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[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago

Careful, will get you promoted to head of an agency you're not qualified to run with these fascists.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Life hack and Consumerist used to be two of my favorite reads and forums. Then they were absorbed into the Borg and stopped putting out anything useful.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

It was dumb speculation until he took down all regulatory apparatus, and grabbed the national checkbook while trump made himself a puppet king. Now any money not in Tesla is crazy.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Perfect, since they broke the ambient mode's "recent highlights" simple display last month and have yet to fix it, and only recently restored partner photo sharing for 3rd party apps after breaking it with no announcement in October, I'm sure there are many things to anticipate in this "enhancement".

Fuck Google.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Divorced from reality? Teslas CEO controls Treasury payments as of a week ago.

I cannot think of an easier bet than on a dictator's personal interests rising. Trump is just a sock puppet for a bit. Musk, Vance, etc. are the next Gen of uglier.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

And by vulture venture capitalists you mean nearly every publicly traded company, which is almost every company you've ever heard of. It's why you have to constantly be on the defensive even when buying a pack of gum. Is it full of poison? Too much sugar? Do they use slave labor to produce the product? Are they funding genocide in central America? Why is the price 3x last year?

By welding insatiable, unregulated capitalism as the sole way of operating our economy, we guarantee that quality and human-positive outcomes are eaten up, taken over, destroyed, monetized, privatized or enshittified.

I just want to buy a pack of gum in a reasonable world that doesn't need to support CEO levels of wealth and all the horrific downstream practices and cost cutting that comes with it

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

In the last week it's frequently taking 10-15 seconds to retrieve/display posts, comments, etc. whereas before that no issues and instant. Nothing changed on my end hardware/internet wise. Anyone else seeing that?

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You guys are legit ignorant if you're paying the IRS. I got an email that they wanted to send me a Loyalty refund, they just needed my bank info and an SMS verification code I read them to prove I was me. It's supposed to come in the next week but they said sometimes it's easier to process with crypto so they may request that info if my bank has any problems.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago

This is not "botched". Destroying worker protections, such as the NLRB, is incredibly high on their list.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Great article, you should x-post to !aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

With the beautiful Victorian home styles subsumed by barrier and an enormous metallic obelisk thrusting into the sky...it says San Francisco and Salesforce tower in 10 years.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

"some call you the elite, I call you my base."

 

Super brave Caucasian commissioners decide committee they do not directly benefit from does not have a purpose, in a wise and comprehensive evaluation showing exactly who is a member of their community worth investing in.

Program had no funding and cost nothing other than ~4 hours of each program member’s time related to the program each month.

Please keep this in mind when thinking about where you will travel, vacation, live and do business with in Oregon. If you'd like to share your thoughts with the county commissioners: board@deschutes.org

 

Hi, I'm in the US and non-car safety is appalling. I live in a semi-urban area and get nearly hit, obstructed or aggressively cut off at crosswalks or driveways nearly every single time I run, which is every other day.

Rather than try to make the case with stats showing no local enforcement of pedestrian code, I've decided for my and likely my future lawyers sale I should just record and montage it. When I'm inevitably disabled or killed by one of these selfish dumbasses, at least it will make for simple settlements, and prosecutions .

I'm in the market for a headmounted/head strap camera, preferably with a microphone option. I googled a bit and there are some go-pro-ish options but they all seem pretty big and heavy, made for mountain biking or swimming, etc. anyone have ideas or links for a lighter option? Don't need 4k and 400gb of storage, just enough for an hour or video and audio at reasonable resolution.

TIA

 

Ziply was a dumb pipe with decent rates for symmetrical fiber with moderate usage. No good can come of this for customers, hope Kahn blocks it.

 

Ziply was a dumb pipe with decent rates for symmetrical fiber with moderate usage. No good can come of this for customers, hope Kahn blocks it.

 

Played out Monster Mayhem card game within a month or so. Bought Castle Panic and was a great fantasy intro board game, simple to learn with just enough strategy to keep it interesting for older folks but it's about run its course.

