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  • Otter@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlDuties fee on shipping?
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    13 days ago

    I once won a promotion and I was sent some items for free. When I went to pick them up, I had to pay more than I would have been willing to pay if I bought the items, because of ‘duties and taxes’.

    I probably should have just refused the delivery, but I was young and didn’t know any better so I paid for my package. There was a receipt inside the box that listed the items as being somewhat expensive, so I assumed there was some weird accounting where I still had to pay the taxes despite getting them for free.

    I’ve bought and shipped a lot of items since then without ever having to pay upon pickup.


  • I found the screenshot order confusing at first, and it’s not OPs fault since the original article got the screenshots backwards too

    From the article:

    Synopsis Wes Winder, a Canadian software developer, is facing backlash after his controversial decision to replace his development team with Al backfired. Once a trending topic on Reddit and a source of widespread ridicule, Winder is now in an awkward position as he turns to Linkedln in search of web developers to hire.
















  • Otter@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhat's wrong with bluesky?
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    2 months ago

    https://lemmy.ca/comment/12906744

    I talked about it in this comment, which should hopefully still be recent enough to be accurate

    It’s still too soon to tell what they will do. It’s totally possible that they will take the necessary steps to be properly decentralized by transferring control of the registry + protocol to an independent non profit.

    Right now I feel that they don’t have much of an incentive to do that, since the vast majority of their users won’t care.

    I would love to be proven wrong