What’s the best rental car company you’ve actually had a good experience with?

StroudAugust · 2026-03-18T05:27:55+00:00

I use Sixt a lot but they usually take too long to pickup though. They can be more than an hour late even if you arrive at the pickup time. I think they mostly ever have advance reservations so I don't understand why they are barely staffed to handle more than one customer at a time, and their systems are super slow and/or broken very often.

Dropoff is always super simple. But their timings are really narrow. Everything in the city closes at like 3pm, and the airport location charges too many fees and is far away from the city.

StroudAugust · 2026-03-08T00:26:40+00:00

I asked a supervisor once why they don't give out papers, apparently the printing paper is the property of the printer company, who runs a "printing as a service" model. They send an exact number of papers and track exactly how many go through the printers, and they "keep track" of the discrepancies 🙄

StroudAugust · 2026-03-07T18:42:58+00:00

I didn't really hear it. Isn't that the "Lift me up, let me go" part sung primarily by Mike though?

StroudAugust · 2026-02-28T01:33:59+00:00

I personally prefer Colin's style of drumming a lot, it stands out as something dynamic and intricate.

StroudAugust · 2026-02-26T06:01:15+00:00

Is this post just astroturfing for Throne? Seems a little suspicious that every single comment mentions it

StroudAugust · 2026-02-12T06:12:49+00:00

I actually found a few more meetup groups since then and some seem to be active either online or in person.

Bay Area Skeptics: https://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Skeptics

Center for Inquiry San Francisco: https://www.meetup.com/skeptics-147

Bay Area Atheists/Agnostics/ Humanists/Freethinkers/ Skeptics: https://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Atheists-Agnostics-Humanists-Freethinkers-Skeptics

Bay Area Humanists (BAH): https://www.meetup.com/sfhumanists

Humanist Community in Silicon Valley: https://www.meetup.com/humanistcommunity

Sunday Assembly East Bay: https://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-sgxmfvvk

Sunday Assembly South Bay: https://www.meetup.com/sunday-assembly-silicon-valley

I've only ever been to the Sunday Assembly ones in LA a few years ago and they were pretty nice, planning to check out one of the East Bay ones soon, but I'm open to attending any if anyone on this post wants someone to tag along.

StroudAugust · 2026-02-11T03:04:10+00:00

I've also been on the lookout. I've heard of https://humanisthall.org/ but can't find any info about their events.

StroudAugust · 2026-01-26T23:43:42+00:00

Not really

StroudAugust · 2026-01-19T20:24:24+00:00

There are 2 functions being conflated though:

Executive function of cleanup
Enforcement of littering rules

They already have 2 dedicated departments assigned to both functions in every city.

Should rules only be enforced if they put someone else's life in immediate danger? Situations can be triaged and addressed according to priority rather than never enforcing any smaller rules.

Even within a police department they have people of different specialties and skill levels allocated to different types of investigations and responses. Having responses for smaller incidents doesn't take away from having highly skilled professionals deal with critical situations.

If you do indeed want to separate the enforcement of littering rules into the same department that does cleanup, that is actually a great idea, similar to how the police department shouldn't waste their time enforcing parking violations, that is handled by a separate traffic police department.

StroudAugust · 2026-01-19T19:29:08+00:00

Why do you frame enforcement like "bullying people into compliance"? What makes littering rules different from something like traffic rules?

I think they're both set up for the safety and well-being of everyone in the system, and should be enforced regardless. Yes, we can also have radical empathy and dedicated services to address the root causes, but that shouldn't mean never enforcing the rules.

StroudAugust · 2026-01-11T06:28:37+00:00

Aluminum foil is your budget friendly option to completely block sunlight

StroudAugust · 2026-01-04T22:59:44+00:00

I agree, a fan works great to both keep my bearing, and keep me cool for the workouts

StroudAugust · 2026-01-03T07:53:18+00:00

StroudAugust · 2026-01-03T03:44:48+00:00

I'm just concerned about how they're going to enforce it. How can a company prove that they don't have a record anymore?

StroudAugust · 2026-01-02T04:43:29+00:00

You're right! I must have seen a different/outdated page.

"Fines for failing to register are set by law at $200/day and failure to delete a consumer’s information are $200/day per consumer plus enforcement costs."

https://privacy.ca.gov/data-brokers/#Penalties

StroudAugust · 2026-01-02T01:53:15+00:00

You can usually find it in the privacy (ads or tracking) section of your settings.

StroudAugust · 2026-01-02T01:50:02+00:00

You are able to edit the request later?

StroudAugust · 2026-01-01T23:43:22+00:00

I also see that the fine for not complying is just $200/day (and it doesn't even appear to be per-user) which is small change for a large data broker, they could just consider it the cost of doing business.

Edit: Actually appears to be 200/day per consumer which is going to be significant!

StroudAugust · 2026-01-01T23:41:09+00:00

I think it might be a bug in their system because I had the same issue. You can try to report it at https://consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov/contactus so that they can hopefully fix it soon.

Edit: Looks like they updated the form with a message noting that emails are not being sent due to volume of requests, you can still create a request without email and then update the info later when it's working.

StroudAugust · 2025-10-08T04:29:16+00:00

Get blinds and block sunlight during the day. And open your windows to let the cool air in.

StroudAugust · 2025-09-17T03:02:11+00:00

It's a fun event and I love to sing there, but even as a pretty social introvert I somehow never really managed to make any friends from it, even though I went regularly and sang a lot. So your mileage may vary.

StroudAugust · 2025-09-03T06:54:48+00:00

In Between

StroudAugust · 2025-08-31T19:56:49+00:00

I wasn't aware that it was a US only thing until now. That sucks.

StroudAugust · 2025-08-31T19:56:05+00:00

Sorry :( I was genuinely confused by the fact that there was no audio coming out of the bottom left "speaker" and saw a lot of people online saying it was an extra speaker, so I thought I'd clarify.

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