It’s Friday, the day before the weekend and there will be some Sun!

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    It kinda feels like the old DT of reddit sans reddit. Kinda feels like home away from home and it’s you guys who are helping. I’m glad I decided to join this place after all. Feeling happy and slightly teary? You all are good eggs in my book

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    The firing of the employee went down earlier today.

    They decided to turn it into a resignation to save face.

    Had to step in to prevent it turning into an argument with their manager, but handled it well.

    The employee thanked me for my professionalism when I walked them to their car, and they hugged me goodbye.

    So glad I held a debriefing with their team afterward. It honestly helps me as much as it helps them.

    Still feeling a bit from it. So my self care starts now with a curried cauliflower pie from Country Cob

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        All things considered for sure. Would have preferred a million other different ways to wrap up the week, but ending a tough situation with a hug ain’t too bad

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      Speaking of Country Cob, their vanilla slices are amazing! I’ve tried a few of their pies and wasn’t very impressed though, especially for the price.

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        Can’t speak for their meat ones, but the vegetarian ones are great.

        I think it’s more that it’s a treat to have a place offer more than a bland token vegetable pastie

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          it’s a treat to have a place offer more than a bland token vegetable pastie

          That’s true. Curried cauliflower sounds pretty good.

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    being poor poem

    Rent has been paid, and now it’s quite tight
    I’ll spoil the puss because he’s my light.
    Not enough for my meds so it’ll be hard tonight,
    Too many night-terrors, but I should be alright!
    Things will get better, this is just a tough spot,
    I will get better, I will improve my lot.

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    Ok I’m just gonna say it. Ok I’ll just whisper… I miss reddit, this doesn’t feel the same. Strangely, I also feel ghosted? Melbourne reddit gone without a trace. The other city subs are back, but Melbourne still in lockdown (and there wasn’t even a press conference.) It is a good space here, but I don’t know I am nostalgic I guess.

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    So has there been any updates on the Reddit saga? I’m low key loving that I get to live through a part of internet history for once. I hardly used Twitter. I wasn’t on iPhone for the privacy breaches. I think this is the first big scandal I get to witness first hand. Well, except maybe the blaster worm back in ‘03.

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    Theverge.com has some updates on the reddit saga. Basically, reddit says get stuffed. So if the r/Melbourne mods are gonna stick to their guns get comfortable gang. We ain’t going anywhere any time soon.

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      I’ve crept back to Reddit a couple of times over the last few days but honestly… there’s some weird communities that people are clinging on to that are now appearing on r/all that I’m just like “if this is what Reddit is to become, maybe it’s a good thing that I just walk away.”

      I’m happy enough in here, provided we retain a good percentage of the old DT gang. We might need to recruit or hope that we gain enough traction to increase our numbers of great people eventually, but for now, this will have to do :)

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        Sadly, the r/NRL meatheads aren’t interested and don’t care if reddit fucks over their users so they aren’t interested in any further action or moving platforms. That’s probably my most frequented sub so I’m somewhat tied to it if I want to talk NRL in a non-discord setting.

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          Yeah - I think there’s something to be said for those “left over”. I followed the r/squaredcircle sub which was all wrestling-focussed. People didn’t want it to go dark but it did anyway, and now there’s a r/squaredcircle2 that’s already gaining members. Some narrow-minded individuals that want things to stay the way they are, without realising that things are slowly but surely slipping to a certain rhetoric when it comes to narrative and discourse (i.e.: a lot of right-wing influencers who are mods).

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        Really? I popped back there this morning and I don’t think that, besides Melbourne, any one of the subreddits that I frequent have gone permanently dark.

        I was only ever active in the Melbourne subreddit but frequently lurked in many others, and it’s business as usual in all of them. I never went on r/all though so maybe that’s why I never noticed a dofference

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          someone made a r/squaredcircle2 but I feel like the worst people of that sub are the ones who didn’t understand the point of the protests in the first place. The whole “it doesn’t affect me so why should I bother?” kind of narrative. I mean, sure, you do you, but I don’t see how Reddit can improve under the dictatorship of u/spez

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      Anyone can also check r/ModCoord for updates on the great schism. The moderators will eventually be replaced if they don’t capitulate.

