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> activities suggested by r/Syracuse like volleyball and trivia night require you to already have friends.

Most big cities will have rec leagues that are popular with people in their 20s. Find a league that has a team happy hour after, I live in a transient city and I've made a few friends from people who get placed on my teams.

In Washington DC we have Empower https://driveempower.com/

The idea is that drivers pay a flat fee per month and get to keep the entirety of the fare. I used it for a while but my desire to get somewhere fast outweighed my disdain for Uber as middleman. Eventually I went back to Uber/Lyft due to long wait times and unreliable pickups.

It is a lot more like "some guy giving you a ride" instead of a car service. My buddy initially pitched it to me as a cheap alternative to Uber for drivers that were banned from Uber. It is nice that they don't have surge pricing. Empower is somewhere in between the convenience and price of Uber and public transportation.

I'm reading a book on McKinsey now titled "When McKinsey Comes To Town". Given the firms track record finally coming to light it's amazing that working at McKinsey is a career booster instead of a black mark. Hopefully more people start to realize that putting the most ruthless business minds in charge of public healthcare leads to poor outcomes.

I'd recommend reading the book, it is a bit of a downer though

I tried to make one of these systems at my first job, but my manager expressly forbade me after hearing about it.

Later that company would go on to lay off 15% of software engineers in a day. The support team created tickets in the public issue tracker to decommission employee accounts, so a lot of people found out that way before anyone reached out for a meeting.