I wonder if mobile providers are still getting paid for long distance calls. Because if they are, they have a perverse incentive to keep scammers on the line.

Which, in this isolated case, I’m okay with.

If Alex Jones becomes press secretary, I’ll be convinced that this is all a simulation.

A part of me actually wished that the Onion would have purchased InfoWars, but in secret, like maybe under a subsidiary corp that has a right-wing sounding name.

They don’t change Infowars’ branding or anything but the articles become subtly liberal.

Maybe an overt purchase is better but I really want to troll the right.

My guess is that it’s the easiest and cheapest way to set up “MFA”.

The number of banks that don’t have proper MFA really bugs me.

What we should do is put chainlink fence around the corner, but make the part that the users loved the most accessible with a monthly pass that they can only walk on with shoes purchased at the university store.

- spez

Do not under any circumstances bring your cell phone, dumb or not, to a protest.

Memorize important numbers, writing them in your arm if necessary.

Answer all questions with “I assert my fifth amendment right and will not answer any further questions without my attorney.”

There is a scene in Mr Robot where Darlene is able to do a full wipe on her phone without even looking at the screen.

I wish I was that good.

I want a way that I can trigger this from the main lock screen without unlocking the phone.

Like a specific pin you have to enter twice to trigger the full wipe.

Yeah but Epstein’s friends are rich and have ready access to attorneys.

More evidence that our justice system is more about punishing the poor.

You should be able to bring up about:profiles in your browser and set up and launch profiles from there.

Doesn’t i2p do something similar to this? I don’t know much about it but I remember reading it and thinking that it’s like bittorrent but no one person has the entire file, or something like that.

LMGTFY

When the $1 coins were released, most stuff in vending machines were still within the cost of a dollar. Thought I’m not disagreeing with your comment. Coins, for the most part, are relegated to coin jars and aren’t really “spent” in the same way that bills are.

The problem is that coins generally are just so inconvenient. I only hold onto them for the rare occasion where I need to feed a meter.

Edit: This conversation reminded me of a great YouTube video on the subject of how the shape of money makes it useful

It’s one of the jobs of a bank though. They are supposed to exchange damaged bills and then exchange them with the mint, who then destroys them.

Honestly we need to get rid of the $1 bill generally but that’s a completely different post all together.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

Voyager had it’s own “Measure of a Man” episode a la the EMH in Season 7, episode 20 “Author, Author”. A lot of the same themes were there. But what has bothered me for years is at the end of the episode, it’s implied that there is a number of EMH units that have been “reading” the Doctor’s holonovel, and building a resistance.

This was never explored in any future Star Trek, was it? It wasn’t talked about in Picard or Lower Decks. And Picard had the whole AI plot line.

OneDrive is so fucking confusing to administrator.

The files exist on your physical drive …except it doesn’t?

You can’t remove the files…except when it does it on its own.

You can’t move a file without some sort of synching issue.

You can’t fucking disable it without going into the registry!

I legit tried it in the early days of Win10 and it was a nightmare. I literally had to reinstall Windows and disable it upfront before things worked the way I expected.

I think it’s a result of trying to get support right now so you don’t get stuck waiting for someone to up vote your question or having other questions push your thread further down.

I’ve been a victim of this myself and going to Discord seems to be better getting someone to actually help you, especially for niche questions.

I’m not saying I like it but I certainly get it.

To paraphrase Nixon:

“When you’re a company, it’s not illegal.”

To paraphrase Trump:

“When you’re a company, they just let you do it.”

I think a bank should be more complex. If you have all sorts of auto drafts, withdraws, checks, etc. you’ll want to make sure you got all of those.

It should absolutely be simpler but I don’t mind an extra check for banks where all your money is held.

Services like gyms and Netflix, they don’t have any excuse. My life will not be as adversely affected as cancelling a bank account.

With your username, I’m not sure how to read your comment!

I love it either way.