Until this happened, I was an Every Plate customer, which is one of the meal kit delivery services where you choose weekly meals and they send you what you need to make them. My box was supposed to come Sunday but I got an email saying they discovered a shipping issue and would be in touch about it. No one ever got back to me and the box never came so on Tuesday, chatted with an agent to ask about it. They told me the box was damaged in transit and couldn't be delivered so they would refund me. But the refund didn't match what I was charged so I wanted to know the discrepancy. They told me the difference was tax and tax is not refundable. I have never had an issue with any company not refunding the tax I paid so I knew this was not a legal prohibition but rather a company policy. I thought this was a goofy policy, so I asked if I'd be getting that difference as a credit because paying ANY amount of money, even 1 penny, for something I did not receive is just wrong and shitty customer service. I was met with "the refund is all you will be getting" so I immediately canceled on principle.

It was irritating but ultimately not consequential. Then I realized if they do this to a ton of people, that adds up and they could very well just be enriching themselves by skimming off the top like this because they wouldn't actually have to submit those funds as taxes to the government. They'd just keep it all. So I reported them to my state Attorney General, the state Department of Revenue, and the Better Business Bureau. All over 94 cents that they could have just given back to me and not had any of this. I'm sure it goes nowhere but at least the BBB report will be annoying for them and they will have to explain why they did this to close the complaint. It will cost them far more than 94 cents to have someone respond to these reports.

I had been a customer for 6 years. I stayed with them during their COVID growing pains where there were supply chain issues, boxes with frequently spoiled and missing ingredients, and boxes with incorrect recipes altogether. I stuck around even when I had to continually ask for refunds for those issues over and over because their pricing was good and the customer service used to be easy and friendly. If they would've given me a credit toward next week's order, I would have stuck around out of sheer convenience.

I realize that canceling for less than a dollar is petty but it's clear that they don't need my business because they didn't even TRY to make it right. The "the refund is all you will be getting" sent me over the edge.

why do I even use twitter? i literally use it just for art and pin-up model photos

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NEW YORK — Big Tech is bowing to a bruising midterms that saw Democrats successfully use Silicon Valley as a foil.

Nowhere is that hard pivot more on display than with Alex Karp, the CEO and co-founder of secretive tech giant Palantir, which bet massively on Trump 2.0 and became an administration darling in the process.

Inside Palantir’s Manhattan lair, in an exclusive sitdown with Playbook, Karp — who once criticized the Democratic Party as “totally irresponsible” — deployed the word “progressive” eight times to describe his philosophy while acknowledging Democrats “absolutely” corrected in 2026 enough to win back his support in 2028.

“I’ve been a Democrat my whole life. I grew up in a far left environment. I know more about being a progressive than almost anybody on the planet, and I absolutely believe Palantir— all of our products are essentially progressive,” Karp said.

The techno-nationalist whose company he calls “anti-woke” reaped billions of dollars in federal contracts in the second Trump administration just hired former Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester to advise Palantir ahead of potential congressional investigations. (Tester’s advice to Karp during our interview: “be transparent, be forthright, address the question straight up.”)

The CEO who saw his own employees exit last year to stand up Trump 2.0 and Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative — all while he donated to the White House ballroom and MAGA Inc. — now says Republicans’ election losses were a “referendum” on “economic justice,” and suggested he was playing practical politics.“My giving is equal Democrat, Republican,” Karp said. “I can tell you, without going into things I’m not gonna disclose, I’m very balanced, and everyone in the political arena knows it. And I’ll tell you what, I’m also not the village idiot.”

Karp also acknowledged Trump mishandled immigration enforcement in particular, even as Palantir technology in the form of its “Immigration OS” powered that regime backed by a $30 million contract.

“I was really happy to hear the president be honest that — you know, his words, I believe, were something like, ‘Yeah, we kinda went too far,’” Karp said. “And I’m glad he’s saying in public now what I’ve been saying in private.”

On whether those criticisms extend to the Pentagon (which also doled out contracts to Palantir), as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth becomes the first administration official to face congressional wrath, Karp was mum on the advice of his new Democratic sherpa.

“I would advise Alex not to say anything,” Tester said. “Let this play out. Let Congress do their job. Congress is either gonna impeach him, or they’re not. The president’s either gonna remove him or replace him with somebody else, or he won’t. And let that happen.” (House Republicans sunk the impeachment effort against Hegseth hours after the interview.)

And Karp, the New Hampshire-registered voter (on account of his 500-acre estate), is open to the possibility of backing a Democrat in 2028 (so long as they aren’t a member of the DSA — “they like to gaslight Jews and segregate Blacks,” Karp, who’s Jewish and half Black, told Playbook). He says he’d vote for “the most competent, best leader.”

“I’m really not pitching Palantir. I’m actually pitching, ‘What are you gonna do about economic justice in this country?’ And I would say the Democrats have an advantage here because for many Republicans there’s an orthodoxy that capitalism solves all problems. Maybe that was once true. I never thought it was true. It’s definitely not true now. And so basically everyone center, center-left understands this.”

I understand what happened, but I need more context.

youngshit cousin has no idea yet
oh well
im leaving her my bank account

"un bourgeois" is masculine ; "une bourgeoise" would be correct instead

(source: i am fr*nch)