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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will an American remake of Squid Game be bad or better than the original?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The only Korean-to-American remake I can think of off-hand is Oldboy. The remake was OK but it was a far cry from being even a shadow of the original.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the national Do Not Call Registry actually work? (USA)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m aware. Several issues there.

  1. They use / buy lists of people to robo-dial
  2. They don’t bother opt-out request handling on those lists reliably
  3. The opt-out process is per-campaign, not party-wide, so the process is an endless cycle for all party candidates, and even the same ones running in future elections. Because we have no way to our out at the party level, the data is basically always there.

  This is by no means am exhaustive list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the national Do Not Call Registry actually work? (USA)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The DNC just gives it to any Dem campaign. RNC is the same. I use SMS Filter+.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the national Do Not Call Registry actually work? (USA)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think political calls are basically exempt from it, anyways.

  fcc.gov/…/political-campaign-robocalls-and-robote…

  “Prior consent” is basically moot if you ever donate to a y campaign, ever, because you have to provide a real phone number. Or if you sign a petition your party is running, or somehow end up having that party get your number some other legitimate way. They have no way to prove (or you to disprove) your consent.

  I just treat them all as spam, and report/block accordingly.

  iOS 26 gave people the built-in call screening, which has been amazing for weeding out garbage calls, at least. Text messages are a different evil, but there are apps you can use to trash text messages that contain specific words, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s always been the case. Now it’s just transparent, vs. being baked into the price of the goods. When the economy sucks, vendors do stuff like this to try and soften the blow (for themselves).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to activate a new BT account⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, been there. It’s a dichotomy of their provisioning platform being antiquated, but their security requirements not giving a shit about that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homebrew, de facto standard package manager for macOS, now forces Apple's $99/yr notarization bullshit for all casks.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Snark all you want, a browser that breaks every time it updates because the code isn’t signed, not great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homebrew, de facto standard package manager for macOS, now forces Apple's $99/yr notarization bullshit for all casks.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Heh, there goes Librewolf’s only sane updating mechanism. IIRC, the devs of that are vehemently against paying Apple the money to sign the code, and they also fail to provide their own updater. It was one of the main drivers behind my switch to Waterfox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LEARN YOU PIECE OF SHIT⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s supposed to learn on how you adopt spellings you type. On iOS, it’s seemingly impossible to “teach” the OS you actually want to use profanity instead of birds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks for nothing⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bold of you to assume they care, or you can actually contact them in a way they’d get something fixed. When I report spam/scam job postings, they just send a canned response saying the listings are “within guidelines”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon, Google, Microsoft reportedly warn H-1B employees to stay in the US⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’d be funny if all the big tech Seattle-area HQ’s moved to Vancouver just due to this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The middle class isn’t real. You are either working class or owner class. Anything else is just there to divide the working class in a forever class war with the owner class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The latest atrocity I’ve seen in tipping is at the attended checkout at a grocery store. These companies are leeches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Withdraws Apple iCloud Backdoor Demand Following US Diplomatic Push⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure Apple would exit the UK before complying with that, anyways. The damage they’d take in the global market would far outweigh the value of complying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would that actually work? I think USPS gets paid to dump unaddressed mail in mailboxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Trump destroy or modify the Epstein files?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even that video would be brushed off as “fake news” or a “deep fake”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says criminal “geoengineering and weather modification activities" could have played a role in recent Texas floods⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, he’s kind of right. Humanity is geo-engineering catastrophic weather events. By driving climate change. Morons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨captchas like these that don't tell you which part of the text you're supposed to input⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the kicker. You’re not getting it wrong, you’re just being forced to train AI on another one because greedy corpos gonna be greedy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missouri governor repeals paid sick leave law approved last year by voters⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The voters put legislators in office that crafted this repeal. The governor didn’t just unilaterally do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does everyone hate Income tax ?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You had me until the emergency services comment

  • Fire department, available
  • Police, available, you may end up murdered if you are the wrong skin tone
  • Ambulance, available, but you’ll be billed for that ride. So what’d taxes pay for there?
  • Mental health services, see Police
  • Emergency room, available, see Ambulance and multiply by 50-100x
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF is a rural town in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Town” is generally used to mean “something smaller than a city”. I live in a town, and the population is about 30K. It’s technically a township, but people don’t really use that term widely. I know that doesn’t really clear things up, but your real answer is “it’s complicated”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh OK, so this nightmare existing is only for wifi use. I imagine that would also be slower, especially if these cameras support USB-C.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So instead of just mounting the camera as storage, they require a proprietary app using a surveillance-packed web browser? Yeah, I’d be returning that pile of awful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does not the constitution say something one should not be charged or something to vote? If so then why does my home state charge 50$ to get a regular id to vote? Is that no illegal?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Any state that requires ID to vote + any state that charges a fee for said ID. Granted, ID’s are used for more than that, it’s still ultimately a poll tax.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am required to pay taxes to the US government, not elon musk running a fraudulent government agency, why should I pay?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Most employers don’t give you that option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah…no. They ruin communities by undercutting local retailers into oblivion, and then pay starvation wages to force many of their employees onto government assistance just to scrape by.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you beat the record?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Tell that to retail. “Coverage” is more important than “work productivity”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did something about mass produced ice cream change like 10 years ago?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing most have done is incorporate more air, as part of shrinkflation. That makes it more soft because it’s less actual product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If your portfolio is down that much over that period of time, you are likely not making good investment choices. S&P500 is up like 50% since 2021…

  Your losses or lack of portfolio growth isn’t really something to complain about online without more info on what your asset mix is. Unless your goal was just to complain, and not get any advice from helpful anons that are having more success in investment choices.

  It’s invested in total market funds, some tech, some big cap companies, and healthcare

  Tech, big cap, and healthcare are already part of the total market funds, so you’re over-weighting (taking excess risk) by investing that way. Assuming you’re pretty young based on time in market, you’d be fine with just the total market fund, until you have more experience with the market or just want a set and forget, for a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dozens from UK take up Putin’s offer to ditch ‘woke’ West and move to Russia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if/how many of them will be unwillingly forced to the front lines in Ukraine within a year…