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Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women's rights and do not support war of any kind.

  • Polished, painted, glittered “Duke of York” turd has 1.5 million followers and 6 million views

  • Booking.com cancelled woman's $4K hotel reservation, then offered her same rooms for $17K

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  • We used to do quite a bit of travelling ten years ago and we used booking.com quite often. In those early days of booking online, there was a period when you could call the help line and actually talk to someone from America or Canada. And they were always helpful. We got messed up bookings back then and we always got help and figured things out. At one point, we were booking so often, we got to know one or two of the operators we kept talking to in London, Ontario.

    Fast forward ten years later and I would not recommend any of them any more. All of them send you to a call center in either South / Central America, Philippines or India and like your comment said, they do absolutely as minimal as possible to do anything and keep you waiting on the phone as long as possible.

    None of them work any more and it is far better to use them to shop around for quality, reviews and recommendations ... then book directly with the hotel.

    Use the sites and services as a guide, then find a direct phone number to the hotel and book directly with them.

  • From the documentary that will be made in 30 years about events that will happen in two years.

  • and it turns out it was a just a large trailer park community in the Australian desert that had all gone through the deepest hallucinogenic drug effects from Meth and Opioids and somehow survived undetected for 20 years on their own in the wilderness.

  • It doesn't mean that people always try

  • I always skip the recommendations or pushed content ... I spend my time looking for things I actually want to watch ... and more often than not, it's content that is over two or three years old.

  • $40 for a cheap meal delivered to my door ready to eat ... made by someone who doesn't like their job, made with the cheapest ingredients, in a questionable kitchen, by a worker I trust follows proper hygiene, processed by a series of people who will take care of my food to be handed off to some guy who I trust will take care of my food as it travels to my house with everyone being paid as minimally as possible so that several companies can squeeze as much profit out of the transaction as possible.

    Or I just take a few hours every weekend to make a ton of good food to eat for the entire week.

  • Which now renders their site useless .... I'll go on your site to look up basic info ... then go to your store to get what I want and even visit some other store or service that could give me the same product.

    It's a disincentive to want to use their site in the future.

    I've stopped using several store websites because of this. Then when I want an actual product .... I'll call the store and ask them to look for the product for me. If they have it great, if they don't, I'll look for it elsewhere or figure out some other solution for myself that doesn't involve any of their dumb websites.

    I'm regressing from the internet and use people contact more and more because of this stupidity. I'm going back to the way I did things in the 90s and early 2000s where I would just use their store flyer as a guide, call the local store to ask for something and then go look for it myself because the online services today are so intrusive and needlessly complicated that its faster and more useful to not go online.

  • Then when you 'come of age' ... you get entered into the Human fights where aliens get to bet on winners and losers.

  • Kang: .... very well then ... (throws you into your own personal cage)

  • What's more dangerous for privacy?

    To even run Windows at all for personal / business / random use.

  • Some poor young girl got knocked up and she didn't want to say who the father was so she made up a story about how a spirit had impregnated her.

    I think that one got way out of hand

  • I'm a guy ... I did some kind of salute but now I think I'm a member of the Red Hat Society.

  • Top 3 are still the same from previous years

    1. 12345
    2. 123456
    3. 12345678

    It’s official: “123456” has once again claimed the controversial title of the world’s most common password — and one of the weakest. That marks six out of seven years this password has topped our chart

  • I'm sure alien species with more intelligence, strength and ability than us might do the same with us if they landed on our planet.

  • Heil something!!!! .... (wondering what to do with my arm)

  • You're missing a panel between the nazis and zionists that supposed to be America in the 1950s

  • This would actually be interesting if it WASN'T labeled as ART

  • Practice your religion by yourself and speak and connect to your beliefs on your own. No one needs a public and constant display or acknowledgement of what you believe. And we don't need to conform the entire world and everyone around to satisfy your beliefs and your religion. And a religion doesn't need a billion dollar industry and infrastructure in order for it to exist.

    If what you believe is moral, respectable, useful and beneficial to society, then there should never be a need to display your religion, your beliefs or to have the need to want to convert others by force or coercion. If what you believe is morally good for everyone, people will gravitate towards your religion .... forcing it on others and onto society is a sure sign that what you believe has more to do with wanting control over others rather than in creating a belief system that would benefit people.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    Almost every problem in the world would be dealt with meaningfully if we outlawed billionaires.