spaghettiwestern
@spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Is it just the norm now-a-days for grocery stores to have lots of stuff on the shelves that's past the best-by date? 3 days ago:
Not only selling old items, stores like Walmart are openly violating consumer laws by selling substantially less product than the product label claims. Lots of videos on Youtube and other places. Here’s a random one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuWatOoYmDE
- Comment on Forbes Fired Top Editor After Discovering He Received Secret $6 Million Payment 6 days ago:
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- Comment on Only boomers can use this bench. Meanwhile, they're trying to get rid of their own property taxes. 2 weeks ago:
Unless you live in a really unusual area, 55+ housing doesn’t really have much of an affect on area housing prices. It sells for less so other things being equal, developers have less of an incentive to build it over regular housing. People also sell their old homes and move into 55+ housing, making homes more suitable for families available.
Housing prices in general went insane during COVID and (at least in my area) the prices have not come down. Could the prices you’re seeing on standard housing still be due to the COVID run up?
- Comment on Only boomers can use this bench. Meanwhile, they're trying to get rid of their own property taxes. 2 weeks ago:
Is it a problem that the 55+ housing lowers prices of other housing in the area, or that seniors are selling their old homes and actually keeping the money from the sale?
- Comment on Google Has Decided My U.S. Spectrum IP Address is in Mexico 3 weeks ago:
I use Startpage but haven’t found a replacement for Google Maps that functions nearly as well. Once Google decides my residential IP is in another country the Maps interface language changes. Google also sells IP geolocation info some companies use and those website often behave the same way.
- Comment on Fuck IMDB and fuck Amazon 5 weeks ago:
A while back Amazon started requiring logins to view or search product reviews. (They show a very limited number without login.)
Anyone who’s ever looked through Amazon reviews knows a huge number of them (and sometime the majority) are bullshit, but apparently that’s just fine with Amazon. They were able to completely shut down sites like fakespot.com with that one move so buyer’s are now on their own.
- Comment on people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable 5 weeks ago:
hacking
a cough - harsh, dry, and spasmodic
- Comment on people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable 1 month ago:
Was in a Trader Joe’s and this woman was practically shouting into her phone. Even worse she had it on speaker and the woman on the other end was shouting back. Bad enough in the same isle, but then she walked up within 2 feet of me and they continued shouting, now into my ear. Fucking not gonna happen!
I looked at her and began hacking as loud as could which is really loud. When I paused the shouting resumed so I started hacking again. The look on her face when she shouted “ewwww!” and backed away was priceless.
Perhaps not one of my finest moments, but one I will always treasure anyway.
- Comment on Google Has Decided My U.S. Spectrum IP Address is in Mexico 2 months ago:
¡Gracias, primo! Espero verte en el malecón.
- Comment on Google Has Decided My U.S. Spectrum IP Address is in Mexico 2 months ago:
Do you even know what network speed is? If I had the time and crayons I’d explain it to you.
- Comment on Google Has Decided My U.S. Spectrum IP Address is in Mexico 2 months ago:
Others report the same issue including someone commenting in this posting. From what I can tell Google is targeting private VPN servers on residential IPs.
I’ve used a different private VPN running on a commercial cloud server when traveling internationally. Google has never fucked with the location of that IP.
- Comment on Google Has Decided My U.S. Spectrum IP Address is in Mexico 2 months ago:
They were serving you pages in Spanish? That is really fucked up.
- Comment on Google Has Decided My U.S. Spectrum IP Address is in Mexico 2 months ago:
Are you asking that because you believe a multinational companies business polices target you specifically?
- Comment on Google Has Decided My U.S. Spectrum IP Address is in Mexico 2 months ago:
I believe Google specifically does this to discourage VPN use. It screws up their primary reason for existing: advertising revenue.
- Comment on Google Has Decided My U.S. Spectrum IP Address is in Mexico 2 months ago:
It’s already my primary search engine, but unfortunately it’s not a full Google replacement.
- Comment on Google Has Decided My U.S. Spectrum IP Address is in Mexico 2 months ago:
I avoid changing the MAC to pull a new address because family members actively use the VPN server via DNS and it can take a while for DDNS to update everywhere, but that’s what I’m going to have to do.
- Comment on Google Has Decided My U.S. Spectrum IP Address is in Mexico 2 months ago:
Whois correct returns Charter Communications and every single IP location service shows a U.S. location. This is strictly Google’s fuckery.
- Comment on Google Has Decided My U.S. Spectrum IP Address is in Mexico 2 months ago:
My neighbors (on the same Spectrum subnet) aren’t seeing this so it only affects my IP address. Google doesn’t give a crap about single user problems.
- Comment on Google Has Decided My U.S. Spectrum IP Address is in Mexico 2 months ago:
This happens on devices that have never been in Mexico. On those I took with me I’ve deleted cookies, cache, and used different browsers. Even allowing location on our phones and PCs and then updating the Google location on their website only is a temporary fix and as soon as cookies are cleared everything’s back in Mexico.
- Submitted 2 months ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 36 comments
- Comment on A nerd wanting to view docs for their mouse needs to sign an NDA. 5 months ago:
They’re not the only ones. Foscam demanded I fill out and sign an extensive multi-page developer’s agreement before providing 2 HTTP commands to control the siren and light.
- Comment on Push to eliminate sales tax on food and groceries in Missouri runs into resistance 5 months ago:
So the opposite must be true too right? When taxes go way up companies drop their prices to compensate because they only charge what consumers can pay. Oh wait, they didn’t drop their prices at all, did they.
What complete nonsense.
- Comment on Judges Grow Angry Over Trump Administration Violating Their Orders 5 months ago:
The dictator has instructed his minions to keep collecting tariffs and disregard the SCOTUS ruling. It should result in a sternly worded letter.
- Comment on Tom's Hardware now hijacks the back button. 7 months ago:
Never had it happen on Android, only on PC.
- Submitted 7 months ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Comment on Pop-up Amazon TV ads despite charging people monthly fees for their ad-free plan. 10 months ago:
Well folks, the brainwashing’s complete on this one.
- Comment on Pop-up Amazon TV ads despite charging people monthly fees for their ad-free plan. 10 months ago:
So according to you an ad is not an ad when you or Amazon use the word “promotion”?
I’m curious, in your opinion when does something like this become an ad? Is it an ad if they they pop it up mid-show every hour? No? How about every 10 minutes, is it an ad then?
Marketing departments attempt to bend reality and public opinion to benefit their company. Their efforts have obviously been effective with at least one commenter on Lemmy.
- Comment on Pop-up Amazon TV ads despite charging people monthly fees for their ad-free plan. 10 months ago:
Gotta call BS. I didn’t go anywhere and happen across a promotion, Amazon pushed this ad into my home, despite charging me a monthly fee not to do so.
- Comment on Pop-up Amazon TV ads despite charging people monthly fees for their ad-free plan. 10 months ago:
Yup.
- Comment on Pop-up Amazon TV ads despite charging people monthly fees for their ad-free plan. 10 months ago:
Amazon: "Oh, we didn’t mean those ads. That’s clearly stated in line 684 of the user agreement.
