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Comment · 13 days ago
It's not like anyone likes the job, it's just the one that happens to hire the fastest. It's delusional to think anyone gets the job because they like it.

And an airplane has a limited amount of bathroom water that has to be shared among all passengers. Unbelievable I know.

Comment · 13 days ago
As a former customer service representative I have no sympathy for you. this is in no way the FAs fault. And this way of thinking, believing it is the service employee's fault seems to be the American way of thinking, you don't see it anywhere else in the world. Did you ever tell the airline it was a bladder condition? Most people do not and just say the service employee is an inconvenience and should be reported or fired

Any service employee acting in a way that does not favor the customer does so because it is their job to do exactly that. You do not report the employee, you take it higher up. The problem is never the employee. The problem is never caused by the employee. The problem is the policy that was created by some director at the company, that the employee is just following like a robot because that is their job. The employee has never heard of that director and not even their superiors have heard of them or know who they are. You could have contacted customer service and gotten credit for it. The service employee is powerless. You can even report the company itself but never the employee because they are just robots.

Comment · 15 days ago
That means you shouldn't even try if you don't have an American VPN. You can't do it as a non-american website because Google will not index you, because their crawler is American. So it's asymmetric and it means you can only get truly free access to the internet with an American VPN server.
Comment · 15 days ago
Foreign attacks are usually just VPNs. Something like cloudflare is much more effective imo. This is based on racism imo because for example it implies banning foreign search engines or market research. I can't help but think it fits in nicely with what ICE does in the US and the people who voted for it. It's not effective because all you're doing is banning foreign VPNs so it is trivial to just pick a US server.
Comment · 16 days ago
>A lot of companies already block traffic by country of origin and have since they existed on the internet.

Is this an American thing? For example the home Depot and velera do it.

Comment · 19 days ago
A lot of Samsung's low end phones sold worldwide still have them.
Comment · 19 days ago
Is this kind of thing why samsung asks you to sign a contract before letting third parties use the FM radios on their phones? Because many phone radios nowadays are software defined?
Comment · 20 days ago
You don't see families or groups of people doing it anymore either
Comment · 20 days ago
Well yes, why hunt when it's already done? I meant hunting for survival, not as a sport
Comment · 20 days ago
The average human is no longer able to hunt animals for food anymore either. I think it's just the domestication of humankind as it has been ongoing for thousands of years
Comment · 20 days ago
Is it the domestication of humankind? The average person is no longer able to hunt for themselves. Like ant colonies, people are no longer capable of living alone.
Comment · 21 days ago
It is so unusable the market share of Mac is increasing and google sees an opportunity with googlebooks
Comment · 21 days ago
The problem disappeared when I switched to Linux
Comment · 21 days ago
Because you want the best the both worlds, but it makes people think Linux has no GUI so it just keeps them locked to windows

They are very afraid of replacing Linux with windows, don't know how it's done, what it is etc.

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