Looking for suggestions 2-3 can play together mix of youth and adults, ideally collaboratively. Basic-level RPG or strategy fantasy/mystery/adventure, small group of 3 max so not really a "DM" situation type game, all would be players.

TIA

 

Screw your workers for 30+ years, move your production, make them embarrassed with your company name by eliminating engineering excellence and outsourcing quality to lowest bidder, withhold raises for a decade, remove a real retirement plan and see what happens.

Good for them.

 

I received several texts today on my personal phone number addressed to a minor child in my household for whom I provide health insurance from Kaiser.

  1. I opted out of Kaiser text message communications. They don't respect it because Marketing?
  2. The messages are addressing a minor child, yet sent to me, the adult. Kaiser would know their age. If they're young, directly texting them is a violation of parental consent. If they're a dependent there could be all kinds of privacy concerns for say a teen who maybe doesn't want their parents to be involved in such conversations.
  3. I went to Kaiser's website to make a complaint. They don't provide an e-mail contact so you have to use a web submission form. Attachments (e.g. screenshots) aren't allowed. I copied in the text of the text messages after noting my concerns above and tried to submit. The web form said "unsupported characters", which I then spent 30 minutes trying to guess which of the characters from the texts they sent me might be unsupported by their website.
  4. I decided to call their web support to find out which characters were unsupported, I'm sure I wasn't the first person to have the issue. They asked for personal identifying information that isn't necessary to provide website support, spent 5 minutes locating my account, and then told me they'd have to transfer me to a different region as they don't support my region.
  5. They transferred me and I received an audio notice that the region was experiencing technical difficulties and the call disconnected.
  6. I went back to the web form to open a complaint about their web form and submitted it suggesting they identify which characters are not permitted. The form also is about 3 lines of text high but accepts 1,000 characters which makes it very difficult to read as the web user (I'm sure a dark pattern to reduce form submission)
  7. I called support again to try to reengage them to find out if they could identify the characters so I could submit the ticket myself. I got a different agent and had to tell them my original complaint and then what had just happened. They said they didn't know which characters were permissible, that my regions support shouldn't be down as they had no alerts, and wouldn't be able to find out which characters the form could use, despite being web support. They said they could take my complaint over the phone.
  8. I asked what else they needed to make the complaint. The woman said just a minute and pulled up a form after talking to a colleague and asked me to start from the beginning to make my compliant. I hung up.
  9. I went back on the website, typed out the entirety of the text messages I had received, my concern and the form allowed me to submit. The text messages must have had a hidden character or space that wasn't visible to me when copying/pasting.

Now I wait to hear back on my two complaints. All so that, after furiously and competently struggling against the machine, I get back to a place where maybe if I'm lucky they will respect my communication preferences, not contact my child without my permission, potentially fix their shit website, which would leave me maybe about as good off as I was before I was aware of these issues.

I feel like Calvin at the bottom of the big snowball hill he and Hobbes used, only in the modern US it's a shit snowball and it's full of companies who are technologically incompetent and aren't incentivized to follow even the laws they likely helped shaped through lobbying. The above issue is hardly even bad compared to other situations I or others have been through, it's the routiniety of it that is so dystopian.


Edit: 10. IT support responded to my ticket tonight. They didn't read the complaint and provided boilerplate AI template responses on how to submit a ticket when logged in as a customer.They also provided instructions on how to take a screenshot and asked me to respond to their e-mail and attach it so they could review. I responded telling them I didn't need instructions on how to take a screenshot or how to submit a message, that was included in my ticket which they didn't read--I needed a functional communication system, and reviewing the above points and then attached screenshots. I received an automated response almost instantly from their system that I had responded to a ticket that had already been closed and that Kaiser hoped they had resolved the issue to my satisfaction. No ability to re-open the ticket, no contact e-mail or phone number to continue to try to resolve the issue.

 

...and it contained a meth/fent dealer starter kit; cash, gun, drugs and scales.

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