Leading expert on buttons says to use buttons?

It’s exactly what Big Button wants you to think!!! Wake up sheeple!!!1!1!11

My elderly dad called me a few years ago to let me know that we’d have to change up all the security stuff for our family phone plan because he gotten scammed. He said he got a call from someone claiming to be a representative of the phone company who said they’d like to lower our monthly bill. I stopped him and said “well, that should have been your first clue… when in the last decade of us using them has that ever happened? When was the last time our bill went down instead of up?”

Sure, the scams like pig butchering look dumb from the outside, but never think shit like this can’t happen to you. There’s TONs of ways scammers can trick you, but usually they’ll seek out vulnerable people. Sure the gullible are vulnerable, but just because you’re not vulnerable right now, doesn’t mean you won’t be at some point in the future. Desperation can make scholars into fools.

Had an upgrade while all that was going on. Got a free 50 inch TV for staying with Samsung for my next phone.

That’s… that’s a Pornhub category right? “Watching people watching porn” has got to be a tab on that site. It’s sounds too much like a kink to not be a kink.

Exactly what Big Foot wants you to think, all so they can sell more Foot. Wake up sheeple!!!

*especially if you’ve got nothing to hide.

PornHub has been doing this. A little popup comes on screen when you pause the video for the first time.

I’m okay with ads (just like on broadcast TV), but only if I’m not paying for the streaming/VOD service (just like on broadcast TV). Like, I’m okay with ads on a YouTube video, but I got rid of Netflix when they cancelled a series I liked and, now that they’ve started talking about adding ads, I’ll probably not go back.

Nah, they’re probably planning to do what Amazon did with their “Just Walk Out” stores… force children into mines and just claim it’s actually AI. As NFT’s, Cryptocurrency, and so many other hype tech fads have taught us: marketing is cheaper than development.

I’m having the same issue with message/reply but otherwise it’s a great app.

It seems the way VC’s throw money at pure unadulterated hype, don’t count them out just yet. So long as you’re good at marketing, you don’t have to be good at development; you don’t have to have a good idea; you don’t have to have a product that does what you’ve promised, works or even exists… they’ll shower a literal pile of shit with money until it sparkles like a Faberge egg if you can only generate buzz.

Okay, that makes sense. Was going to ask how proprietary/locked that charger system was as it seems to be the immerging standard.

I was wondering when someone was going to create a Fediverse platform like this. Figured it would be the folks at either PixelFed or Peertube. Can’t wait to try it out!

So… like Pornhub has done for years now?

I mean, I could add to it…

• Pay reparations to victims of Jim Crow/Segregation and descendants of those bound by the practice of Chattle Slavery.
• Nationalize the telecom corporations. Use the profits to fund a Bell Laboratories type research institute as well as public college departments in the relevant fields.
• Nationalize the freight railroads. Use the profits to fund a high quality bus system in rural areas, an “Interstate-style” 110-125 mph regional/commuter passenger rail system nationwide, and develop 155-200+ mph HSR corridors between appropriate city pairs.
• Initiate planning for metro/light rail systems in every city with a population of 250k or higher.
• End the Embargo on Cuba and fully normalize relations. Shutter and remove the facilities at Guantanamo Bay; return the land to the Cuban government and pay reparation for it’s theft.
• End NATO while helping the EU organize it’s own native unified defense force. Form a new treaty with the EU for common defense.
• Forgive all debt the US holds from co-called “third world” nations.
• Remove all “NeoLiberal” stipulations and restrictions the IMF has placed on so-called “third world” nations.
• Pass a federal law ending so-called “Right to Work” at the state level and triple the NLRB’s budget.
• End the funding of public schools through local property tax and replace it with a Federal tax on corporations.
• Bust up Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet into their viable constituent parts.
• Formally recognize the nation of Palestine at the UN.
• Join the International Criminal Court.

Outlook is super buggy on FireFox for my phone. I found that Vivaldi has been running it fine enough though. It still fails to launch on first try from time to time, but I’ve never gotten frustrated enough to consider downloading the app.

I’ll have to check that out. I help run a secular humanist group and we’ve been trying to get away from Facebook for event planning. More than a few of our members (myself included) aren’t on Facebook and/or aren’t active there anymore. Might be a good alternative.

They think they are getting a deal, then they are getting dragged down by an unreliable vehicle that they can’t afford to fix.

If memory serves, the outliers here are Lexus and Audi which both score high on reliability ratings. I could be wrong though, is been a couple of years since I looked into owning a car.

Yeah, it does exist elsewhere; I think the point they’re making is that it is apparent the United States was founded specifically for the interests of landowning (and slave owning) rich people. While not unique globally, the USA was probably the first country intentionally founded to protect the capitalist instead of the nobility or a religious group.