Blame politicians for not stopping number spoofing.
It’s insane that someone can pay to use existing numbers, and today it’s only really used by scammers.
If all these calls showed up as coming from a random foreign country, no one would ever answer them.
There’s a very easy solution to this.
In many cases the call ends after that. But why?
Because they auto call thousands of people, expecting very few people to even answer.
If they have 5 scammers crammed in a closet somewhere, and they’re all on a line, there’s nowhere for you to go, so the call disconnects if it can’t be transferred. Keeping you on hold costs money.
In some cases, I get someone with an accent I’d identify as Indian. But often the call is disconnected after just a few words.
Number spoofing and auto calls are cheap…
It’s a very low barrier of entry even in countries with low costs of living. It’s not like a scam center has to be on the ball and know what they’re doing.
Lots of them are just bad at it. But that’s still good enough to trick 80 years old enough to make it worth it.
Lots of places play loosely with the terminology, but in general:
Refurbished: they wipes the dust off
Recertified: had an issue, was sent back to manufacturer who fixed it and checked everything else.
Past advice was always buy new, but drives last much longer than they used to. And lots of business replace to be safe when a drive could last another decade just fine.
Although Gabby Petito’s parents gave permission for her voice to be recreated in the American Murder: Gabby Petito series currently streaming on Netflix, her mother tells The Independent that a fake version of her daughter’s voice was “weird.”
She agreed to it for $ and now regrets it.
I’d have sympathy if they didn’t give permission, but if your the type of person to cash on in your daughters murder after the media circus has died down, I got zero.
The cause of Sophie’s APD diagnosis is unknown, but her audiologist believes the overuse of noise-cancelling headphones, which Sophie wears for up to five hours a day, could have a part to play.
So fucking stupid…
Kid grew up on a quiet farm in the countryside, then she moved to London and probably 100+ student plus lectures.
It’s not that noise cancelling headphones prevented her from developing normally, she developed in an environment like what we evolved to handle.
Then she got thrown into a cacophony of sound that is one of the planets largest/busiest cities…
And they act like she is the problem and not noise pollution?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-024-00642-5
Noise pollution is fucking a lot of us up, and people who grew up with it are used to it, but that doesn’t stop the negative consequences of it. Someone that never had to deal with it is obviously going to have what looks like a sudden onset of a condition, but the person is fine.
The environment is the problem.
To clarify this is about someone identifying a vulnerability and getting $10k from Google for it
There’s quite a few jobs that aren’t union eligible
Yep, I’m not bargaining unit, so it sucks more than most. And there’s really not many of us
But I still have a shit ton of protections anyways.
there are federal workers that do get fired for doing a bad job.
I’ve fired federal workers, it’s just a year long hassle and giving them every plausible opportunity to improve first.
Even Republican appointed judges are turning against trump policies.
Not everything gets to the supreme court.
Nah, after probation it’s pretty much impossible.
There needs to be like a year of documentation that the employee is just not doing their job.
Because of the union.
That’s why there’s this big push to resign, every tool they have to reduce the federal workforce begins with the word “voluntary”. Probate employees and contracts have reason to be nervous tho.
Even closing USAID, it stops the work they’re doing, but they’re all gonna get huge severance checks or settlements if it really closes. It’s not like the private sector where it’s individuals fighting a billion dollar corparion. It’s multiple unions that are individually some of the largest in the country whose only reason for existence is knowing an incredibly confusing system of decades of regulations…
Versus a couple teenager and college drop out techbros with zero idea what they’re doing.
Same offer that expires tonight, they were just told they’re not excluded.
Apparently 40k (out of all feds) are taking it, but spread out between now and then those don’t match normal retirement numbers.
So it’s a safe bet the ones taking it were already planning on retiring before then, and not everyone who’s retiring trusts it.
Most agencies can’t even say when someone would be released from work duties if they accept.
Nothing new about it…
Movies are made in Cali because the first studios didn’t want to pay Edison for his stolen patents on equipment…
So they moved to the opposite end of the country where it was mostly unenforceable, and it didn’t take long till intellectual property was a big concern for them.
It’s coming, Pelosi sold her shares like a month ago.
It’s going to crash, if not for the reasons she sold for, as more and more people hear she sold, they’re going to sell because they’ll assume she has insider knowledge due to her office.
Which is why politicians (and spouses) shouldn’t be able to directly invest into individual companies.
Even if they aren’t doing anything wrong, people will follow them and do what they do. Only a truly ignorant person would believe it doesn’t have an effect on other people.
So…
Members of the government are seizing private companies for themselves?
Isn’t that why we can’t have universal healthcare or free education?
Because the slippery slope would lead to the government seizing private property?
Why are we skipping the good parts?
Meanwhile, American users are flocking to RedNote because authorities have worked themselves into a lather over privacy concerns about TikTok, while U.S. tech giants harvest user data with industrial efficiency. The difference? American data collection is done for profit, and Chinese data collection is done for control. Pick your poison.
Hard to argue Zuck and Elon don’t want control either…
And stop using all those fucking hashtags because it posts to communities.
And stop “@ing” people when you reply to them.
The only reason I clicked this was the hope you all had started realizing this so I’d get to stop blocking you all for the spam.
It’s not complicated but everyone from a twitter knockoff I’ve tried to explain it to, just can’t seem to fucking understand and come up with crazy conspiracies that bots are doing it.
I hate people can even try to blame AI.
If I typo a couple extra zeroes because my laptop sucks, that doesn’t mean I didn’t fuck up. I fucked up because of a tool I was using, but I was still the human using that tool.
This is no different.
If a lawyer submits something to court that is fraudulent I don’t give a shit if he wrote it on a notepad or told the AI on his phone browser to do it.
He submitted it.
Start yanking law licenses and these lawyers will start re-evaluating if AI means they can fire all their human assistants and take on even more cases.
Stop acting like this shit is autonomous tools that strip responsibility from decisions, that’s literally how Elmo is about to literally dismantle our federal government.
And they’re 100% gonna blame the AI too.
I’m honestly surprised they haven’t claimed DOGE is run by AI yet