The trick that the Government has learned is that it’s easier and cheaper to buy your location data from a third party.

No warrant necessarily since the data is available to anyone who wants to buy it.

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

The ironic thing is Breyers ran commercials about how you could pronounce every ingredient in their ice cream. They had like a 10 year old read their ingredient list vs. competitors.

But when they got bought out by Unilever, quality went downhill fast

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.

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.”

To be clear, it’s been texting only. I’m nowhere near Jim Browning or Kitoboga (sp?) levels.

But so far I’ve wasted three scammers time by asking them what “telegram” is.

I guess that explains why the scammer I’ve been scam-baiting suddenly went quiet.

Moving onto scams that have a higher chance of working.

If you’re going to sell a DLC that is only a skin and people buy it, I don’t have an issue. A skin adds nothing outside of “looks” and it’s purely optional. If you the player want to pay for it, be my guest.

It’s when games release a game that is unfinished, has bugs, and what should be a patch is sold as a DLC, I have problems with that.

Or when DLC adds a competitive advantage, that is just wrong. Like for $5 a month, you get extra “stability” in your scope, or the whole “pride and accomplishment” crates.

Those DLCs can go fuck themselves.

You have to understand that these people are clinging to anything they can use to identify others who are in their in-group. MAGA hats, diapers, and now ear coverings.

Cults do the same thing and for the same reason.

Are you not in the US? Equifax is a credit bureau and if you’ve never heard of them, you never needed credit or you’re not from the US.

The other three, I’ve only heard of Ashley Madison because they had a very aggressive ad campaign before ad blockers became ubiquitous. One could say it was ads like theirs that made ad blocking a requirement.

Are there onion/i2p versions of pirate sites? I think we are reaching this point.

In the US, you can sue anyone for any reason, even if it’s frivolous.

You force the other side to respond, making them hire a lawyer to defend you, even if the case is dismissed on its merits.

I very much disagree with lemmy.world’s decision to block the community but I completely understand it. I exercised my right to move to a new instance in response.

There was a browser game some had developed where you had to spend all your money. It was similar to cookie clicker.

The point of the game was that once you have a billion dollars, you have so much money that you literally could not spend that much money.

Didn’t Musk tell his advertisers to leave the platform if they didn’t like Twitter anymore? Wouldn’t that alone make any tort dead upon filing?

Yeah it ties up a few billable hours but we’re not exactly talking about companies that can’t afford it.

I think it was Comcast that refused to connect me with a human unless I said the right thing.

No matter what method, it would either hang up and tell me to try again or just not route me to the right place.

I ended up sending a letter to my state Attorney General. 30 days later my issue was fixed.

Eh…

Bank of America, Comcast, Wells Fargo, Amazon, Google…

Just to name a few.

Ticketmaster is in the top 25 for sure.

I miss old-school Consumerist and their annual Worst Company in America brackets.

It’s your problem when they can’t make payroll because of it. And it’s your problem when they ultimately blame you for not having the solution ready to implement.

The first has happened to me once.

The second more times than I can count.