Careless driving kills people. Shame serves an important function in society. It is not always bad for someone to be shamed. Better for them to feel a little embarassed because their photo is on Reddit, than to have someone dead because they never face any consequences for their actions until it's too late.

Minor consequences now (shame) to help prevent major ones later (fatal auto accidents).

>Maybe instead we should say that people lack compassion, or grace, or humility.

When your "compassion" serves to enable someone to keep harming others, it's not compassion.

You're nicer than me. I give them the hood-knock, or if I'm on my bike, aim my kick at their headlight.

If they don't like it they can pick up a Driver's Manual at the DMV and start following the laws.

Try Campbell Pest Control. Less than $100 and I’ve basically never had a bug problem since I started using them.

After getting hit this year by someone making a right hand turn into a parking lot from the damn turn lane, thank you for posting this!! Keep calling them out, it’s a great reminder to myself to continue being even more aware of everything around me while driving

The Ant Man is who I've used for years. I don't know if they do bedbugs, but they probably do. They got rid of a brown recluse infestation for me.

If you can get fiber at your house, get fiber (as long as the cost is comparable). It is soooo much better than anything else.

The only thing Jesus will take from you is your weekly tithing.

I moved here from Chicago and the drivers here are so much worse than there. Especially when it comes to respecting bike/ped infrastructure. Folks here don't seem to give a rat's ass about you if you travel outside of a personal vehicle, and even then drivers are constantly on their cell phones putting other drivers in danger. It's horrible.

Maybe empathy is the wrong word. Maybe instead we should say that people lack compassion, or grace, or humility.

It's easy to say, 'the dumbass deserves it,' and it's hard to treat people better than they deserve.

You shouldn't need a 'modem' at all.

Quantum was Worst customer service of any company I have ever dealt with. Since brightspeed took over haven't dealt with customer service but speed is noticeably slower, still faster than what I need so I haven't said anything.

It’s kinda weird that you need to be talked up to when doing business. Why do you need a smile or a goodbye? As a person who isn’t exactly neurotypical, people who need that validation from me are the worst. It’s exhausting to be “on” all day. Let people solve your issue then be on your way.

They just left mardels. They thought Jesus would take the wheel.

I’m using all of their shit because I gave up trying to set up my Orbi behind their equipment.

(I could set it up in a double NAT condition, but that’s not acceptable to me)

When I applied for Quantum, it said it was available for my home. In actuality, it was available down the street from my house, and would require me to pay $1500 to get it built the rest of the way. The tech that came out apologized, saying he hated they would just let these kinds of bookings go through when they already know in the system if it would require additional work and people didn't want to pay extra like that. He was cool and said ATT actually just installed fiber in front of my house (which I mistakenly thought was Quantum) and their service is good too.

So are you using your own router and their modem?

Yes. But you still need their equipment. They don’t offer a modem by itself, as far as I know. It’s a router/modem combo. And you’re still going to have to use it unless you find a router that supports VLAN mapping and IPoE authentication.

The people saying to mind your business and have some empathy are bad drivers

So you'd recommend getting your own router right off the bat?

We had some issues getting it installed last year with Quantum (they dug our neighbors yard, not ours) but have had great service since then. Cheaper than Mediacom and less outages.

I started with them when it was Quantum, fairly early on. Install went great, tech was super nice, never had any outages or anything. Like others are saying, I haven't had to contact Brightspeed customer support at all, but the fact that I'm getting consistent, fast speeds is better than anything I've ever had before. So, recommended.

Not sure what the installation process is like now, I got in fairly early. I've read some negative comments to their current installation procedures (installing in-air vs underground, charging people for install, etc)

I have had Brightspeed (formerly Quantum) for about a year now and hope I never have to go back to Mediacom. No data limits, much faster speeds, and a significantly lower price per speed. Have only experienced 1 service outage. I had to search a little to find how to contact customer service, but once I found it I was pretty much immediately put in a chat with someone.

I would say go for it. You won't be in any contract so you can always switch back to another ISP.

Their free router/modem is crap and hard to replace. But the service, otherwise, is spectacular.

I've had zero problems, when Mediacom before then would go down on me CONSTANTLY. Occasionally the wifi from their provided router will dip out for a few seconds but that's like once or twice a month? Zero major outages in over a year. And you can't beat the price.

I had Quantum, which is now brightspeed, was installed Novemember of last year and after a year of talking to both companies, they still will not come back and bury the fiber line across my yard, so I would say customer service is not up to par.