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  • I’m always home and don’t care if solicitors know it. If they look in the window they walk past, they see me. I used to try to hide but now I just watch them.

    I have a no soliciting sign I wrote myself and taped to the door that says simply “no soliciting, no exceptions”. If they knock or leave their shit on my door I report them to the company they came from, as that’s illegal in my area. I frame it as their canvassers needing up-training and remind the company that if it continues they are breaking the law each and every time, and if it happens again I won’t contact them about it, I’ll report it elsewhere. I submit the thing anonymously through whatever contact us portal they have and a bullshit email address, so they can’t tie it to an address.

    The only people who are legally allowed to knock are canvassers for political shit (and census people but that’s rare) so during election seasons I have a separate sign that says “I refuse to talk about politics with strangers. Go away and take your junk with you.”

    I don’t get bothered much. But I do see people walk up to my door, then leave, at least once a week.

    I’ve never had a problem with uninvited guests tho, as I’ve never ever had an open door policy for anyone. If I don’t expect you, you don’t come in. End of.






  • That assumes this is a permanent feature of the object and not episodic or something. It could be that this only happens for a decade every 100,000,000 years, and we just happened to catch it when it reached us. Or it could be aliens.

    This next bit is my understanding of things and may not be entirely accurate:

    But we use quartz crystal vibrations for time increments, because that doesn’t vary much, and there’s a specific clock used as the baseline I believe (similar to the international weight standards). Quartz crystal vibration is both well understood, and rapid enough to use as sub-seconds, making it far more accurate than something going every 44 minutes.

    GPS is a largely standalone thing that triangulates your position with multiple satellites, and while it does use time for determining position (based on ping time or something similar), it only needs to be relative to the other satellites, IIUC. But it’s also in such rapid increments that 44 minutes wouldn’t be terribly helpful.

    So I don’t think it would be worth doing since our present system is good enough, and the signal might stop as soon as we build the new infrastructure. Much better to use something we have control over, and understand better, if it’s going to be used directly in daily life on earth.






  • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.nettomemes@lemmy.worldSkilled labor
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    29 days ago

    The self checkout at the grocery here makes you have a worker check and enter your coupons for you. Even though they have barcodes. And cameras galore. And they mail you dozens of coupons every week.

    What’s even the point of self checkout at that point? It took longer waiting for them to come check and approve my three coupons to save $1.50 than just going through regular cashier line, and I didn’t even get to avoid talking to someone. Did that twice and won’t do it again.

    If they want me to work for them, I’m gunna need an employee discount. I hate everything about self-checkout. I have yet to find an implementation of it that is better than the default cashier experience.

    (This is not meant as saying you are wrong for your preference ofc, I just don’t understand how people actually like them)