Google maps is OK for business hours, but it’s really bad for more real time or recent updates.
When you look at those hours, it’ll often say something like “Confirmed by this business 4 weeks ago” with different time frames, or nothing at all. If that’s relatively recent, or at least confirmed at some point, it’s helpful. If it’s just a scraping of data from their web site at some point when they previously posted hours, it may be completely wrong.
Unless there’s something confirmed by the business in the last two months, I never really trust the Google Maps hours to be accurate, just a nice posibility. Even then, if it’s not within four weeks, could be very wrong. On a holiday, it’s always just a posibility.
In Turnip’s case, the banks had already given him money (obtained via loan frauds, mostly) and gave him even more money so they had a chance of not losing the money they already gave him. (Basically hoping, I think, to keep his business deals alive long enough not be the ones holding the potato.)
As somebody said, if you owe the bank a thousand dollars it’s your problem but if you owe a million dollars it’s the bank’s problem.
ETA:
There’s an old banking proverb: “If you owe the bank thousands (a small amount), then you have a problem. If you owe the bank millions (a large amount), then the bank has a problem.” The proverb is also given as: “If you owe the bank thousands (a small amount), then the bank owns you. If you owe the bank millions (a large amount), then you own the bank.” THe proverb became associated with New York real estate developer Donald Trump and his money troubles of the early 1990s.
I have, and it doesn’t work around here. Small towns are not online enough for scraping tools like that to be accurate. To give you a sense of where I live, the most recent StreetView photo of our busy main street is from 2012. Roughly two thirds of the businesses in town aren’t even marked on Google Maps.
Oh god, same here. I burned through two email addresses before I came up with a fake name that Facebook decided was legit-sounding enough. It blacklisted the email address every time that I gave it a name that it felt sounded fake.
We all know Elon is a genius, so limiting use on a website designed for communication and engagement, and thinking that will somehow make it better (and make more money) must be some kind of ultra-super-ninja move that will save the site.
This sounds a lot like my town. Impossible to figure out when or if someone’s open and Google hasn’t been by for a very long time (probably since 2012, like you). And yeah, Facebook seems to be just as popular as it was 15 years ago.
I worked for a social media scheduling platform when GDPR went on. It’s absolutely effective in deterring the most shithouse business models. Basically the people with a functioning ethical core stuck it out and did fine, and a bunch of companies that we suspected but didn’t quite know were scummy shut down on GDPR day. Seems like a great outcome to me.
It’s just a Frenchified version of my real name. They are dicks. All I want is to be on the group to buy cheap swords and help people give lifts to tournaments and that, dammit.
If she had any smarts at all, she has a very nice golden parachute set up. A CEO’s not like a software engineer – if she gets fired, she still comes out with a giant pile of hundred dollar bills to dry her tears with.
And creepy as hell. Even though my OG Facebook account is long deleted, and my new one is on a new computer, in a private browser, logging in from a different country— this dummy account gets suggestions for people I might know that really are people I know. In fact they’re people FB shouldn’t know I knew even when I was a normal user. Like the sister of my ex-brother-in-law who wasn’t on FB when I was before. Yet it knows now that we might know each other.
That’s the situation with all the small businesses here in the small town where I live also. They all use a Facebook page as a sort of business website because it’s a thousand times easier and cheaper than building and maintaining your own actual website. I feel for them, I really do. I just wish there was another way to solve this problem. I’ve toyed with the idea of starting a web presence company to do this for all these businesses, but I have enough going on already.
Facebook clearly uses location tracking as part of its recommendation algorithm – I know this because it has recommended that I friend the person whose house at the beach I rented the day we were leaving (when she came by to check out the house) and the electrician I hired (the day after he did the work). These are people who are not on my social graph at all, but they’ve occupied the same room as me.
