ADTJ

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[–] ADTJ 4 points 10 months ago (7 children)

This is never something I'd have even thought about being privatised, I guess I just assumed it was always in the interest of local authorities to make sure there isn't just shit piling up everywhere and pay for it through taxation. It's also surely much more cost effective to centralise.

Today I not only discover that isn't the case, but that you also commonly have to pay extra to recycle. Like what?! Do poorer people have to just not have their bins collected? Or make a choice about whether things get recycled?!

This has absolutely blown my mind!

If you take it to a refuse & recycling centre yourself (I assume those exist with public access), do you have to pay for that too?!

[–] ADTJ 4 points 10 months ago

Previous comment said forward the bills, not invoice the pension manager

[–] ADTJ 5 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Yeah this thread is full of people expecting the new thing to immediately surpass the old, ignoring the decades of development and refinement that went into the old solution.

[–] ADTJ 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Which entire country? This is lemmy.world

[–] ADTJ 6 points 10 months ago

Netherlands is in blue, think you're looking at Flanders & Wallonia (both part of Belgium)

[–] ADTJ 16 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Going less than ten miles away? Sure

Going 30+ miles away and no rail links exist? Fuck you, I guess

[–] ADTJ 3 points 10 months ago

Polls show independence was briefly in the lead for a few months of 2020, but has remained consistently behind otherwise since 2014

[–] ADTJ 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

You are both correct, the law states that it has to be as easy to opt out as in, but most companies are not implementing it correctly

[–] ADTJ 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Am I out of touch?

No, it's the rest of the world that's wrong

[–] ADTJ 17 points 10 months ago

See some cute girl waiting in your bed "nope, she probably just wants a nap"

[–] ADTJ -1 points 10 months ago

Completely agree, by "other way round" in my comment I meant it didn't originally mean disabled not that it started as an insult

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