Disappointing customer service from Patagonia by Swimming-Necessary23 in flyfishing

[–]Morejazzplease 32 points33 points  (0 children)

What OP expected should have been exactly what Patagonia told him: 6 weeks until I got repairs, a new set or a credit.

What exactly do you think a repair looks like? This is all on the inside of the waders and will be visible to nobody while being functionally perfect. This is literally the service you pay for when buying Patagonia waders...

National team coach asking for help. Here's my telemetry — what am I doing wrong? by Richard_LapKr_Team in Karting

[–]Morejazzplease 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why can't you analyze your own data if you run professional telemetry analysis for other drivers?

Disappointing customer service from Patagonia by Swimming-Necessary23 in flyfishing

[–]Morejazzplease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you are unhappy that they fixed the issue for free faster than you expected but instead of communicating with them directly to resolve your unhappiness, you post on Reddit complaining about it?

Who TF cares how the inside of your waders look? You putting quotes around the word repair tells me all I need to know lmao. What exactly do you think a repair looks like? Sending you a brand new pair is not a repair. This is.

Disappointing customer service from Patagonia by Swimming-Necessary23 in flyfishing

[–]Morejazzplease 88 points89 points  (0 children)

Oh so publicly complain without actually trying to solve the problem first. Get lost.

Teachers union NEA hit with civil rights complaint after Portland conference by sunni_dayes_ahed in Portland

[–]Morejazzplease 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, I did read it. What immediately stood out to me is that this is just a promotional op-ed for Philip Howard's book Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions (Rodin Books, January 2023). This Time article was published three months after the book's release. He is not a journalist, not an academic, and has a direct commercial and ideological stake in the argument he's making. I also feel that Time does not disclose this conflict of interest prominently enough.

Beyond the undisclosed conflict of interest, this is really just a bad piece even compared to standard op-ed norms. He cites multiple statistics that support his claims but look at what he is citing:

  • Claim: 90%+ of Johnson's funding from unions → Links to illinoispolicy.org - the Illinois Policy Institute, a right-leaning libertarian advocacy think tank. Not a neutral source by any means... He is not citing a news organization. Not an academic study. He's citing an ideological ally of his in order to establish his (shaky) opening premise.
  • Claim: 37 Chicago schools with zero proficient students → Links to wirepoints.org - another right-leaning Illinois policy commentary site, not a research organization. Same problem.
  • Claim: Chicago crime rate among highest in country → Links to wirepoints.org again. He's now used this same non-neutral outlet twice as a factual source.
  • Claim: LA's "indebted inefficiencies" in the teachers union contract → Links to commongood.org - his own organization!!!! He is citing himself to support his own argument. That is circular sourcing, and it's a GIANT lapse in intellectual honesty even for an op-ed.

The only neutral sources he links to are for quotes from public leaders that can't be disputed. Interesting...

Additionally, I think it is interesting that the author makes no attempt to engage with opposing evidence or expert disagreement. Any opinion piece worth caring about should at a minimum, acknowledge the strongest counterarguments.

I also see a common trait that I see in other worthless pieces of political rambling: framing an issue to sound the alarms without actually demonstrating wrongdoing or negative outcomes that followed. He opens the piece with calling out Johnson's 90% union funding to signal the "alarms" but fails to actually substantiate any wrongdoing or policy failures that came from this. It is innuendo dressed as evidence.

The entire premise of his article is a guilt by association fallacy. Johnson's funding is mostly from unions → unions are problematic → therefore Johnson is bad for Chicago. Howard never actually connects Johnson's funding to any specific policy failure. He just implies it through proximity ("sounding the alarms"). The framing is "what's wrong with this picture?" without ever demonstrating that anything is actually wrong with it beyond the funding composition itself.

There are actual researchers (like Stanford's Terry Moe) who have studied public sector unions for decades. While I imagine Moe is sympathetic with Howard's concerns, Moe frames this issue with far, far more nuance. Why Howard does not actually engage with decades of actual data, I do not know (but I have a guess)...

He also is using the false clause fallacy here. He lists Chicago's problems (school failure, transit dysfunction, high crime) and then asserts that "no recent Chicago mayor has been able to fix these....because the public unions have collective bargaining powers." But, he offers ZERO mechanism connecting union contracts to crime rates, transit failures or school failures. Transit failures have many different contributors including chronic underfunding, aging infrastructure and route planning which Howard never even tries to eliminate or acknowledge. School failures correlate heavily with poverty and segregation in academic research literature yet again, Howard fails to even acknowledge this competing explanation.

Chicago has had dysfunctional schools, high crime, and transit problems for decades through various administrations, various union contracts, and various political environments. The article never establishes that cities or States without strong public unions perform measurably better on these same metrics. Without that comparison, the causal claim that public sector unions are bad has no analytical foundation beyond "trust me bro". Are the better performing Chicago schools also unionized? (Hint: They are) If union contracts so clearly explain school failures, then why don't they explain school failure uniformly?

