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.

Cool bro, was just a heads up, you don’t need to convince me.

You’re less asking a real question and more asking a rhetorical question and then going on a spiel about it.

It might stay up. But lots of posts like this (especially political ones) seem to get removed.

This is the exact same line of thinking trumpets have…

Where they’re fine the country is being destroyed because it hurts people they don’t like.

The wealthy are spending a shit ton of money to ensure that’s the line of thinking of most Americans, they won’t the majority fractured and focused on hurting each other so we don’t unite and fight the wealthy.

I 100% get what you’re feeling, but it’s what the people who are really the problem want us to think.

I’m also pretty sure your post is getting removed

that would put lifting at an Olympic level

It is not…

The world record deadlift is like 1,100, almost twice what OP is claiming.

Now, by no means am I saying OP can do it. But my highschool gym teacher could pick 300lbs off the mat to standing with one arm. And while he technically did go to the Olympics one year, it was because he bought a ticket to sit in the stands.

Its not impossible, but you’d likely know by looking at someone if they can do it

The music is because those trucks drive around.

You can’t make tacos on the move, or any other kind of hot food really.

Which is why food trucks park in locations and operate

How would they “just do it”?

Federal taxes do not go thru states. They go from taxpayer to federal government at tax time, and from payroll processor to federal government for withholdings.

You want states out there hacking transactions?

Most payroll providers aren’t based in the same state, and most corporations don’t only operate in one state. Hell, most are headquartered in Delaware.

For the vast amount of Americans that money doesn’t touch any states besides Delaware.

Like, there’s a lot of reasons why what you’re suggesting just can’t happen.

No.

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If people stopped buying stuff, it wouldn’t translate to immediate loss of wages except for gig economy workers.

It’s not like production or stores would no to stop immediately counting on starting back up at the exact right moment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_O’Donnell

That’s the acting commissioner of the IRS.

He fired the probationary employees at the IRS because he was afraid to stand up to Musk and trump.

Fascists use Tinkerbell logic, they have as much power as people think they do. If we start saying Musk has the power to fire federal employees, Musk will start acting like he has the power to fire federal employees.

Details are more important than ever right now. And if the agency heads that resigned out of cowardice had stayed at their post, they could be up there right now saying they refuse to fire anyone and making a giant media spectacle out of all of this. Which would pressure the ones willing to go along to also stand by their employees.

You can’t beat fascism by going home and taking a fucking nap.

I never understood why the N word is racist because of history, but then being black makes it fine to say

Context.

I have the complexion of a brand new piece of printer paper, one of my friends who legit could have gotten a job as a Wesley Snipes impersonator constantly called me the n word. He called all his friends that, and eventually I used it in the same context he had towards me for like the 50th time that day without me even realize I was saying it.

It wasn’t a big deal, but it’s not like that magically gave me permission to say it anywhere at anytime.

I mean, it’s 2025 man, there’s white people all over who have been saying the n word. The context is what matters. I just don’t get how someone could think it’s a (pun intended) black and white issue.

Hell, the most popular rapper in America has been publicly complaining about how another black rapper says the n word. Flat out saying that it’s not a race thing it’s a culture thing. It was literally the outro to one of the biggest diss tracks of the biggest beefs in modern rap era.

https://genius.com/Kendrick-lamar-euphoria-lyrics

I wonder where this movement started where people overly obsess about this

Evolution.

As a toddler you form your “in group” based on the people you see. Mostly that you are actually around, but also just exposed to on TV.

Anyone that you’re not exposed to is “out group” and you can use conscious thinking as an adult to include others in your ingroup but when you get old and lose mental ability you’ll fall back into “did I see people like that as a kid” distinction for “us” vs “them”.

For the vast amount of human history, if you ran into a group of different looking humans, they were a competitor and you either boned them or killed them.

People want to act like 10,000 years of human society makes us better than other animals, but that’s a blink of evolutions eye, we’re still animals and if we’re not socialized we’re gonna act like animals.

Can’t we already just treat people for who they are/their personality and not judge them by their skin color and also not prefer some ethnicities over others?

We do that by integrating society and children’s TV with integrated casts of diverse people.

Which is why conservatives and even some moderates opposed things like school busing and Sesame Street.

They’re not picking random shit that doesn’t matter, they’re planning decades in advance to make sure the next generation can be manipulated into thinking along racial lines rather than realizing there’s no just war except a class war.

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We can see it in modern day with the obsession of preventing kids from learning LGBTQ is a thing, they want kids to form their “us” group as just heterosexuals so that when that generation grows up they’ll view anything LGTBQ as “them”.

If he knows about it, I’m pretty sure it won’t be hard for him to find a cop willing to take a statement these days…

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.

They’ve really normalized this shit to the point they don’t understand why it’s wrong…

It’s just like 1/6, there’s a few that are serious and dangerous, and they’re hiding among a large group of fucking idiots and using them as human shields.

Normalizing violence is something fascists always do before the actual violence, they’re getting people desensitized to the idea of it.