Doubledee

An upbeat pop rock song about capitalist alienation? Satan? Falsetto? Hell yeah.

Hey folks, this is probably silly but I'm taking suggestions as to how to handle a situation I'm in now. My bill for internet has gone up like 50 dollars in the last few months between the promotional deal expiring and the affordable connection subsidy going away. So I called a competitor to see about changing service. I wasn't able to shop services online because something was wrong with my address, so phone call it had to be.

It took like an hour and they have to come out to see whether I can actually get service still. But they tentatively signed me up for service so I got an email a couple hours after the call.

They have me being billed for a landline.

It's still cheaper than I'm currently paying but I'm absolutely not going to use a landline. So I'm in a bind.

Do I call them back and try to out-talk a sales rep to get them to just sell me internet?

Should I go to the physical store location in my city and talk with them in person? We still don't even know if I'll be able to get service, would that be a waste of everyone's time?

Should I wait and resolve it after the 'can you get service' question is resolved, or will that make changing it more painful?

Some other thing I'm not thinking about?

In which a former CEO of Google defines winning as "having another unsuccessful counteroffensive and ceding territory to Russia." Goalposts are moving folks.

Originally posted to c/news but I think between it being an opinion piece and my editorializing it probably belongs here.

Marg bar Amerikkka

Hey, so I'm hosting a campaign of Comrades and next session I'm thinking of having the party on site when a spontaneous strike starts. For context the setting is homebrew, WWI ish with fantasy elements. Obviously they can participate in organizing the workers and talking with people who attempt to intimidate or buy off the strikers but I'd like to have a few more tricks and nudges on standby to keep things going just in case. Any suggestions? Currently I've got "dealing with potential police actions" and "the company sends Pinkertons/infiltrators" but I'd appreciate your thoughts.

Link for the morbidly curious. Burgerites really haven't learned anything since 2000.

EDIT: Egg on my dang face for not noticing the bluetooth bar blocking out half of the evil things this dupe is saying.

My child's library book coming in with an inspiring image for the community.

Too early for Christmas music?

So my family rent half of an old remodeled home that's been broken into two units by our leech. City recently did some inspections and had a laundry list of things to fix, most of which was directed at the leech but they told us we can't use the three-to-two prong adapters we've been using since we moved here to plug in all of our modern electronics.

The maintenance guy told us they would install gfci outlets and asked how many we wanted, but that never ended up happening. I'm probably gonna try to ask the landlord directly but given our interactions so far I'm not optimistic. So I need a backup plan if he takes the easy route and risks our health and the potential to burn the place down to save a few hundred dollars of the rent I pay him.

Obviously I can just not be using them when the city comes back but in the long run I know it's not safe for my family, but I also can't force the leech to make the place safe for my child. Is there something safer than an adapter we could use once this passes? We can't really give up all of our three pronged electronics and it would still not solve the safety issue if we did.

Sorry if this is the wrong comm for this, I never post, but I'm most of the way through Age of Extremes and I'm a bit baffled. I get that he lived a long life and saw a lot of stuff but his analysis of the 20th century seems really defeated and... I mean liberal?

He has some pointed critiques of RES states that veer really close to saying revolution is impossible, that the market cannot be stopped, that basically we have to accept that communism was never a possibility and move on. It is really jarring after the previous titles. Am I misreading him? Some of it might just be old dude stuff, I guess, he has some old man takes on art at least. It just seems like he is totally despairing by the end of the last book, but everything I saw about him made it sound like he was a committed Marxist until he died.