"I'm converting to the Amish faith and forsaking technology."
Best part: when they ask if there's anyone you'd like to transfer the account to, you can instantly play the indignant card.
"And turn someone else away from the Lord with the distractions of worldly temptation?!"
SR: "So, what shows do you like to watch?"
Me: "I don't watch any shows because I don't have cable."
SR: "How about you subscribe to our cable service then you can watch some good shows?"
Me: "I can't...I don't have a TV."
SR: "Why don't you buy a TV so you can watch some good shows?"
Me: "I can't...I don't have electricity." (I lied)
SR: (dead silence for a second or two...)
SR: "Thank you sir. Have a nice day."
They never bothered me again.
...the "can we tempt you back with this offer" mails started immediate after.
I want to activate this life hack I do but in an easier way: when I'm dealing with a person who gets monetary gain for upselling me, how about I hand them that amount and get straight talk from then on? 1% commission on my $1,000 mattress? Here's 10 bucks now gimme the real skinny, see?!
Ping over cell networks is not favorable to real time things like this. How do you safely maneuver a vehicle with a 50ms delay?
I've seen things like this moving on the UC Berkeley campus. "How do you safely maneuver a vehicle with a 50ms delay?" Very slowly and haphazardly. The whole scheme seems more about getting someone in third world country to work delivery in a first world country than efficiency of any sort.
Paying third world wages to deliver items in the first world seems pretty efficient.
The growing need for human robot-minders could juice the remote workforce - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20884471 - Sept 2019 (98 comments)
Me: "You're a chatbot, aren't you?"
Chatbot: "hahaha, I get that all the time!"
I bet you do!
p.s. what does "prostoalex" mean? Is it short for prostate-alex, or something else?