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Xaris posted:yes but that requires calling I thought it was kinda neat being in a KFC once and seeing a dad and his probably 10-year-old daughter go to get food, and as she instinctively went to the self-service screen, he said "Nope. You're going to converse with an actual human today." DaysBefore posted:Lol true a lot of Doordash/Amazon Prime/Uber grocery types can't handle 'hey can I get a cab to address - okay they'll be there soon' I typically hate going to the supermarket to shop, especially if it's an Aldi where I have to unpack the trolley, then pack it again, then unpack it to bags, then go home and unpack it again. So I started using Ocado again, and the last delivery I was by myself as it arrived and spent 30 minutes talking to the driver on the doorstep about Blake's 7 and Andor before he had to go to another delivery. That was pretty cool. Skaffen-Amtiskaw has issued a correction as of 01:10 on May 5, 2024 |
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May 5, 2024 01:07
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DaysBefore posted:I just call a cab which works just as well and is cheaper lol this feels completely bizarre to me because I experienced cabs per uber/lyft where they would very rarely show up, were more expensive, did not have credit card readers and if they did would charge a completely different amount than indicated even in the last year when I’ve taken a cab for work and ask for a receipt they hand me a blank form for me to fill out. this is technically against expense policy and if I pay cash there is a chance I wouldn’t be reimbursed (with a credit card you can at least show the charge on the bill)
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May 5, 2024 01:12
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Wagenknecht: The Condition of Germanyquote:But now our Mittelstand firms are under massive pressure ... These small and medium-sized family-owned firms—lots of them specialist engineering works or makers of machine-tools, auto parts, electrical equipment—are really important for Germany. They’re mostly owner-managed or family-run, meaning they’re not listed on the stock exchange and often have quite a rugged character. But they have their own sort of business culture, focused on the longer term, the next generation, rather than quarterly returns. They’re embedded in their local communities, often doing business-to-business trading. They want to retain their workers, instead of exploiting every loophole, like the big corporations—of which we have plenty, too.
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May 5, 2024 01:14
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DaysBefore posted:Lol true a lot of Doordash/Amazon Prime/Uber grocery types can't handle 'hey can I get a cab to address - okay they'll be there soon' I can't probably speak for a lot of millennials cause I legit do not mind phonecalls but I can say I do like online trails for stuff after getting burned by a lot of informal forms of communication. Even at work I'll request people send me stuff or I'll follow up personally in email after we've talked about it in person cause I want a direct paper trail. My experience from the white collar world is if I don't they will lie about it afterwards. If anything I kind of prefer phonecalls or face to face stuff over short simple issues cause they get resolved immediately, whereas if you ask someone a question that could be resolved in a matter of minutes in an email it just sort of takes inherently longer cause most people with desk jobs spend the bulk of their day watching videos or whatever and will sit on an email. But by doing it via email I have irrefutable evidence I asked about that thing on monday in the morning and it's not my fault they blew it off until friday afternoon.
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May 5, 2024 01:14
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PoundSand posted:I can't probably speak for a lot of millennials cause I legit do not mind phonecalls but I can say I do like online trails for stuff after getting burned by a lot of informal forms of communication. Even at work I'll request people send me stuff or I'll follow up personally in email after we've talked about it in person cause I want a direct paper trail. My experience from the white collar world is if I don't they will lie about it afterwards. Verbal contract ain't worth the paper it's written on.
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May 5, 2024 01:16
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hobbesmaster posted:this feels completely bizarre to me because I experienced cabs per uber/lyft where they would very rarely show up, were more expensive, did not have credit card readers and if they did would charge a completely different amount than indicated e: Exactly this. vvvvvv Abner Assington has issued a correction as of 02:09 on May 5, 2024 |
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May 5, 2024 01:18
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hobbesmaster posted:this feels completely bizarre to me because I experienced cabs per uber/lyft where they would very rarely show up, were more expensive, did not have credit card readers and if they did would charge a completely different amount than indicated uber overtook cabs so easily cause they sucked terribly and anyone saying otherwise either never used them or was a complete revisionist. One of my first experiences with cabs was when I was doing an undergraduate research experience and got a cab from the airport to the loving university of minnesota and they tried to drive around for half an hour acting confused about how to get there while racking up a bill before I specified I would be paying with cash only and already knew how much money it'd take to get from the airport to campus.
