Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

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When my wife moved to New Jersey to move in with me, I told her she needed a car. I think a popular conspiracy theory is that the bus system was deliberately crippled to encourage car ownership.

It's part of the drum beat of "corporations are evil" some locations would benefit from from a robust public transit/high speed rail system but it won't work everywhere nor is it practical for everyone.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

I would like an electric car at some point…but not yet.

I had a conference in New Orleans and the freedom I felt hopping in my gti and driving all day left an impression…

Driving in South Dakota and Wyoming did too.

Being able to “go” anytime anywhere is something I can’t let go of…

My car is a manual transmission with a hatchback. It’s 8 years old…but I can use Apple play with it…hats off to people who can be happy without a car but I can’t relate. Maybe if I lived in a big city it would be a different feeling.

Hoping the charging grid grows so I can make my next one electric and still feel free…

 

[Deset Gled]

It's that day again.

 

[payn]

It's that day again.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

It's part of the drum beat of "corporations are evil" some locations would benefit from from a robust public transit/high speed rail system but it won't work everywhere nor is it practical for everyone.

I live in the D/FW Metroplex in one of the suburbs that voted NOT to participate in the area wide effort to expand & improve the areas public transportation system. As such, while buses and trains pass through our town, there are no stops within its confines. The nearest stops are currently several minutes drive away from our house, and really aren’t walking distance as most people would define it.

That said, I’ve used the rail system quite a few times to go to downtown
Dallas for business purposes, and I think it’s generally pretty pleasant.

And judging from current construction, we may be getting a rail station just a couple miles from my house. However, walking there still wouldn’t be very practical- the road it’s adjacent to has a 50MPH speed limit, is poorly illuminated, and there’s no sidewalks.

 

[RealAlHazred]

It's part of the drum beat of "corporations are evil"

Maybe? But at the same time, the bus schedules are unbelievably bad in the most densely-populated parts of the state, so bad that I could believe it was deliberate. Screwing it up this badly by random chance just doesn't seem possible!

 

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[Ryujin]

The manager in a group that tends to work closely with mine just submitted his 10th ticket, in 2 months, for "problems" that he's having with his laptop since we migrated it to our new Azure tenant. Once again he's whining, but refuses to do anything that I've told him to do. This time he's complaining that updates aren't being found or installed. I've seen this when the new (incredibly bad) Windows 11 24H2 update is pending and it eventually gets found, then installed. He doesn't want to wait for it and keeps trying to manually search for updates. I gave him two options; wait patiently for the update to eventually install, or send the laptop back to be wiped and reloaded by us. His answer, "No." Bub, there is no option three.

We think that it's all part of his feud with my manager, because he keeps calling the whiner out in managers' meetings for sitting on projects. He's been on-site maybe 3 times since lockdown began.

 

[deganawida]

The manager in a group that tends to work closely with mine just submitted his 10th ticket, in 2 months, for "problems" that he's having with his laptop since we migrated it to our new Azure tenant. Once again he's whining, but refuses to do anything that I've told him to do. This time he's complaining that updates aren't being found or installed. I've seen this when the new (incredibly bad) Windows 11 24H2 update is pending and it eventually gets found, then installed. He doesn't want to wait for it and keeps trying to manually search for updates. I gave him two options; wait patiently for the update to eventually install, or send the laptop back to be wiped and reloaded by us. His answer, "No." Bub, there is no option three.

We think that it's all part of his feud with my manager, because he keeps calling the whiner out in managers' meetings for sitting on projects. He's been on-site maybe 3 times since lockdown began.

UGH, 24H2 is utter trash. We're doing an InTune and Windows 11 rollout, and 24H2 breaks our VPN client.

I am a nice guy (have actually been called "sweet" by people for all my 48 years, which drives me mad), but for your client, if you were my employee, I'd tell the client that he can either follow your plan or not receive further support. I am a nice guy, but as soon as someone proves that they will be an obstacle just to be an obstacle, the niceness is replaced.

 

[Umbran]

I gave him two options; wait patiently for the update to eventually install, or send the laptop back to be wiped and reloaded by us. His answer, "No." Bub, there is no option three.

We think that it's all part of his feud with my manager...

Oh, that behavior doesn't require a feud. My wife sees it all the time - she sees the client's animal, offers options, and the client refuses them all, and keep clamoring that the doctor needs to do something.

Broadly, a lot of people want magical solutions that work exactly they want, usually with no effort on their own part. The fact that such solutions don't exist is not really their problem.