qevlarr

qevlarr , 5 days ago

Accepted isn't the right word. I think consumers "voting with their feet" just isn't that relevant when it comes to these issues. This model of thinking works when it's about the product offering. Bad product? Too expensive? Demand dwindles.

But the issue doesn't directly impact the product offering, consumers won't "vote with their feet" in significant numbers. Worker exploitation? People will still buy cheaper clothes. Oil money dictatorships? Cheap luxury airlines. Privacy invasion? But all my friends are on there. I could go on.

The self-correcting market model is flawed. For these issues, strong government intervention is needed. It's possible that a competitor comes along and they're able to capture the market, but that will only happen with a superior product offering. But not because of different TOS or whatever people don't consider part of what they're buying.

qevlarr , 7 days ago

🚨 ⚠ 🚨 Hoax alert! 🚨 ⚠ 🚨

qevlarr , 9 days ago

Someone in Norway has the same name as me, and they made a PayPal account. They accidentally used my email during signup and I got some weird emails in Norwegian. So I called PayPal. I asked them to change the email. "You can't, because it's not your account, you just admitted". Uh, ok. Can you close the account? "It's not your account". Can you contact the account owner and tell them to fix it? "We don't have their email". Can I use account recovery and close it? "Then you would be breaking into someone else's account".

So what should I do? PayPal put a notice on the account in case they log in, and told me to just ignore the emails. I was baffled. Just ignore the emails? Stop sending them then! But there really isn't anything I can do. I tried account recovery anyway, but it didn't work.

They never logged in I think. They probably made another account with the correct details and never thought about this one. So I've been getting the "our terms and conditions have changed" email once or twice a year and ignoring them. They're still in Norwegian.

I just looked it up, this has been going on since 2015. Maybe I should contact PayPal again and tell them how ridiculous they've been.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/51798918-7477-47f6-a1c7-09c302e7caf3.jpeg

qevlarr , 9 days ago

I just wanted to share the story.

qevlarr , 9 days ago

What country?

qevlarr , 13 days ago

Here's what you do: You have the AI take the order, but the human checks each item. They'll have enough time to work out the kinks

qevlarr , 13 days ago

AI is a crapshoot, agree. But there has to be more testing before PR disasters like this happen. That isn't "being my suppliers beta test", rather sensible project managers not mindlessly putting it out there because the supplier said it worked. Now people are laughing at McDonald's on top of their cost saving operations being delayed. But I agree overall that AI sucks to replace humans. I'm just criticizing McDonald's jumping the gun

qevlarr , 13 days ago

Good for sticking to something you believe in. Highly underrated quality in engineers. "Take the money and run like a thief" is such a bullshit attitude

qevlarr , 16 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/27fdc63f-c279-493f-9e39-90900f69d48a.jpeg

qevlarr , 1 month ago

Those medical professionals disagree

qevlarr , 1 month ago

Can I read the full article without yet another goddamn account?

qevlarr , 1 month ago

lol this is me, about 14 years old for biology class. We had to grow seeds in light and dark conditions. For a 14 year old, the fact that plants grow faster in dark conditions is quite counterintuitive, so the teacher had an easy time to find out who falsified their data. Great experiment

qevlarr , 2 months ago

Autonomous my ass. Is a person remote controlling it from a low wage county?

qevlarr , 2 months ago

I love this book. It deserves all the praise it gets

qevlarr , 3 months ago

And when they can't find the next investor, they'll go bankrupt. Oops! Now everybody loses their jobs because management wanted to play at the high rollers table with borrowed money

qevlarr , 3 months ago

Context menu is indispensable for me. So many commands can be done mouseless because of this.

qevlarr , 3 months ago

I want to remind people of a different advice that similarly gets people into bad situations:

"The worst that can happen, is they say no. Go shoot your shot"

Yeah, that's the worst that you think may happen. The worst that can happen is you misjudged the situation and now you're making someone fear for their safety, and you're a horrible creep in the eyes of anyone they talk to. You may get into trouble with your employer, friends, family, you really don't know. And you only have yourself to blame. And don't underestimate the effects of shame (as in: feeling guilty about something bad you did)

I'm not saying flirting is never permissible, but you should set boundaries based on the perspective of the other as well. The advice "worst case, they say no" is not at all asking the question how the other would feel being approached in this way. They may have more to lose than you do

qevlarr , 3 months ago

I'm more saying that this is how some men talk themselves into hitting on someone in inappropriate situations, or (in their heads) blur the line without realizing. Missing signals isn't only realizing years later that she was into you (a cliché story), but also "they're just being friendly, it's not flirting" (doesn't get said enough)

qevlarr , 3 months ago

Hi, welcome. I knew you'd show up. Have a look around and try to learn. Remember: Not everyone is similar to you. Thanks for being here ♥

qevlarr , 3 months ago

Don't pick on Gen Z. They're pretty based overall. I'm sorry the boomers fucked it up for everyone. Hippies turned staunch capitalists, propaganda really works y'all

qevlarr , 3 months ago

I love how they phrased this. Beautiful

qevlarr , 3 months ago

Who said the government doesn't do anything for the public?

qevlarr , 3 months ago

They drew that in one minute, sure

qevlarr , 3 months ago

And that objects in motion will stay in motion, but our experience with friction tells us otherwise. Ask any kid and they'll say from intuition that the object will stop

qevlarr , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Not much later Blizzard banned me from Starcraft 2 that I paid with my own money for "account sharing" because I played at work a few times, which is just across the border in another country. They would not unban me until I changed my pseudonym to a real name and provided a copy of my passport to prove it. Fuck that. I always owned this copy. I had the original box and game code and everything. There were no other fraud indicators

I vowed to never give Blizzard money ever again and I kept that promise. I loved their games too death, it sucks

qevlarr , 4 months ago

I hope that's a joke or else I'm gonna be so mad

qevlarr , 4 months ago

"Passive income" is really other people's income. I like how this term makes explicit that it is the owner class who don't work.

qevlarr , 5 months ago

ThoughtSlime would know, they're annoying as fuck ♥

qevlarr , 5 months ago

Saying federation is the same as bootlicking is fucking bullshit. I want my insurance to defederate, but this is ridiculous exaggeration

qevlarr , 5 months ago

Goddamn autocorrect :)

qevlarr , 5 months ago

It's literally a picture of licking boots, wtf you on about