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  • Any specific service you've seen doing this?

    I've not experimented as much with cloud providers or non-American companies so not yet sure if this is a byproduct of industry practice, market pressures on public companies or legal requirements and counter examples could help

    I should also point out the good: many of them (like Netflix) are very open about how cancelation works once one goes to that section of their site

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world

    YSK: You can continue to access most subscription services (even trials) after cancelation until the next billing cycle

  • Linguistics

    In UK English, it's considered proper to write "the 6th of March" as "6 March" and sometimes read as "6th March" which can be jarring to Americans as their shorthand is "March 6th" and when "6(th) March" is encountered in written form, it's expanded to the full "6th of March" when spoken

    That doesn't mean this won't be yet another feature American English absorbs from UK English but right now flipping them in speech requires a few extra syllables and people are lazy

  • Unfortunately, sometimes that's all it takes, especially when not diluted by opposing viewpoints, but let me--without any knowledge of the specific contents--take a crack at countering the negativity bias of those narratives:

    • 30% of the global energy generation comes from renewable now
    • Social media is bringing the demand for better public transit to a fever pitch
    • Trump 1 has a lot of news sources careful to investigate claims before platforming whatever a US president says because "who would abuse that power?" (anecdotal and European bias here but many of these outlets are accessible online for free)
    • America may finally be joining the modern world with HSR between Canada HSR, that California project and the one connecting LA to Vegas (some rumblings about importing the Shinkansen to connect the Texas Triangle, too)

    If these sound relevant to what you're used to seeing, I'd recommend asking yourself if any of the communities can acknowledge improvement, in other words: if you're following a (hypothetical) community called "Don't Kick Puppies" because who wouldn't support that cause, well not only did you just sign up for a stream of puppy kicking content but one moderated by somebody invested in convincing people the issue is a pressing concern regardless of what the data indicate

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    Shower drains and storm drains are the same thing in theory but not practice

    Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    Egg prices...

    Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    The percentage of the population who did/didn't know of Crowdstrike probably reversed in the past week

    memes @lemmy.world

    The first person to become famous for blinking must have been like

    memes @lemmy.world

    Well Don't Leave us Hanging... Which one?!

    Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

    Pride flags make rainbows straight