A new water company (currently the government want to privatise these) was checking water meters last week. long story short they broke one and the cap on the hole keeps popping up outside my house on the pathway. Rang them today to tell them about it "what's your address?"

I had to obviously give them that - I guess I could've said I was a neighbour, and just given them the location. Wanted my name and phone number. I said "I don't want or need to give that, I am just telling you about the manhole cover."

"I need to get your name and phone number to continue"

"I don't know my phone number, my name is private Jones. I have been put on hold two times already. a lady and a child already tripped over this cover, I don't care if you can't continue. I have given the information, and it won't be me that anyone sues if they break something tripping over it."

I stayed polite and we ended the conversation. but holy shit. You are not wrong to not give it to them. They are wrong for persistently asking for it.

I remember talking to two Japanese young lads about 20 years ago, and they thought the idea of toilet paper was disgusting. Smearing/smudging your own shit allover your inner ass cheeks.

That opened my eyes wide. I was a couple of years younger, but they spoke frankly and didn't hide anything 😁

I haven't ever used it, never signed a petition, but isn't change.org only about petitions? I can kinda see their reasoning.. They may even have had their hand forced to do it.

Loads of people who want their way probably signed up with tons of accounts to skew the results. If it's going to work, I guess they need to be able to show that they're legit, out at least that change.org are doing their best to make it that they are.

It's easy to set up one gmail account for example and use it a million times with moving a dot throughout the name or putting a plus sign and anything after the username but before the @ symbol.

When it's all done and dusted, I hope it's the beginning of the end for corporate capitalism as we know it. Allowing them to become that big and powerful through corruption that they literally think that they can control the world, is insane.

This is happening because of greed.

Everything about it was shit. Hopefully Netflix will never get a sporting event again. Biased opinions all the way through the fights. Commentators talking about the other fights while fights were happening. During Barrios vs Ramos WBC belt fight, they were talking about the upcoming fights. Their audio went to Holyfields earpiece, later on a mic went. Their servers crashed. Rosie Perez is not 'the first lady of boxing' What other commentary there was, was horseshit. Plugging all their shows by zooming in on their 'celebrity' crowd. I'm paying premium to watch the boxing. I don't give a fuck about Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz and their new shit film. Or the two Cobra Kai clowns. Every five minutes. The trailers for the shows just interrupted everything. I couldn't watch the best fight of the night live because their servers went down.

Touch screens are shit tor buttons. They can be hacked. They can be unresponsive.

There's a load of other reasons, but either or both are enough to realise that a physical button is much safer. Perfect example of safety being lost in technology. Just because we can, doesn't mean we should.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/technology/dutch-school-privacy-google-microsoft-zoom.html

If anything, the Dutch will enforce more laws on them

The urge to act like an asshole on another platform is just too much.....

Twitter was a cesspool long before trump, and it was made such by the same people trying to distance themselves from it now.

"Ohh.. I wasn't a cunt on Twitter, I'm one of the people moving away from it".

Affiliate links and coupons should be banned.. Artificially inflating prices so that some users can add a code to get a discount. Huge in antics for years, but growing rapidly in Europe for the last 10.

This can only be a bad thing.

They will win and like live nation, will merge with more well placed companies until they are printing their own money.

"grown men"

They always deflect and cry anti-Semitism. I think that's partially why the attempt at genocide has been allowed to go on for so brutally long. It's like the boy who cried wolf. Most don't even listen to them anymore. In fact, an anti-zionist group should be set up to double down on them for educational purposes so that they can see why it's wrong, also to lobby against what they are calling for (in this case, somebody's livelihood).

Who should be be replaced by, in their opinion?

To be fair, being called anti-semitic by a bunch of hate filled genocidal Nazis isn't really the worst thing in the world. It's kind of like Samuel Little calling somebody a misogynistic bully.

The actual tools Niwaki Hori Hori gardening trowel in a canvas sheath, and an Ice Bear Japanese gardener’s sickle.

The Niwaki Hori Hori gardening trowel

And theNiwaki Ice Bear Japanese gardener’s sickle.

The amount of content about Israel/Palestine that is swamped by Zionists on Reddit would imply that it is mostly already far right. The latest being the attempts to control the narrative of what happened in Netherlands around the football match. But not sure anyone believes the Zionist side of that one.

What's realistically the closest to YouTube today? Like Lemmy, small acorns need bigger communities 😁 Slow, but it'll happen. It's also not a bad thing to have people used to switching platforms every x amount of years. That aside, does a VPN work, or Newpipe?

I'm in EU, not getting any ads yet on Firefox or Newpipe.

So they want help stealing back the stuff that they stole in the first place.

Many countries would probably pay the 'thieves' to have them back where they belong.

So does this mean that lemmy.ml is taking over as the biggest instance?

Getting thumped because of 4 injuries and 5 players refusing to play against Israel. A boycott would have achieved a lot more. The fine would be nothing compared to the attention it would have received.

Netflix should never be allowed near another sporting event. Ever. From start to finish it was shit. I would also like to take this moment to point out that Rosie Perez is not the first lady of boxing.