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May 5, 2024 01:20
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My least favorite strategy game is the one where you stand on the side of the road waving at empty cabs hoping that they pick you.
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May 5, 2024 01:31
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nomad2020 posted:My least favorite strategy game is the one where you stand on the side of the road waving at empty cabs hoping that they pick you. Last time I was in Chicago I always got a cab within six minutes via this strategy
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May 5, 2024 01:36
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PoundSand posted:uber overtook cabs so easily cause they sucked terribly and anyone saying otherwise either never used them or was a complete revisionist. One of my first experiences with cabs was when I was doing an undergraduate research experience and got a cab from the airport to the loving university of minnesota and they tried to drive around for half an hour acting confused about how to get there while racking up a bill before I specified I would be paying with cash only and already knew how much money it'd take to get from the airport to campus. First time I used Uber was because the cab I called to take me from a restaurant to my hotel was two loving hours late. Like thirty minutes after my Uber dropped me off at the hotel they called like "i'm here where are you?" (after I had called dispatch twice trying to cancel, and they never answered)
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May 5, 2024 01:37
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https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1786272981058220187 the answer is that it's good for the capitalists, right
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May 5, 2024 01:47
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It's simultaneously true that apps seek to remove every trace of social friction, which is bad and dehumanizing to all parties, and also that reading a list of information or your credit card number over a loving scratchy phone connection, often with a ton of background noise, is a stupid way to arrange anything important Digital ordering works great when you're able to contact a human when you need to. Silicon Valley companies would love to literally employ zero humans, in order to maximize the rent they extract, which is why everything loving sucks. Not simply because of digital information transmission
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May 5, 2024 01:48
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Everyone ruling over us is an imbecile who has no clue what they're doing. All the "smart" (comparatively) or competent elites probably retired or died decades ago. Now we have these idiots who probably need help dressing themselves in the morning.
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May 5, 2024 01:49
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Like there's a good reason accountants etc. don't just "pick up the phone" and read figures and invoices to each other while they're both sitting on the line lmfao. It's not because they have "anxiety"
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May 5, 2024 01:51
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Navigating mounting losses ($24 billion since the start of 2019) Boeing has locked out its unionized firefighters who protect its aircraft-manufacturing plants, and brought in scabs. https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/boeing-locks-out-its-private-firefighters-around-seattle-over-pay-dispute/MWQWBIUFXBH2PLQYB6NAX45QR4/ On a positive note at Boeing, zero whistleblowers have died for 3 days running. 
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May 5, 2024 02:01
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rudecyrus posted:https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1786272981058220187 this chap is quite handsome, especially for his age, though. have to remember that
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May 5, 2024 02:16
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the popes toes posted:Navigating mounting losses ($24 billion since the start of 2019) Boeing has locked out its unionized firefighters who protect its aircraft-manufacturing plants, and brought in scabs. since last murder (that you know of)
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May 5, 2024 02:17
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rudecyrus posted:https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1786272981058220187 lmfao
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May 5, 2024 02:21
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the popes toes posted:Navigating mounting losses ($24 billion since the start of 2019) Boeing has locked out its unionized firefighters who protect its aircraft-manufacturing plants, and brought in scabs. I would love to know what "replacement firefighters" means in terms of experience and training vs who they are replacing. It's very much a job you can't fill with bodies. loving MBAs.
