Amex charges up to 14% of every transaction. If a place takes it, they are almost always ripping you off.

Yeah middlemen have been a part of almost all commerce from the start, every store, every trade and most services are in some way middlemen. I think the comic’s message is good but is attributing the terrible actions of llm to middlemen in error.

I get the idea, but I am kinda stuck on the letter writing bit. They do know that the post getting delivered is kinda built on middlemen right?

Oh most are but Hertz is famous for getting people arrested by reporting their rental cars stolen, fucking up charges and then threatening the ripped of customer and not having cars even when people reserved one.

A “longtime” Hertz customer

Wait, those exist? Has Hertz not been the laughing stock of rentals for years now?

Great! Now its even worse!

No, I can shit on americans in general and praise one quite easily. And besides this one got better.

I was under the impression that Ross Scott lived in Poland, but what does that matter its an EU and UK initiative.

Just imagine an internet after america, something to look forward to.

Here’s your reality check. I didn’t vote for the guy, I don’t like him. You’ve been checked kid.

Like someone actually typed that out, wild.

America brain, Its like they think everyone is in the same dystopia as them.

Maybe due to how they where not invited?

Well now I have the title for the worst kids show.

ICE is now bigger then the IRS (wild times). And I doubt the insurance industry is taking on the current administration in the us.

Really that’s on the very low end of what they are committing

Oh pebkac is alive and well, no doubt about it. But expecting any level of expertise from an non commercial end user while simultaneously shooting down their questions is not going to help.

I would make a joke here about arch and gatekeeping but its not just an arch issue.

Why even type this?

Do you feel better doing so?

This is not a support forum, this is not tech support, this is lemmy and other then giving a great example of what the OP is getting at what does your comment address?

Sure, but when I am looking for an answer toxic positivity and RTFM are often the same thing. The number of times people jump up to defend the manual and glaze the program without even checking if the info is in the manual (or if the manual even makes sense at all) is way too high.

I used to have to work on new stuff all the time and would have to read whitepapers or engineering change docs on the daily, and no the tangled mess most Linux documentation is in does not count as a functioning source of information.

The part that still grinds my gears is why bother to type out nothing of value like RTFM at all? Forums are filled with terrible posts belittleing the question instead of just answering the question. Its not helping anyone and at least to me makes little sense.

Ah yes, the issue with modern Linux, the community.

I feel the shift to the current “git gud” style of blaming the user in any support has done more damage to Linux then any part of the software.