I wonder if Shady will jump the turnstiles?
Chicago: Security minded.
2 May 2023
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New TB doesn't permit posts of fewer than 5 characters.
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Superfluous punctuation does appear to be the workaround.
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My sister-in-law is ill.
So my mother-in-law, who was coming down to stay with my sister-in-law for her birthday, is now coming down to stay with us for her birthday. Until Tuesday.
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Also doesn't allow you to delete a post.
First time I tried, I thought fine, I'll just make it a blank post. Nope.
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Why do so many interactions with service providers have to start with a threat to leave them in order to get the price they could, presumably, just offer at the outset?
(Rhetorical question as I know it's because lots of people won't bother to check and threaten to leave.) -
The answer is because providers are allowed to sell a service at what you are prepared to pay, and that can be different between customers. As a society we could have regulation that meant that providers had to offer services at the same price for existing customers, as for new customers.
But we don't.
We as a society have chosen to put the responsibility for pricing on the individual, not the organisation.
We do not regulate investment or provision, we encourage profiteering.
That's on us.
We are a country of business first, not society first.
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I don't regard myself in any way as good negotiator but, as far as I can see ( ee.co.uk/mobile/sim-only-deals ), the price they are going to be charging me is way under what's available as standard to new customers. I guess Kevin Bacon has to get paid somehow.
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Whether you are subsidising new customers, or them you, the point remains.
It's the good old british value of fairness. As in it's fair for businesses to gouge you for whatever they can get.
Fairness for businesses making record profits, while pushing inflationary pressures on ordinary people to pay for them.
Fairness for businesses to exploit publicly paid for infrastructure, to extract maximum profit without further investment or innovation.
Fariness for businesses to, literally, pump their shit on to you.
Fairness to remove the ability to seek legal redress out of the control or beyond the affordability of ordinary people.
We knew what we were voting for. Why we do, I haven't the merest of clue.
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Have to take an eye and written test today to get a real ID drivers license to prove I am a real
Person. I haven’t taken a driver written test in the USA for about 25 years (if ever) and it seems that the rules in Illinois are way different from New York where I used to live. Bugger!On top of that I lost my driving glasses three days before the eye test. I think I am totally buggered.
Ah who cares about driving in this stupid country.
Authoritarian twats!
Chicago: Not a real person.
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the written test is a piece of piss.. if you somehow manage to fail it.. there won't be enough words to describe the humiliation you should feel.
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You are aware, I presume, of Chicago's track record with cars?
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Yes, but this test does not involve driving them, so assumed, perhaps mistakenly that even he should be able to pass the written test...
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IIRC, the driving test was even easier than the written. There’s me expecting it to be an hour and I don’t think it even took 10 minutes.
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After all this Nonsense they didn’t even give me the written test. Just the eye test which I aced after I realized which one was my good eye. Take note George Boyd!
Chicago: Real person again.
PS: I think my drivers test in New York when I lived there lasted five minutes as the instructor said, “you’ve clearly driven before”, and passed me on the spot.
