Supervisor194 @ Supervisor194 @lemmy.world

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Bold of you to insinuate any of them are capable of embarrassment.

Dollar, Thrifty and Hertz are all the same company now. They intentionally overbook. I don't know the exact reason why, short of naked profiteering and not giving a fuck.

The last time I rented with them (initially Dollar) I booked several months beforehand and when I got up to their kiosks, I ended up getting one of the last cars that they had on hand. I know I got one of the last because as I was waiting (for hours), they first closed the Dollar storefront, then they closed the Thrifty storefront - funneling everybody into one line ultimately ending up at the Hertz storefront. Shortly after I got up to the desk and they were finally giving me my paperwork and keys, they began to shut down the Hertz storefront. At this point there were still literally more than a hundred people standing in line (it was a holiday). So closing up left a whole bunch of people carless and very, very angry. So even waiting for hours through this bullshit, I was one of the LUCKY ONES.

I booked the car online at the extortionate price of $800 for a week, but ever since the pandemic, rentals have been overly expensive so whatever. Subsequently, they proceeded to apply every possible extra to the rental, without my knowledge. Extra insurance, top tier insurance, full tank of gas, roadside assistance - everything - all of which are also at inflated prices. Not until I got home did I notice that the actual cost of this rental was going to be almost $1500, TWICE THE FEE I HAD BOOKED ONLINE. I had no choice but to accept it and get on with my driving vacation, but I never forget.

I truly do not know. I was using Budget, my truck was in the shop and two days' rental was going to be $142. Two hours after reserving it my mechanic tells me he's going to have me done today - so I cancel the reservation.

Because I chose "pay now" rather than "pay later", I'm charged a $150 cancellation fee on a $142 rental (the fee posted on the website - $50 - is not for "prepaid" "same day" cancellations - not that the website told me this anywhere obvious, of course).

So I literally would have done better financially to drive the fucking thing around for two days for no good reason.

Protesting to customer service gets me a resounding "go fuck yourself."

I'm now open to suggestions, I was using Budget because they had the best prices of what remained to me, but never again.

Dollar, Hertz and Thrifty car rental. Also Budget, but for different reasons.

Never use Dollar, Hertz or Thrifty under any circumstances unless you want to be fucked. Never prepay with Budget unless you want to be fucked.

OK, so super weird. Private window behavior was the same. However, when I created a new profile (I am on Firefox 128.0), everything showed up normally. I tried everything to pinpoint the issue.

I restarted my faulty profile window with all extensions disabled, no change. I cleared all my history and cache, no change. I have a custom userChrome.css, so I moved it out of the way, no change. I logged out (because my new profile was not logged in), no change.

At this point, I noticed that the settings in my new profile window were different (I have "top 6 hours" selected in my usual profile), so I set everything to be the same as the settings in the new profile window. When I did that, everything started appearing again.

But the weird part is: when I reset it back to the way it was... everything is still working.

So I tried my best to get an actual answer to what's going on here, but I've come up empty. Something about resetting the settings frees up whatever was going on, in case anybody watching sees this.

Edit: so yeah, I went to my other computer, a Mac laptop - that was experiencing the same issue, and as soon as I changed "top 6 hour" to "hot" - everything came back. Subsequently changing it back to "top 6 hour" did not have any negative effect. So that's the "solution," such as it is.

Literally every comment section. Including this one. In fact, I saw I had mail, so I saw your reply here in my inbox, but when I clicked on the thread link to view your comment, it says "there doesn't seem to be anything here." Here, look at this very thread that you yourself have posted in:

https://old.lemmy.world/post/17528547

But it's literally every single comment section. My original post is a link to a comment section on a thread about Bernie Sanders:

https://old.lemmy.world/post/17524695

Replace "old" in the URL with "www" and you can see they are not empty.

But again, it's not just these two, it's all of them. They're all like that.

It's too lucrative to die completely, somebody will always be there to take it up.

Wasn't the right poised to take it all in a landslide only just... checks notes - yesterday?

Checkmate, atheists.

My bank still raised my mortgage by 20% because apparently they can't set up an escrow properly and apparently that's my problem now.

This just happened to me, it's because insurance for the year jumped 30%. 🤯 I don't like it, but it's difficult for the mortgage company to predict that kind of shit. You can change your insurance, and I went looking, but everything I found was even more expensive.

We need to just work on making our own. Then the Vulcans will find us.

Trump loves crypto now? Oh that will guarantee a win.

I know I don't have to say this in present company, but with these kinds of people, it's always projection. Like it can't not be projection. I actually just learned there is a term for it: reaction formation.

Put another way, we can be pretty sure these people are dangerous for children. Very dangerous.

I think where it shines is in helping you write code you've never written before. I never touched Swift before and I made a fully functional iOS app in a week. Also, even with stuff I have done before, I can say "write me a function that does x" and it will and it usually works.

Like just yesterday I asked it to write me a function that would generate and serve up an .ics file based on a selected date and extrapolate the date of a recurring monthly meeting based on the day of the week picked and its position (1st week, 2nd week, etc) within the month and then make the .ics file reflect all that. I could have generated that code myself by hand but it would have probably taken me an hour or two. It did it in about five seconds and it worked perfectly.

Yeah, you have to know what you're doing in general and there's a lot of babysitting involved, but anyone who thinks it's just useless is plain wrong. It's fucking amazing.

Edit: lol the article is referring to a study that was using GPT 3.5, which is all but useless for coding. 4.0 has been out for a year blowing everybody's minds. Clickbait trash.

Wasn't this just a "hard landing" yesterday? Or is this a different event?

What a coward. The country can go fuck itself, so just own up to it you pussy. But no no, he's all "my wife did it." So not only can we go fuck ourselves, we're also rock stupid.

I'm not reading all that. I just need one answer from any suit at Mozilla: are you going to sell us out or not.

So... they think it will... vaccinate them?

Ah yes, the old "do criminal shit and then when you're held to account for your criminal shit, scream loudly about how they're trying to 'silence' your voice" routine. We know it well.