I then got a cute video about a cat bringing her kittens to stay with a human who showed it kindness.
I'd be super jazzed to watch it!
If not for the patronising / condescending music!
I know it's cute, asshole. That's why I clicked it. I don't need sappy audio sadness to claw at my heartstrings like I need convincing to care, ffs.
MAKE me care or LET me care. Not both.
#snobby #DestructiveCriticism #Angry #youtube #cat #cats #kitten #kittens
eBay UK customer service, complaints department, seller account, buyer account, feedback contact method. Permanently suspended like me? No reason given?
“You pose a security risk to our marketplace community” but “we can’t provide any further detail to avoid compromising our policies”?
Tell them the impacts on you today!
How would you ideally use ebay? What are they stopping you from doing?
Can you include a monetary impact?
Can you tabulate your time spent finding and using alternatives?
How easy was it to find these addresses?
Do you even have a printer, or did you have to use someone else’s?
How rude were their Customer Service staff to you?
How long were you on the phone before they started talking over you, ignoring your words, and hanging up on you as if you’d been half as insulting as they were?
Were they defamatory or discriminatory? Has this royally fucked up your day for no discernible reason?
Call them now! On… Nevermind! They don’t post their phone number…!
Write them a letter the old-fashioned but legally regulated way: by snail mail!
Include all relevant details, and be as accurate, precise, and non-insulting as possible.
Don’t forget: when you’re done, save the file or take a photo of the paper.
Make sure to remind them every month or year, per your anger levels!
Collectivise your rage! Agitate for justice today!
(Please do not make up shit tho. Legit just include your relevant details, peas and fangs.)
eBay Commerce UK Ltd.
1 More London Place
London, SE1, 2AF, United Kingdom
eBay (UK) Limited
5 New Street Square
London
EC4A 3TW
United Kingdom
Not had a response or resolution yet? Send them a monthly reminder! It’s much harder to ignore physical mail.
Remind them you’re a human being who exists in their shared environment. Fart in their general direction. (But keep the letter placidly inoffensive for best results!)
#eBay #online #marketplace #market #selling #buy #buyNothing #enshittification #chatbot #CustomerDisservice #CustomerProtection #Customers #CustomerService #complaint #DestructiveCriticism #anger #mistreatment #CorporateBullshit #bullshit
eBay UK customer service, complaints department, seller account, buyer account, feedback contact method. Permanently suspended like me? No reason given?
eBay Commerce UK Ltd.
1 More London Place
London, SE1, 2AF, United Kingdom
eBay (UK) Limited
5 New Street Square
London
EC4A 3TW
United Kingdom
Not had a response or resolution yet? Send them a monthly reminder! It’s much harder to ignore physical mail.
Remind them you’re a human being who exists in their shared environment. Fart in their general direction. (But keep the letter placidly inoffensive for best results!)
#eBay #online #marketplace #market #selling #buy #buyNothing #enshittification #chatbot #CustomerDisservice #CustomerProtection #Customers #CustomerService #complaint #DestructiveCriticism #anger #mistreatment #CorporateBullshit #bullshit
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/genetic-flaw-and-sugary-treats
Nothing at *all* concerning about the title! Or the first sentence. Or the fourth.
Or “ The work provides novel genetic insights into dietary preferences and opens the possibility of targeting SI to selectively reduce sucrose intake at the population level.”
#diet #food #science #nutrition #destructiveCriticism #veRantda #IguessThisIsMyThingNow #what #Is2g #IdontWantToBeSoNegative
Oh no, I have posted cringe. https://everycat.org/cat-health/whats-new-in-feline-chronic-kidney-disease-ckd/
Turns out the wonder drug for curing kidney disease or renal failure in cats was, in fact, overstated. :/
Further Reading:
https://www.silive.com/news/2023/05/fda-approves-drug-for-cats-with-chronic-kidney-disease-giving-pet-owners-hope.html
#DestructiveCriticism #OortArtCloud #retraction #science #veterinary #pets #animals #health #medicine
https://nebula.tv/videos/scienceasylum-quantum-spin-which-analogy-do-you-like/
Yeah, I watched it more and I hate it more.
Yes, I know most people are terrified of science, math, “stupid questions”, and losing face or seeming less socially important by showing imperfection.
