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@slrpnk.netThe bot did not refund me, I talked to a real person via the chat and they said the carrier team didn’t mark it received and that they would “disarm the retro charge” and refund me. We’ll see if it goes through.
I think this cycle is more like half a generation above you than a whole generation. My fav bands in my teen prime were in their early 30’s, while my parents were closer to early 50s at the time.
They often do the whole “we’ll refund immediately as a courtesy but you need to return it by x or you’ll be charged” thing— in this case for whatever (infuriating) reason they charged me even though it’s clear their own system (their chat bot) knew the item had been marked as received on their end. I dropped it off at a brick and mortar store too!
I’m somewhat new to the degrowth space, how does it interface with earlier theories like post scarcity economics and similar? My immediate reaction after reading this article (but not being familiar with Richie’s work) is that she’s completely ignoring the historical impact of globalization on exploited geographies and the underlying growth incentives that continue to drive it. Not to mention the moral frameworks (manifest destiny, civilized vs uncivilized people groups, etc) that make this behavior permissible… I’m trying to imagine what infinite non-destructive accumulation would look like
Aww getting him to fly to you really is a badge of honor! Crazy that birds live so long that he’d have probably been moved out by now if he was a person.
What a cutie. I suppose you probably work from home, but I’m enjoying imagining you commuting to the office with him daily!