@RochesterRSA pretty poor treatment of a good family friend from your Umhlanga store. Any way to escalate and sort this out??
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Timothy Hobden
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Timothy Hobden
@timhobden
South African economist now living the dream in Berlin and working in international development and public policy
Berlin Katılım Nisan 2010
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The website has now automatically rebooked me on some dystopian multi-leg journey invoking a 12hr layover from 10pm in Zurich airport before connecting to Frankfurt and on to Nairobi.
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It’s currently trying to book me on a train which would get me to Frankfurt airport 14hrs before my connecting flight…which is also cancelled 🤡
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Flights cancelled due to the @Lufthansa_DE strike and trying to rebook via the Chat Assistant (auto message on call centre just tells you to call later and hangs up) is truly the stuff of shockingly badly designed AI nightmares.
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In certain weird places on earth the date today is 👇🏻
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I will never recover from this student email.
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When even the IMF is telling you to invest more…
Isabella M Weber@IsabellaMWeber
The IMF is not known for being fiscally dovish. But Germany’s hawkishness goes too far for the IMF: IMF Chief Georgiewa has called on Germany to expand public investment and recommends greater fiscal flexibility on the European level. handelsblatt.com/politik/intern…
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And, again in nice graphics via @FT, the sheer madness of the debate in #deutschland. #schuldenbremse muss weg.
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French train passenger uses his national health card to make himself a foie gras and baguette sandwich.
What a country.
Basile@Basile_Viault
Pendant ce temps, sur le TER Bourgogne de @SNCFVoyageurs, un voyageur décide de couper son foie gras avec sa carte vitale. Merci la France 🥰
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Yoh Siya can’t make us cry this much
Murray Kinsella@Murray_Kinsella
Siya Kolisi sprints to embrace Cheslin Kolbe.
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Judi Dench was on Graham Norton last night to push her new book about her life and work with Shakespeare. After making the point we quote Shakespeare daily without knowing it, this happened:
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Suella Braverman used £25k of expenses to pay her parents Energy Bills for 5 years when she occasionally stayed there rent free.
Then she calls other people scroungers.
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I absolutely believe that somebody told Nadine Dorries this and I congratulate them heartily on keeping a straight face. That she believed such bilge is, of course, utterly unsurprising.
Adam Bienkov@AdamBienkov
Nadine Dorries, who until last year was in charge of digital regulation in the UK, says tech executives have “big dials” which they deliberately use to “nudge opinion ever leftwards” and suggests this was somehow hidden from her when she met them
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