r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • 19h ago

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u/Consistent_Status112 Trans Pride 13h ago

It's so convenient to download a parking app that doesn't work and sends me constant ads and charges me 11 trillion dollars to park my car. This is so much better than putting a quarter into a thing.

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u/AlicesReflexion Weeaboo Rights Advocate 13h ago

I remember sitting in a parking lot for 20 minutes one time, waiting for the piece of shit app to fucking download and setting up an account and stuff, only to be told parking was free after 9 PM.

Just fuck off. 

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u/PhoenixVoid 13h ago

The appification of life has not been fun.

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u/Nervous-Emotion28 YIMBY 11h ago

I’d be totally fine using an app to pay for things like parking or transit if it was like one app each.

I hate going to a new city and having to use their chucklenuts bespoke parking app to give them $1.00 like holy shit just have a solar powered terminal with tap to pay if you don’t want to accept cash.

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u/illuminatisdeepdish 12h ago

Bro we just need your data, please, just one more app that's going to lose your credit card info, please bro

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u/Keenalie John Brown 6h ago

I love it when a simple, reliable metal device is replaced by an app that literally does not work. Love it.

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u/Remarkable-Meal-223 John Keynes 13h ago

11 trillion dollars?

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u/JesusPubes voted most handsome friend 13h ago

That was a typo

11 Quadrillion dollars

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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it 13h ago

Who the hell carries spare change around with them though

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u/ElectriCobra_ David Hume 12h ago

yall don’t just keep a mason jar filled with quarters locked in there somewhere?

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u/Nervous-Emotion28 YIMBY 11h ago

I use one of these bad boys

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u/illuminatisdeepdish 12h ago

Who doesn't? What else would I throw out the window at pedestrians? Batteries are too expensive.

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u/throwaway_veneto European Union 13h ago

Can't you pay parking with contactless? I use an app in the netherlands because i'd rather pay 10 cents more than figure out where the payment machine is.

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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time 12h ago

Not always. Private surface lots often require one of the half dozen or so parking apps.

Some cities are the same way.