r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 9h ago

PositiviTea 🌞 What progress looks like.

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u/Wickedocity 9h ago

Progress would be having a government that functions without having to contact a mayor.

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u/Medium-Violinist-903 9h ago

Oh no, people have to actually say something to get help instead of just being silent, the horror!

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u/Meowakin 8h ago

Did you like the days when if your internet went out and you had to call the ISP and go through all that troubleshooting, only to find out an hour later that there’s an outage in your area and none of that troubleshooting mattered?

Or do you prefer now, when the ISP notifies you that there’s an outage in the area within minutes without you ever needing to call them?

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u/Medium-Violinist-903 8h ago

I prefer the internet to get fixed in general.

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u/Meowakin 8h ago

Duh. But you’d prefer if they fixed it without you having to say anything, right?

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u/Medium-Violinist-903 8h ago

Yea, duh, kind of like how potholes weren’t being fixed before, and they are now. So it’s better now.

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u/Sid-Phillips-495 7h ago

Pouring $5 worth of asphalt isnt fixing anything. The fixes are the worst ever, quantity over quality I guess but they are already re-opening.

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u/Meowakin 8h ago

Better, yes. But we should always strive toward an ideal, rather than rest on our laurels.

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u/Medium-Violinist-903 8h ago

I never said we shouldn’t try to keep improving. But we can still celebrate steps forward instead of complaining they’re not enough.

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u/Meowakin 8h ago

We can do both, yes.

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u/Medium-Violinist-903 7h ago

The person I was responding to initially was only complaining about something that is positive solely because it was not positive enough.

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u/Wickedocity 9h ago

They have a webpage to report potholes. Shouldnt that be the correct method and shouldnt it work?

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u/Medium-Violinist-903 8h ago

Why is tagging something so much worse than going to webpage to report things?

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u/Wickedocity 8h ago

Because it should function without having to hope one person sees a tag.

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u/Medium-Violinist-903 8h ago

Is it really that much better to hope that someone that is monitoring the webpage does their job?

I get that in a perfect world, nobody would have to report anything, not even a webpage, the potholes would just be fixed immediately. But we don't live in a perfect world, and we never will. So in the meantime, its a good thing that potholes are being fixed, even if it does come from people tagging posts. If all you can do is focus on how this good thing isn't good enough, then you'll clearly never be satisfied with anything other than perfection, a perfection you'll never get.