I get it. I get you have to start from where people are at, rather than where you wish they were. I still fucking hate the obvious anti-thought of “this is bad but we won’t actually explain why beyond ‘it’s not precisely accurate enough’ and ‘people who try anyway shouldn’t’ etc.”
Literally just mention “hey this is inaccurate, but let’s still allow our brains to engage with the Wrong!Wrongest!!Think for two fucking seconds to wonder hm? Is there *nothing* we could learn from this? Or perhaps, like literally all analogies, could we note what is similar across the representations? Could we deliberately try to model it in a way as unlike the others as possible? What could we learn from comparing that?”
It’s almost like science communication needs to, in fact, involve science.
I literally gave myself a throbbing headache trying to dissect the entirety of why this pisses me off so much.
#DestructiveCriticism #VeRantDa #IguessThisIsAfuckingThingNow #ItryToBePositive #Iswear #Itry
⚜ Seek, Listen to and Apply constructive criticism from persons with a proven track record of integrity and trust worthiness ... ALL the rest: IGNORE!!
#criticism #ConstructiveCriticism #destructivecriticism #naysayers #INSPIRATION #MOTIVATION #ToThineOwnSelfBeTrue #ThoughtsForToday
You know what?
Moon was a bad book
Orcs was bad too.
Three-Body Problem was the most chastely horny bullshit ever.
Can (cis? straight? both?) guys just... learn to write/edit? Get over themselves?
Get on Tahereh Mafi's level.
@billionaires
Ok. For 1 billion GBP, I will shut the fuck up forever.
The catch is that you can't try to have me killed, maimed, intimidated, threatened, discredited
(for anything other than what I've likely done, according to meta-analysed double-blind peer-revied studies in reputable journals with robust anti-AI and anti-corruption policies and regulatory procedures with regular independent reviews in place and themselves tested by other agencies).
etc etc spirit of what I'm saying, not the weaselly legal maneuvreing rich people always do.
I promise not to pull a Luo Ji on this one guys, I swear. Unless that somehow brings down a system of hierarchical thinking faster?
Goddaaaaaamn there were so many dudes in Three Body Problem tho. I read the books years ago and the sexism was nauseatingly boring.
Maybe the translators toned it down, but the guys were all important, women were fuckable,
or the hills were curvy like women the character wanted to fuck,
or someone makes up a tulpa of the ideal (2D?) woman he wants to fuck. On and on.
We get it! Women are hot! Fine! Gay shit isn't allowed in China and many other countries. Fine, whatever.
Could you make the *science fiction* story either wankable or focused? PLEASE?
It's porn or it isn't. Fuck off with that Boomer porn mag in the bush behind the supermarket shit.
Seeing half an areola through a bra is not the most interesting thing you can find online, in person, or commissioned from NSFW artists and sex workers.
Wild idea, you could even commission actors to bang on screen!
Leave it out, Cixin Liu. What the actual fuck.
Stick to the existential dread and historical reverberations of individual, impulsive decisions.
.... anyway. #destructiveCriticism #queerbalking #maleGaze #boringMen #WriteBetter #OrMaybeEditBetter #IDKwhoIsInCharge
Tiger Claw is such an asshole. Fire Paw might be a dumb idiot, but he’s young yet. Yellow Tail has my heART FOREVER.
Yellow Tail defending the kits is the most “fuck you because I said so” thing ever.
But holy hell. The author does not know how to write. Fucker named multiple characters “yada yada Paw” and *still* insists on using “pawed at the ground” and “got to his paws”.
Fucking hell dude. Writing for elementary or jr high / middle schoolers does not equate to grating phrasing or impulsive conflating.
Avatar: the Last Airbender was great *and* is also a children’s show.
Heroes is dogshit *and* was somehow aimed at adults.
I really hope the author gets lessons and an editor later in the series.
There are multiple sequels and spin-offs that I saw on Libro.fm right.
I needed a nice low-stakes bedtime story to allay The Fucking Horrors before sleep. So there’s that.
The audiobook narrator / voice actor does a startlingly good differentiation of characters.
#criticism #thisIsNotConstructive #IamBeingBluntAndHarsh #ButAlsoItSucks #sooo
#childrensBook #kidLit #kidsBooks #Warriors #cat #cats #book #books #review #DestructiveCriticism
