Account delete doesn't work.
I decided pretty quickly that Lemmy just isn’t for me, precisely because it’s so much like Reddit. So I’ve tried several times to delete my account, because I don’t care to be here… and it just doesn’t work. It’s a little distasteful not to be able to opt back out, so can an admin kindly kill me? I sure would appreciate it. Thanks.
Yeah, that's my point. It's half-baked. "It possibly causes cancer" tells me that they don't know, and haven't figured it out. The people who figured it out with saccharine actually did science and figured out how much for how long, holding everything else constant, shows a statistically significant increase in rates of cancer in the subjects.
So we get an announcement that they're going to make an announcement that they have a hunch, and that's just so totally stupid and senseless. They're just throwing rocks at ducks on the pond to rile them up, for some reason. Which probably has something to do with somebody at the WHO's personal convictions or stock portfolio, otherwise there's no point.
I feel similarly about GMO labelling laws that just require that its presence in foods be disclosed, but not an explanation of why it's significant. A crop that's been altered to be able to grow in roundup and may contain unhealthy levels of it is a hell of a lot different than a crop that's been altered to contain more vitamins, but all we get is a label that for all practical purposes just alarms people with no capacity for critical thought into thinking it's poisonous.
Well, my experience was that their shit didn't work very well. Lots of DNS leaking despite correct setup, and customer service just shrugged it off. It did work right for a while under linux using the system's network manager to connect to their servers directly, but over time they made it harder and harder to find their sever list by burying it deeper and deeper on their website.
Ultimately, I couldn't use it under windows without using their client, which constantly disconnected itself and left me unprotected. It would just shut itself off. Then they went ahead and helped themselves to my money way ahead of schedule for a renewal I didn't want, and I had to threaten them with a fraud report for several days before they caved and gave my money back.
I wasn't happy with them selling me shit that barely worked and then stealing my money so I'd just stay instead of fighting them for a refund. Reason enough for anyone to avoid them.
NTA.
A few years ago, I had a similar situation regarding my own ex and our kid. He (kid) was having a really hard time about ex's self-centered behavior, and we had a heart to heart about what it takes to deal with that kind of shit effectively. He was just about out of HS at that point, and we split when he was just 3 because of her cheating. It was germane to the conversation, he was old enough to know, and he deserved to know what happened and how.
He lost a tremendous amount of respect for her after that. She tried to read me the riot act about it when she learned I'd told him, but I wasn't having it. Everyone on both sides of the family were tired of tiptoeing around it and were glad it was aired out.
Selfishness has consequences, but selfish people never like having to sit with them.
