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  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.workstome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    1 day ago

    All you got had to speak. You didn’t really want more, did you?

    For most of these calls, letting them have their say is the goal for both of you.

    On your side that might just be because it helps prevent another phone call later, but good enough.

    On their side, they made the call, so they either enjoy calling or they got all prepared and need to get it out.

    Any follow-up you have can be done the decent way, by typing.




  • It was actually cleaning companies that worked after hour and used children in cleaning slaughterhouses. Which is of course terrible and dangerous. (Slightly less traumatic than actually killing the animals but still inexcusable.)

    I’m not recommending it. It was what I was referring to as dystopian.

    But even in my childish '60s childhood there was a bicycle accident where knowing something to do about stopping bleeding would have helped both the other kid and me.

    Having been in life-or-death medical situations since then, it’s a lot less mentally traumatic if you know something you can do and focus on trying to do it right, instead of trying to figure out from scratch what if anything you could do.




  • How come it tried to send me to make a left onto a major thoroughfare from a tiny side street rather than the major one with a controlled left arrow (a blessed rarity in my city) a few blocks away? Yeah maybe someone did it and scraped a few seconds off their time because they got lucky with the cross traffic, but someone who doesn’t know the area is gonna get tboned.