Always remember that USA simply does not care about consumers. It is all about shareholder and stock market values. From slavery to any type of safety.
I get better customer service from Air France (French), Devialet (French) and Free Telecom (French) than I get from United (American), Google (American) and Facebook (American).
It's funny you bring up Air France because that's one of the ones I had in mind that is beyond redemption. Truly awful customer service both on the plane and off.[1] Same with Iberia.[2] Allergic to treating customers like human beings. I fly United for the vast majority of my flights and have had nothing but great experiences even when things go wrong. In fact, gun to my head, I couldn't come up with a similar story with a US airline despite flying US airlines 20:1 compared with European ones.
[1] I flew business class on Air France and the "lie flat" seat would only go down to a 30 degree angle and they acted like I was inconveniencing them by asking for help and then told me that's how it's supposed to be despite everyone else's seat being clearly flat. Never got solved. Contacted support after and never heard back. Typical experience with European companies. Don't want to work, don't want to admit fault, no resolution unless forced by regulation.
[2] Took 2 months to get a refund of a cancelled flight. Customer service was completely incompetent and powerless, telling me that "it's coming in 48 hours". Had to call like 6 times over the span of months.
Don't get me started on how Festicket refused to give me my money back after an event got canceled, forcing me to charge back with credit card (thank you, American banks), or how there's a 50% chance European car rental places will try to scam with fake damage or extra fees. I had to teach an AVIS manager in Palma that prepaying for gas (unwillingly, mind you) means that I don't pay for an empty tank at the end of the trip.
Love the idea of this post! Miss the good old days of IRC or early Twitter etc.
I guess I'm passionate at the moment about the future, in a world that seems to be bogged down in the past. I'm trying to also figure out what my other passions are and trying to figure out what makes a good life.
CNN is very economically conservative, it's just socially (cynically 'performatively') liberal.
Ask your local Bernie bro what coverage was like when he was campaigning for social programs that would materially benefit the lower and middle classes.
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This is the exact reason I failed my driving test 7 times before finally passing (pass rate in UK is ~60%). It's hard to describe to people that it's not that you're necessarily bad at the task, just the anxiety causes you to react in a bad way.
