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  • Honestly I think that any community that objects to wind farms or solar panels just on irrational bases like that should get an oil derek built in the centre of town, even if it’s just for show. Just to make the point.

    A lot of it is NIMBYism, it’s not that they don’t want wind farms it’s that they don’t want wind farms here. Because they think that if you don’t build a wind farm in their community you’ll also not build a cold burning power station in their community. Often this is correct because what is a good location for wind farm is a bad location for a power station.




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    When I bought my house one of the things that I was warned about was that they were going to make the nearby wind farm larger. Some of the locals got up in arms about them building a new wind farm until they pointed out that they are just enlarging the current wind farm.

    None of the residents could tell me where the current wind farm was, because you literally cannot see it, it’s behind a hill. If they hadn’t told anyone they were enlarging it I don’t think anyone would have noticed. Even if you go around the hill so you can actually see it, it just blends into the background. I do wonder why they don’t just paint them blue though.



  • The level 1 agents are always useless.

    I don’t know a single call centre where the level 2 agents don’t constantly complain about the utter incompetence of the level 1 agents, who appear to have never even used a mouse before.

    They escalate tickets such as “the users screen is upside down”, and “callers operating system has changed to papyrus needs to be changed back”. Things that could have been fixed by both the first line service agent, and the caller, if either of them had bothered to do a 4 second Google search.


  • Hello my account is locked out.

    *Checks the account, last login was 45 days ago

    Oh I see here that your last login was quite a while ago so your account has probably been disabled due to inactivity you should have received some emails about that.

    Oh, I don’t read emails you should have messaged me on teams.

    *Bangs head on desk

    It’s an automated system, we don’t know your account is going to get locked out. There are 5,000 people at this company, no one’s going to take the time to explicitly contact you. Read your damn emails.





  • I don’t know who you’re calling an idiot back in the early 2000s I had a phone that died because it got rained on. Not even a lot of rain.

    Waterproofing is necessary just generally. Even if you assume it’s never going to get dropped in a puddle it needs to be splash proof at least.



  • Echo Dot@feddit.uktoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldTrumpcare
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    It’s the same in the UK. There is national healthcare which is what most people go with because it’s free (and most people underestimate how infuriating it is sitting in a waiting room for 6 hours) and then there’s private healthcare which is what you go with if you want expediency.

    A lot of the time if you go with private you end up being tended to by the same medical staff anyway, you’re basically just paying to skip the queue.