This makes me physically ill.
Cars are the only weapon in the world where you could injure or kill a few dozen people “by accident” and be let off without being held responsible. And it happens all the time.
Even when someone is charged with anything, it never accounts for a loss of human life. It’s always some BS traffic violation that might as well be a parking violation.
Absolutely!
And I’ve had companies offer me a discount on product, rather than a full refund or replacement. I always refuse and state how disappointed I am. They pretty much always follow up with a full refund or new product.
Hell, I even ordered an indoor spin bike, complained that it used non-standard crank arms, and they refunded me $100 to replace the crank arms and pedals! Just for stating that I was unhappy with one aspect of an otherwise great purchase.
I’ve had Amazon listings where the title, description, specs on the box, specs on the product, and the reviews ALL had different information.
Who creates these listings? AI?
That said, I strongly encourage anyone who shops on Amazon to complain about issues in your reviews, and contact the seller if ANYTHING is wrong with your product. I have a 99% success rate of getting replacements or a full refund while doing this (resulting in basically a free product), even if the issue is cosmetic or a personal dislike. Just be honest.
Maybe that’s why you don’t have problems with most of sites from Europe?!?
That’s an interesting observation. I’m not sure, since I’m in Canada.
I use FF as my primary browser on my desktop, laptop, and mobile devices.
As much as I love and support FF and the Mozilla Foundation, I find that some websites simply need a Chromium-based browser to function properly. It’s frustrating as hell.
I wonder how many people tried FF, had their favourite site stop working, and then switched back to Chrome.
Good. Hopefully this will put an end to idiot parents who illegally park in the bike lanes near schools, putting cyclists and kids at risk, just because they are lazy AF.
Exactly why we need to deconstruct car infrastructure and promote 15 minute cities.
Food deserts are also, in part, due to systemic racism and the lack of incentive to invest in impoverished areas.
That would help, but wouldn’t do much for the mountains of people in cars on the weekend… going to stores they could easily walk to.
Personal driving needs to be one of those things that you might do a few times a month, when necessary, to get to a destination further than 25 km away.
The only vehicles you should regularly see on roads are delivery, emergency services, transport trucks, and maintenance vehicles.
Anything else can be handled by public transportation, micromobility, walking, bikes, zoom calls, etc.
Yes, it’s not easy for everyone to do that, which is why government should step the hell up and subsidize and incentivize the crap out of every mode of transportation that isn’t a car. Give away free e-bikes to every family if you need to, just get people out of cars!
Yeah, I’ve got a bunch of Ugreen hardware (external HDD enclosures, USB hubs, adapters, etc.), but there’s no way I’d get their hardware with an OS on it. I don’t trust the brand that much.
I love Fortnine and their videos, but he missed a glaring issue: big ass vehicles are difficult to manoeuvre in cities (i.e. near pedestrians).
And while he did very briefly touch on the fact that a sloped front end could help you see more in front of you, you still wouldn’t be able to see beside or behind you very well.
I mean, FFS, he was standing next to the thing and his head was just barely above the bottom of the window! Anyone 5.5’ or shorter would be unseen by the driver if they were standing right beside it!
and like 7 sheets of styrofoam.
I really, really hate styrofoam. I recently had to put out an industrial-sized bag filled with the stuff, and I can’t honestly believe it’s still used for packing items. Strategically used cardboard, especially the formed stuff, is so much better to use and can be recycled easily.
I ordered a lens filter for my camera, and couldn’t believe the amount of packaging and plastic wrapping it came with. It was absurd to the point of lunacy. We’re talking several boxes, something like four or five different plastic wrappers, etc. For a lens filter!
It’s almost like manufacturers are aware that consumers aren’t “allowed” to use single-use plastic when getting groceries, so they double-down on their use for everything else!
Yeah, did that after the first time. Enabled 2fa, too. Checked for any other devices that have access to my account, and nothing came up.
It happened several more times, and nobody could figure out why.
I thought Alexa might have been a culprit, but I have the option to order using Alexa disabled. Strangest thing ever.
And their content creators are also paid nothing.
I’m not surprised to hear of strange happenings like that.
There were a few months several years ago were I’d randomly have like THOUSANDS of a single item added to my cart. Stuff I’d never order, never wish list, and never searched for.
Sometimes my shopping cart would have like $15,000 worth of stuff in it.
They couldn’t explain it, and the mystery was never solved.
Plot twist, there’s actually no way to get “up to 25%”. It simply isn’t a tier they offer for their subscribe and save option 😱
The one missing “up to” was the same product, but a different flavour.
I feel like I’m in some weird a/b testing, but it looks super deceptive regardless.
LOL. Probably.
Better than Walmart’s subscription service, though. They don’t even warn you that something is about to ship, they just ship!
Amazon at least asks you to review the next shipment (which they tend to ship WAAAAY too early, 100% of the time).
What about the item that says “SAVE 25% TODAY”, rather than “up to 25%”? That one also gave me 5% after I clicked on it.
I’ve used subscribe and save in the past, so I know how the program works. But I can’t recall this wording/behaviour before, and it was always clear what discount I would get before clicking on subscribe.
Edit: Ok, the above strangeness only happens when the item is in the shopping cart. When I view the item’s full page listing, it says “subscribe and save 5% now and up to 10% on repeat deliveries”. So where the “25% now and 15% later” thing comes from, I have no clue. But it almost tricked me.
It gives businesses a very easy to way to set up monthly payments, one-time donations, accept forms of payments other than e-transfer (which many people don’t want to use), allows for international purchases without being penalized, and more.
Other options are available, but they are neither easy/cheap/convenient for the business or any better for the customer.