Matt D

I mostly tweet to log and track when transit in the SF Bay Area (Caltrain, Muni, BART, VTA) mess up, which is pretty darn often.

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@SutterHealth Are there any staff at your gastroenterology department at 1100 Van Ness? They don’t answer the phone nor respond to messages to make an appointment. Yelp says this problem has been around for at least 6 years so clearly the department is poorly managed.

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The reliability of @Caltrain hasn’t improved with the electric trains. The schedule is more aggressive but the engineers still drive like they’re operating a diesel locomotive (based on my experience with using both in Train Sim World).

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@Waymo needs to follow laws and not stop to do pick-ups next to “No stopping Anytime” signs or in red bus-only lanes.

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@Joe_Gamble @aaclark5 @PatelcoPays Rather than organize it’s a lot less hassle to close accts and take deposits elsewhere. For savings rates hardly any bank or CU can compete with the treasury (replace checking/savings with a treasury MM acct and CDs with treasury notes, both via a brokerage acct).

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@aaclark5 @PatelcoPays Patelco members don’t get to vote. Previously they coerced members to agree for proxies to vote as the board wishes, but the bylaws were changed to eliminate that need. “The Directors nominated will be approved by acclamation of the Board of Directors as provided by the Bylaws.”

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@AlyssaMGoard @nbcbayarea Patelco has a security breach less than a year ago via Sovos and presumably the security audit they performed after that was inadequate to prevent this incident so the purported “top-tier cybersecurity experts” they use are anything but that.

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@SFGate I don’t see why this is news, but in any case the prior incident was just 2 weeks ago (also took hours to resolve) and happens there a few times a year, eg,

[SFMTA @SFMTA_Muni]

ATTN: IB/OB 48 blocked on 24th btwn Dolores and Guerrero by a commuter bus. Expect delays and possible reroutes.

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@marintransit Needs to address their staffing issues (the 22 and 228 are only running every 2 hours) before inviting people to “Try Transit”.

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@Tracfone I’ve already called several times and as already indicated reached a dead end because rep claims can’t esclate nor file ticket nor provide alternate contact # for corporate.

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@Tracfone Your chat reps can’t handle even basic issues like when UPS lost the SIM I was sent and they just refer people to call.

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@bravopinionated @tfwirelessInc @Verizon It's a horrible experience. ONESTEP fails, multiple phone agents also fail except the last who reset my 4 yr/39 GB/33K min/42K text balance to 18mon/1GB/1K min/1K text. Tracfone limits their agents to 10K service adds and no paths to escalate issues they can't fix.

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Audience&actors at @ThePromMusical cringed tonight at @broadwaysf's poor audio.Music drowned out the actors (could hardly tell the orchestra was live despite being 3 rows away).Audio techs failed to turn up actor's mics & sometimes caused speaker feedback when over-correcting.

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@sfmta_muni There's little point in having a 48 owl if the drivers are just going to hang out at Woods Division all shift.

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@jeff_vane @PenFed Seems to be a problem with using Google’s DNS servers at 8.8.8.8. Switching DNS server to 1.1.1.1 seems to get things working again.

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@UPS @gretencord The promotion being advertised on the ups website (leads to https://t.co/Va1y3ct2v1 ) cites a promo code that is supposidly good until Oct 20 but using the code reports "Promotion Code is no longer available".

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@AlliantCU How 'bout removing the myth from your website that Reg D is the reason that transfers are limited to 6 per month? This restriction was eliminated almost a year ago ( https://t.co/tdEkixChre ) so Alliant's policies are the actual reason the restriction still exists.

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@NicoleSinno @MucciMarinucci Sounds about the same as yesterday. Arrived around 8:45 AM and was ~#265. Got card within 30 but but took 4 hrs to get in building #5 and 5 hrs total. Bldg #5 and #30 has separate lines, docent didn't know which was shorter. Eventually line for #30 was abruptly terminated.

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Nice that @CreditKarmaTax is free but you get what you pay for. Some deductions are missed (e.g., 8960 line 9b). Backdoor Roth calculation has bugs & their support takes 3.5 weeks to reply with bad suggestion. PDF forms use inconsistent cents/alignment and 8606 page 1 is blank.

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@CA_DMV It's new, but not improved. E.g., links from reminder emails (and many other places) are broken, doesn't give info about CC fees, closed/open indication for offices is confusing (e.g., "closed monday 8am-5pm" if you look before 8am or after 5pm), and wait time info is all zeros.

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@GreatJourneysNZ should be more transparent and less misleading in your email newsletter about train fares being "from just $79" or "from just $99" given your website is specifically designed to not make those fares available to computers it thinks are located outside of NZ.