Ralph Howes

Ralph Howes

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Robert Reich
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The 100 lowest-paying major US corporations spent $522B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2023.   Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay. The typical worker at these companies earned just $34k.  Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $14.7M. See the problem?

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News Eye
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US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more. - US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID - $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes. - Food stranded in Houston - Aid stopped in transit. The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

washingtonpost.comGutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businessesU.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.

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Jessica Luther
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Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.

Ralph Howes
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My first zipcar trip was in a Kia Soul. I find Some dents and lot of bird crap on a dirty exterior. The Interior is something special, a chocolate milkshake spilled into the passenger seat. I hope it's a milkshake but a bunch of way nastier possibilities come to mind. Very dirty floors too.

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Ralph Howes
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He told me their MFA service was down, which happens, but to continue to enforce MFA verification when your MFA service is down makes me think Zipcar's cloud service team is a bit clueless.

Ralph Howes
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My first zipcar trip was in a Kia Soul. I find Some dents and lot of bird crap on a dirty exterior. The Interior is something special, a chocolate milkshake spilled into the passenger seat. I hope it's a milkshake but a bunch of way nastier possibilities come to mind. Very dirty floors too.

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Ralph Howes
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When I warm up I try to contact customer support to ensure I won't be dinged for not taking the end-of-trip photos the app asked me for. The website says there's a contact form. There isn't. I call customer service.

Ralph Howes
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60 minutes later the wait music is still playing. It's a pretty good groove, but it's getting a bit grating after an hour on hold. Someone did actually pick up so I was able to bitch a bit, but I was gentle.

Ralph Howes
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My first zipcar trip was in a Kia Soul. I find Some dents and lot of bird crap on a dirty exterior. The Interior is something special, a chocolate milkshake spilled into the passenger seat. I hope it's a milkshake but a bunch of way nastier possibilities come to mind. Very dirty floors too.

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Ralph Howes
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The app asks me to take photos again, so I start to do so but am interrupted by a multi-factor authentication request to verify my identity with a six digit pin that's been texted to me. Verify my identity during the end-of-trip sequence? That should never, ever happen.

Ralph Howes
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I do the verification, denied. I use MFA all day every day in my work, I know how to MFA. I try five more times over the course of 15 minutes in freezing, windy weather. Denied, denied, denied, denied, denied. I give up and go home, still freezing.

Ralph Howes
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My first zipcar trip was in a Kia Soul. I find Some dents and lot of bird crap on a dirty exterior. The Interior is something special, a chocolate milkshake spilled into the passenger seat. I hope it's a milkshake but a bunch of way nastier possibilities come to mind. Very dirty floors too.

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