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Reddit Tries to Get Users to Pay by Making App Icon Ugly (9to5mac.com)
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[–] 38 points 3 years ago (26 children)

Just more subscription hell. It's ridiculous anymore. I'll need a subscription to flush my toilet at some point. I mean how much of this are consumers willing to put up with. Anyway Reddit is well on the path of monetizing themselves to irrelevance.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    I’ll need a subscription to flush my toilet at some point.

    It's called a water bill. You pay it monthly, even if you don't use any water!

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'm sure you get my point. Yes you have to pay the water bill to flush the toilet. There's lots of other "subscriptions" for utilities like power, garbage collection, sewer. We call those bills not subscriptions and they've been around as long as modern society. I think we can take those for granted. Not in the same league as the subscription hell we're seeing for online services these days.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I'm from NL... Would be better if there was a subscription to use toilets instead of paying 50c or more every time. Always have to carry coins around just incase you need to pee. Super annoying.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    There's an app actually in NL to find toilets, and it tells you their condition and the cost, open times, etc.

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nu.hogenood

    And if you have IBS, you can get a yearly toilet pass (EuroKey)... That gives you quicker? And one time cost access to toilets.

    Wild shit honestly.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    You'd think so right, and everything else here is super tap to pay oriented... Most toilets aren't though, maybe the ones at the train station, but that's a whole other kettle of fish. You pay for that, then they give you a voucher back to go use at a store in the station. Nobody uses them, so it's just extra overpriced and hella dirty.

    Honestly it's a scam all round.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (14 children)

    anymore

    That's not how that word works.

    Edit: I didn't say I I've never seen it used that way, i just find that particular use of it to be wrong.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    The positive sense usage of anymore is a regional thing: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anymore

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    But the previous poster didn't use it in that way.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    at the present time : NOW, NOWADAYS Hardly a day passes without rain anymore.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    I understood perfectly and I bet a lot of others did too. I bet you understood it. So, mostly or completely successful use of the word to inject the desired thoughts into others' heads. So, the word works that way, even if it sounds awkward to you.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    It's colloquial to the USA, it's an expression. My grammar is usually good except when I bastardize it to make a point like, "I aint gonna take that crap" or "grammar corrections are getting ridiculous anymore." In the USA you'd have to live under a rock to have never heard that expression.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Leave that grammar nazi shit on reddit.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    I don't believe it's so much about the correction itself as it is about ignoring what the person said and only piping up to correct. Imagine we are having a conversation and you spend 3 minutes telling me about how you struggled to get the lug nuts off your tire this morning while changing it and when you finished, all I had to offer you is "they're on the rim, not the tire" and nothing more. It can come off as a bit rude.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Time and place. Quite arrogant to assume someone isn't just using local phrasing, as is the case here. People talk differently all over. The official use of English is simply official. How people actually use it in their communities is correct. Hope I'm being clear with my sentiment here.

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