and I go through its contents now and again, and that reliably brings me a rare sort of joy.
All because some dude decided to hang onto a single cable long enough to forget what it was even for, allowing it to take up precious shelf space in what might be the only tech shop in Connemara. He even looked like the guy in the meme! He must have figured that someday, someone like me might need it!
We were talking about having apps installed, not physical access to the device. That’s a huge difference.
The argument still falls apart even if you do move the goalposts to physical access.
If an attacker gets the device, they will need you to not be able to trigger a lockdown/wipe as they pry it out of your hands. If you can’t do that, they will still need your encryption key. Hopefully the device is locked with a strong passcode, and not your face/fingerprint/4-digit birthday. It would be pretty silly for someone to be running GrapheneOS and not do that.
If all those safeguards fail, you’re either very stupid or incredibly unlucky. Regardless, it’s much easier with GrapheneOS than with stock Android to ensure the device becomes worthless in a physical access scenario.
I guess so? Which I suppose means all the other gourds/squash/melons/cucumbers are too
Well ackthually… that’s a legume
Mid-sized off-road SUV. Looks a bit like a Jeep
That will get interesting. I can’t remember if there’s id verification on the rider end, but there will probably have to be. That could be what this whole thing is about, come to think of it…
Also, I’m wondering how they’ll treat trans and agender people who don’t have m or f, or who can’t mark their actual gender on their ID in their state.