switch007

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Comment · 1 year ago
How do the evade accountability so often and so deeply? It's bizarre.
Comment · 1 year ago
FWIW I do more than "hear" about these "stories". My figures weren't just made up. Personal experience but I'm not saying more than that
Comment · 1 year ago
For every story about it being difficult to claim, there are plenty about people who haven't worked for 20 years who have received over £400,000 in welfare, who could have worked, because they learnt the game. The two sides have to move beyond these talking points if any useful discussion is to be had.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
When not even 1.x?
Comment · 1 year ago
lol and next year it'll be something else. Drizzle isn't even 1.x
Comment · 1 year ago
Very lucky to not have encountered one of the 500 open and confirmed bugs!
Comment · 1 year ago
I've definitely spammed some long AI responses to generic questions in DMs that can easily be googled or punched into the many AI tools we have!
Comment · 1 year ago
My company would have spun that like

"We are excited to announce we are supporting our family in their health kick journey. To support them, we have taken the difficult decision to reduce the number of beverages available. We remain fully committed to unlimited delicious tap water, free of charge!"

Comment · 1 year ago
> There was no way I could convince her that it wasn't my fault. Perhaps there was a rigid process in place that disallowed her from helping, even though I'd make it to the second flight on time.

Yeah they generally have the capability to prevent that auto cancellation of your segments (within a certain time frame) but in this case unfortunately they were unwilling or it was too late to catch it.

It's generally to protect revenue because buying A-B-C instead of B-C can be cheaper, and hoards of people used to just segments to save money. So they just assume everyone is trying to cheat them.

Comment · 1 year ago
Exactly. A lot of the EU is just performative blustering, making the populations think they're the lord their saviour. Incredible PR and marketing.

That fine got an incredible amount of media attention.

The lack of actually paying it, not so much...

Comment · 1 year ago
Released a week ago? Aren't IMDB ratings high in the first few weeks/months too, because of screenings/film festivals/devout followers etc?

Talk about hyperbole

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