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May 5, 2024 02:33
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Gorson posted:I would love to know what "replacement firefighters" means in terms of experience and training vs who they are replacing. It's very much a job you can't fill with bodies. loving MBAs. California's 'volunteer'
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May 5, 2024 02:34
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https://twitter.com/KlonnyPin_Gosch/status/1785834798084202651 Maybe Boeing will be be using a different lawfirm when baiting the whistleblowers for the next few rounds.
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May 5, 2024 02:37
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So do used car salesmen who live with their parents I suppose
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May 5, 2024 02:51
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Glumwheels posted:So do used car salesmen who live with their parents I suppose What's wrong with living with your parents...? 
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May 5, 2024 03:21
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its cool that google search, once known for being insanely fast, now loads a placeholder element that takes 3 seconds to generate a lovely AI answer to a query. great work team
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May 5, 2024 03:36
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Any good books on the 2008 financial crisis? Something that explains the timeline?
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May 5, 2024 03:43
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Real hurthling! posted:agent 747 will be his name and bodycount hahh
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May 5, 2024 03:46
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err posted:Any good books on the 2008 financial crisis? Something that explains the timeline? Matt Taibbi is a big dumb reactionary idiot nowadays but I thought his book Griftopia was good when I read it twelve years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griftopia
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May 5, 2024 03:53
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https://x.com/potus/status/1786765648560890331?s=46&t=-VZSxDkiWhxQSeyPFaKJQw Uuuugghhhhhhh Why does every single loving line in Star Wars have to be a corporate slogan. Does Joe Biden even know about the “I have a bad feeling about this” line? Does he even know who Luke Skywalker is?
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May 5, 2024 04:59
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star wars has always been liberal
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May 5, 2024 05:01
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The entire premise of Star Wars is that a Special By Birth caste knows better how to run poo poo than anyone else does and that despite being removed from power repeatedly they deserve to be in charge
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May 5, 2024 05:05
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don't forget the guy named Lando and what he did.
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May 5, 2024 05:06
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pretty much every sf/f property is about removing an evil monarchy just to put another monarchy in its place, but it's ok, these ones are good people
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May 5, 2024 05:09
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Lpzie posted:don't forget the guy named Lando and what he did. What did he do? I have not seen the movie and will not even if you insist.
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May 5, 2024 05:09
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the popes toes posted:What did he do? I have not seen the movie and will not even if you insist. The guy named Lando helped the heroes land
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May 5, 2024 05:10
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:pretty much every sf/f property is about removing an evil monarchy just to put another monarchy in its place, but it's ok, these ones are good people The entire premise of the Anne McCaffrey series Dragonriders of Pern (which was popular from the 1960s-1980s) was that a special-by-birth caste of traditionalists are the only ones who are capable of keeping things from falling apart and that anyone else who tries to make things better will just gently caress everything up. It's just one of many like that. It's no mistake that the sci-fi/fantasy fandom and by extension the gaming fandom is full of the worst people imaginable.
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May 5, 2024 05:14
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:pretty much every sf/f property is about removing an evil monarchy just to put another monarchy in its place, but it's ok, these ones are good people a concept so ingrained that Frank Herbert had to keep writing books on the topic of the new monarchy not being good either
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May 5, 2024 05:20
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:The entire premise of Star Wars is that a Special By Birth caste knows better how to run poo poo than anyone else does and that despite being removed from power repeatedly they deserve to be in charge is this why people are suddenly deciding the prequels are good because this shows the limits of that
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May 5, 2024 05:24
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wish someone would have the balls to start writing a book and publish it before getting to the ending like Philip k Dick used to
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May 5, 2024 05:26
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Prequels are good because of what came after (except rogue one)
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Nitevision posted:Like there's a good reason accountants etc. don't just "pick up the phone" and read figures and invoices to each other while they're both sitting on the line lmfao. It's not because they have "anxiety" I'm pretty sure the ability to read numbers over to each other over the phone is a solvable, if not solved, problem
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