• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    24 days ago

    Surprise…from the same company that delivered my package to the wrong city last month.

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      24 days ago

      Used to deliver. Two small, neighboring cities have a lot of their major streets named the same: chestnut, maple, things like that. Completely different streets, they never came anywhere close to each other. One city used three digit house numbers, the other used four digit numbers.

      Very often, I would get sent to places 1234 Maple in Threeland, or 567 Chestnut in Fourville. Addresses that I knew didn’t exist, but the app would still place a pin and expect me to be there.

      After a few confusing attempts, I learned that if I tried to deliver to the intended address, I’d get a violation. If I just “delivered” to the GPS pin, I’d get paid.

      Got so much free food…

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      24 days ago

      FWIW Blue Origin and Amazon are not the same, despite the Bezos connection. Blue does have a contract to launch a bunch of Amazon satellites, but so does everyone else with a working rocket (and some without).

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        23 days ago

        BO and SpaceX are predicated on the same idea, that NASA was inefficient because it was a government agency.

        SpaceX efficiently littered trash on billions of taxpayer dollars all over the Gulf of America.