      I haven’t read the verge article but one would assume getting advertisers to start pulling their money out of Reddit would be the only play.

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    In a story that’s 100% my own fault for not learning, I’m battling Amazon. So that vacuum I complained about the other week? The one I brought for 495ish then dropped to 400ish 2 days later? Amazon wouldn’t price match. They said to just return the order and reorder it again. I didn’t. I brought from JB for 400 and sent the more expensive one back to Amazon who proceeded to charge me a “change of mind return fee” of 7 bucks after previously claiming I wouldn’t be charged. Now it’s just 7 bucks, I’ve wasted far more on things before, but because of how shit they’ve been I decided to fight it.

    They are claiming they can’t offer me the 7 dollar refund as anything other than credit, but I keep telling them that I’m not gonna buy anything from them anyway so refund me the money as I’m legally I’m entitled too and for them to either get their shit sorted or I’m gonna charge back the full amount on the credit card.

    Far out people don’t buy from Amazon cause if someone goes wrong it’s a fucking nightmare!

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      Geez. That sounds like an ordeal and a half. I know all too well about fighting over something that might seem trivial, but it comes down to the principal of the matter.

      Here’s hoping on the other side Amazon just refund you the money sooner rather than later. Surely there’s someone there that looks at how much time is going into the admin of trying to resolve the complaint and just go “fuck it, it’s $7”. Then again, their Overlord and all round Evil Doer of a boss would be stingy enough that $7 would be something he’d fight tooth and nail over.

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        Deffo. They keep saying their system doesn’t support refunds this way. I say I don’t think under Australian consumer law they have a choice. Guess we will see what the ACCC say.

    • 🇦🇺Baku@sh.itjust.works
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      They ripped me out of a $20 gift card last year. I got gifted one and I ordered a few bits and bobs, even though it was all covered by the gift card, they still demanded I add a bank card. So I did. 100% of it came out of the gift card funds, and 0% out of my card. Then 5 minutes after they accused me of providing a stolen bank card and demanded I verify my card by sending in a statement + proof of balance. So I did. I tried 4 times, and then they removed my button to be able to upload documents. Couldn’t even call a real human, because guess what, when your Amazon account is on hold YOU CANT EVEN ACCESS THE SUPPORT PAGE. It was only 20 bucks, but it just showed me that they are willing to fuck me over at the drop of a hat. At that point I decided that I will not shop there again, at all.

      The irony is that that $20 they screwed me out of is nothing compared to the couple of hundred I since would’ve spent there

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        Exactly! That’s basically what I said to them, if you’re gonna screw me on 100 bucks you’re gonna lose the sale entirely. They did, so… suck eggs basically.

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      Within the 30 days you can do the return yourself without talking to a person, I change the reasoning if the return fee appears. The returns system can be automated for the first month.

      Last year I had to respond to an email about why I had returned so many items, I just explained that I wouldn’t have bought them in the first place if Amazon hadn’t provided a peace of mind.

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    Lord give me the STRENGTH to get through my work today.

    I need to get an entire draft of my thesis to my supervisors by the end of the day and I gotta pull a couple of thousand words outta my arse to meet my target. It’s not gonna be a fun one.

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    Dinner was pita bread spread with cream cheese, smoked salmon and pickles, rolled and sliced into pinwheels. With a glass (or three) of vino. Dessert was peppermint aero. Will do nutrition tomorrow, I promise.

  • Goddess_Amaterasu@aussie.zoneOP
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    Errands completed. Now time to find food. I hungy. Haven’t eaten since late breakfast and hopefully 10 mins walk then home before it’s gets cold

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    I had such a nice evening until my cat rolled off my lap by mistake and tried to save himself with his claws 😿