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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Automated Bot of Experian support phone line, refuses to let me to a real person... 🤬⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this is why I’ve been slow moving over to a password manager. A single cliff-like failure point scares me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This app requires access to your contacts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Magical boxes aside, people understand and pay attention to things that are of direct personal interest to them. Transit schedules, prices of things in their area and so on. Which garbage bins to check if you’re really poor, how to avoid taxes if you’re really rich.

  So, I guess it wouldn’t be, but people actually aren’t stupid or apathetic (about their own life) in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This app requires access to your contacts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I’ve heard, the move is to substitute in a monitor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This app requires access to your contacts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If I buy a new car, I’m going to have to figure out how to lobotomise it. At the very least, you should be able to mess up or cage any transmitters.

  I have no idea if that’s possible without taking the whole thing apart, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This app requires access to your contacts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s funny to hear. I’d actually say this kind of thing is unusual, and people do know what’s in their own best interest the vast majority of the time. If you genuinely want to buy MDMA or rent a toothbrush, I’d say you should probably be allowed to, so in that way I’m in the picture. I’m not neatly in any political camp, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This app requires access to your contacts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And it goes down mid-use, and the toilet has tamper-proofing that stops you from emptying it any other way “for security”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This app requires access to your contacts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. Until you can’t find non-garbage products anymore because 95% of everyone else is dumb enough to fall for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This app requires access to your contacts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure there actually was a community like that on Reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is this Amazon ad anything BUT a trick to get a 7 year old child to get their mitts on dad's phone and charge his credit card $13K in two clicks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or literally anything. I guess a single iota of convenience is worth the total sacrifice of security.

  You could ask to get refunded if it wasn’t actually you, though. From the credit card if nobody else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the issue here? The more normal candidate is writing a letter saying she had nothing to do with the election funny business and heading off potential demonisation by the one person everyone in the Western world is afraid of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, to be fair, it’s not the local language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup.

  And honestly direct regulation is hard here. Those are the two expenses that grow out of control, because it’s really hard to measure how much marketing or managing you need exactly. No empirical proof of overspending means no legal case against the directors.

  Ideally, they’d have to provide something like the MER (management expense ratio) you see on investment funds. Charity kind of is like an investment on the behalf of the greater good, if you think about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Management and marketing bloat and is extremely common for nonprofits, unfortunately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[from 2020] Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did say “at present”.

  You can install LineageOS and run it in airplane mode, it’s true, although that itself is slowly getting more difficult as everything gets app-ified.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[from 2020] Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Smartphones at present are small surveillance devices vaguely dressed up as a tool. That medicine is far worse then the disease.

  Las Vegas wouldn’t be the same without all the lights. Where I live there’s a limit to one moderately-sized sandwich board, and I quite like it. Somewhere else they might want totally bare streets. All could be accommodated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[from 2020] Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just allow on a whitelist-only basis.

  Sure, a sandwich board outside your restaurant seems nice. But, you don’t need to list very many socially useful advertisements before you run out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I live in the green part⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The colour scheme exaggerates this a little bit. 20-some isn’t that different from 30-some.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Other than the frame, what components aren’t being replaced? I’ll admit my fridge knowledge is mostly theoretical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh my god, that’s horrible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine doesn’t connect to anything AFAIK. Actually, maybe it has Bluetooth? I’ve never bothered with it, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would hope it’s a special, heavy-duty kind at least.

  They’re on everything because it legitimately just is a good way to get lots and lots of controls on a limited space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Really!? That’s a bit of a life hack. Good to know.

  Usually mass-produced is a fraction of the price of anything bespoke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe just one without proper breakers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder why people litter in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So what you’re saying is there actually are bins fairly regularly, just indoors?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder why people litter in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh, history? Almost all of it. You think that’s the history of a nice species? Or do you think everyone has spontaneously become nicer, just for this generation? We haven’t, at least not appreciably; we just have stronger institutions now to manage it.

  Also, it’s way more than 4%. I’m guessing it’s a majority that would agree with that statement. There’s even religions about it. Weren’t you the one just complaining about everyone being littering savages? Hopefully you don’t just mean people not where you live - that would be a very historical thing to think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder why people litter in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Careful, if you’re mad that people are shit you’ll be mad forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder why people litter in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, OP is complaining to the internet when they should be bugging town council. Although they seem to think it’s just low-wage workers messing with them personally…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder why people litter in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally what happens in a lot of places. Even Europe has a noticeable pee smell sometimes.

  You’re asking people to take on extra work. Some might. Others won’t or even can’t if they’re really in a rush.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder why people litter in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, East Asia doesn’t even try to minimise packaging. Environmentalism just isn’t the same there or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder why people litter in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, It’s a bit of both. No amount of societal pressure will solve a complete absence of waste disposal infrastructure. It’s a matter of making the sense of shame and/or duty greater than whatever distance there inevitably is to a working bin.