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  • Yes it is, it’s very specifically and carefully crafted to suck you in and tell you all the things that you need to think about and worry about today, that you would never would have considered prior.

    One needs to make a very conscious attempt to walk away and I’m sure that you will find, like myself, that once you do, your online “news” life does not change except for the better.





  • In my city, we had given a tax amnesty to the railroads that lapsed 20 years ago or so. What did the city do? Renewed the amnesty for another 50 years.

    So we have valuable land that is Criss crossing our city, and the taxpayer now has to build monumental amounts of infrastructure to circumvent.

    We build overpasses, underpasses, special crossings.

    Our city just dropped 300 million for a bridge that runs over stockyards. We’re redoing the one of several blocks away to the tune of another 200 million this year.

    There were several underpasses put in in The last 5 years that totaled up to 400 million.

    No, let’s not kick these useless freight trains out of our city, let’s let them keep using it as a parking lot. Now let’s build an additional 2 billion dollars worth of infrastructure for the rapid transit system which did not exist and we are desperately trying implement in a city that has no land because of mismanagement. Oh yeah, don’t boot the trains out and use that land for rapid transit, let’s give them a tax amnesty so they can park trains all day. Not one fucking thing is shipped within the city and there’s no reason for them to exist here.

    When I used to drink, 11 years sober, you would not talk to me about trains cuz I would go for hours haha








  • I used to work in online promotions, things like collect and win, enter a code to win an xbox, that type of jazz…

    It’s not that the local deletion can’t take place immediately… It’s that they have to legally cover their asses because there’s a whole chain of backups, mirrors, scheduled things blah blah… It literally might take that long for all of the changes to propagate through the full system.

    Usually once you unsubscribe, you’re added to the unsubscribe list, and then the local deletion happens with the nightly Cron job. It really is almost done immediately but they just legally cover their rear ends from that point forward because there is a chance it does linger somewhere within the greater system

    I’m not going into all the technicalities but that’s the basic reason





  • Krudler@lemmy.worldOPtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldBlack coffee
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    19 days ago

    It’s not a black coffee, and they’re spoiled curdled cream on it

    Literally every time I talk about the black coffee problem, assholes show up to deny

    You’re actually advancing the idea that I’m creating problems here? I ordered a fucking black coffee and I got a cream coffee with curdled cream on it

    Honest to God there’s something wrong with your brain


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    19 days ago

    I’m not sure

    But one thing I am sure of, is there’s always somebody like you who pops up to insist the problem does not exist

    You’re probably a barista

    My job as the customer is to say “black coffee please”. The rest is not up to me. So I can’t speculate why people cannot comprehend the concept of black coffee.