I honestly feel safer with my data in a foreign authorities hands than domestic.
China can’t do dick to me nor should they want to. I’m just a lil guy! The US does nasty things to its citizens on the reg, I don’t wanna be caught up in that!
Oooooooh that makes sense! Thanks for explaining. Yeah I wish we had legislation around it here, it’s stupid that I have to play games to get lower prices on things.
Wait what??
The consumer is barred from swapping providers annually to get better rates? Or are they barred from lying about fake quotes to get a better rate from their current provider?
Edit: By chance did you mean “price walking”? I did some searching online and I couldn’t find anything about the UK forbidding consumers from changing insurance companies to seek lower prices by searching for “policy walking” but I did find something about insurers slowly increasing prices on customers (thus creating the need for the behavior I suggested) called “price walking”, though I didn’t see anything about it’s legality. Admittedly, I’m just skimming while working.
Every year, call your insurance/internet/phone/TV etc. provider and tell them one of their competitors gave you a lower quote and you want them to match it or come close.
They will often give you a better rate just for asking. It’s easier if you do have an actual quote to compare it against but you don’t need one. Everything is made up. Just ask to pay less and threaten to stop paying them and they’ll often just give it to you.
Even if they refuse, just say, “Okay. I need some time to think about whether or not I want to continue our relationship or switch.” Hang up and do nothing.
It has been right add the top of the page, it looks like they changed it.
Holy shit that image… we need to destroy AI I’m sick of this absolute garbage polluting the web
Can one give consent in a situation when they’ve mentally decompensated to a point where they are a risk to themselves or those around them and need intervention?
It’s a good reply even if it helps but one person
I have to use week numbers for scheduling things at work and they are very useful once you get your head around them, but it’s also useful to have larger monthly descriptors too.
I’m big into adding 10,000 years to the date to better show how long human civilization has existed and I would appreciate some standardization in month length. 12 months is useful for dividing the year up in many neat ways, but I’m not married to it. In any case, we gotta make Sept mean 7 again and so forth, or just change them to like Month-1, Month-2, Month-3, etc., sorta like how Mandarin handles it.
The thing is, a business, of any size, is utterly incapable of being genuine, as a rule, as their only purpose for existence is to seek profit.
If they are being genuine, they are being honest about that and I don’t want to see their content anywhere my eyes land ever.
If they aren’t leading with that premise, then they are being deceitful and I absolutely don’t want to see their content anywhere.
This is what I’m saying, companies should not feel welcome posting on the Fediverse.
They should feel nervous and like the fediverse is a hostile place to conduct business.
It is only if we create that kind of culture that the Fediverse will resist becoming a piece of shit marketplace like the rest of the internet.
Hence, fuck every brand, fuck every company.
This is a call to action. If you see any post you so much as smell as being from a business, it’s your moral duty to attack and bully that poster. They are a threat to the human element of the platform and they should be treated as a threat.
We have a chance, here, to prevent the same folly we’ve allowed so many other human spaces to befall. We gotta be wildly hostile to brands and companies.
Profit seeking is a poisonous mentality that corrupts and ruins everything it touches.
Opening the door to even a little is opening a floodgate.
I’m not a fan of creating hard and fast rules about what size a company should have to be or anything like that, I mostly think it’s important to create a culture on the Fediverse that is inherently hostile to branding, monetization and advertising and then allow exceptions as they seem socially acceptable within that framework.
But it’s important to build and maintain that culture first and foremost. Tumblr has done a pretty good job at that and people should learn from those communities. Being unprofitable and worthless to advertisers is very important in creating a space by humans for humans.
Becoming a target for business, advertising and entrepreneurialship is a 1 way ticket to shitsville.
Politely, shove it.
Don’t tall about growth or luxury. Those are masks for what business really does, monetize and enshittify.
It’s clear what happens when you allow that kind of behavior from businesses. The Fediverse won’t be any different, businesses of any size will ruin it.
Profit-seeking is a cancer that rots humanity and there’s nothing else a business truly strives to do other than seek profit, every other action is a means to that end.
Can’t give em an inch!! Even the ones you like!
We gotta actively be mean to companies or else we lose what we have as humans and this becomes another soulless marketplace like so many other spaces in the digital and physical world.
Maaaaaaan part of the reason I like the fediverse is that there aren’t brands posting and when they do, they get their posts deleted as spam and banned.
Fuck every brand, every company! Social spaces gotta be made wildly hostile to businesses or else they ruin everything. Just look at any other social media site.
More raves.
I mean, I’ve been to many, and yet still feels like a better use of time than this career I’m building.
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There is currently no known off ramp for the drug. This really isn’t that big a deal for people who are using it to treat diabetes, some conditions are not cured and simply managed with medication, but it is concerning for people who are using it casually for weight loss, as it’s so often egregiously advertised.
I’d like to think they’d be more accommodating.
“Ahhh Mr. Albatross, we’ve seen your social media traffic and we’ve been expecting you! In anticipation of your arrival, we’ve prepared some lovely poop, if you would just step this way…”