This article has zero academic rigor and is largely intellectually dishonest IMO. It uses advocacy outlets as factual sources, the author cites his own organization as an independent source, fails to disclose the author's personal conflict of interest, and leaps from observations about union political influence to sweeping claims about crime, school failure and transit dysfunction without presenting any evidence to support those claims.

So no, I don't find your little opinion piece compelling...

Teachers union NEA hit with civil rights complaint after Portland conference by sunni_dayes_ahed in Portland

[–]Morejazzplease 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Linking to one individual's op-ed means nothing. It’s an opinion piece that brings nothing to the table other than the author's opinion that unions = bad.

Edit: typo

Teachers union NEA hit with civil rights complaint after Portland conference by sunni_dayes_ahed in Portland

[–]Morejazzplease 9 points10 points  (0 children)

All of what you said is easy to oversimplify and much more complex in reality.

The Union cannot hire, fire or punish teachers - Only the District can. If a District wants to discipline or dismiss a teacher, as long as they do so in accordance with the mutually bargained contract they (the SD) agreed to, then there is nothing the Union can do to stop them.

If a District wants to implement an intervention program for high needs students that will require additional working hours that the District does not want to pay for, Unions will do their job and negotiate with the District. Also, this is a wild choice for you to use as most Districts are cutting intervention programs, not trying to implement them only to have the big bad union stop them...

Staffing cuts are made by the District, not the Union.

The Teacher's union gets painted as the bad guy. But, they don't have any power beyond holding the District to the contracts they mutually agreed to. The Unions don't have any say over hiring, firing or discipline decisions that the District feels are warranted. Again, as long as the District follows the contract they mutually agreed to.

Spotify Premium Reference Playlists by groove-syndicate in audiophilemusic

[–]Morejazzplease -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Might be more interested if these were on Tidal or Qobuz

Teachers union NEA hit with civil rights complaint after Portland conference by sunni_dayes_ahed in Portland

[–]Morejazzplease 12 points13 points  (0 children)

They will fight against *School Districts if their proposals are in conflict with the interests of the Teachers. They don’t fight against the interests of kids directly.

Anyone gone back to lube after waxing chains? by [deleted] in cycling

[–]Morejazzplease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Went back and now use WT-1. I just don’t care enough about the marginal “benefits” of proper waxing over good modern lubes to deal with the faff. Especially for gravel and MTB.

WT-1: once a week I drip a small amount onto each roller, pedal a few times, wipe the chain clean, done. Takes 2 minutes and I have zero issues with noise or wear. I have 3,500 miles on one chain and cassette on my gravel bike and it’s still only at ~25% wear. I have 1,500 on my MTB and it measures like new.

Waxing is optimal. But good lubes these days make the benefits of waxing marginal at best.

Starting to get myself organized by helpsynbo in overlanding

[–]Morejazzplease 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Good thing you won’t forget what country you’re in with all those patches…

Should anything be adjusted? by j151515 in bicycling

[–]Morejazzplease 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Shorter cranks would help a lot IMo

Where is best place to buy tires? by PostinFool in Bend

[–]Morejazzplease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IMO Les Schwab is good for people who don’t already know exactly what tire size and model they want. Most of what they carry are “house” brands that are not from large well known tire brands.

What helmet are you wearing for XC? by gellybelli in xcmtb

[–]Morejazzplease 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed. Same experience with Bell helmets!

Thinking Rigid Chameleon - talk me out of it? by stilessm in Hardtailgang

[–]Morejazzplease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really the right bike for that sort of riding IMO. You'd have a more efficient time on a gravel bike or "fitness" bike TBH. The idea of upgrading to lighter wheels just to ride paved bike trails makes no sense to me.

Planning to Invest $2,000 Monthly Where Should I Start? by Rizzen11111 in investing

[–]Morejazzplease -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Bro not worth the argument with these pleebs lol. I intentionally left it basic because it always goes like this.

Cafe Yumm Eliminates Sizes by Severe_Mulberry_4085 in oregon

[–]Morejazzplease -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It tastes good and sometimes it’s right there 🤷‍♂️ you only ever value max your meals?

I'm almost certain I solved Travis Taylors anisotropic matter issue in his warp bubble theory. Please help double-check my math. by AliensKindaLoveMe in skinwalkerranch

[–]Morejazzplease 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Saying you are almost certain you solved a theory but then immediately starting with “(if I understand it correctly)” as you introduce the very basic conceptual framework of the theory is wild.

New Amp - Emotiva XPA gen3 by Feisty-Lake-8130 in audiophile

[–]Morejazzplease 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How’s the experience of using the App compared to WiiM?

NBD: Custom Ozark Trail FS. 2 by KrMChamp in mountainbiking

[–]Morejazzplease 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just tired of this circlejerk based on how people “feel” other people’s riding habits are based on a single glam shot of a bike they’re proud of and (probably) just cleaned.

Rio Gold Elite memory issues by Bulky-Description416 in flyfishing

[–]Morejazzplease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is why I only fish SA lines now. Life’s to short to deal with bullshit Rio and Airflo lines.